REACHING THE CITY
ECPC partners with a number of local missionaries and ministries to reach Cobb County, Marietta, and the greater Atlanta area with the hope and love of the gospel.
Summerhill Community Ministries
Summerhill Community Ministries is a community-based, indigenously-led Christian organization. Our focus is reaching inner-city youth in and around Atlanta's Summerhill area. We spread the wisdom and love of Christ through our programs. By facilitating opportunities for personal empowerment, spiritual love, and academic enrichment, we're on a mission to uplift our community!
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MUST Ministries
ECPC supports MUST as they address the basic needs of individuals, families, and children with facilities in the Cobb and Cherokee communities.
RUF International
Tracey and Suzanne West moved to Atlanta in 2015 to work on the campus of Georgia Tech with Reformed University Ministries International. Tracey’s days are spent evangelizing and discipling graduate students and scholars from foreign countries, a large percentage of whom are from China and India. His desire is for many of these students to return to their home countries equipped to serve Christ there.
REACHING
THE GLOBE
Christ calls us to reach the nations with the hope of the gospel. ECPC supports cross cultural missionaries who are taking the good news to every tribe, tongue, and nation.
Manuel & Paula Chacaguasay
Manual and Paula live and serve among the Quechua people in Ecuador. Manuel is the pastor of a local church that also runs programs for children, provides food, and connects the Quechua to social and medical services. The Quechua are marginalized in society and the Chacaguasay family ministers to them in many ways. Manuel is also an iterant pastor who ministers to several small villages high in the Andes Mountains.
Chuck & Debbie Emerson
Chuck and his family first joined ECPC in 1992. Chuck served as a Ruling Elder at ECPC for many years, until being ordained as a Teaching Elder in 2010. The Lord’s call into full-time missions came in 2008, thrusting the Emersons into ministry among international students at Ga Tech (with RUF International), and into the training of pastors overseas with Equipping Leaders International (ELI). Chuck now serves as ELI's Director of Training, and he personally focuses on both India and South America. The ELI training is a combination of in-person trips and online courses, leading pastors to a Certificate in Pastoral Ministry. Chuck makes frequent trips abroad, with Debbie sometimes accompanying him. The Emersons are also assisting with the new PCA church plant in Tucker, which launched in June, 2020.
Dan & Rebecca Gregoire
Dan and Rebecca and their eight children are passionate about spending a generation in Slovakia, walking with Slovaks from high school through college, marriage, and family life, teaching them about God and how to live with Christ as the center of life. Rebecca oversees a kindergarten program in a Roma village. This provides employment for one Roma teacher, and prepares Roma children to enter first grade in a Slovak school setting. Dan also works with the Roma, commonly known as Gypsies, regularly preaching, encouraging, and discipling believers where poverty and oppression have existed for generations. Dan’s work among the Roma includes community development and poverty alleviation.
Aaron & Alexis Gurkin
Aaron and Alexis have served with CRU since 2004 serving on college campuses in Atlanta as well as overseas. In their current role, they help recruit, train, and send students to international partnerships in East Asia, Thailand, Ecuador, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Northern Ireland, and local campuses in the Southeast. Aaron and Alexis help mobilize over 100 missionaries every year. Once the students and recent graduates are in the field, the Gurkins coach them virtually and with occasional face-to-face visits. It is their joy to come alongside and care for missionaries facing difficult circumstances and situations. Aaron and Alexis also lead teams of college students on short-term missions opportunities.
François & Lisa Longeiret
François was born in France where his father served as a pastor for almost 70 years. He met his wife, Lisa, when she came to his church as a short-term missionary, and the two have been married since 1987. Lisa and François have been active in several PCA churches in the United States, and François is an ordained Ruling Elder in the PCA. He joined ELI in 2018, where his language skills make him a perfect fit to serve in French-speaking areas of Africa. In 2020 he went to Mali, Senegal, and Democratic Republic of Congo. He has provided online training with Mali, DRC, and Burundi, and translated courses into French.
Trey & Hannah Nation
Trey is currently a PhD student studying Assyriology at Harvard and adjuncts at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He is under care of the Southern New England Presbytery (PCA) and hopes to teach Old Testament upon graduation. Hannah is on staff at China Partnership as the organization’s Communications and Content Director. Hannah works to bring the voice of the Chinese house church to the English-speaking world, overseeing book projects, a blog, and a prayer movement on behalf of our Chinese brothers and sisters. She oversees the translation of sermons, conference talks, and articles written by Chinese house church pastors and works with Chinese and American writers to help educate Western believers on the largest growing church in the world today.
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