The CCCU has a great team of committed missionaries, serving in various places around the world. We'd love for you to meet them so you can pray better for them!
Keith and Donna are career missionaries preparing to serve on the American Indian Field.
They finished their first term of service in Uganda where they were involved in a number of ministries, including a building project on Buvuma Island in beautiful Lake Victoria.
Read more about the Buvuma Islands ministry at www.buvuma.org.
Pray for their ministry and their daughters Rachel and Haley.
Our main ministries focus in the areas of encouragement and training Native Christians.
We have also developed the Victory Guitar Outreach program in which we use the guitar as an evangelistic tool. Native Americans love music, and through the program we teach both Christians and non-Christians how to play the song Victory in Jesus.
Each guitar lesson is accompanied by a Bible study based on the song, where we choose to emphasize that we can serve Jesus and not be dragged back into the things we have left behind.
I sensed the Lord calling me to do something for Him while reading Isaiah 6:8. It seemed as if the Holy Spirit spoke to my heart when I read, "Whom shall I send? And who will go for us? And I said, Here am I. Send me!"
I can't think of any other place on the face of the earth I would rather be than on the American Indian Field. I have a strong sense of God's presence all around me. I look at the beauty of God's creation and I marvel at all of it. The sandstone cliffs weathered by time look like castles. The rocks sculpted into different shapes by the hand of God are awesome.
Most of all, I love the people! God loves the Navajo people just like He loves us, and He has a plan and purpose for their lives.
Michael: As an ordained minister, I often have opportunity to preach in our local churches in Bolivia. I am also presently teaching Bible and theology classes at the Berea Bible Seminary in Spanish and a High School English history class at the Santa Cruz Christian Learning Center. I have written three books in English about missionary ministry in addition to a number of study aids in Spanish.
Donna: I am a registered nurse and frequently provide consults and healthcare to underprivileged people where we live. I presently volunteer at a center for infants with special physical needs. In addition to opportunities to teach community health, I am also now teaching English classes at one of our local churches. A large part of my ministry has been in the realm of humanitarian work to those who suffer disaster or illness.
Through all we do, we desire to bring others to Jesus, to disciple our fellow believers in their faith and to touch the world with the compassion of Christ.
David and Debbie are ministering in El Salvador. They have planted a church in Jucuapa with the help of Honduran missionaries, and plan to oversee the construction of a clinic in the area. God is really blessing the ministries of these talented missionaries!
Visit the Hawks' website at www.loshawks.com.
Terry and Colleen were called to Honduras during a spontaneous revival that broke out in their home church in 1981. They were privileged to be part of WGM?s great ministry at Escuela El Sembrador Donald Hawk (School of the Sower) for several years. They have seen hundreds of boys and young men go through the school's primary, secondary, vocational, and Bible Institute education programs.
Terry is currently serving as the Honduras Field Director and as the regional director for WGM's ministries in Central America.
We both became Christians during the same week; I (Kent) in Tucson, Arizona, and Rhonda in New Lexington, Ohio. We sensed calls to full-time Christian service and enrolled in Circleville Bible College (Ohio), where we met and were later married.
God has been equipping Jared and Christina over the past 10 years to go to the people of Honduras. In 1998, Jared was called into full-time service while on a work team to Honduras. Christina accepted the call to go at the age of 16.
Jared and Christina attended Ohio Christian University and received degrees in missions. After graduation, they served as volunteers in Honduras for six months. Serving as missionary disciples to Honduras, they will study Spanish and assist in ministry on the island of Roatan.
I (Tim) was saved at the age of 10 at a church camp. The youth leaders at my church were the ones who taught me about the Lord and His love for me. One couple in particular made a tremendous impact on my life. I spent much of my childhood with them, and they showed me how to live a Christian life.
When I was 16, I was sanctified, and the Lord started something in me that I have never gotten over. At another church camp, God began to deal with me about full-time ministry. During a trip with my church to inner-city Los Angeles, California, God gave me a love for missions. After my second mission trip to Honduras, God confirmed to me that this was His plan for my life. The Holy Spirit spoke to me in many ways, and I am excited to serve the Lord through missionary work.
In December 2010, I married Aleyda Vasquez Mendez. We serve in Choluteca in youth, children's, and church planting ministries.
Tim and Kim were raised in The Churches of Christ in Christian Union and both accepted Christ at a young age. They began to sense a call to missions in 2005 and after much prayer they accepted the call in 2006. Tim says, "I have a love in my heart for the people of Mexico that I’ve never had."
Tim and Kim will be serving in McAllen, Texas, where Kim will be teaching at Taylor Christian School while Tim helps with carpentry and mechanical projects at the school and Taylor Community Center. Tim
will also be leading work teams into Mexico while we will both be involved in children’s and youth ministries in the evenings. Their desire, in all that they say and do, is to build friendships and lead others to Christ.
