About CTEN

Our Goal
Support Missionaries
Support Indigenous Workers And Projects
Support The Local Church
Board of Directors
Officers
Home Staff Missionaries

As our name implies, we take seriously the commission of Jesus to carry the gospel to every ethnos-every nation, every tribe, every tongue.

Our Goal:
To Advance The Gospel To Every Nation

Read Our Complete Statement Of Faith

"A declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us."
(Luke 1:1)

Support Missionaries
Sending and supporting missionaries is an important part of CTEN's vision.

Each CTEN missionary is deputized to raise the financial support needed to cover the cost of their own ministries. CTEN has training materials available and will offer guidance through this process. All funds are donated to CTEN who then designates the donations toward each missionary.

CTEN is a family. Besides providing administrative assistance to each missionary, we are involved with them and their family's well-being-spiritually, emotionally, mentally, and physically.

Our vision is to help each missionary to be most effective at fulfilling their vision. We want to see them succeed in what God has called them to do.

Support Indigenous Workers And Projects
CTEN is involved in helping national workers reach their own people through:

Training programs to prepare national pastors, evangelists and missionaries.

Financial enablement to release qualified national ministers to full-time ministry.

Financial support of projects to help the national church and its leaders.

Support The Local Church
CTEN seeks to remain closely related to the local church, both in the US and on the foreign field.

We see the local church as God's chosen tool for advancing His kingdom. As a parachurch ministry, we believe we find our validity to the degree that we are working alongside the local church to help her fulfill her role.

We seek to help the US church remain focused on the harvest field of the world and provide practical ways local churches can "put feet" to a missions burden.

Whenever possible, support of any kind given to overseas projects will be channeled through the local church and its leaders.

Board of Directors
Rev. Richard Malm, President
Rick and Jana founded CTEN in 1994 while still serving as missionaries in Guatemala. Rick oversees the visional direction of the mission and pastors Faith Temple in Corpus Christi, Texas

Rev. Michael Cave
Rev. Cave pastors Church of the Bay Area in the Houston area and has done extensive missions work in Romania, Ukraine and Russia.

Dr. Jack Ender
Dr. Ender pastors Grace Fellowship in Georgetown Texas. He has actively served in missions for many years and holds a Doctorate in Missiology.

Dr. Jim Hines
Dr. Jim resigned a successful medical practice in 2004 to move to Central America and learn Spanish as a first step to going into full time medical missions work.

Rev. Warren Piersol
With over 60 years in ministry, Rev. Piersol has founded and pastored various churches and is seen by many as “a statesman in the Kingdom of God”.

Rev. Bill Word
Bill has served on the mission field in Guatemala and uses his knowledge to help CTEN be an effective partner to missionaries.

Mr. Stephen Schmerbeck
Stephen has served as an advisor to CTEN for many years using his business expertiece to guide us in decision making. He was asked to join our Board of Directors in 2005.

Officers
Rev. Richard Malm, President - Founder of CTEN and pastor of Faith Temple in Corpus Christi, Texas.
Patrick Freedle, Treasurer - CPA and partner in an accounting firm in Kerrville, Texas.
Mickey Thompson, Secretary - Business Entrepreneur owns a home design firm in Kerrville, Texas.

Joanne Ramsperger oversees the financial management office. She has been with CTEN since April 2001 and handles the massive effort of receiving, tracking and disbursing funds as well as important communications with missionaries and donors alike.

Home Staff Missionaries
Dr. Scott Walston, Director
Dr. Scott Walston joined Rick Malm in May of 1998 as Assistant Director. In June 2000, Scott became the mission’s Director and oversees all day-to-day operations of CTEN.

Dieter Walter, Director of Operations
Dieter Walter came to CTEN in March 2002. He and his wife, Claudia, have served as missionaries in Mexico, Nepal and Colombia. He oversees the management information systems and data management vital to CTEN operations.

Jack Rothenflue, Director of Pastoral Care
Jack pastored for over 23 years before leaving the pastorate. He was called to join CTEN in August of 2000 to oversee pastoral care for all CTEN missionaries. He provides counseling and spiritual oversight for the missionaries and serves as a liaison between CTEN and US churches.

Carol Rothenflue. Pastoral Care
Carol assists Jack in pastoral care focusing on ministering to the women and children of CTEN. This includes home visits to missionaries on the field as well as frequent email and other communications.

Volunteers
Commission To Every Nation relies on a host of volunteers to accomplish our purpose. They prepare newsletters for mailing, envelope stuffing, birthday and anniversary card writing and a host of other tasks. Especially dear to us are Joe and Edna Frey, who arrive nearly every morning to participate in the daily time when we stop operations and pray for our missionaries.