Judi is a staff member of Scope Ministries International, a Biblical Counseling Ministry based in Oklahoma City. Judi is based in East Asia and assists various foreign and international groups by teaching, training and counseling.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ruth Dinkins was reared on the mission field of Brazil. Although she grew up in a strong Christian home, she did not accept Jesus as Lord of her life until 18 years of age. She earned her associate's degree from Montreat Anderson Junior College and her bachelor's degree from Pembroke State University in Pembroke, North Carolina.

She returned home to Brazil in 1980 and was a teacher of Christian education at the Edward Lane Bible Institute from 1982-1987. After earning her master's of Christian education degree from Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi in May of 1991, she accepted the position of Director of Children's Ministries at Christ Presbyterian Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

During her years of ministry there, Ruth invested much energy in making missions an integral part of the Christian education curriculum. She also served on the missions committee. She had been on various youth and adult mission trips to Brazil and Mexico.

In 1997, Ruth was invited to return to Brazil to serve as director of the Christian Education Department of the Edward Lane Bible Institute in Patrocinio, Minas Gerais. Besides teaching classes, she also administrates and coordinates all the students' field/practical work.

Paul Huey is on assignment with Wycliffe in Dallas as Director of Recruitment Ministries for the South and North Central Regions. Paul’s team focuses on recruiting young people who are ready to go to the mission field now.

Wycliffe hopes to recruit some thousands of new U.S. members by the year 2014 so that Vision 2025 can be accomplished, that is, work started in every language of the world that needs a Bible translation. There are still about 2200+ languages without any work started (not even an alphabet).

Paul plans to lead a team of recruits to Cameroon this summer to discover about Bible Translation. 

Paul was in Cameroon from 1993 to 2004 and hopes to return to work in the Far North of Cameroon. For more information about his work please contact Paul.

Our main job is evangelism through literacy. Bob and a committee of Filipino Christians have developed a basic reading primer in the Cebuano language, the language of the 3000 street children in this huge city. We have begun training teachers to use the 2-book series that includes 26 Bible stories and 11 health lessons.

We believe that the Lord also led us into a unique ministry at a shelter for girls, ages 7-18. Most of them have been abused in some way or abandoned, or removed from their homes because it is not safe to live there any longer. Since February 2002, we have had an open door for ministry there even though it is a government run agency. We have Bible study and activities twice weekly and have also held classes in sewing, crafts, typing, math, etc. There are 51 girls in the home at present.

We are also involved in a boys' orphanage where there are 20 boys who have been abandoned or were rescued from living on the streets. We have organized literacy classes, physical therapy for 2 handicapped children there, computer training, etc.

Doug's journey in missions started at Texas Tech University while working on his undergraduate degree. His summer mission experiences resulted in a four-year commitment with MTW to minister in Ukraine. There, Doug was involved with the university ministry in the emerging church. He also had an active role in training MTW interns in cross-cultural missions through a program called Odessa Project.

Masha's life began behind the iron curtain in Ukraine. After the fall of communism, she came into contact with the university ministry and the Presbyterian church of Ukraine. The Lord graciously transformed her heart, and in the next two years she became an active leader of the university ministry and an associate member of the MTW team.

After getting married in 2000, Doug and Masha attended Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis where Doug received his M.Div., and Masha completed her M.A. in theology. Doug went on to finish his TH.M. at Fuller Seminary's School of World Mission in Pasadena, CA.

The Shepherds are committed to planting new churches, training national leaders, and assisting in training future missionaries. Please pray for them as they share the gospel of Christ with the people of Western Ukraine through Bible studies, outreach and worship.

We have been accepted as members of Wycliffe USA. Kevin will be working with the ethnomusicology department and Julie will be working as a physician treating the missionaries who are with Wycliffe from a base in the USA or overseas.

We will first be going to serve in Dallas. While there, Julie will become acquainted with the specific medical policies and practices of Wycliffe. Kevin will take this time to receive some further on-the-job training as well as to take several courses needed for his work. After a time there, we will be investigating where we might serve next.

 

 

Ron is the Area Director for International Student Ministry of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship's Northwest Region. He has five staff working at Portland State University, and one each at the University of Washington and Oregon State University. Three staff are pioneering a new ISM chapter at the University of Oregon. A Ministry Intern is developing work at Lewis and Clark College this year in Portland. More than 100 volunteers work in the international student ministry in the Northwest Region. More than 700 international students are involved in area activities each year, from 60 countries.

Ron serves on the InterVarsity Regional Leadership Team, the FOCUS Leadership Team (FOCUS is the local, multi-team collaborative ministry at Portland State) and the InterVarsity National Team for International Student Ministry. This year he will have a group of three Ministry Interns and will coach the leader of the Chapter Plant at the University of Oregon.

