PRACTICAL MISSIONS
: of or relating to practice or action in cross-cultural missionary church planting
: reasonable service for any saving-grace recipient
: useful to the Master
COHORT
: a band of people with a common interest or shared characteristic
: a supporter or companion
: a group of warriors or soldiers
Jesse & Jeryvee and
Cornelius and Beatrice Schreck
PMc missionaries since 2017
Jesse and Jeryvee married in Italy in 2012 and have been serving the Lord fulltime as missionary church planters. Below you can read a bit about their stories.
You can also follow them on social media platforms and their new Missionary Vlog where they create content to share with US partners so they can see and feel missionary life and church planting in Italy.
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Jesse Schreck
Originally from Allentown, Pennsylvania, Jesse has been serving in Italy as a full-time career missionary since 2007. He learned the Italian culture and language and was personally trained by a veteran missionary church planter in missions, evangelism, and church planting during his time with Saints Equipped to Evangelize (June 2007 - Jan. 2016). Jesse, by God's grace, together with the board of directors, founded PMc to carry on living and teaching the increasingly less known and understood work of Missionary Church Planting (apostolic-style).
Currently, Jesse is serving as a PMc missionary and church planter while also serving as the PMc on-field director. Together with his wife, they are laboring to see Jesus form a new church plant in Venezia Mestre. They pray that PMc will be a tool in the Lord's hands to involve and equip many of God's people in His unique work in Italy to establish Biblical churches to the end that more lost can be saved, more lives transformed by the Gospel, more disciples made, more men equipped for pastoral ministry, more missionaries enrolled, equipped and sent out to more cities and people for years to come.
...I am sending you to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me. Acts 26: 17b-18
Official Home/Sending Church: Gateway Church Long Island, NY
Hobbies: Being outdoors, reading, writing, biking, hiking, vegetable gardening, nutrition
Something you may not know about me: I'm a big fan of both Espresso and Yerba Mate tea
Follow Jesse on:
The Italian Cohort, Facebook @Jesse.Schreck.14, Instagram @Jesse_Schreck, Gab @jesseschreck,
Jeryvee Schreck
Jesse's wife. Originally from Batangas in the Philippines, she came to Italy for economic purposes when she was 17. While in Italy she became a part of the church family called Lord Jesus Philippine Fellowship (LJPF), in Reggio Calabria. A church that has grown in the last 25 years from 1 to 13 different churches throughout Italy plus 5 churches in the Philippines along with Saints Bible Institute of Church Planting of the Philippines. Jesse and Jeryvee met at one of the LJPF annual conferences hosted in San Lorenzo Italy where Jesse was previously stationed.
Jeryvee's heart is burdened for the people of Italy. Religion is strong in Italy, but few know the God of the Bible. Few people know the Lord Jesus in a personal way and fewer still know the way of salvation as given to us in the Holy Scriptures - by grace alone and through faith in Jesus Christ.
Aside from caring for Jesse as his helper and being a full-time housewife and mother, she plays an active role in church planting with her warm and friendly personality, musical passion, and ministry to the kids.
"You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven." Matt. 5: 14-16
Official Home/Sending Church: Gateway Church Long Island, NY
Hobbies: baking, flowers, singing, playing guitar
Something you may not know about me: I have 8 siblings and 26 nephews and I don't drive a car
Follow Jeryvee on:
The Italian Cohort, Facebook @ Jeryvee, Instagram @ jvbschreck, Gab @ Jeryvee