About Us:
Hiya! We are the Miron family – Will, Sarah and our three kids, Aidan, Norah and Lucy. And we are missionary church planters to Ireland. Sarah and I are from Minnesota and Wisconsin respectively, but our family now lives in the west of Ireland in a village just outside of Galway City called Oranmore.
About Our Call:
Our call to Ireland began in 2016, with a car accident that took the lives of our friends Jamison and Kathryne Pals and their 3 children. The Pals were headed to Japan to be missionaries through WorldVenture, and were headed to Colorado for their final training before flying to Japan.
With the news of their death, and the funeral service in particular, Sarah and I were both moved to begin praying about global missions. Through WorldVenture’s website we found an opportunity to serve in the country with the lowest percentage of born-again Christians in the English-speaking world – Ireland.
An exclusively Catholic country for most of its modern history, the biggest need we saw is the lack of gospel-preaching churches. Over 80% of the Irish towns of 5,000 people or more do not have a gospel-preaching church in them.
About Our Ministry:
We arrived in Ireland March 16 of 2020, right when a certain Virus was beginning to spread. Ireland literally closed its borders the following day. When we have moved here, Sarah and I began serving in a local church in Galway called Galway City Baptist Church. At the same time, we have worked towards building up a community in the village we live in called Oranmore.
In 2023, our family along with a few others began holding worship services in Oranmore and in October of 2023 officially planted Oranmore Community Church. OCC is the only gospel-preaching church in the village or any of its surrounding villages. Our ministry now is to shepherd and grow this church while seeking to make disciples in our village through sharing the incredible news of Jesus.
About Your Partnership:
Just like the Godhead did missions as a community – the Father sending, the Son going, and the Spirit empowering – we believe we are made to do missions in the same image. God uses senders, go-ers and empower-ers to reach the nations for joy. So as go-ers, we need partnership from others in God’s kingdom to follow our call.
We need senders to financially partner with us to keep us here, and we need empower-ers to partner with us in prayer to keep us here. If you have any interest to partner with us in God’s mission to Ireland in either of those capacities, please contact us!
Thank you for taking the time to read about and consider the ministry God has called us to in Ireland. May the good news of Jesus and the expanse of His Kingdom saturate this Island once again.
Articles and Blogs on WorldVenture:
– Remembering the Pals
