MISSIONARIES

MAGED AND KASKA FAWZY

Maged is the full-time sports ministry director for the largest evangelical church in Egypt and the Middle East. Maged organizes leadership training to help grow and train young perspective leaders all over the Middle East and establish sports ministries in large cities of each country.

LAURA (NIBLACK) AND BRIAN HALL

Brian and Laura live in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Brian teaches at Bingham Academy, an international school for children of missionaries and other ex-patriots living in Ethiopia. He is the eighth grade homeroom teacher, and teaches Bible and PE as well as being the Athletics Director for the sports program.

Laura is a nurse and works in a project serving the poor in Addis in regards to HIV and TB. Her work is mostly home-visit based as she researches active TB cases in the community.

NORRIS AND LAURIE WILLIAMS

Norris and Laurie are with Church Resource Ministries (CRM). Norris is the International Regional Director for CRM's work in the Middle East and North Africa. Norris serves a team of Arab leaders who live in the region. Norris' role is to serve and empower these leaders who are taking the Gospel of the Kingdom of Jesus to communities across this part of the world. The vision is to find, serve, train, empower and multiply local national leaders from all walks of life.

DAVE AND LYNN HUNT

Dave and Lynn have been with CityTeam Ministries since 1984 where Dave currently serves as CityTeamÕs director of North American Church Planting while continuing to give leadership to Horn of Africa Mission.

SAMMY AND SHANNON MUREITHI

Kenya needs 50,000 churches in order for everyone to hear about Jesus. Sammy and Shannon's focus is on training, coaching, and mentoring the church leaders to start new churches in their villages. They are also starting new churches in Nairobi. In addition to church planting, they coach pastors in healthy leadership development.

DAREN AND JODI BECK

Daren and Jodi labor among the Cambodian people for the sake of the Gospel. Daren is actively involved in seeing young pastors and leaders equipped for the work of the ministry within the context of the local church. Jodi labors full-time in the home and has an ongoing ministry with young women that God has brought into her arena.

PAUL AND GRACE MOSES

Paul is the director of Christian Sports Fellowship in Chennai (Madras), India, leading many sports events and outreaches, retreats, fellowships, outreach to poor areas, and training for college students. He and his wife also run the Sangita Orphanage. Sangita currently has 250 children in their project; 85 of them stay at the Sangita home. 40 children are being educated in an English medium school.

TED AND JUDY OLSEN

Ted and Judy are working in many countries with networks of church planters focused on unreached people groups (UPGs). UPGs are tribes, cultures or castes where there are few or no believers and no churches. Ted facilitates research, training and mobilizing so that church planting movements are initiated and flourishing among these tribes and cultures. Judy is committed to training workers in oral communication of the Gospel by telling Bible stories to non-literate people groups. The biblically based vision that undergirds the Olsen's ministry is the desire to see Christ become incarnate among all peoples everywhere.

CHRIS AND KATHY WASSELL

Chris oversees the ministries of World Team in the Philippines and serves on World Team's Asia Leadership team. Our desire is to see innovative teams of church planters multiplying disciples and communities of believers, bringing the Gospel within reach of lost people here in the Philippines and everywhere we go. Kathy is serving as the Athletic Director at Faith Academy, the world's largest missionary kid's school.

JOHN AND ROSEMARY KANE

We assist an indigenous organization called the Hmong Christian Connection which is focused on strengthening the existing persecuted church in Vietnam and Laos as well as facilitating ongoing church growth through a lay ministry training program holding training programs for church leaders on the border of Thailand every three months. John travels to Thailand three times a year helping to develop materials for use during the training seminars.

RON AND MARIA PERDUE

Ron and Maria are involved in a variety of ministries. Maria has an outreach to women via a coffee and cheesecake shop called BAM ministry. She hires Turkish women and teaches them skills to provide income for their families. Ron is creating credibility in the community by teaching free English lessons and using this platform to share the Gospel. He teaches international LMC courses once or twice a year for Christian leaders.

JOSE AND DIAN AVILA

Jose is facilitating a partnership with North American and Cuban churches that have a vision for a healthy church in every neighborhood in Cuba. He also works with Omega training material to teach perspective leaders throughout Latin America with potential to send nationals into the farthest reaches of the world. Jose and Dian help in their local church with a county-wide marriage ministry.

RIGOBERTO AND BLANCA MARTINEZ

DANIEL AND LISA DOWNEY

We want to see Croatia covered with truly alive, disciple-making communities, so we envision, influence and train Christ-followers to reproduce themselves and reach out to others in Croatia.

Daniel trains and mentors church planters to start healthy and relevant expressions of church, works on both a country-wide (denominational) and a local (church planting) level.

Lisa sets up partnerships between local churches and community entities, so that Christians are active witnesses out in their communities, bringing the church to those who need it most.

SAM AND REBECCA NIBLACK

The Niblacks serve in Toulouse, France, where Sam co-pastors a Baptist church. As such, he consecrates most of his time to a preaching and pastoral ministry, but also teaches in several Biblical training schools, speaks regularly in other churches, handles web/graphics for several associations, and is responsible for a Christian radio station. Rebecca provides invaluable help to Sam and to the church, and is enthusiastically committed to making disciples of her mission field, namely Simeon, Etienne, Lydia and Celeste.

