Global Missions - Aurora Cornerstone Church

Through Global Missions, we provide prayer and financial support to teachers, pastors and others who serve in various nations around the world, helping those in need and sharing the Good News of Jesus. Those we support globally include:

Michel & Louise Charbonneau

Michel & Louise Charbonneau are the missionaries who started the Haiti Ministries, a Christian organization that has been working in Haiti since 1996. Their goal is to bring the youth of Haiti into a relationship with God. They lead a local church, prison ministry, feeding program, clinic and child sponsoring program in Haiti. The need in this country is great, as people are living with the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake, tropical storms, cholera and post-election violence.

Glen and Kerry Halliwell

Glen and Kerry Halliwell have been serving in Malawi for 16 years. They have three beautiful boys who have grown up in the country they fell in love with in 1992. Since then, they have partnered with church and individuals to plant churches, teach in Bible Schools, run a Christian primary school for Malawian children, distribute food, clothing and other necessities to those in need, outreach and evangelism, minister to street children and refugees and many other ministries. Currently, the Halliwells pastor City Pentecostal Church that they planted back in 1999 in the heart of Blantyre, the commercial capital of Malawi. The needs of people on the street for food, education and daily living needs keep the Halliwells engaged with ministry in this country.

Prasad and Dawn Samson

Prasad and Dawn Samson and their two daughters, Hannah and Asha, live in Nedungundram, just outside of Chennai, India. They have a strategic ministry plan committed to the four core values of the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada World Missions: reaching, planting, equipping and caring for the people of Southern India in creative ways. Since arriving in 2005, they have ministered to hundreds of people through open air meetings, church ministry, and showing the Jesus Movie. Through their caring ministry, they have reached out to many through distribution of rice and clothing to some of the most desperately poor people. Orphaned children have been brought into homes and given education through their schools. Widows have been given hope through their ministry. In a land of over a billion people, where only 2.5% of the population are Christians, the Samsons share the light of the Gospel.

Dr. Irving Whitt

The Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada (PAOC) identifies its four core missional responsibilities as Reaching, Planting, Equipping, and Caring. Working from the International Office of the PAOC, Dr. Whitt provides oversight to the Equipping dimension so strategically needed in the exploding church around the world. He helps with leadership development in over 35 countries by resourcing academic and practical training, developing leaders for indigenous and self-sustainable church-planting missional movements. He continues to raise increased scholarship funds to help students access training programs globally and invest in their leadership training.

Irving began his missionary career by going to Kenya to teach in a Bible college along with his wife, Ruth, in 1970. During that time, his two daughters, Valerie and Rebecca, were born. Irving offers an immense background of missions training and experience.

Short Term Missions - Swaziland Restoring Hope 2010 Team

In partnership with Jubilance Singers and Orchestra, under the leadership of Ron and Sarah Puiras, 14 people from Aurora Cornerstone worked and raised funds together with support from our church family to be part of a team of 24 that went to El Shaddai Ministries in Swaziland for two weeks, August 13-29^th. A construction team built a residence to house a future physician for the ministry. Others led a Vacation Bible School ministry for the children at El Shaddai and the surrounding community. Funds were used to ship a large container of goods that included building materials, clothes, computers and supplies to establish a school library for the children. This was the fifth year of people from our church traveling to help Kallie and Charmaine Coertzen in their ministry to the orphans of this rural area of Swaziland, a country that experiences the highest rate of HIV/AIDS in the world. Those who participated in this team came back deeply impacted by the beautiful and joyful children they met. Most, if not all, desire to return - and we all continue to pray for this wonderful ministry.