RUSS & DIANE KRAINES with TeachBeyond
Russ oversees Informal Education for West Asia and East Asia/Oceania for TeachBeyond. This includes development and oversight of English Camps, Entrepreneurship Education, Language Centers and Music Services. He and Diane share oversight of West Asia and Diane also serves on the Canada/USA leadership team. Russ also develops Teacher Training materials for School Services. For more information about TeachBeyond search here.
JENN CONVEY with TeachBeyond Transformational Education Services
Jenn works as a Director of Global Informal Education with TeachBeyond Transformational Education Services. Informal Education houses most of the departments and projects of TeachBeyond that aren’t tied to accredited schools. Currently these departments include Music Services, Language Services, Camps, and Entrepreneurship Education. We’re using education in these less traditional forms to reach the world for Christ!
PAUL & LUCINDA BENTLEY with Pioneers
Paul & Lucinda arrived in Bolivia in January 1984. They were involved in various outreaches including church planting in a Quechua area on the outskirts of the city of Sucre and in several rural locations, itinerant evangelism, leadership training conferences in rural areas, teaching at a Quechua Bible Institute, children’s clubs, establishing a health clinic for low-income Quechua people, etc. In 1993 Paul and Lucinda, in conjunction with SIM and NTM, established a SW radio station for outreach to the 2.2 million mono-lingual Quechuas of Bolivia. It continues broadcasting to the Quechua people for 26+ years. Paul was the Area Leader of Pioneers for Latin America for 8 years, and then the Regional Leader of the EurAsia/Americas and then the Americas Region for 19 years. Paul & Lucinda continue periodic involvement with Quechua radio and a children at risk outreach in Bolivia and collaborating in several new ministry initiatives alongside the recently appointed new leaders in the Americas Region.
DEL & BARBARA GIBBONS with Crossworld
They serve with Crossworld in Quebec in a multi-cultural French church in Verdun on the island of Montreal. Their region is a mosaic of cultures and religions. For example, in the neighborhoods around Verdun in recent years, two traditional churches were bought by Buddhist groups and one other hosts a Sikh association. In their area of Montreal there are about 120,000+ French-speaking people and few conservative evangelical French churches. One of the challenges of ministry in Quebec is accompanying first generation believers (and pastors) who do not have a Christian heritage in their family or culture.
Their vision in serving with a French-Canadian pastor, is to share the Gospel and disciple believers in the city primarily through the ministry of the Verdun church. They also serve on the Quebec board of Child Evangelism Fellowship. Barbara’s ministry is with ladies and children.
del.gibbons@crossworld.org barbara.gibbons@crossworld.org www.crossworld.org
UTE POYSTI with European Christian Missions
European Christian Mission Church planting in Bavaria, Germany.
DENNIS & SARA WILLIAMS with The Navigators
Dennis and Sara Williams minister as urban cross-cultural missionaries with The Navigators’ U.S. Metro Ministries in the greater Detroit metro area (4.5 million people, over 70 major ethnic groups, the U.S. city with the largest population of those from Middle-Eastern backgrounds – over 200,000). Dennis also serves on the Canadian large metro area ministries development/mentoring team, and Dennis & Sara are part of the national leadership team for U.S. Navigators Senior staff division called ENCORE. For up-to-date information on the ministry of The Navigators in the U.S. and worldwide, go to our website at https://www.navigators.org/
DAVID & KATHRYN LOHNES with World Team
David and Kathryn joined World Team in 1978. They left for France in 1981 where they are involved in full time church planting. There were two small evangelical churches when they arrived in Cergy-Pontoise, a “Ville nouvelle” situated 25 miles North West of Paris. During their 16 years of ministry there, God used them and their team to start two new churches. They are mature churches today with French pastors and national leadership in place. During a period of 5 years David and Kathryn ministered at Black Forest Academy in southern Germany. Apart from their responsibilities as dorm parents, they began a pastoral care program for the dorm staff which was adopted by the board of directors as an important and necessary on-going ministry. IIn the fall of 2002 David and Kathryn returned to France to begin a third church plant. A new church was started in the city Méru, in the department of the OISE, where they have lived and ministered for the past 22 years. In the Fall of 2025, they will be moving to Austria where they will be ministering in a member care role at Tauernhof Bible School, a short-term Bible School affiliated with Torchbearers International.
LUCAS & AMANDA VANONI (Vicente & Elisa) with TeachBeyond Brazil
Serving in Brazil through ACAMP-Serra and VBS.
ROGER & DENISE LUDCKE with TeachBeyond
We have been developing our work through Informal Education in Latin America. Roger serves as the coordinator of this area, while Denise has been serving in the camping ministry.
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ELLIE H Wycliffe in Southeast Asia
Ellie works with speakers of a minority language to translate the Bible into their own language.
P&K in Central Asia
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PETER & DIANE WHITMAN for Gogo Children’s Feeding Center
Gogo Children’s Feeding and Learning Center is located in Gogo Village Malawi. What began as a conversation between Peter Whitman in the United States and Pastor Daniel Masanduko of Gogo continues as a growing ministry. The two men believed the Lord was calling them (and their spouses) together to help orphaned and vulnerable children in Gogo village. The elderly also benefit from projects in Gogo to fulfill the call of James 1:27 (Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.)
Pastor Daniel’s church (Jesus Outreach Church) and Peter’s (First Baptist Church of Narragansett, RI) stepped forward to assist in these efforts.
Mercy Rogers Monjeza of Blantyre Malawi was brought on as the project coordinator in November of 2017 as the program began. Peter and Diane Whitman traveled to Gogo village in March of 2018 as many of the projects started. Projects include: Building of a new church which also serves as the feeding and learning center; Drilling a new bore hole well for water; Starting and maintaining a feeding program for vulnerable children (averaging over 120 per day as of August 2018); Starting a nursery school for children under 5 years old.
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/gogochildrencenter/
To Give to the Gogo Feeding Center you can write a check to First Baptist Church Narragansett and write “Malawi” in the memo line OR CLICK HERE to go to ONLINE GIVING OPTION and choose Malawi in the drop down menu.
Harmony Women’s Care – RI
Harmony Women’s Care (formerly CareNet-RI) has been serving the women and men of Rhode Island for over 32 years. Their goal is to offer women facing unplanned pregnancies the support and information they need to change their fear into confidence. They believe that strong, confident women make healthy choices for themselves and their families. ALL of their services are FREE. Website https://www.harmonyfriends.org/
Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF)
Vision: To reach 100,000 RI children with the Gospel Mission: We exist to bring the Good News of the Lord Jesus Christ to the 80% of Rhode Island children, ages 4 to 14, who will never set foot inside the doors of our Rhode Island Churches. Purpose: To evangelize boys and girls with the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ and to establish (disciple) them in the Word of God and in a local church for Christian living.
Child Evangelism Fellowship of RI Email – Together@cefri.org Rhode Island website www.cefri.org International website www.cefonline.com CEF Summer Missions www.summermisssions.com