Doing Nothing Is Not An Option!
Have you ever felt like you didn’t fit? Like a round peg in a square hole. Or have you ever felt that there was a higher purpose for your life than what you were living for? Larry and Kathleen did. They married in 1995 and two pieces of a mismatched puzzle were joined. Larry, coming from a life of carpentry, truck driving, jack of all trades background, knew only that he had a heart for the nations. Kathleen, living the modern day unfulfilled version of the Norman Rockwell life, knew only that she wanted desperately to reach out to the lonely and hurting. The two came together and created Encompass Ministries: Enabling ordinary people to do extraordinary things.
Larry had traveled to India and Russia sharing his heart and passion about God before we were married. Our first mission together was to Hong Kong, taking in Bibles into China. The following year we traveled to China to evangelize, and onto Thailand to help with an orphanage. We then traveled back to China many times as well as visiting Thailand, Africa, Mongolia, Australia, and Israel. Wow! The things that happen with you when you commit yourselves totally to God are amazing!
The heart of Encompass Ministries is two fold:
1) Provide supplies, hope, love and the word of God to developing world countries, enabling our brothers and sisters to be all that they are called to be.
2) You! To enable you to accomplish all that you are called to be. You may be a carpenter, truck driver, housewife, business man or woman, but that is not all that you are. There are giftings and talents inside you, waiting to be discovered. At Encompass Ministries, we want to help you dig for buried treasure and uncover the blessings you have been gifted with. We want to enable YOU to do extraordinary things!
In Him,
Larry and Kathleen
Encompass Ministries