CHRISTIAN MISSION TO GAZA

Pastor Hanna is the founder and director of Christian Mission to Gaza.
This ministry reaches the people of Gaza with Christ's love through the only evangelical Baptist church in Gaza and through a partnership with the Lighthouse school and relief work. CMG also helps refugees from Iraq and Syrian on a regular basis.

COLDWATER FOUNDATION

Jon is a storyteller at heart and brings a skillful blend of media capability and storytelling to share what it feels like to be at Coldwater at Mink Lake Camp. Centered on Christ, Jonathan is eager to spread God's Word in an every-changing world.

Roxanne's main role as Food Service Manager is to serve great food to our guests. And, Roxie has a huge heart for the Lord and the great habit of bringing conversations back to Scripture to point out God's faithful involvement in campers' lives.

Together they lead with a calling and endurance for helping people meet Christ in the wilderness.

RECYCLED LIVES

Shawn and Brad serve with Recycled Lives in Guatemala. They help the poor with food and shelter and provide spiritual knowledge and growth to the Guatemalan people.  

TRAINING LEADERS INTERNATIONAL

Jim and Sarah Jordan serve with Training Leaders International (TLI). Jim teaches Christian students and leaders in many parts of the world and provides education for pastors worldwide.

JUVENILE JUSTICE ADVOCATES INTERNATIONAL

Juvenile Justice Advocates International, founded by Doug Keillor, partners with local churches and other groups in Mexico to support teens and families of teens in prison in Mexico.

TALKING BIBLES

Paul is the East Africa Director for Talking Bibles. Talking Bibles provides audio Bibles to many people in Africa so that those who cannot read or write can hear God's Word.  

YOUTH FOR CHRIST (YFC)

Based in the Twin Cities, Gary and Valerie are mission mobilizers with YFC International, recruiting older teens and young adults for different mission opportunities. Valerie also serves as Prayer Coordinator and Gary fills admin roles with YFC Ireland. Gary disciples young people, while Valerie is Dining Hall Coordinator at Prairie River Camp, part of South Central MN YFC.

KREMENCHUK SEMINARY

David is an adjunct Bible professor at Kremenchuk Seminary in Ukraine and he helps to educate seminary students to become pastors. David is also an author of Russian commentaries (Psalms, Proverbs) and is an ambassador for Kontaktmission USA.

WYCLIFFE

Mike and Jennifer are missionaries with Wycliffe, USA and live in Colorado Springs where Mike is a Public Speaker, teaches "Perspectives on the World Christian Movement" courses, and has recently become Language Program Data Manager. Jennifer grew up in a missionary family and spent a number of years as a missionary for Navigators. Mike grew up in Cambridge, and after college worked with the underprivileged in Minneapolis. He also traveled on short-term missions to other countries in the world.

CONVERGE WORLDWIDE

Tim and Amy have recently relocated to Spain after spending years in Africa helping teach young men to become pastors. They are now part of the Great Sea initiative. They hope to reach people of many nations that come to Spain so that these least reached peoples may come to know, love and become like Jesus. Tim and Amy will be working with a local church in Spain as well as serving in other ways.

TEENS FOR CHRIST

Chad and Britt Peterson serve with Teens For Christ in Hudson, WI, training teens to serve Christ, encouraging Bible memorization and participate in Bible quiz competitions.

CHILDREN'S SHELTER OF CEBU

Joel and Jinke live in the Philippines. Jinkee is the Childcare Director for the Children's Shelter of Cebu, a child caring agency that provides shelter, food, clothing, education and much more. 

Joel in the Executive Director of Phase Two Cebu, which provides housing, literacy, education, and other community needs in and around Cebu City.

SISTER CHURCH

Spring of Life is our sister church in Kremenchuk, Ukraine. In the 1990's it was a "house" church of about a dozen people; now it has an attendance of over 265 and at least 12 daughter churches. First Baptist Church has sent a number of mission teams to Spring of Life to conduct Day Camps (Vacation Bible School) and to repair a building.

The Seminary is attached to the church and Pastor Alex Zigalenko was both pastor of the church and director of the Seminary. Ivan Ovcharenko is now the director of the Seminary and a pastor of the church.

READ Ministries also grew out of this relationship with a number of men taking the lead to supply machines and materials so a Christian printing operation could take place in Ukraine.

Spring of Life has supported First Baptist Church with much prayer and encouragement for us.

WYCLIFFE

David and Sarah work with national translators to bring the Bible to the Sam people in their own language in Papua New Guinea. David is Director of Language Programs and Services for the Pacific Region providing training for new missionaries in cultural awareness and language translation.

TRAINING LEADERS INTERNATIONAL

Duane serves as President of Training Leaders International (TLI). In this role he is part of the processing team for TLI candidates, trains the staff, helps write curriculum as needed, recruits teams that train pastors in various countries and teaches courses as part of those teams. Previously he was a pastor for 17 years in Nebraska.