Our Mission
Glory Shiners Ministries exists to share the glory of God nationally and internationally with communities through prayer, discipleship, evangelizing, outreach and education in order to build personal relationships with Jesus Christ.
Our Vision
To build a "cities of refuge": a place of healing and restoration, a place of counseling and education, a place where families can be restored and men and women can find their true purpose--a relationship with Jesus Christ.
Who We AreIn 2014, Joel and Tara Beauchamp founded Glory Shiners Ministries while volunteering with YWAM Athi River, Kenya.
They returned to Kenya as full time missionaries in the spring of 2016 and are continuing their journey as they transition to Nepal in the fall of 2019. |
Joel, Tara, Caroline and Christopher
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Joel and Tara heard the call to be missionaries early in their marriage. Joel comes from a background in Christian Addiction Counseling where he was staff at Waypoint Center and The Jericho House. Tara has a background in children's Christian Camps working at Woodlands Camp.
Our Kenya Story
While on a two week mission trip in the summer of 2013, Joel and Tara met a Kenyan named Julius Okoch. Julius was doing prison ministry. While ministering with Julius, Joel and Tara felt the Lord building a relationship. Upon returning to the States, the calling for full time mission work grew louder. In 2014, Joel and Tara returned to Kenya for a six month missionary commitment to explore God's calling.
Joel and Tara volunteered at the Youth With A Mission Athi River Base and would periodically take outreach trips to visit Pastor Julius and the prisons. As the six months progressed Joel and Tara could sense the ministry growing. The outreach to the prisons began to develop into personal relationships with staff, inmates and of course Julius and his family.
It seemed appropriate to build the ministry to the next level. Prayerfully, Joel, Tara and Julius registered Glory Shiners Ministry as a society with the Kenyan Government. This registering would allow Julius to develop the prison ministry into other prisons and establish a board of directors for spiritual and financial accountability.
Joel and Tara founded Glory Shiners Ministries as a non-profit upon returning to the States. Previously they had a blog titled "Shine Out Of Darkness" and felt like the name "Glory Shiners"was a good fit to their ministry---as the goals are the same---to shine the glory of God into dark places.
Joel and Tara want to expand as the Lord leads and minister not only in East Africa but the world.....to anyone living in darkness.
Joel and Tara volunteered at the Youth With A Mission Athi River Base and would periodically take outreach trips to visit Pastor Julius and the prisons. As the six months progressed Joel and Tara could sense the ministry growing. The outreach to the prisons began to develop into personal relationships with staff, inmates and of course Julius and his family.
It seemed appropriate to build the ministry to the next level. Prayerfully, Joel, Tara and Julius registered Glory Shiners Ministry as a society with the Kenyan Government. This registering would allow Julius to develop the prison ministry into other prisons and establish a board of directors for spiritual and financial accountability.
Joel and Tara founded Glory Shiners Ministries as a non-profit upon returning to the States. Previously they had a blog titled "Shine Out Of Darkness" and felt like the name "Glory Shiners"was a good fit to their ministry---as the goals are the same---to shine the glory of God into dark places.
Joel and Tara want to expand as the Lord leads and minister not only in East Africa but the world.....to anyone living in darkness.
Our Nepal Story
In 2015, after the earthquake that devastated most of Nepal, Joel felt the Lord putting Nepal on his heart. Joel traveled from kenya to kathmandu, Nepal in October of 2015...not knowing who he was going to see or what he was going to do just that the Lord wanted him there.
Upon checking into his hotel and checking his email he realized he had a message from Dean Perry his Genesis Counselor instructor. Dean saw that Joel was in Kathmandu and asked if he would stop by Vision Rehab Center, a Christian addiction center. Dean said the director at VRC had inquired about The Genesis Process Counseling. So Joel agreed and met Parasu Giri and Shon Maharjan for breakfast the next day. After meeting with Parasu and Shon, Joel realized why God had called him to Nepal! Parasu and Shon had been running a Christian recovery program and wanted to get some training in the Genesis Process. Joel spent the remaining time he had in Nepal working with some of the men and training Shon and Parasu. Ever since that first encounter in 2015, Joel has been traveling to Nepal periodically and working with Vision Rehab Center.
January of 2019 God released Joel and Tara from Kenya. They felt like the ministry in Kenya was at a place to be run by the local Kenyans they had been training. Joel and Tara have taken a supportive roll for the ministry in Kenya by continuing to provide prayer and financial support. They are currently focusing their ministry efforts on Nepal. The goal in Nepal is to train staff and develop the structure at Vision Rehab Center and to provide employment for the graduates for sustainability.
Please join them on our journey as they follow the Lord's lead.
"For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your bondservants for Jesus’ sake. For it is God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ."
