Missions

The Family Friends ministry was originally started by Bob Boberg and is now organized by Bob Goodale, the Executive Director.

Family Friends serves Minnetonka kids at Minnetonka High School by providing love, support and encouragement to youth and families in need.

The organization provides mentoring, parent support, financial assistance, dental and medical care, just to name a few of the ways it serves the Minnetonka community.

Connected Families is a non-profit ministry that exists to support Christ-centered transformation in families by stewarding a growing worldwide community of parents, parent coaches, and ministry partners equipped with a biblical framework for parenting.

I joined Connected Families in 2005. I am married to Carma and have three adult daughters and two sons-in-law. I oversee coaching and the Parent Coach Certification Program, which continues to grow in its reach across North America and worldwide.

Dean, as both the Director of YFC George and the Director of YFC South Africa, oversees a team that shares the love of Christ through the Training Centre, YFC Centres, Kidstop and Options Care Centre.

Youth for Christ is an international Christian organization with a vision to provide an opportunity for youth around the world to understand and respond to the Gospel.  They use various models of ministry that enable staff and volunteers to care for and build relationships with young people.  In George, South Africa, the focus is primarily on youth at risk who are living on the street and those facing a pregnancy or an HIV crisis.

Reaching every heart with God’s Word in every language enabling people to encounter Jesus. As a Bible translation consultant Greg completes the final check to ensure the quality of translated scriptures. He coaches the Kunama team (Eritrea/Ethiopia) and completes the quality check for Bible translations all across the world.

Michael Ireland is a Writer and Ordained Minister. Michael immigrated to the United States from Great Britain in 1982 and became a US citizen in September, 1995. He is married with two adult daughters. He committed his life to Jesus Christ at the age of 11 at a Billy Graham Crusade in London, England on June 30, 1966. He and his wife Una have been members of Ridgewood Church since 1996.

Michael Ireland Media Missionary (MIMM) is Michael’s Christian writing and speaking ministry with a vision of “Truth through Christian Communication.” Michael serves as Chaplain with Viking Squadron, Civil Air Patrol, U.S Air Force Auxiliary. He also serves at several retirement communities operated by Presbyterian Homes. He is Ordained by International Ministerial Fellowship www.imfserves.org, and is also active as an Endorsed Military Chaplain with Civil  Patrol.

Our mission is to train and equip laborers to more loving and effectively communicate Jesus and His Kingdom to and among the least-reached frontier peoples, especially Muslims. We do this with personal ministry among least reached peoples, by mentoring  laborers working among these peoples and by intensive trainings in the US and abroad.

The Rodriguez’s partner and pioneer the ministries of evangelism and discipleship in the inner city. This work is tied to compassion, training, and sharing the resources across the city with the goal of helping fulfill the “Great Commission”. We build partnerships with Latino churches, joining them in their missions by training volunteers in their native language and equipping them to reach their neighborhoods.

Reach & Restore connects people in need to people with resources, restoring hope and building relationships that demonstrate God’s unconditional love.

Done through referrals, volunteers and donations of time/money and needed items to help people in crisis, transition or struggling day to day, in our community.

Dr. Ryan Horazdovsky and his wife, Andrea and their four wonderful children headed for Nairobi, Africa in the summer of 2023. Ryan is an orthopedic surgeon helping to heal patients from all sorts of injuries at the Tenwek Mission Hospital in Kenya. It’s home to a Pan African Academy of Christian Surgeons (PAACS) Orthopedic Residency Training Program. The morning for Dr. Ryan starts with prayer, rounds, didactics and then surgery (theatre) or clinic. In the afternoons they take Swahili lessons.

Every day is an adventure for the kids with Andrea home schooling at the Tenwek compound, shopping at the local market, playtime and visits to the hospital. Who knows, there may be a zebra or elephant sighting along the way!

Did you know that there are still more than 3 billion people in the world who have never heard of Jesus?

Togo, Africa is the birthplace of voodoo. Lome is the capital city of Togo. It’s a large port city with a history of selling and shipping thousands of African slaves overseas. Witch doctors and voodoo practices are still prominent in the cities and villages of Togo.

The Timothy Initiative (TTI) and Ridgewood are working to spread the gospel of Jesus by planting churches in Togo to tell people what God has done for them.

Toni Georgiev can be found in the center of this image which is where he is comfortable speaking and teaching about Jesus in North Macedonia.

Toni and his wife, Vesna live in Strumica, a town of about 45.000 people. Their town is surrounded with 72 villages where spiritual blindness is almost 100%. Very few people know the name Jesus and His salvation! Toni’s vision is to enter in every village to plant home Bible study groups that will become churches. To accomplish that vision Toni is in the process of developing strong disciples who will join the church planting team.