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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!
From the beginning of our service to the Lord as missionaries, we discovered it to be full of many opportunities to share God's love! We are so thankful for the privilege of sharing Christ's love in a needy part of our world called Bolivia.
At Berea Bible Seminary, Mike trains future leaders for the church, teaching young people who have a God-given desire to serve others in the name of Christ. Periodic ministry trips to remote regions of the country have provided incredible opportunities to share the Gospel, at times in places where any Christian witness at all is still very new. We continue to look forward to what God has in store for us next in the land of our calling—Bolivia, South America. As a nurse, Donna has used her knowledge and skills to help those with physical needs, taking part in medical campaigns around Bolivia. Now officially retired, Donna continues to support Mike in ministry.
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Tim and Aleyda Spetnagel work with Proyecto Brazos de Jesús, a Christian school that wholistically ministers to families who live and work at the city landfill. Aleyda is a skilled and passionate educator and Bible teacher. Tim preaches, leads a men’s discipleship group, and facilitates the various building and vocational projects at the school and church. Together with Pastor Carlos and Mirna Mendoza, they provide an education, health care, food security, and most importantly, the message of hope through Christ to the students and their families.
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Jake serves in Hungary, ministering through evangelism and discipleship.
My calling to serve the Lord in Hungary began when I was very young. I was blessed to have been raised in a church where the Great Commission was important, and I vividly remember hearing missionaries speak on missionary Sundays. I did not realize how much of an impact these services had on me until my time at Ohio Christian University.
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Greg and Teresa Leeth serve as Pastors to Missionaries. They count it a joy to be in service to our missionaries in ministries of discipleship, encouragement, and pastoral support. They have the privilege of serving over 150 missionaries and missionary kids around the world.
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Benji grew up in Papua New Guinea where his parents served as missionaries until he was fourteen. After serving on multiple short-term mission trips, Benji felt God calling him to full-time service during a year-long stay in Honduras.
Erica grew up in a Christian home in southern Ohio and felt called to full-time mission work while attending Ohio Christian University. After serving together on a WGM task force to Paraguay, Benji and Erica knew they would minister together for the rest of their lives.
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Seth and Veronica Porter serve in Papua New Guinea.
They live in the Southern Highlands on the Montanda Mission Station. Montanda is about a four-hour drive from the town of Mt. Hagen, over rough roads into the bush. Their ministries consist of training nationals to fulfill ministry roles in the church, construction projects for the churches and mission, mentoring pastors, and preaching, and working with the national church in church-planting.
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Shawn and Bethany Waugh serve in Papua New Guinea.
Shawn and Bethany have served in the areas of evangelism, discipleship, church development, and field administration since being appointed in 2006. God called them to a land filled with beliefs in many gods and cultural ties so strong that deepening the people’s faith can be difficult. God is using them in PNG to raise up national pastors are well-equipped to evangelize and disciple their own people.
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Mark and Susana Bev Donahue serve as missionaries in Paraguay.
They are involved in a mentoring and discipleship ministry among national believers. It is their prayer that lives will be changed as people seek the Lord. Mark has also worked as the field office coordinator and guesthouse host, the national church treasurer, and as a keyboardist. Bev’s responsibilities have included guesthouse hostess, board member and board secretary for Asuncion Christian Academy, and as a music arranger and vocal coach.
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Butch and Leatha spent ten years as missionaries in PNG before the Lord led them to return to the States.
They traveled with mission teams to multiple fields before God called them back to PNG to work alongside the national church. Butch and Leatha now serve as Project Coordinators and Construction Consultants, overseeing projects around the world.
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Teresa Bowman serves on the Texas-Mexico Border, working with children, youth, and families.
"I received a call to serve the Lord as a missionary during my teenage years, but other life choices kept me from answering that call until now.
In the intervening years, I have raised my children, cared for aging parents, and served in my local church. Now that my children are all grown and gone and my parents have passed on, I feel free to return to the calling which the Lord placed on my life so long ago and re-confirmed over twenty-five years ago.
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John and Priscilla Kunkle serve as missionaries on the Texas-Mexico Border.
Priscilla serves as the Area Team Leader, while John ministers through construction, maintenance, and facilities management. Together, they reach out to the local Hispanic community through Christian education and community service.
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Christina McBride serves as a missionary to the Texas-Mexico Border.
Christina gave her heart to Jesus when she was five years old. When she was 14, she surrendered her life to God and told Him that she would do anything and go anywhere He wanted. At that time, she did not know that He was calling her to missions. It wasn’t until she was a freshman in college that God spoke to her about being a missionary. She accepted His call and got her first taste of missions as an intern in Bolivia during her junior year in college.
In 2002, Christina was appointed as a missionary with World Gospel Mission. In February 2005, she went to Stockton, California, to work with inner-city children and youth. God then began to show she that He had a new ministry for her, and He gave her a peace about going to McAllen, Texas, to serve with the Texas-Mexico Border Ministries team at Taylor Community Center.
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Barb Thomas is a newly-appointed missionary to the Texas-Mexico Border.
As a missionary in Laredo, Barb will use her skills and experience to teach English as a Second Language (ESL) classes, tutor junior high and senior high students, assist with job readiness, and facilitate ministries the CCCU congregation in Laredo (Iglesia Evangelica Unión Cristiana) develops within the community.
Barb is passionate about reaching lost people. “Our time to reach lost souls is short, and the harvest is great. I am thankful for God’s leading during this transition and for this new opportunity to minister in a community that means so much to me.”
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Juan Carlos and Elva Arias serve as missionaries in the Americas Region. They bring to CCCU experience in leadership development, marriage and family ministries, teaching, and discipleship. They promote a biblical worldview among Hispanics in the U.S. and churches around the region from their base in the U.S.
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David and Debbie serve as Regional Directors for The Americas Region. As Regional Directors for fields throughout the Americas, they focus on transformation. They believe that a heart change through the Gospel should be evident in every aspect of one’s life. Their current position allows them to encourage missionaries in the USA, Mexico, Honduras, Bolivia, Peru, Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay.
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Steve and Debbie minister in the Gila River Indian Community, south of Phoenix, Arizona. Their main ministries focus on discipling, training, and encouraging Native Christians. Together they pastor a Native congregation, Siloam Church. Steve is also involved in summer Bible camps, Victory Guitar Outreach, and SOAR (Servant-Overcomer Addiction Recovery.) Debbie leads youth and children’s ministries at the church, serves as Field Treasurer, and is a member of the Southwest Ministries Leadership Team.
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Read more: U.S. Southwest Ministries: Steve & Debbie Cartwright
Doug and Becky Darfus serve as missionaries in Arizona.
They minister to Native families, discipling youth and adults across the Southwestern U.S. God has placed a calling on their hearts to help Native American youth find hope through the forgiveness and love of Jesus Christ.
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Scott and Noel serve as missionaries in Arizona with the U.S. Southwest Ministries team. Their ministry focuses on raising up a new generation of Kingdom workers.
After graduating from Asbury Theological Seminary (KY), Scott served as a pastor for 12 years in Michigan. He stepped down from that role after the loss of his first wife to cancer in 2012. Noel earned her degree in Bible and Elementary Education. She served as a missionary in Senegal, Africa, from 2006 to 2010. Scott and Noel were married in 2014. Together they served as missionaries in Papua New Guinea from 2020 to 2023.
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