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Kurt & Peggy Albright - University of Louisville
Kurt & Peggy Albright are active on the University of Louisville Campus. They have small group meetings - men's and women's. They have morning and evening prayer times scheduled for intercessory prayer. They also have Alpha program - and interactive faith introduction that includes a meal, video and discussion time in a non- threatening environment.
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Dave And Debbie Amsler - Kentucky District Youth Directors
Dave Amsler has been involved in full time youth ministry since 1978. He became the Assemblies of God State Youth Director in 1989. Debbie has been in the youth department for 14 years. They have been married for over 25 years and have three children, (Darian, Derick and Dawn) who are all currently active in ministry. As the leaders of the youth department they coordinate ministries such as "Speed the Light", "Ambassadors in Mission" and Youth Alive. Along with all of that, they coordinate Youth Worker's training conferences, Fall Fling, Teen Bible Quiz, Youth and Kid Camps and Fine arts Festival. Dave is also
a guest speaker in churches, schools and youth groups.
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Skip and Beth Arp - Home Missionaries, Teen Challenge
Skip and Beth Arp are Nationally Appointed Home Missionaries. They have served in Teen Challenge since 1978. Teen Challenge is basic confrontational evangelism - outreach to people in crisis (corrections ministry, help-line, drop-in counseling, street ministry). People need a place to stay long enough to meet the immediate crisis, to receive a clear witness of the gospel, and to evaluate the need for long-term discipleship training. |
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David and Deborah Barthalow - Missionaries to Kenya
David and Debbie are missionaries to Kenya. They are involved in church planting. They also assist congregations in securing property, organizing construction teams, obtaining materials and erecting new buildings. David has also helped complete construction of Kenya's Kids Home For Street Children. Debbie has taught at an international Christian School. They have been married thirty five years.
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Dustin & Natalie Barthalow - Missionaries to Bangladesh
Dustin & Natalie are our missionaries to Bangladesh. This country has a population of more than 140 million people. Less than 1% of these people claim to be Christians, so you can see the need is great. Dustin and Natalie are currently in the United States awaiting the birth of their second child. They have one daughter Emma. The new arrival is expected to be a son.
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Blair & Dina Bonin - Missionaries to Belgium
Blair & Dina want to develop creative evangelistic outreaches for university students in Belgium and, by extension, in the continent of Europe. They will be encouraging Christian students on secular campuses, training and equipping student leaders, and coordinating a variety of ministries in partnership with local churches. In addition to several short missions outreaches in Western Europe and Latin America, the Bonins worked for three years with the Belgian National Church in a variety of capacities (church planting, youth groups, children, etc.) These experiences helped confirm the need for a valid university ministry in the region and led to their involvement with Students for Christ-Belgium in 2000.
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Paul and Betty Brannan - Missionaries to Latin America
Paul and Betty are veteran missionaries to Latin America, where they are involved in planting churches and leading in the Bible Schools. Paul is head of the Missions Awareness Team. This team is involved in getting churches to commit to missions and giving to missions. In the year 2003, over 1,000 churches committed to conducting a first-time convention.Paul and Betty have raised their 3 children and are enjoying their grandchildren.
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Dara Brannan - Missionary to Latin America
Latin America Child Care provides scholarships for education, adequate clothing and meals for underprivileged children in impoverished countries. Dara is a veteran missionary. She's involved in developing Bible curriculum and teaches English to Latin American missionaries.
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Stuart & Wendy Brown - Missionaries to Jamaica
Stuart and Wendy’s calling and ministry is to the abandoned and homeless children of Jamaica. Thousands of children are left each year on the streets to fend for themselves. They have been appointed as directors of a children’s home in Christiana, Jamaica called New Vision City of Refuge. The City of Refuge Children’s Homes is the Cities of Refuge’s ministry for the homeless children of Jamaica.The City of Refuge is a place for children that are in desperate need. This includes children that have been abandoned or for some reason have no home.
It is incorporated as a company with the government of Jamaica and is licensed as a children’s home organization with the Child Developmental Agency of Jamaica. The City of Refuge receives children, ages infant through thirteen (13) years old. In most cases, they will then stay at the home until they graduate from high school.
