MISSION OUTREACH
Bob C. Ross Ministries Mission Outreach
Our World Mission Outreach Focuses on Evangelism, Discipleship and Training and Church Planting. We support several Seminaries, Bible Colleges and Teaching Centers which train pastors, missionaries and local church workers. We support Evangelistic Crusades and creative ways of getting the Gospel message and help to those in need. Our Goal is Plant Missions and Churches in every nation where God has placed us to fulfill His Great Commission.
We presently work in Cuba, the Yucatan and Tabasco of Mexico, Romania, and India. We are involved stateside in Alaska. Our Foreign Mission outreach from Cuba touches the Ivory Coast, Central and South America. Our servant director often teaches in churches, seminaries, Bible Colleges and holds Bible Conferences in these areas.
We assist churches and individuals to become involved in “hands on” mission work in the Yucatan of Mexico. Each year in August we take work teams to help churches, pastors and campgrounds in Alaska. For details about our major Mission Activities continue to scroll down.
Cuba Mission
In February ’04, our director, Bob Ross went to Cuba, with the purpose of working with a Communist nation in our hemisphere. While on that trip, Bob started ministry with his ”leads” Miguel and Silvia Romero, who have a vision for the entire island of Cuba, and the world beyond. Bob prayed for an “Apostle Paul” to lead in Cuba and God provided. Miguel led our ministries in the Spanish speaking world for two decades before his death in December 2023. Today one of his Disciples, Karel Guzman is Director/Coordinator of all our Cuban Ministries. Details to follow.
Cuba is 400 miles long, and about 50 miles wide. It is home to 11+ million Cubans who have an incredible hunger for the Gospel. Most folks believe that the primary religious group on the island of Cuba is Catholicism. But the cult of Santeria (which mixes African voodoo practices and Caribbean folk beliefs with Roman Catholicism) is well over 50%. Committed Catholics are few (less than 3%). Agnosticism and atheism as taught by Cuba’s Marxist tradition sways over 30% of the population. They teach that “religion is the opiate of the masses” stands over 30%. Protestants and Evangelicals (Methodist, Baptists and Pentecostals comprise more than 11% of Cuba’s population. It is estimated that in the last decade over 1 million Cubans have accepted Christ as their Savior.
Today Evangelical Christianity is the leading group.
Bob discovered an urgent need for formal training of pastors and missionaries (house church pastors). He encouraged Cuban Christians to establish a Havana seminary/Bible College, as an extension of the Yucatan seminary system.
Today there are 100’s of students with extensions all over Cuba. Our ministry helps to support of the seminary, area directors, pastors and missionaries and their many training facilities. Our ministry emphasis has focused on church planting and pastoral/missionary training. Hundreds of house churches have been started by students (a part of every student’s training).
Cuban Pastors and Missionaries Are Committed to Starting House Churches
Our Cuban Director Karel Guzman Ganboa is our Servant Leader of our Ministries in Cuba. He was trained by our previous Director, Miguel Romero. Karel is now pastor of Mt. Zion Baptist Church in the Carolina section of Havana. He graduated from the Free Will Baptist Seminary, which we work with, and we help support in Pinar del Rio. We are fortunate to have Karel leading our Cuban outreach, which trains young Cubans as pastors, missionaries, church planters, children’s workers and Women’s Ministry. We welcome Karel to this important leadership position.
In Cuba we help support and train missionaries directed by 4 area coordinators. During and after their Seminary training, young pastors and missionaries begin house churches in all provinces of Cuba.
Note: Most young pastors and missionaries have less than $25 per month income for their families, their church work, food, travel, and other needs. This year 2024 things are worse in the Cuban economy than at their lowest point in the early 1990s.
God is moving in incredible ways. Our ministry helps with funds to get the students to their mission points and back to their seminaries. Public transportation is quite unreliable and today, often non-existent.
Our Cuba ministry is now sending missionaries to other countries (the Nations). We now have over 40 serving on foreign fields, or in mission training.
Today Evangelical Christianity is the leading group.
