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TAKING THE GOSPEL TO MOUNTAINOUS AREAS OF THE WORLD WHERE OTHER MISSIONARIES CANNOT OR WILL NOT GO
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Expeditions

Mission: Kilimanjaro 2025

Go tell it on the mountain

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Climbing For Christ’s 18th expedition to Tanzania, where C4C was birthed in 1998, is scheduled for December. We conducted our first mission to Kilimanjaro in 2007. Thirty Climbing For Christ members have participated in Mission: Kilimanjaro, many more than once. Twenty-three members have gone to the summit at least once.

Mission: Malawi 2025

There’s gold in them thar hills

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Climbing For Christ’s 10th expedition to Malawi, where we first went in 2010, is scheduled for December. Our team will continue classroom instruction with guides and porters in the Mulanje Massif Chapter and then conduct a four-day outreach expedition on the mountain.

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Latest News

Photo of the Week: Nepal

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We continue to receive updates from Kingdom worker Megh Gurung in Nepal on the construction of the church and training center in Pokhara, where we hope to spend time in the future teaching DMD classes. The COVID-19 pandemic may have forced the postponement of Mission: Nepal 2020, but it does not s...

Trip Report: Turkey 2020

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God is on the move By Gary Fallesen, founding president, Climbing For Christ Elaine, Gary, and Holly with Osman, an MBB with whom they had just prayed in Dogubayazit, Turkey. (Photo by Behzat Bucak) It was a prophetic moment, a page out of the Old Testament delivered electronically from ...

Dispatches: Turkey 2020

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Mission: Ararat 2020 By Gary Fallesen, founding president, Climbing For Christ Saturday, Aug. 1 Our team photo in front of Mount Ararat: (left to right) Holly, Behzat, Elaine, and Gary. “How was your trip?” It is a commonly asked question. ...

Photo of the Week: Turkey

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Mount Ararat. (Photo by Gary Fallesen) Climbing For Christ has returned to Mount Ararat for the first time since 2015. CLICK HERE to read daily Dispatches from Mission: Ararat 2020.

Photo of the Week: Turkey

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“If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them gets lost, what will he do? Won’t he leave the ninety-nine others in the wilderness and go to search for the one that is lost until he finds it?” – Luke 15:4. (Photos by Gary Fallesen) Outreach around Mount Suphan in eastern Tu...

Photo of the Week: Nepal

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COVID-19 relief delivered to Humla in Nepal’s remote northwest corner. (Photo provided by Megh Gurung) Climbing For Christ continues to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic by sending relief to our Kingdom workers and ministry partners in eight countries. We rejoice in what God has done, is doi...

Holly DeSmitt

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Nationality: USA. Occupation: Systems engineer. Missions with C4C: Ararat 2020. How long have you climbed? I have always felt at home in the mountains, but I started getting more serious about hiking and trekking in the past four years. Hiking and trekking. Highlight of climbing career: Climbing snow-covered mountains at 11,000 feet in the Rockies.

Photo of the Week: Turkey

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Semi-nomadic Kurdish shepherds shearing sheep on Mount Ararat. (Photo by Gary Fallesen) The 15-million-plus Kurds living in Turkey are predominantly Muslim. CLICK HERE to read Project Prayer: Ramadan 2020. We also are praying for Mission: Ararat 2020. CLICK HERE to learn more.

Missy Jean Dedrick

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Nationality: United States of America. Occupation: Financial Management Analyst with the Utah National Guard. Missions with C4C: Morocco 2017 and Turkey 2019. How long have you climbed? Nine years. Type of climbing you do: Hiking/trekking. Highlight of climbing career: Probably Mission: Morocco. It was amazing to discover that my hobby of hiking could be useful for the Kingdom.

Mission Moments: Turkey & Tanzania

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Discipling, teaching, and encouraging “Their responsibility is to equip God’s people to do his work and build up the church, the body of Christ.” – Ephesians 4:12 (NLT) By Gary Fallesen, founding president, Climbing For Christ (NOTE: Climbing For Christ is revisiting Turke...

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