Ron and his wife Karen have twin daughters, Amelia and Carolyn, age twelve. They are active in Sunset Presbyterian Church, were Ron serves on the Global Outreach Team and Karen and their daughters teach Sunday School..

Gary, the son of a PCA minister, grew up in Pinellas Park, Florida, and came to know the Lord at an early age. He attended Covenant College and received a B.A. in philosophy and Bible. He later graduated from Covenant Seminary with an M.Div., and from Westminter Seminary with a D.Min. in Urban Missiology. Phyllis grew up in a Christian home in Wilmington, Delaware, and attended Covenant College for one year. After receiving a B.S. in nursing from the University of Delaware, she worked for six years in a burn treatment center.

The Waldeckers have served as church planters in Chile since 1983. For the first eight years they lived and worked in Western Santiago. Then Gary became the team leader of a church planting team whose focus was the unreached upper middle class in Viña del Mar. Until November of 2001 he was Mission to the World's Regional Director for urban South America. Currently he is the leader of a new resource team for Latin America. One of the tasks of this team is supporting our missionaries in the development of training programs for new national leadership.

Mission to the World has encouraged him to pursue further studies that would be helpful in the fulfillment of this new position. He is currently dedicating half his time to pursuing a doctorate in Organizational Development at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. The other half of his time is dedicated to helping resource the missionaries and national leaders in Latin America. The Waldeckers will be living in the States until Gary finishes his program of study. However, Gary will be making trips to Latin America during this time.

The Waldeckers have four children, Micah (11/26/82), Seth (6/16/84), Andrea (3/17/86), and Audrey (2/6/89). Micah and Seth are presently attending Covenant College.

In 2009 Bruce and Susan celebrated their 35th year with Mission to the World. The Youngs present ministry is two-fold. They continue to participate in the church planting efforts in Japan and in missions at large through their involvement with the Spiritual Life Department of MTW. Serving as a bridge, the Youngs seek to introduce U.S.-based Japanese believers with leadership potential to MTW-related ministries and churches in Japan. They oversee the translation of materials for discipleship while continuing to train leaders in Japan. Finally they are providing pastoral oversight for the Nagoya church-planting team and serving as consultants for MTW in Japan.

As members of the Spiritual Life Department of MTW, they minister to missionaries throughout the world. This includes involvement in "Living in Grace" conferences and seminars; following up and mentoring new missionaries as well as those on the field; and developing new mentoring materials.

They desire to see the kingdom of God expanded by training nationals and helping missionaries to experience God's grace in and through their lives. Please consider praying for and supporting the Youngs.

I was born in Cambridge England on June 7th, 1944, the second son of an Evangelical Anglican vicar. Growing up in the manse I saw many facets of Christian ministry practiced. I was enabled to responde to God's offer of salvation as a young teenager of 13. My college training and early work experience were in building construction. I began traveling independently at the age of 17, taking trips with friends to Europe, the Holy Land and North Africa. In my late teens I led expeditions overland to India and Nepal and back. In my late 20's I emigrated to Australia, but returned to England after 18 months because of the unexpected death of my mother.

The ministry of L'Abri Fellowship had a formative effect on me in my late 20's. I began to develop a Christian world and life view. When I experienced God's call to "full-time" ministry I knew my greatest need was Bible training. Under the influence of Dr. Schaeffer, I chose Covenant Seminary.

Living in the States for 4 years as a foreign student was another cross-cultural experience in my life. While at Seminary, I met and married Sheila Byers. She is a Canadian, and while our British backgrounds harmonize, Sheila adds yet more cultural diversity to my perspective on life.

While at Seminary, I formed convictions that have translated into a life-long commitment to the Reformed Faith and Presbyterianism. I earned my Master of Divinity from Covenant Seminary in 1977. My first associate pastorate was in 1977, on Grand Cayman Island, under the Board of Home Missionaries of the RPCES.

After Grand Cayman we returned to England, hoping to participate in the growth of the International Presbyterian Churches (L'Abri) but the IPC did not grow. Our 6 years in England had similar characteristics to the 40 years Moses spent in Midian: the Lord taught us deep personal lessons in faith and our family grew. We emigrated to the United States in 1985. My father-in-law employed me in his construction company in Kansas City, until it was sold in 1986.

The Lord opened doors for me to serve in the ministry and I identified with Paul when he said he was "compelled to preach the gospel." I served as assistant pastor in a PCA church and met Dr. Ben Wilkinson, and soon after joined PEF, as an associate evangelist in 1988. Ben has been a much loved mentor to me and has wisely guided me as my Evangelism ministry has developed.

I believe God has uniquely prepared and gifted me for the overseas evangelism ministry in which I now serve. While not a linguist I am a communicator. I have a "people sense" which allows me to intuit a great deal in cross-cultural environments, and combined with years of experience as a foreigner and with foreigners I can adapt with great ease to new situations. Furthermore, I have an energy level which allows me to go full speed for the 3 or 4 week duration of a mission trip.

