Eric Bebber
Location: Washington, D.C.
Hometown: Thomasville, N.C.
Commissioned: 2006
As an advocate for the poor in the nation’s capital, Bebber helps facilitate missions trips for Fellowship partner churches. He connects church teams with urban ministries, hosts them during their stay, and challenges them toward missional living.
“Too often we ignore our community,” Bebber said. “My hope is that people go home and find those people who are unwanted and unloved, and respond to that lack of love. A church is missional when it’s in relationship with its community.”
Throughout the year he builds networks with area ministries and also helps with Horizons Club, an after school program for teenagers run by CBF partner Calvary Baptist Church.
“I feel like God has placed inside of me a broken heart for people who suffer, and to work against structures that lead to brokenness is one way I live out my calling as a Christian,” Bebber said.
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