Receive Lydia Circle Updates & Happenings - Subscribe to our Newsletter
2020 Mission Trips
Upcoming Trips
Past Trips - 2019
January 12-January 26
March 23-April 6
June 22-July 6
July 20-August 4
September 7 - 21
Lydia Circle Ministry trips are normally 14-16 days long with several conferences being held in each country. The national church pastors organize each event and prepare the logistics for each conference.
Our Lydia Circle Ministries’ conferences are usually 3-4 days. Each day the women start out the day with training in discipleship, we have lunch together and then in the afternoon we go outside into the nearby community and put our new training into practice by sharing the gospel message by using our evangelism tool, the evangi-cloth. Each afternoon we wrap up our day by the women coming back to the church and giving testimonies about how people responded to the gospel message that they shared. The conference finishes up with each woman receiving a Bible, Training book, Evangi-cloth, and necklace of completion. A special gift of a woman’s hygiene kit, made by the women at North Metro Church, is given to each woman who participates in the training.
Our Purpose
Our Strategy
Melinda Dykstra and her husband Tim have 4 grown, married children and 3 grandchildren. In 2005 she participated in her first outreach to Zambia, Africa and became ‘hooked’ on African missions. She has since participated in outreaches held in Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia. Melinda has been called since 2010 to work specifically with the women in Africa through the organization she started called Lydia Circle. With Melinda’s God given talents and strong drive, U.S. based Trainers and indigenous woman leaders help her conduct training and the mentoring of African women in discipleship, emotional and physical well-being, relationships with children and husband, and how to pass on the good news of Jesus Christ to others.