Finally, I have a wife who believes it is my calling to go, and in her calling to let me go.

THE FOCUS OF MY MINISTRY:

• To take the reformed faith back to Europe.
• To teach reformed evangelism to churches in E. Europe.
• To supply new theological books for discipleship authored by Drs. Boice, Sproul, Schaeffer and Packer etc.
• To supply gift subscriptions of Ligonier's "Tabletalk."
• To encourage nationals who are interested in starting Presbyterian and reformed churches.
• Teaching my workshop "Boldly Proclaiming." This is a workshop on "The Message and Methods of God-Centered Witnessing."
• Personal evangelism is also taught, using John Blanchard's "Ultimate Questions" in the national's own language.

For the last decade, Bob and Andrea Burnham have been planting churches in Ukraine with Mission to the World, the mission sending agency for the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA). While overseas, they have helped to build growing congregations in Izmail and Odessa. At home in the U.S., they have motivated and recruited others to join their work.

Bob grew up in Pensacola, FL, but moved to Nashville, TN in 1987 where he received a degree in Music Business from Belmont University. The Holy Spirit used the witness of believers, Mere Christianity (C.S. Lewis) and a Sonship seminar with Jack Miller to draw Bob into a closer relationship with Jesus. Andrea faithfully attended church while growing up in Littleton, CO but received a fresh understanding of God's unmerited mercy while studying the Bible with high school friends in the neighborhood. She grew in her faith through her involvement with Navigators campus ministry at the University of Colorado in Boulder. She received her degree in Architecture spring of '95.

Having a passion for making known the glories of God, as well as a love for people and travel, Bob and Andrea joined Mission To The World separately and were placed on the same team in Izmail, Ukraine. They ministered there from 1995-1997 and grew to love the Ukrainian people - and each other! After marrying in '98 the Burnhams relocated to Atlanta, GA where Bob was already working as MTW's Director of Recruiting. In 2001 they returned to Ukraine where Bob led MTW's church-planting team in Odessa.

Bob and Andrea were approved as career missionaries with MTW in 2004. The Burnhams have three beautiful daughters: Abigail Odette (July 4, 2000), Emily Faith (Feb. 27, 2002), and Iris Elisabeth (Dec. 2, 2004).

Rev. Melvin and Cindie Pike met in Alaska. After marriage they moved to Colorado where they raised Kara, Peter and Andrew. Mel earned his master of divinity degree at Sangre de Cristo Seminary in Westcliffe, Colorado and was ordained in the Rocky Mountain PCA in 1993. The Pikes joined MTW in October 1995. In January of 1999, the Pikes moved to Kherson, Ukraine, a city of 400,000 located near the Black Sea.

In November 1999, a mission church of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Ukraine began worship services. The church has grown and now has a national organizing pastor. Mel's task has grown from church planter to church developer as he trains key men for leadership. The Pikes also serve as "Mom and Dad" for several university students, and they mentor four newly married couples.

In 2001, a church member presented her vision of ministering to homeless children. She was introduced to the MTW StreetChild director, and MTW helped purchase a building for this ministry in June 2002. Today the center has five paid staff and fifteen volunteers ministering to Kherson's street kids. The Pikes serve as consultants to the national administrators of this vital ministry.

Dawn has been a missionary of Christ Presbyterian Church since 2002.  Since her wedding to Steve Sparks in April of 2008, they have been considering where God is calling them to serve together.  In September 2009, they were approved to return to Kiev, Ukraine, with Mission to the World.

Growth, church, and educational outreach is our focus as we work with the Evangelical Reformed Seminary of Ukraine (ERSU). We met in Ukraine while Steve was on a church team and Dawn was the administrator and coordinator for the city team.  The Sparks family has been called by the Lord to work with seminary staff training pastors as they are preparing to and currently ministering to many in Ukraine and Central Asia. Taking more than 20 years of business and information technology and many more years of ministry experience with our USA and Ukrainian churches, we are now working with the Denominational Seminary of Ukraine. We will be working closely with MTW staff and local Ukrainian staff to establish an environment where we will help improve communications and outreach by refining the day to day operations of ERSU. We invite you to JOIN our team and be partners with us as we touch the lives of those spreading the Gospel throughout Ukraine, the former Soviet Union, and Central Asia.

Carol took her first foreign mission trip to Mexico in 1987. Since then her heart's desire has been to serve the Lord cross culturally. In 1994, she went to Odessa, Ukraine with CoMission and served two years. She is most recently returning from a two-and-a-half-year term in Mexico City, where she coordinated short-term teams that were supporting new church-planting projects.

