“For my Father's will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day."   John 6:40

Why Sonflower Ministries?
The Hungarian countryside is covered with huge, beautiful fields of sunflowers that are used to feed animals and to produce cooking oil.  The Hungarian name for sunflower means, "turning to face the sun."  We chose the name "Sonflower" as it reminds us of the beauty of this flower and its daily seeking after the sun's life-giving properties.  Sonflower also reflects the main goal of our ministry - to see people of every tribe and nation turn their faces to seek the Son of God, in order to see His beauty and to know His life-giving power.

Our Mission
The mission of Sonflower Ministries is to support the year-round ministries of churches in Central and Eastern Europe, with a focus on church planting and church revitalization. The work is carried out through short-term mission trips within long-term partnerships between US and overseas churches. Our operational approach emphasizes the establishment and expansion of networks of in-country resources, promoting cooperation, collaboration, and the efficient use of resources. Team-building in the US is designed to help participants better understand their calling to Christian service and mission. Where possible, family participation is encouraged so that lessons learned while “on mission” can be reinforced around the dinner table for years to come, adding a new dimension to their sense of family identity.

How It All Started
What started as a single, short-term mission trip to Hungary has become a long-term strategic partnership including a dozen or so churches in the US and Hungary.  Although nearly all of our current work supports church planting in Hungary, we are working with partners to expand the work of church planting to other nations, and to bring it home to the US as well.

Recognizing that there are fifty-two weeks in a year, each one or two-week mission is designed to promote the year-round ministries of the local church.  Mission activities range from a growing array of children/youth ministries, English language camps, and translator training seminars to marriage counseling, equipping church leadership and supporting existing church ministries. However, the overarching goal is always the same—to promote the church planting efforts of the local church.

US team members are engaged in mission activities with the explicit goal of planting within team members and the churches who sent them a clearer sense of calling to outreach at home.  Each mission trip has a “team minister” whose function is to help the team connect the dots—to understand how the overseas experience relates to their life at home.

Statement of Faith
Sonflower Ministries is a interdenominational evangelical organization that is in essential agreement with the confessional statements of classical reformed Protestantism.  We seek to strengthen our unity in truth with other faithful churches and therefore invite all like-minded Christians to fellowship and serve together with us.