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Campus Missionaries
Jared Moore, Noah Stommel, Eric Ford, JR Holdaway, Rae Ann Tweedy, India Rush, Brittany Taylor, Sierra Hayes, Crystal Adams, Jordan Wilburn, Kendra Anderson (Not Pictured - Anthony Taylor)|
Last year Youth Alive was lead by Noah, India, & JR. They did a wonderful job. They saw several saved and baptized. This year our campus missionaries have increased form three to twelve. We have missionaries in the middle school and high school. They have all committed to share their faith with five friends this year along with leading Youth Alive meetings. Can you imagine - 60 young people getting saved a year, and that's just the beginning!
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Rick & Elaine Caswell - Missionaries to Mali
Rick & Elaine are veteran missionaries stationed in Mali. They have been involved in church planting and developing a national program for youth ministry as well as campus outreaches at junior and senior high schools. They've been married almost 18 years. They have three children, Katie, Keenan and Lydia.
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Dave and Donna Collins - Missionaries to Belgium
Dave and Donna Collins are newly appointed missionaries to Belgium. They will be part of the Cities Project working on planting churches in the major cities of Europe. The will also be working with the European Convoy of Hope. Donna will be working to develop and expand children's ministries, including relief through Save Europe's Children. They have four children, Danelle, Danny, Deanna and David. Each are involved in ministry in some way.
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Bill and Sandy Gross - MAPS Missionary
Bill and Sandy are MAPS volunteers. Many of you remember them from the building of our church. Bill spends a big part of his time promoting MAPS. He also spends a lo of time actually working on the projects once he has the job lined up. Along with those things he also recruits other people to become MAPS volunteers. The main requirement is a willingness to serve God, but you also need to be willing to travel and use a hammer.
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Scott and Karen Hanson - Missionaries to Tanzania
Scott and Karen are veteran missionaries to Africa. They are actively involved in church planting and training missionaries. They are targeting over 150 of the least reached areas in Tanzania. Their goal is to see a church planted in each of these areas. They also have 4 resident Bible Schools with over 400 students. There the pastors are being trained to conserve the harvest. They have two children Megan and Makenzie.
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Sarah Herman - Missionary to Scotland
Sarah also is called to full-time ministry in Scotland. She completed several short-term trips to Scotland prior to committing herself to the call. She will be working alongside the Zickafoose family pioneering the university in Scotland.
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Martin and Charlotte Jacobson - Missionaries to Argentina/Pategonia
Martin and Charlotte are beginning their fifth term in Argentina. Martin is the director of the Patagonian Bible Institute. Students enrolled are from thirteen cities in southern Argentina. This school is training leaders for a pastoral ministry. The class size this year doubled from 21 to 42. They are also teaching, as well as leading student evangelism teams from Argentina and the U. S.
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Trinity & Ami Jordan - Missionaries to Utah.
They are graduates of Evangel University. They have served as Youth Pastors in Salt Lake City before becoming National Missionaries to Utah where they are currently planting churches to reach the unreached of Utah.
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Joil, Leah, and Drew Marbut - Missionaries to Ecuador
Joil and Leah Marbut are missionaries in Ecuador. Their primary ministry focus is the Shuar Indians. Their vision is to plant 100 churches in 100 villages by making Shuar Indian converts, discipling them as pastors and leaders, then sending them to be missionaries to their own people. Currently they hold Bible school every 3 months where they offer a time of study and application to the word of God. Approximately 25 students from 15 villages attend each session. They are continually entering and evangelizing new villages that have never heard the Gospel.
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Bill and Connie McDonald - Missionaries to Ecuador
Bill and Connie are veteran missionaries to Ecuador. They have been there since 1989. As pioneer pastors, they founded a church in Ecuador's Andean mountains that has grown to include more than 50 outstations. They base their ministry in the city of Cuenca in a region where less than half of one percent of the population are believers. Besides church planting, Bill and Connie are establishing Christian schools in cooperation with A/G Latin America Child Care program. Their television station is doing great things. Last month alone, they had 371 contacts and 195 individuals made a decision for Christ.
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Bill and Connie McDonald - Missionaries to Ecuador
Bill and Connie are veteran missionaries to Ecuador. They have been there since 1989. As pioneer pastors, they founded a church in Ecuador's Andean mountains that has grown to include more than 50 outstations. They base their ministry in the city of Cuenca in a region where less than half of one percent of the population are believers. Besides church planting, Bill and Connie are establishing Christian schools in cooperation with A/G Latin America Child Care program. Their television station is doing great things. Last month alone, they had 371 contacts and 195 individuals made a decision for Christ.