2 Cor 4:5-6
Upon checking into his hotel and checking his email he realized he had a message from Dean Perry his Genesis Counselor instructor. Dean saw that Joel was in Kathmandu and asked if he would stop by Vision Rehab Center, a Christian addiction center. Dean said the director at VRC had inquired about The Genesis Process Counseling. So Joel agreed and met Parasu Giri and Shon Maharjan for breakfast the next day. After meeting with Parasu and Shon, Joel realized why God had called him to Nepal! Parasu and Shon had been running a Christian recovery program and wanted to get some training in the Genesis Process. Joel spent the remaining time he had in Nepal working with some of the men and training Shon and Parasu. Ever since that first encounter in 2015, Joel has been traveling to Nepal periodically and working with Vision Rehab Center.
January of 2019 God released Joel and Tara from Kenya. They felt like the ministry in Kenya was at a place to be run by the local Kenyans they had been training. Joel and Tara have taken a supportive roll for the ministry in Kenya by continuing to provide prayer and financial support. They are currently focusing their ministry efforts on Nepal. The goal in Nepal is to train staff and develop the structure at Vision Rehab Center and to provide employment for the graduates for sustainability.
Please join them on our journey as they follow the Lord's lead.
"For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your bondservants for Jesus’ sake. For it is God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ."
2 Cor 4:5-6
What We Believe
We believe The Holy Bible to be the inspired, only infallible, authoritative Word of God (II Timothy 3:15, II Peter 1:21).
We believe in one God, eternally existent in three persons - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (Genesis 1:1, Matthew 28:19, John 10:30).
We believe in the deity of Christ (John 10:33); His virgin birth (Isaiah 7:14, Matthew 1:23, Luke 1:35); His sinless life (Hebrews 4:15, Hebrews 7:26); His miracles (John 2:11); His atoning death (I Corinthians 15:3, Ephesians 1:7, Hebrews 2:9); His resurrection (John 11:25, I Corinthians 15:4); His ascension to the right hand of the God the Father (Mark 16:19); His personal return in power and glory (Acts 1:11, Revelation 19:11).
We believe in the absolute necessity of regeneration by the Holy Spirit for salvation because of the exceeding sinfulness of human nature, and that men are justified on the single ground of faith in the shed blood of Christ and that only by God's grace and through faith alone are we saved (John 3:16-19, John 5:24, Romans 3:23, Romans 5:8-9, Ephesians 2:8-10, Titus 3:5).
We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost: they that are saved unto the resurrection of life, and they that are lost unto the resurrection of damnation (John 5:28-29).
We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ (Romans 8:9, I Corinthians 12:12-13, Galatians 3:26-28).
We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life (Romans 8:13-14, I Corinthians 3:16; 6:19-20, Ephesians 4:30, Ephesians 5:18).
We believe in the Apostles' Creed
We believe in God, the Father Almighty, creator of heaven and earth. We believe in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried; He descended to the dead. On the third day He rose again; He ascended into heaven, is seated at the right hand of the Father, and will come again to judge the living and the dead. We believe in the Holy Spirit, the universal church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting.
We believe in one God, eternally existent in three persons - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (Genesis 1:1, Matthew 28:19, John 10:30).
We believe in the deity of Christ (John 10:33); His virgin birth (Isaiah 7:14, Matthew 1:23, Luke 1:35); His sinless life (Hebrews 4:15, Hebrews 7:26); His miracles (John 2:11); His atoning death (I Corinthians 15:3, Ephesians 1:7, Hebrews 2:9); His resurrection (John 11:25, I Corinthians 15:4); His ascension to the right hand of the God the Father (Mark 16:19); His personal return in power and glory (Acts 1:11, Revelation 19:11).
We believe in the absolute necessity of regeneration by the Holy Spirit for salvation because of the exceeding sinfulness of human nature, and that men are justified on the single ground of faith in the shed blood of Christ and that only by God's grace and through faith alone are we saved (John 3:16-19, John 5:24, Romans 3:23, Romans 5:8-9, Ephesians 2:8-10, Titus 3:5).
We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost: they that are saved unto the resurrection of life, and they that are lost unto the resurrection of damnation (John 5:28-29).
We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ (Romans 8:9, I Corinthians 12:12-13, Galatians 3:26-28).
We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life (Romans 8:13-14, I Corinthians 3:16; 6:19-20, Ephesians 4:30, Ephesians 5:18).
We believe in the Apostles' Creed
We believe in God, the Father Almighty, creator of heaven and earth. We believe in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried; He descended to the dead. On the third day He rose again; He ascended into heaven, is seated at the right hand of the Father, and will come again to judge the living and the dead. We believe in the Holy Spirit, the universal church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting.
