What is "Grace Missions Ministries"?
Grace Missions Ministries consists of two distinct but related organizations:
a) Grace Missions, a sovereign grace missionary sending board.
b) Grace Missions Mozambique, the Christian trustee board of a surgical
hospital now under construction.
The Woodrow family
serving in Mozambique since 1990.
Charles, Julie, Kent – 16, Sarah – 15,
Andrew – 14,
Grace – 10, Benaiah – 7.
Why was it established?
a) Grace Missions was founded in 1985 to send missionaries to Mozambique. Before 1985,
no mission board was active in the country due to government opposition to Christianity.
Softening of the government's position toward Christian work was evident, however.
At the same time, God was calling out missionary candidates to work in Mozambique.
Grace Missions was established as a means of sending these missionaries
to Mozambique and granting them spiritual oversight.
b) Grace Missions Mozambique was incorporated in 2000 to build, own, and operate a surgical
mission hospital in Nampula. From 1990 to 1997, Grace Missions had provided a missionary
surgeon and all the supplies necessary to maintain the surgical block in a local government
hospital. When the Minister of Health granted the Mission's request to establish
its own surgical hospital, Grace Missions Mozambique was set up to oversee the
medical-evangelistic work, freeing Grace Missions to focus exclusively on church
planting and church-related ministries.
Who are the missionaries involved with Grace Missions?
Charles and Julie Woodrow, with their five children, ages 7 to 16.
The Woodrow family are members of Faith Community Church
in Oxnard, California. Charles is a general surgeon certified by the American Board of Surgery in
1984 and re-certified in 1993. He is a Fellow in the American College of Surgeons.
Charles was sent to the field with his family in 1990. He gained entrance the
country while it was still a Marxist state by accepting a contract to work
in a government hospital in Nampula.
Charles was saved at age 20 while a sophomore in college. His personal call to
missions was sealed 19 months later in August, 1974. The call to Mozambique became
clear in October, 1985. In February 1986, he married the former Julie Marie Vawter.
They left for language school in Brazil in September, 1988, and have served in Mozambique
since March, 1990.
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