Bob discovered an urgent need for formal training of pastors and missionaries (house church pastors). He encouraged Cuban Christians to establish a Havana seminary/Bible College, as an extension of the Yucatan seminary system.
Today there are over 600 students with extensions all over Cuba. Our ministry helps to support of the seminar, area directors, pastors and missionaries and their many training facilities. Our ministry emphasis has focused on church planting and pastoral/missionary training. Hundreds of house churches have been started by students (a part of every student’s training).
Cuban Pastors and Missionaries Are Committed to Starting House Churches
We assist our International Director,Karel Guzman Ganboa is our Servant Leader of our Ministries in Cuba.
We help support and train missionaries directed by 10 area coordinators. During and after their training, young pastors and missionaries begin house churches in all provinces of Cuba. With no consistent public transportation, often our pastors walk 5-10 miles to minister to their house churches. We often send in money for bicycles.
Note: Most young pastors and missionaries have less than $40 per month income for their families, their church work, food, travel, and other needs. This year 2020 things are worse in the Cuban economy than at their lowest point in the early 1990s.
All seminary students in Havana, and Pinar del Rio are required to start house churches. God is moving in incredible ways. Our ministry has to supply funds to get the students to their mission points and back to their seminaries. Public transportation is quite unreliable and today, often non-existent.
Our Cuba ministry is now sending missionaries to other countries (the Nations). We now have over 40 serving on foreign fields, or in mission training.
Yucatan & Tabasco Missions • Mexico • 2024
In 1989, Bob and Barb had planned to vacation in Cancun, but God spoke to their hearts about mission work in the Yucatan.
God led, and they followed…
Throughout the 1990s Bob and Prairie Creek Baptist Church of Plano Texas began working with the First Baptist Church of Merida doing evangelism. Most trips, they would see 350-500 come to Jesus, through the Jesus Film in Spanish. But there was little follow-up or discipleship.
After prayerful consideration, they helped begin a seminary with First Baptist of Merida. In the ‘90s we worked with Faith Baptist Missions in the ministry and vision for the Yucatan.
Small seminaries were planted in Merida, Campeche, Cancun, Vallodalid, Tabasco in Mexico, and Havana, Cuba. In those early days, Prairie Creek, Plano, and Bob were the key participants in the seminary work. Bob took the ministry into Cuba.
In the past two years Bob C. Ross Ministries has carried the entire financial load and has directed the entire Yucatan and Tabasco “Seminary” (Bible School Training). We presently support 4 Directors, 23 Professors, 13 teaching locations and 185 students (in 2019 and early 2020 – prior to the virus). All students training to be pastors and missionaries are required to begin and or minister in new “church plants” or mission locations.
A decade ago there were about 200 Evangelical churches in the Yucatan. Today there are over 400 churches. Praise God!
BCRM Mexico Mission 2024 CAROUSEL IMAGES
India Missions
Bob C. Ross Ministries is about making and mobilizing disciples of Christ to transform lives in India through the Church, Discipleship and Community Development.
Our director of the ministries in Southern India is Patibandia Daniel, an evangelist, pastor and discipler. He takes evangelistic “prayer meetings” into Hindu villages and sees hundreds come to Jesus annually. He ministers out-of-doors 8 to 9 months. When the winter weather turns bad, he trains disciples and young pastors for the local churches. He reaches between 35-40 villages each year and has planted many missions and churches in these villages. He leaves behind his personal disciples to meet the pastoral needs of the new Christians and “disciple” them.
Each winter Pastor Daniel helps to provide blankets for the “poorest of the poor” and lepers in his ministry area. Many of these street people spend the winter in the shelter of ditches to protect from the cold. Rain intensifies their suffering. Our ministry helps to provide these blankets and clothing for widows in his church’s ministry area.
Due to limited funds, we often feel that we are only providing a drop of water for an ocean of need. We invite you to help. “A word to the sufficient is wise”.
Partnering with our ministry, Carson-Myre Foundation helped to provide a van in 2017. This has increased our range of ministry to a 150mile radius. It costs about $400 for a 3day meeting in a village. We are presently seeking US Indian Churches to “partner” with us to provide for these ministries.