FRANK AND JO PETERS

Frank's primary focus is to be an outstanding lecturer at the University in Cork and to live a life that models Jesus Christ to those around him. Success at the University earns him respect from other professors and students and the right to be heard. Jo continues with her spirit of hospitality. The Peters' home frequently hosts foreign and local students for tea, dinners, and movie nights.

GAETANO AND SONDRA SOTTILE

The mission of Italy for Christ is to: Present the Gospel of Christ to every Italian in this generation, in cooperation with the local churches. We accomplish this with our strategy involving three main categories: 1) Evangelism; 2) Leadership Development; and 3)ÊNational Awareness. If we build for eternity the grace of God takes care of our limitations.Ê We are reminded that we have only one life to live that soon will pass and only what is done for Jesus will last!Ê

EDWIN AND SYLVIA CARUANA

Edwin and Sylvia are based in Malta but work mainly in North Africa. Edwin has four main roles:

• Area Director for Partners International overseeing the work being done by indigenous ministries in North Africa.
• Pastor of an International Baptist Church in Malta.
• Director of the Friendship House reaching North Africans that live or travel in Malta.
• Facilitator for the North Africa Partnership-a partnership of over 200 missionary agencies.

BRUCE AND PAM SIDER

Bruce and Pam are strategically based in Southern Spain to serve Latin American mission structures and workers serving in N Africa and beyond. They provide mentoring and coaching for leaders of CP teams. Through field partnerships their ministry includes: Member Care to field teams with a special focus on Third Culture Kids (TCKs), platform support for front line workers, Business as Mission initiatives as well as strengthening football (soccer) initiatives in the region. The focus is to strengthen leaders for penetrating the least reached and establish a Kingdom presence.

BILL AND LAURIE KEYES

RODGER AND MERRILY OSWALD

Rodger directs Church Sports International - a mission committed to serving the church locally, nationally and internationally by stimulating, equipping and implementing culturally strategic evangelism and discipleship through sports and recreation activities and events.

ROY AND DOROTHY SMITH

The purpose of GLOBAL SHARING is to partner with church planters and evangelists in areas of the world where the Gospel has not been heard. Currently GS has church planters in five countries with plans to add another in the near future. Roy is founder and president of GLOBAL SHARING. Two volunteers work with Roy in the Paso Robles office.

TOM AND NANCY JEBO

We provide pastoral care to missionaries serving with United World Mission and other agencies in the countries of the former Soviet Union (i.e. Russia, Eastern/Central Europe, Baltics, Central Asia) and East Africa. Our purpose is to encourage and strengthen missionaries in any way we can; our anchor scripture is Acts 14:22.

JAY AND LISA FRANICEVICH

Jay and Lisa spent 13 years in Papua New Guinea (PNG)  doing evangelism and church planting work among a semi-nomadic group of people known as the Inaru. Because of health problems, they had to return to the United States. They are now teaching and training future missionaries at the New Tribes Missionary Training Center (MTC) in Missouri. This is a great opportunity for them; they are able to use the field experience they gained during their time in PNG to help train this generation of missionaries to do tribal evangelism and church planting. Jay is also involved in Curriculum Development and Oversight of the Course for the MTC. 

GARY AND KAREN GRIFFITH

Gary and Karen are with United World Mission where Gary serves as Theological Education Coordinator. Gary's ministry involves teaching, partnership development with Bible schools, mobilization, training and international networking of teachers. Karen is involved with missionary pre-field training as well as coaching of new missionaries on the field. The Griffiths are based in North Carolina with their two boys, Stephen and David.

GREG AND DENYSE GRIPENTROG

Greg is the President of OC International. In this role he provides overall leadership for ministries of OC. In 2006, OC's 450 missionaries impacted 850,000 church leaders in more than 65 countries of the world.

DOUG AND DAWN LAGASSE

Doug and Dawn’s primary focus is discovering and developing opportunities for Christians to live and express Jesus through their professions in "closed" countries. They find, train, place, and care for those people whom God wants to serve Him in this way.

TIM AND JUDY DALEY

Our ministry takes place on two fronts. Our field ministry is to encourage and equip families to build a spiritual legacy through faith and commitment to Jesus Christ through the ministry of FamilyLife. Our second ministry thrust is in the Information Technology Group of Campus Crusade for Christ where we labor to facilitate the fulfillment of the Great Commission using cutting edge technology.

MIKE AND JOYCE DEVENNY

We want to see Croatia covered with truly alive, disciple-making communities, so we envision, influence and train Christ-followers to reproduce themselves and reach out to others in Croatia.

Daniel trains and mentors church planters to start healthy and relevant expressions of church, works on both a country-wide (denominational) and a local (church planting) level.

Lisa sets up partnerships between local churches and community entities, so that Christians are active witnesses out in their communities, bringing the church to those who need it most.

KELLEY MILLER

JOYCE ABRAHAMSON

Joyce and team minister the Word to backwoods people from the harsh jungles of northwest Brazil. Their bus brings 135 children to the mission school. A good meal daily, books, Bible, uniform and school supplies are furnished. Their ultimate goal is to teach the Word of God and make disciples of the children, their families, and surrounding communities.

Tom and Ginna Sloan

Tokyo, Japan is the largest concentration of non-Christians in all of history. There are around 36 million people in the Tokyo metro area where over 99% are not Christians; that is why the Sloans are in Tokyo starting churches with a slightly different twist that will be led by Japanese from the beginning and that will connect with, and communicate to, those who do not know the Gospel and who do not even see their need for knowing Jesus Christ.