David Bawks
in KenyaDavid Bawks has been interested in theology and missions from a young age, and finished his Master of Divinity at Africa International University in Nairobi. He will be teaching at Carlile College, an Anglican school especially focused on training evangelists, located on the eastern side of Nairobi. After graduating from Wheaton College (IL) with a degree in Bible/Theology and History, he was ...
Blake and Nicole
in East AfricaBlake and Nicole are serving the Lord in East Africa. They work with a publishing group that produces a history magazine as well as books that focus on lives lived in Africa. The magazine and book publishing has been a very powerful tool for friendship evangelism and impacting some hard to reach communities in the region. Through the contacts and ...
Tim and Sara Born
in CameroonSaved in 1983, Tim was gloriously delivered from drug and alcohol addiction and Sara from depression. Shortly after, they received their missions calling. Feeling the need to grow in the Lord before going on the field, they studied the Bible, evangelism and counseling at their local church. Tim went on to pastor a church for several years; Sara led worship, ...
Bread For Life – Ernest Ehabe
in CameroonFor several years, Ernest headquartered his African aid organization, Bread For Life, in Kerrville, Texas. This is where CTEN also has its headquarters so the relationship began. As the founder and director of Bread For Life, Ernest has established a medical clinic and a school. He has preached the Gospel on college campuses and city street corners. And he has helped ...
Steve and Jen Butwill
in LiberiaSteve and Jen met while attending The Ohio State University. Steve has spent the past 9 years working as an engineer and account executive in the New York City construction market. Jen is certified as a nurse practitioner and has experience working in both neonatal and pediatric intensive care. God has given them successful careers and a nice home, a ...
Dave and Jen Carroll
in UgandaDave and Jen are partnering with churches and ministries who work among the poor, the broken, the fatherless, the rejected and the abused, to help people come into a life-transforming understanding of God as their Father through Jesus Christ. Dave and Jen served the Lord in Uganda for 10 years, working in pastoral ministry and discipleship at a large orphanage and ...
Marie Denton
in RwandaMarie has always had a passion for teenagers, particularly at-risk youth. Her first time in Rwanda, in 2009, she saw the joy and thankfulness in the faces of so many of the youth and was instantly intrigued. During her time in Rwanda, she realized that she not only had a passion for the youth she worked with in America, but ...
Bill and Trace DiCocco
in South AfricaBill and Trace DiCocco spent the first years of their marriage pursuing the American dream… Secure job, safe church family, cute little house, three kids & a dog… only to look around them one day, 10 years in, and ask, “is this really all there is? Because I somehow once thought that God’s story was a little bigger than this.” ...
Sue Gonzalez
in LiberiaBorn in Brooklyn, New York, Sue Gonzalez currently lives in Zarephath, New Jersey. She graduated with a degree in Social Work from Asbury College in Wilmore, Kentucky. It was in these college years that Sue began to experience God’s healing love in her life. He truly captivated her and she longs to bring that same love and freedom to all ...
Megan Hartman
in South AfricaMegan has loved Africa since 7th grade without knowing what kindled the fire, but now can see that God was preparing her heart to love the people of South Africa, particularly orphans with special needs. In 2007, she went on her first overseas mission trip to South Africa, working in townships with children living with HIV/ AIDS. Her heart nearly ...
Gordon and Paula Hodgson
in LiberiaGord and Paula’s passion is providing quality Christian school education for Liberian young people. They are returning to Liberia to live in the small coastal city of Buchanan. They will facilitate the development of a new 10-acre Christian school campus, “Project Buchanan”. One security/storage structure has already been put up, and construction has begun on the first of four classroom ...
George and Joyce Irungu
in KenyaGeorge and Joyce Irungu came to know the Lord as a personal Saviour at an early age. They got married in December 2000 and have been blessed with 4 kids, three girls, Winnie and Ruthie (twins), Joy and a boy Willie. They are a great joy in their marriage. For the past few years, they have been in seminary training in ...
Roy and Marilyn Keys
in Burkina FasoRoy and Marilyn Keys have been working in Burkina Faso for seven years. Burkina Faso, one of the ten poorest countries of the world, is located in French-speaking West Africa. Roy is an agro-forester, with a Ph. D. in watershed management. He has been serving in a variety of activities, including helping villages to establish tree nurseries, encouraging tree planting, ...
Vanessa Liddle
in UgandaVanessa is an individual who has a desire to see people fall in love with God and His Word. Even at an early age, she enjoyed studying the Bible. Opportunities to do mission work while in high school and college ignited a passion in her heart for discipleship. Once she experienced the people and culture of Uganda, she fell in ...