Dennis and Twana were appointed as missionaries with to Bolivia in 1973 and served there for 25 years. In 1998, Dennis and Twana assumed new leadership roles at WGM headquarters in Marion, Indiana. In October 2010, Dennis and Twana requested a return to missionary status and were invited to serve in Mexico.
Dennis and Twana will be based in the city of León, Mexico, which has a population of roughly 2 million people. León is located in the State of Guanajuato, which is in the central part of the country.
They will be involved in discipleship and mentoring ministries with newer converts in León and other surrounding cities. Ministering through marriage seminars and retreats, friendship evangelism, and leadership training will be our main focus in Mexico.
Benji and Erica served two years as Missionary Disciples in PNG and are now fully appointed CCCU missionaries. Benji serves as the director the Bible School in Mt. Hagan, preparing church leaders for ministry in the Highlands of PNG. Erica served as the field treasurer and ministers to women in their community.
Pray for this talented couple as they make disciples and train leaders for the Christian Union Church of Papua New Guinea.
Butch and Leatha spent 10 years as missionaries in PNG until they felt the Lord leading them to return to the States. Since then, they have traveled with missions teams to multiple fields, and in February 2008 Leatha led another work team to PNG. God once again broke their hearts and called them back to PNG, this time to work alongside the national church.
They will be investing time in people and not in buildings. "It is our desire to work alongside the national church through training and encouragement. We want to help our brothers and sisters in Christ strengthen His church in PNG."
Jim: I thank God every day for His saving grace and love and for the ways He has provided for and protected our family. I often wonder why God chose me to do His work in Papua New Guinea. I may never know the answer to that question, but one thing I do know is that God has a plan and job for everyone. I have been privileged to work as a missionary in the country where I grew up as a missionary kid. I want to do my best for the Lord, Who gave His best for me. I enjoy my ministries in Papua New Guinea, and sharing the Lord with the people is a privilege, part of our responsibility and an endless adventure.
Becka: I praise the Lord for Who He is! He is my Savior, Heavenly Father, Shield, Comforter, and best Friend. The Lord works in me as I witness to others and spread His Word in Papua New Guinea. It is great to be part of the Lord's work.
God has called Shawn and Bethany to be cross-cultural missionaries in a land filled with beliefs in many gods and cultural ties so strong that deepening your Christian faith can be extremely difficult. They serve in Papua New Guinea because that is where God has called them and has prepared them to go.
Shawn and Bethany work at Christian Union Bible College in Mt. Hagen. Working with the people of Papua New Guinea has helped us see their desperate need for Christ. Their traditional religions focus on worshiping creation instead of the Creator.
There is a great need in Papua New Guinea for teachers to train national pastors in the Bible so that they will be well-equipped to evangelize and disciple their own people. God has called
them to PNG to help fill this great need at Christian Union Bible College.
Weadette: I use to say that I had to work to support my mission's habit. (Between January of 1993 and August of 1995, I went on five work teams.) Over the next few years I realized my "habit" needed to become my life's work. So, on March 5, 2005 I flew out with my 9th work team. Only this time I didn't return to the US after two weeks. I stayed in Asunción, Paraguay to work and live.
My ministries in Paraguay are very diverse. I work as the field treasurer, and the coordinator of Christian Education. In February of 2011 I began teaching Christian Education as a course in the Wesley Bible Institute.
Mark and Bev are involved in a mentoring and discipleship ministry among national believers in Paraguay. It is our prayer
that lives will be changed as people seek the Lord first in their lives.
In addition to serving as a mentor, Mark has worked as WGM's Paraguay’s field office coordinator and guesthouse host, as the national church treasurer, and as a keyboardist for New Hope Church and the AMSLA (Latin American Holiness
Missionary Agency) worship team. Bev's responsibilities include serving as WGM Paraguay’s guesthouse hostess, as a board member and board secretary for Asunción Christian Academy, and as an arranger and vocal coach for the AMSLA worship team.
Growing up in CCCU with a love of languages and a heart for Jesus, Nathan has been drawn to serving the Lord on the mission field for many years. When he married his wife Kenzie, she was very open to his call and sought the Lord's will for their lives. They went on a short term mission trip to Argentina and then to Spain. During their time in Spain, God confirmed His call for their family and gave them His heart for the North African immigrant community there.
Spain has experienced a tremendous influx of immigrants from North Africa. Nathan and Kenzie will be involved with ministries at two cultural centers and an Arabic speaking church as they share the love, joy, and hope of knowing Jesus Christ.
Ned and Marie Prince, Mission Volunteer Partners, are in ministry on the Island of St. Croix in the West Indies. They pastor our Church of Christ in Christian Union and are caring for the many details involved in construction of the church building.
Ned and Marie are deeply dedicated to the church, evangelism, proclamation of the Gospel, and responding to the varied needs of those around them.
Pray for them as they are burdened for the completion of the church construction and continued church growth.