Carol's career calling with MTW is taking her to Monterey, Mexico, where she will continue using her administrative gifts to support the ministry. Carol will continue to work with short-term teams that support the church-planting efforts in Northern Mexico. She will also help administratively with the Assessment Centers for new church-planter candidates, worship conferences, and other training opportunities. In addition, Carol will lend her support to the Monterey office of Mission to the World.

Carol is very excited about continuing to support partnership relationships between US and Mexican churches. The partnership theme as reflected in Phil. 1:3-7 is Carol's favorite passage. All of ministry is done in partnership with God and with one another; in this we share in God's grace. Will you consider becoming a partner with Carol in prayer, financial support, and encouragement?

Gene and LuAnn grew up in Lancaster, PA. They both came to know the Lord in their late teens. They met on a blind date and were married a year and a half later in August 1974. They have been members of Westminster Presbyterian Church (WPC), Lancaster, PA, since 1981.

The Bowman's have had a variety of careers: Gene has been a car and small engine mechanic, a carpenter and concreter, a computer programmer for twenty years, and was short-term missions coordinator for WPC for four years. LuAnn worked in a church office, drove school bus, worked in a confectionary shop and a bakery, and was missions secretary for WPC for four years.

Gene and LuAnn first became involved in missions when they helped to lead a short-term missions trip to Jamaica in 1988. They also have been part of teams to Mexico, Chile, and Philadelphia, PA. In 1998, Gene was asked to come to the Jamaica Deaf Village of Caribbean Christian Center for the Deaf to serve as Industry Coordinator. They were approved as Mission To The World missionaries in June, 1999, and served in Jamaica from May 2001 until March 2002.

Mission to the World then asked the Bowman's to take on a leadership role with BEAMM. Gene and LuAnn moved to El Paso in August, 2003, to begin serving as the BEAMM Coordinator. Since their arrival in El Paso, Gene has worked hard to unify the work of BEAMM all along the border as well as with border Presbyteries of both the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) and the National Presbyterian Church of Mexico. He has also begun a partnership among PCA churches and the BEAMM team to help expedite the work on the border and to Hispanics throughout the U.S. Gene also oversees all of the church planting and mercy ministries activities of the team, develops all of the BEAMM publications, and maintains the BEAMM web site.

LuAnn has been busy getting to know the ladies of the team as well as serving as the Administrative Assistant for Christ the King Presbyterian Church in El Paso, where she and Gene attend. Both Gene and LuAnn have been involved in teaching English at Tierra Prometida Church and in Calzado del Rio in Juarez, Mexico. The Bowmans have three children: Jennifer; Sara; and Mark; and two grandchilden, Allison and Sean.

My parents were French people who worked in Morocco for many years. My father was at first in the French Military Aviation and then an Insurance Agent. My mother was a teacher in a French School. They got married in Casablanca, and later I was born in that town. I went to French schools in Casablanca and I enjoyed having the opportunity to interact with different cultures. In 1967, I accepted Jesus in my life as Savior and Lord.

From 1970 to 1982, I served the Lord among Muslims in Morocco in different locations. In 1982, I went to a well-known Business School in Northern France where I got a degree in International Trade. Then, for several years I continued to serve the Lord among Arab immigrants in Europe.

In 1987, I came to America where I continued to work among Arab people in Michigan and California. Beginning in 1992, I was a Literacy Consultant missionary with Literacy & Evangelism International in Tulsa, Oklahoma. With this organization, I went to Northern Iraq for four years (1993-1997) to develop and manage literacy programs, humanitarian projects and do missionary work. I also wrote a Literacy Primer in French for Africa, and translated in French a teaching guide for Literacy Instructors.

From 2001-2007 I was the Regional Director for Africa at the headquarters of Literacy International in Tulsa, Oklahoma. As the Regional Director for Africa with LEI, I have had the opportunity to lead Literacy Primer Construction Workshop in Sierra Leone, in Benin, in Chad, in Malawi, in Senegal, in Togo and to organize an International Literacy Training Institute (ILTI) in Ghana. Also, I have been able to develop partnerships and recruit people to work with us in Africa (short term and long term).

Presently I am preparing to return to Benin to serve with SIM or Service In Mission teach & continue in literacy work. I have recently finished the translation in French of the introduction and glossary of the book Abu Sharif that is to be published in Europe. The book will introduce Jesus to Muslim people, using a low key approach in a middle eastern story telling style." It would be necessary to say instead: "Since February 2009, I have been back in Benin (West Africa), where I serve the Lord with the SIM Mission Agency and the Union of Evangelical Churches in Benin (UEEB). For a while, I have been involved with the coordination of local Christian Radio Programs, but with this coming school year, I will be teaching on a permanent basis in a French-speaking Bible School located north of Parakou where pastors are being trained for the ministry. Other opportunities of ministry for me will come up in the coming years. Thank you for remembering to pray for me".