Construction teams from Grace are working with officials in Mexico to build a clinic with proper medical facilities. Medical and health needs, with evangelism, with Bible translation, with building churches, with reaching out to college students around the world. We try to have a balance. Harry Slye Low-Key Mission in the Middle East St. Johns Assyrian Presbyterian Church in Turlock, California, partners with six congregations in Iraq, a nation that has maintained shaky relations, at best, with the United States. This prompts discreet measures in mission by St. Johns, a mostly Assyrian congregation of 160-170 members who have roots in Iraq, Iran and Lebanon.
Money is funneled through bank accounts in Jordan to partnering churches in Iraq.
Church members traveling from the United States carry medication and pastoral materials to their Middle Eastern counterparts. Aspirin, vitamins and milk can't be purchased in the stores over there. In the future someone will take it to them. Shabaz, who travels to the region each year, is a perfect Middle Eastern courier since he was born in Baghdad and raised in Iran. He speaks the region's languages and has been influenced by Turkish, Lebanese, Israeli and Egyptian cultures.