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Kelly and Cyndi Robinette - Missionaries to Cambodia
Kelly and Cyndi Robinette are veteran missionaries to Cambodia. In the past year, they have seen their cell groups grow from 8 to 11. They are also in the process of building a children's pavilion as their children's ministry has outgrown the facilities at Battambang Assembly of God. Their prayers have been answered this year, and they are in the process of opening their Christian school. They have purchased the land and are in the process of renting a building until their school is officially opened next year. They have been married 18 years and have two children, Jonathan and Anna.
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Jimmy and Jill Susa - Missionaries to Venezuela
Jimmy and Jill have served as missionaries to Venezuela since 1985. They pastor an Assemblies of God church that is reaching out to the surrounding communities through a variety of ministries. Their children's cell groups are growing and continuing to reach children and their families. They minister through radio and television. The Merida assembly continues to fill their sanctuary every service.
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Dave and Patti Thomas - Missionaries to Ecuador
Dave and Patti are veteran missionaries to Ecuador. They are currently standing in for a pastor at Centro Cristiano de Guayaquil. This is a church of 4000+. They are also teaching at the seminary.
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Stephen & Deanne Turley - Missionaries to Belgium
Stephen & Deanne Turley are veteran missionaries to Belgium. They have been located in Belgium since 1995. They are a part of "Students for Christ". SFC is the international equivalent of Chi Alpha, the U.S. Assemblies of God ministry to the secular university campus. The Turley's primary focus is the officially atheistic Free University of Brussels. They have been married 21 years and have three children, Rachel, Bethany and Luke.
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Kevin & Eunice Tyler - Missionaries to Ukraine
Kevin & Eunice are currently serving as coordinators for Teen Challenge. This involves establishing and encouraging the ministry of Teen Challenge in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Moldova, Georgia, and Armenia. These nine countries are experiencing severe problems with drug and alcohol abuse. Teen Challenge has years of proven success in ministering to those with life-controlling problems. Kevin & Eunice have been married 22 years and have two children Amanda & Michelle. Both of them will be attending Southwestern Assembly of God this fall.
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Jacques & Johanna Vernaud - Missionaries to Congo
Jacques & Johanna have been missionaries in the Congo for 40 years!! Can you say Praise the Lord! In that time, they have planted 27 churches out of their original "La Borne" Church. Jacques preaches to 8,000 people every Sunday. He also ministers on TV several times through the week. Their radio station, "Radio Parole Eternelle" (Eternal Word Radio) is up and running this year. The broadcast is being heard by ten million plus people. Jacques & Johanna have been married 46 years and have raised three daughters who are serving the Lord.
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Doug & Joan Webber - Missionaries to Belgium
The Webbers are in Brussels Belgium and teaching at Continental Theolgical Seminary. Doug is working in the music department, while Joan is working in the Academic office. They believe that God’s desire for them is to minister within French speaking Europe. Their current assignment to Continental Theological Seminary will give them immediate contact with French speakers who when they have graduated will be sent to various parts of the world. The knowledge of their language will help better equip them to share the gospel of Jesus Christ within their culture. They ask for prayer for health and spiritual strength for their family. They also desire prayer for European recognition for CTS, which would allow more students to come to study the word of God.
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Dr. Morris and Maria Wood - Home Missionaries
Dr. Morris and Maria Woods are our home missionaries to the Native American Bible College. This college trains men and women for Christian ministries in the church and to the Indian population. They provide bible-centered courses and career training to prepare Christian workers for effective service at home and abroad. |
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Todd & Shonda Yates - University of Kentucky
Todd & Shonda Yates have big plans for this year. They have an evangelism/contact table on a biweekly basis on campus. They also have small group meetings on a weekly basis. These events along with a regular worship service keep Todd and Shonda busy. They are also expecting their first child in February.
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Joe & Jayne Zickafoose - Missionaries to Scotland
Joe & Jayne are two of our missionaries to Scotland. After nine years of short-term missions trips to Scotland, they felt God calling them to full time ministry in Scotland. They will be developing a Chi-Alpha type university in Scotland. They have two children, John and Andrew.
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