Urban Nations Update: Immigrant to Immigrant
Urban Nations’ mission is to reach the immigrants in New York City so that the church might move with urgency toward its goal of bringing the Gospel of Jesus Christ, representatively, to every nation on earth. One happy evidence of God’s guiding hand in this endeavor is His use of immigrants to reach immigrants.
- Steve M. Schlissel,
- Steve M. Schlissel
Steve Schlissel has served as pastor of Messiah's Congregation in Brooklyn, New York, since 1979. Born and raised in New York City, Schlissel became a Christian by reading the Bible. He and Jeanne homeschooled their five children and also helped raise several foster children (mostly Vietnamese). In 2003, they adopted Anna (who was born in Hong Kong in 1988, but is now a U.S. citizen). They have eight foster grandchildren and fourteen "natural" grandchildren.