Serving Our World
At High Pointe we have many ways you can be involved in missions.
El Salvador
Our foreign work is focused in El Salvador. We have had a presence there since the mid 1990’s. Our vision is “That every Salvadoran will have the opportunity to obey the Gospel.” Our mission is “To plant vibrant, evangelistic congregations of our Lord’s church in every city, town, and village.”
- We partner with evangelists and churches throughout the country from Candalaria in the west (near the Guatemalan boarder) to Gotera in the east (about 45 minutes from the coast and from the Honduran border).
- We partner with Genesis Alliance (a DFW metroplex-based non-profit that trains disciples who make other disciples) to implement our vision and mission. We have helped to plant churches all across the country, and they have grown and planted other churches.
- We sponsor a Christian education program through our partner evangelists to educate potential student leaders. This raises the socio-economic level of the student members and ultimately strengthens their churches.
- We purchased a facility just off the Pan American Highway in Cojutepeque in 2021 in the center of the country. Centro Emanuel (the God is with us center) is used by churches for training seminars, youth events, and community meetings. It also serves as a meeting place for a local church plant and housing for two local evangelists. Centro Emanuel provides a place to host a medical clinic, short-term mission trips, and classes in English using the Bible as a text.
- We also currently have two medical mission trips to El Salvador per year that work with local congregations to serve medical needs in their communities.
High Pointe has been involved in El Salvador for over 25 years, working to equip those who have a position for leadership in the church as well as those who have the gift and a passion for making disciples. There are many different ways to be involved in the El Salvador efforts of mission work. We would love to have your gifts and efforts in El Salvador.
Vision
Every Salvadoran will have the opportunity to obey the Gospel
Mission
To proclaim the gospel in every city, town and village and to establish evangelistic congregations of the church of Christ throughout El Salvador.
El Salvador
Christian Education Program
Empowering Christian Leadership
Since 1997, the members at High Pointe have helped enhance the future church leadership and overall socio-economic status of 300+ children in El Salvador through the sponsorship program. This program is implemented through local Church of Christ indigenous ministers with whom High Pointe has had long-standing relationships.
For $30 per month, your sponsorship provides necessities such as food, clothing, and medical care, and it also allows the students to remain in school. Support replaces the lost income from the students who often must work on the streets to help provide for their families. Helping a student to at least finish high school will allow him/her to get a business-related job and become important and impactful to Salvadoran society.
To learn more about how you can help a child who has a heart for the Lord, initiative, and leadership potential, contact Diane Newhouse or check out the brochure here, or fill out this quick form.
Milagro de Jesus University Scholarship Program
In 2004, Milagro de Jesús Sandoval, a recognized youth leader in El Salvador, passed away, and a university scholarship program was established in her honor. For $60 per month, sponsors have permitted many students to complete university education in their chosen field of study.
Some of those areas include: Mechanical, engineering, medicine, nursing, accounting, pharmacy/chemistry, law, math education, clinical laboratory, systems engineering, English, social work, marketing, communications, industrial engineering, computer science/networking, journalism & audio-visual communication.
Since 2013, the following students have graduated and received a degree in their chosen field:
- Elmer Daniel Campos del Cid, accounting
- Asunción del Carmen Melgar Calderón, nursing
- María Ruíz, elementary education
- Stefanie Gutiérrez, medicine (cardiology)
- Katherine Eloisa Velásquez Pérez, nursing
- Marcela Natalia Perdomo Ramírez, marketing
- Erika Lissette Mejía Martínez, nursing
- Bianca Leticia Zelaya, law
After graduation, these successful and important members of Salvadoran society will strive to give back to their community by helping future students to pursue their education in the university.
To learn more about this ministry or how you can support a student in the university, contact Diane Newhouse, check out the brochure here, or fill out this quick form.
Missionaries
The El Salvador Missionary Support ministry began in 1995 and strives to equip all missionaries that we support (financially or otherwise) to make disciples who make disciples or plant new churches. We are dedicated to helping every Salvadoran to have the opportunity to obey the gospel, our overall vision for the work in El Salvador. That support comes in a variety of ways such as financial support, training, and encouragement to indigenous evangelists. High Pointe’s involvement spans the country, from San Miguel in the eastern zone to Santa Ana in the western zone, and the capital San Salvador in the central zone. We are currently partnering with a group of about sixty disciple-makers and more than twenty different churches across the country. All the disciple-making strategy is coordinated through Genesis Alliance, which is charged with implementing disciple-making methodology throughout the country.
The church plants which High Pointe initiated over the years are:
- Arcos del Molino
- San Nicolas
- La Pacifica
- El Platenar
- San Francisco de Gotera
- El Rebalse
- Alegria, with three house churches
- Santa Ana
- Ciudad Real
- El Tesoro
- Ataco
- Turin
- Ahuachapan
- Candelaria
- Apaneca
- San Salvador
- Miramonte
- La Cruz
- San Vicente
The missionaries we support:
- Cecilio & Reina Sandoval in Alegria
- Walberto &Lorena Argueta at Arcos del Molino in San Miguel
- Jaime & Karina Serrano in Candelaria
- Warner & Maricela Toledo at Ciudad Real near Santa Ana
- Carlos & Linda Eguizabal in Juayua
- Carlos & Evelyn Carranza at La Pacifica in San Miguel
- Eder & Ruth Vasquez at El Rebalse in San MIguel
- Efrain & Olga Gutierrez at San Nicolas in San Miguel
- Alexander & Sylvia Castellanos in San Salvador
Medical Missions
After consultation with two doctors in Ciudad Real and the feedback from local evangelists regarding a large portion of their population being unable to access basic healthcare, High Pointe established a Medical Missions Ministry in 2019. The first ministry trip to El Salvador set out to support the current efforts in Santa Ana that have been initiated by Dr. Gutierrez utilizing local resources such as Health Talents International for follow-up clinical support. Health Talents International (www.healthtalents.org) has been providing evangelical medical service in their Guatemala mobile clinics and their surgical clinic since 1990. They are an organization sponsored by Churches of Christ whose partnership with over a dozen local churches in Guatemala has resulted in remarkable growth in membership.
On the most recent trip, many community members were impacted and helped with medical treatment and spiritual guidance.
- 322 patients were triaged, treated, and connected with the local church ministry.
- 55 dental extractions were performed
- 114 pairs of reading glasses were distributed to locals, using the Bible as the testing text.
Discipling
The El Salvador Discipling Ministry strives to identify and equip discipleship team leaders to make disciples who make disciples or plant new churches. Thus, this ministry is dedicated to helping every Salvadorian to have the opportunity to obey the gospel, our overall vision for the work in El Salvador. Currently, High Pointe partners with Genesis Alliance (www.genalliance.org). High Pointe has charged Genesis Alliance with implementing disciple-making methodologies across El Salvador. In order to accomplish this, Genesis Alliance recently held a seminar training more than 60 selected disciple-makers (including evangelists, some spouses, and young professionals) from all parts of El Salvador, as well as for a small number of evangelists from other Central American countries.
High Pointe has a working relationship with more than 20 different churches, the large majority of which are church plants High Pointe helped to initiate. All potential disciple-makers receive training and regular encouragement through Genesis Alliance and High Pointe as well as support when needed in crisis situations.
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