Chloe Earp Departs for Three-Month Mission Trip

By John Earp

This past Tuesday, Chloe Earp embarked on an overseas missions trip, first flying across the country to Atlanta, Georgia, and then on to Seoul, South Korea before landing in Manila, Philippines. She is participating in Global Missions Training through Church of God World Missions. She attended a weeklong missions training session in August at the headquarters of Church of God World Missions in Cleveland, Tennessee, which included topics like language acquisition. With the help of many generous friends and family members (especially relying on the sale of cookies, pies and cakes she and her mom baked), Chloe raised the over $10,000 necessary to fund her three-month missions trip to the Philippines. She and her team will be working with seasoned missionaries there, and will be based out of the Asian School of Christian Ministries there. Chloe was encouraged to pursue Global Missions Training by the New Mexico/El Paso Youth Ministries Director, Pastor Sam Mullins of Carlsbad.

Chloe says at this point she is not sure if she is called to be a career missionary or not, but if after she completes this three-month intensive training and hands-on practical ministry experience, her next step would be a one-year training for the mission field. She says she has always wanted to travel and see the world, as well as reach people with the good news of Jesus Christ, with this overseas missions endeavor combining both. The Church of God is a Holiness-Pentecostal denomination founded in 1886 near the border of Tennessee and North Carolina as a single local church committed to a restoration of the New Testament Church in the last days, and the unity of all true Christians. Today, it has over 23 million members and constituents worldwide, in over 195 nations of the world, including about 1 million members in the United States of America.