Mission: 2026

Declaring HIS glory to the nations

By Gary Fallesen, founding president, Climbing For Christ

Our daily Bible study goes like this: a song (or songs) of worship, a reading, prayer, and meditation. Waiting on the Lord, allowing Him to speak to us.

As my focus honed in more and more on Mission: 2026 and where Climbing For Christ would GO on Evangelic Expeditions in 2026, I had a special mission moment.

Seph Schlueter sang, “Won’t Start Now,” a song about God’s faithfulness. Then we continued our year-long reading, which that day had us in Isaiah, 2 Kings, 2 Chronicles, and Acts 1:8.

“I will perform a sign among them,” we read in Isaiah 66:19. “And I will send those who survive to be messengers to the nations – to Tarshish, to the Libyans and Lydians (who are famous as archers), to Tubal and Greece, and to all the lands beyond the sea that have not heard of my fame or seen my glory. There they will declare my glory to the nations.”

A foreshadowing of Acts 1:8: “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. And you will be my witnesses, telling people about me everywhere – in Jerusalem, throughout Judea, in Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

Declare HIS glory to the nations. Where they have not heard of HIS fame or seen HIS glory. To the ends of the earth.

The assignment for Mission: 2026 ... and beyond.

Announcing the tentative schedule for 2026 expeditions. Details for these trips will be found on Evangelic Expedition pages (links below). Some pages are for members only and will require a log-in for security reasons.

We continue to follow the “Pray, Give, GO!” approach. How you can be praying is found below. We also ask for financial support to make trips and ongoing work possible.

Our global Prayer Team prayed in advance of this announcement. I shared with them in an update, “Sending our best,” from Nik Ripken’s 2014 book The Insanity of Obedience: Walking with Jesus in Tough Places. That book changed the way I pray. Instead of asking the Lord of the harvest to send workers, I ask the Lord of the harvest to send the right workers.

“Churches and agencies who send their sons and daughters as sheep among the wolves need to send their very best,” Ripken wrote.

Amen to that.

Here’s where we want our best to GO in 2026:

• Philippines (late February) – We have unfinished business here. Nineteen missions were conducted from 2008 to 2016. C4C Philippines was our most active chapter. Then it went dormant. An unhappy ending that we hope (and pray) to rewrite.
• Japan (early March) – Hiking and exploring the spiritual frontier in what we hope will become the Land of the Rising Son.
• Kilimanjaro (late March) – Our teaching (book five in our years-long disciple-making training) will focus on “Church Planting & Book of Acts” as we continue to do outreach instruction on Mount Kilimanjaro with guides and porters in our Kilimanjaro Chapter.
• Peru (May) – We are returning to our Peruvian roots – GO-ing back to the Callejón de Conchucos to reach isolated and forgotten people. This is where C4C conducted its first missions to the Peruvian Andes in 2011 and 2012.
• Pakistan, log-in required – A long-awaited survey of Gilgit-Baltistan in the Karakoram valleys. Pray, pray, pray.
• Turkey, log-in required – Continued outreach to nomadic Kurds living in a Muslim country that oppresses them and strongly opposes Christianity.
• Indonesia, log-in required – 250 million unreached people. 103 Frontier People Groups (groups with fewer than 1-in-1,000 believers). So many unreached and overlooked people. Where do we GO, Lord? And who shall we send?
• Nepal, log-in required – Our attention turns to Manang in the Annapurna Circuit even as we continue to build churches in Rolpa and pray for breakthroughs and follow-ups in Kangchenjunga.

Gilbert Lindor, third from left, leading a team from Climbing For Christ’s New Generation (C4CNG) into the mountains of Haiti, where we operate schools in three villages and where we hope to build a clinic for Dr. Gilbert to serve in. (Photo by C4CNG)

There are no trips planned for Haiti/Dominican Republic, India (log-in required) or Malawi, but our Kingdom workers and ministry partners will be busy in those places. 

Pray on!

Joshua Project, a ministry resource we use that tracks the world’s people groups, recently shared “How you can make a difference.” May you also use this tool:

• Pray intentionally – Commit to interceding for Frontier People Groups (and those unreached people God is using Climbing For Christ to pursue). Prayer is one of the most powerful ways to engage in missions. I often tell the story about Helen Ewan, a Scotswoman who died at the age of 22. She never set foot in the mission field she was training and preparing for – yet her passing from this world to the next was felt by workers everywhere. She was a mighty prayer warrior. Laborers said they would have accomplished little if not for her prayers. We feel the same way: little can be accomplished without your prayers. Pray on!
• Raise awareness – Share information about C4C (carefully) with your church, small group, family, and friends. Inform and inspire others to act.
• Support missions – Consider financially giving to missionaries, like our Kingdom workers in Hispaniola, Malawi, Nepal, Peru, Tanzania, and Turkey. Even small contributions can have a significant impact.
• Educate yourself – Learn more about Climbing For Christ, unreached people groups, and the Great GO-mission.