Serving around the world for over 30 years.
Our story
A Life Aligned.
We are the Swifts. We have been serving in diverse ministries for over 30 years, from church-planting in the Middle East & USA to training church leaders around the Mediterranean. By God’s grace we raised and homeschooled 5 children along the way. All of them are married & walking with Jesus. At the heart of it all has been a constant aligning and realigning of our hearts with the heart of God in his word. As we hold fast to God’s word he invites us to live an adventure of discovering how our stories fit into his big story. How does your story fit into God’s big story?
Missional Marriage & Family.
The Bible describes our marriages as covenantal relationships. Marriage resembles the special covenant relationship Jesus Christ has with his own bride, the church (Ephesians 5:22-33). We have witnessed how marriage is an intentional mission designed by God to be a living display of the gospel to our children, our churches, our communities, and our world. This simple truth transformed everything for our family. It can transform yours too!
Local & Global.
According to God’s word, the local church is God’s chosen instrument to advance His kingdom in the world (Ephesians 3:10; 4:11-16; Colossians 1:24-28). Christ is building his Church in the world through His Word by gathering and growing people by the grace of the gospel from every race & ethnicity. For this reason we are committed to serving people in local churches globally. We would love to meet your church!
Maritime Methods.
As our vision develops we are seeking creative ways to use our experience with and love for sailing to advance God’s kingdom and enhance our training ministry. So far we use our sailboat for hospitality ministry on the Great Lakes. We’ve also partnered with Broad Reach Maritime in Greece and the growing network of maritime ministries represented on KingsFleet. Let’s go sailing with purpose!
Mediterranean Basin.
Our hearts’ focus and decades of experience has landed us among the people, cultures, and lands that hug the Mediterranean Sea from southern Europe, to the Near East and North Africa. Most of these countries are part of the “10/40 Window” influenced by secularism, traditionalism, and Islam. So, we spend portions of each year training in this region. Some of our kids live in the Caribbean and Central America. Where might God send us next? Where might he be sending you?
Transferable Training.
Modeled after 2 Timothy 2:2 and Paul’s letter to Titus, we do training events, workshops, (T4T - Training For Transformation) and retreats based in God’s word, using simple, easily transferable tools (Tools for Bible Navigation) in close fellowship with leaders and their churches. We do follow-up visits for gospel partnership, deepening relationships, leadership development, and training in life-long church wide family-nurturing, disciple-making, and mission. Could your church benefit from this training?
Our Partners
Our non-profit ministry is called Great Sea Commission. But we believe it takes strong gospel partnerships (Philippians 1:5) between a diversity of believers, churches, and organizations to plant, equip, and strengthen the Body of Christ throughout the world. Below you will see a list of ministries with which GSC partners to get the job done in the Mediterranean region. These ministries represent many decades of experience lived out by real people who care and sacrifice much for the advancement of the gospel in the world. Please take some time to check out this network God is growing.
Equipt
Equipt is a kingdom-minded ministry, glorifying God by launching, supporting, and equipping gospel-centered churches, organizations, and missionaries.
International Bible Training Center
A ministry of the Illyricum Movement, IBTC is a practical pastoral and theological training program in Albania equipping rural pastors from areas across the 10/40 Window for church planting and strengthening.
Dolphin 3 Discipleship
The Mission of Dolphin 3 Discipleship... Bring Jesus to the Greek islands & Bring people to Jesus!
Broad Reach Maritime
Picking up where Paul left off, BRM is reaching people for Christ in the islands and ports of Greece. Many of Greece’s 227 inhabited islands are home to only a few believers. Some have none. Unique opportunities arise for effective outreach using boats.
Horizons International
Billions of people don’t know Jesus. We help to equip the global church to reach them, especially in the Muslim world. Well-known for his work supervising the translation and publication of the Bible into clear modern Arabic, HI founder, Georges Houssney, is passionate about reaching internationals in the USA and abroad with the great news of salvation.
Moving to the Right Ministries
The mission of M2R is to elevate a generation of faithful, godly, develop-mentally minded leaders for the church, missions, and the workplace. M2R provides highly relational coaching, in both individual and cohort-based sessions, serving Christian leaders and aspiring leaders all over the world who desire to intentionally develop people and teams.
El-Soora
El-Soora is a gospel-centered equipping ministry for pastors and their churches in Egypt and the Arabic-speaking world.
Kingsfleet
KingsFleet is a growing network of maritime ministries around the world.