Sarah Miles
in UgandaSarah Miles, otherwise known as Smiles, is a missionary serving in Uganda. She will be working with Street children and orphans, both on the streets of Kampala and the Sheppard Centre which houses street boy’s ages 8-16 yrs old. Sarah’s missionary role will include the coordination of sponsorship and serve as liaison for sustainability of the Sheppard Centre. With a ...
Gigi (Townsend) and Sihle Mooi
in South AfricaGigi (Townsend) & Sihle Mooi are serving in Soweto with passion for church planting, discipleship, and serving the community through social justice projects (i.e. orphanages, provide jobs, HIV/AIDS hospice, trauma counseling, racial tensions, etc.) Being an interracial couple in South Africa is a ‘ministry’ all in itself, and even moreso living in the township context! Aside from that, our primary work includes: Church ...
Alysha Oswald
in KenyaAlysha Oswald was called to the mission field when she was a senior in college. She had plans to be a Christian counselor but the Lord had other plans in mind. She went to Kenya reluctantly but quickly after arriving the Lord ignited a passion for this country. She started to focus her ministry on the children and orphans there ...
Valerie and Appolinaire Peters-Ntiganzwa
in RwandaValerie and Appolinaire met in Rwanda in 2006 while Valerie was visiting on a short term mission trip. Neither of them could have anticipated the way that God would work in their hearts calling them to marry and serve Him together in Rwanda. Drawn together by their love for the Lord and their heart for ministry in Rwanda, they were ...
JP (James) and Jesse Pierce
in KenyaJames (JP) and Jesse began their relationship through church mission trips to Mexico during college, and were married in 1997. While JP was working on his forestry degree, God encouraged him that his education and talents would be used to practically serve people in the third-world someday. Likewise, God put a desire in Jesse’s heart to love and work with ...
Jimmy and Linda Read
in MozambiqueJimmy and Linda Read oversee a skills-training and job-placement program for disadvantaged youth, and they parent six wonderful Mozambican boys. Their desire is that these precious young people would know their Father and His plans 'to prosper them, to give them hope and a future' (Jeremiah 29:11). Jimmy and Linda Read have served in Mozambique, Africa since early 2005. For almost ...
Brent and Kerri Roberts
in ZambiaBrent & Kerri Roberts, along with Caleb (10), Gracyn (8), Thomas (8), Maddie (4) & Ellie (2), are missionaries serving in the Chikankata chiefdom in Southern Zambia. In this part of Zambia, there are few to no evangelical churches and fewer Christian believers. In fact, some of the villages in Chikankata have had no exposure to the Gospel in over ...
Jake and Holly Schilinski
in CameroonEver since Jake was 13 he’s been going on summer mission’s trip to places like Jamaica, Australia, Israel, and England. He felt the call to be a missionary when he 17 and went on a mission trip to Zimbabwe and just fell in love with Africa and knew that God wanted him back there. Holly (originally from England) moved to Slovakia ...
Kelsey Talbot
in RwandaAfter coming to know the Lord as a senior in high school, Kelsey thought she had a life in the military or law enforcement all planned out. Instead, God called her to be a missionary during her freshman year of college. Since coming to know the Lord she has had an unexplainable attraction to Africa and it finally took her ...
Stephen and Annette Tour
in LiberiaStephen and Annette Tour are called to serve the Lord in Liberia, West Africa. They and their six children are involved in Evangelism, Discipleship, Outreach and Church Leadership Training. Stephen and Annette Tour left their home country Liberia in the year 2000 and took refuge in the United States due to a devastating civil war that took away the lives of ...
Mark and Nancy Waite
in CameroonThe Waites will primarily be involved in evangelistic and church-planting work among an unreached people group in Cameroon. Mark and Nancy Waite are church-planters who, after several years of ministry in the United States have been called by God to Cameroon. They, along with their four children (Bethany, Rachael, Esther, and Peter) will be working with Bread For Life, a multi-faceted ...
Thane and Charlotte White
in TanzaniaDuring their many mission trips, Thane and Charlotte began to have a burden for the people of Tanzania. Each time they learned more about language, culture, and the deep need for discipleship and community development in this impoverished country. Since 2006 they have been busy preparing for the transition to full time missionary work. Thane has been in the Information ...
Luke & Elise Whitfield
in ZambiaLuke & Elise Whitfield, as well as Macie (10), Emma (8), Payton (6), Chichi (5) & Tazi (3), are currently serving as missionaries (along with CTEN missionary family the Roberts) in the Chikankata chiefdom in Southern Zambia. Chikankata is believed to be one of the most undeveloped areas in the whole of Zambia. Its people, the Tonga tribe, are often ...