our missions

Carrying out the Great Commission is central to the identity of Calvary Community Church.  Because of that, Calvary dedicates a sizable percentage of its income to mission work. About half of our missions budget goes to Ban San Faan, a children's home in Thailand, and the other half is allocated to missionaries and organizations serving locally and around the world.

Ban San Faan

"A Christ-centered children's home where orphaned and other homeless children can be nurtured physically, emotionally, and spiritually" - this is the vision not only of our Ban San Faan Mission Board, but of the entire church.  By the grace of God, Calvary has seen it become a reality over the last fifteen years. 


The vision for a children's home in Thailand started in 2001.  After many months of planning, the home - called Ban San Faan, meaning "house of fulfilled dreams" - opened in 2003 in a rented building in Chiang Mai, a city of 150,000 in northern Thailand.  In mid-2004 the home reached its limit of 15 children.


The church then voted to use reserve funds and member pledges for Ban San Faan to purchase property and build a home of its own.  The home was dedicated in 2007.  The next phase was a new school built by a non-profit organization started by one of Calvary's members.  Opened in 2010 on land adjacent to the home, it is a Christian school where the children learn English as well as Thai.  It is also an opportunity to reach Thai students and their parents with the Word of God.  A boys dormitory opened in 2014. 


Ban San Faan's preschool children are taught in the home.  K-6 students attend the adjacent school.  Older students attend four schools in Chiang Mai. 


We now have more than 20 children and a loving staff who provide a Christian home.  Each child has a Calvary sponsor and, in 2016, our first two children graduated from high school. 


Ban San Faan has done more than provide a Christian home in a non-Christian country.  It has also directly engaged our congregation in the mission field.  Sponsors, the pastoral staff, youth groups, couples - all of these and more have served at Ban San Faan. Some stay for a couple weeks, while others have invested years of their lives.

our missionaries

The Missions Committee has set these goals for carrying out Calvary's missions objectives:


  • Missions should be a definite, visible, and ongoing commitment of the church.
  • Activities of Calvary's missionaries should be effectively communicated to the congregation. 
  • Missions can take a variety of forms -- evangelistic, aid-based, disaster relief, short-term, long-term, missionary residing in foreign country, missionary traveling to a foreign country to train leaders.
  • Calvary's missions should reflect a balance between foreign and local.
  • Short-term missions activities should be evaluated for effectiveness of follow-up.
  • Youth should be encouraged to consider whether God is calling them to missions work.
  • Calvary should support its members who are called to long-term or short-term missions.



This year our support is allocated among 16 missionaries or mission organizations, 

and has the following balance:


Local -7

National (outside Washington)-2

Foreign -- living in US & traveling-2

Foreign -- living outside the US-5