Reaching out to the World
Individual Missionaries Supported by St. Pauls
Please pray for our missionaries and their ministries, and feel free to write or email them. Their addresses can be found in the St. Paul’s Missions Booklet. Current information and prayer requests for our missionaries can be found in the monthly newsletter.
Gene & Marilyn Ahrens (Wycliffe Bible Translators)
Gene and Marilyn met after each had served with Wycliffe for 20 years overseas. They were married in October 2006 and are now serving with Wycliffe at the JAARS Training Center in North Carolina. Gene works on the grounds and maintenance crew. He also volunteers monthly at a local prison. Marilyn is working in the museums, which are a great recruitment tool for Wycliffe. She is also music coordinator for Sunday vespers.
Mark & Sarah Anderson (International Teams)
Mark & Sarah are both involved in outreach to Muslims. Mark teaches missionaries in training at International Teams Headquarters and teaches about spiritual conflicts at Wheaton Graduate School . He also speaks in the USA and France on spiritual warfare and the supernatural. Sarah has been certified and teaches spiritual direction. In 2002, they moved to the Chicago area after spending 20 years in France.
Jim & Eleanor Barnes (Missions In Media)
Jim works as a media consultant for New Life Evangelistic Center. He has helped plan, engineer, construct, and coordinate the operation and maintenance of 11 TV stations and 15 AM & FM radio stations in Missouri, Illinois and Arkansas. He has completed the installation of digital technology in these facilities. He is training formerly homeless men and women in broadcast skills. He also helps facilitate a program to train veterans in communication skills.
Paul & Sandy (EFCA ReachGlobal)
After having served for four years in a Korean church, two years at a Chinese church and for the last six years at the International Community church in Columbia, MO, Paul & Sandy are now located in Asia in a new outreach ministry.
Jim & Connie (Campus Crusade for Christ)
After serving abroad in the largest country still considered unreached by the Gospel, Jim & Connie now live in St. Louis, where Jim serves as Financial Manager. He also is helping various ministry leaders plan evangelistic outreaches, publishing, and broadcast strategies, and assuring that financial obligations are met. Jim & Connie are also involved with local outreach to international students studying at the various universities in St Louis.
Ken & Judy Hollingsworth (Wycliffe Bible Translators)
The dedication of the Mofu New Testament in 2008 was the culmination of 30 years of work among the Mofu in Cameroon. Ken & Judy continue to translate other portions of scripture into Mofu along with other Bible helps and Sunday School material. Ken is also an enthnomusicologist and is helping to develop an indigenous hymnal for the Mofu and other language groups in the Far North of Cameroon. They are also helping other nearby language groups in the translation of their New Testaments.
The Family In North Africa
This family spends a lot of time counseling new believers and developing indigenous leadership. They also host conferences and retreats for indigenous believers.
Dave & Cindy Kahre (Campus Crusade for Christ)
Dave is involved in connecting Eastern Europe and Russia with the US campus ministry. He is in the process of assessing the effectiveness of every campus team sent internationally. Dave & Cindy are committed to reaching the now 130 million college students world wide. Their vision is to one day see a spiritual movement on every campus where every student and faculty member is touched by the Gospel and live out the calling that God has for their lives.
Solomon & Ruby Kendagor (International Students, Inc.)
Students come from many nations of the world to study at the various universities in St Louis. Solomon & Ruby offer monthly meetings to help students meet each other, learn English and hear the Gospel. They also have Bible studies in their home, provide a St. Louis host family for each student desiring one, and provide trips during vacation times to historic sights. They have a follow-up ministry to make sure that students who receive Christ in the USA are incorporated in a local church and get involved in serving the Lord as effective witnesses in their home countries.
Becky Martin (Team)
Becky now is a part of a ministry called Mindanao Strategic Vision which helps churches in America partner with church planting teams of Filipinos to reach the un-reached people groups in the southern Philippines. Becky leads trips to the Philippines once or twice a year to show groups the work going on there and to help partner relationships begin. She and her family lived in the Philippines for seven years planting a church on the island of Mindanao.
Allan & Cindy Pavey (International Teams)
Allan is working at Champfleuri, a camp in the Alps of France. He leads worship time at the various camps as well as running the web site, helping maintain the phones, physical buildings and various vehicles. He also helps lead the ski camps, extreme sports camps and Ten English Days camp. He is worship leader for a French church and an International Church for the English speaking population of Grenoble. He works with the youth of both churches and the South of France region. Cindy teaches English in a French Elementary school and also teaches religion at the school. She teaches Sunday school at the French church. They also reach out to the community through hospitality in their home.
Mark & Mary Esther Penner (WorldVenture)
Mark and Mary Esther grew up in Japan. Their ministry is to establish a strong church for the Deaf and to provide the Deaf community with a Japanese Sign Language video translation of the Bible. Mary Esther is also active in reclaiming wheel chairs to be sent all over Asia to those who need them.
Tim & Jeana Roth (Wycliffe Bible Translators)
Tim and Jeana Roth are the first missionary couple sent from the St Paul's congregation. After their first assignment in Tanzania working with the Mara cluster of Northern Tanzania, Tim has enrolled in a masters program in Canada to help him further his linguistics skills before returning to Tanzania.
Paul & Shari Salzman (HCJB Global)
Paul & Shari first served in Ecuador. Now in Texas, Paul is currently the engineer for nine radio stations along the US-Mexican border in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. He is also the Director of Operations at the El Paso station. Paul duplicates music for the satellite network. They have affiliate stations in eight other states which broadcast the programming. He has also helped build and start four new radio stations.
Craig & Ladonna Smith (The Christian & Missionary Alliance)
Craig is an international evangelist to the Native People. He has also traveled to minister to native peoples in other parts of the globe. His desire is to partner with geographic and other inter-cultural people and local churches to reach Native populations with the Gospel. They are involved in training Christian Native young people to reach their peers with the Gospel. He has written a book, White Man's Gospel which explains the difficulty of reaching Native peoples. Craig is an Ojibwa and LaDonna is a Navajo.
Rob & Jamie Smithson (Campus Crusade for Christ)
Rob works with the Military ministry of Campus Crusade. He works with ROTC cadets on university campuses in the Great Plains Region (MO, NE, KS, CO, WY, NM). Jamie is attending Covenant Theological Seminary completing her Masters Degree in Christian Counseling with the hope of ministering to veterans with post traumatic stress disorder.
Scott & Cathy Waller (Campus Crusade for Christ)
Scott & Cathy seek to influence the university and the world for Christ. One of the key ways to do this is to influence the world of ideas in the academic arena. Scott has worked to equip himself to work within this arena. He has a MA in Philosophy of Religion and Ethics from Biola University and is currently working toward a PhD in Political Philosophy and American Government at Claremont Graduate University. Scott is the national director of instruction for Academic Initiative. He is working to help equip students and Crusade staff in such a way that they are more effective in their evangelistic and discipleship efforts.
Nate & Faith Walter (International Teams)
Nate & Faith are working to open a youth hostel and offer hospitality to the pilgrims and travelers on the El Camino de Santiago, or "The Way of St James". They would like to foster an inviting place that encourages community and shared experiences. Many of the guests will be hearing the Gospel for the first time and they see a hostel where the cozy environment, the conversations and the staff engage them and point them to the living Christ.
Tim & Patty Yoss (Rafiki Foundation)
Tim & Patty have been serving the Lord in Africa (South Africa, Zambia, Uganda, and Rwanda) through the Rafiki Foundation. The Rafiki Village which they are helping to build in Rwanda includes homes and schools for orphans, a clinic as well as housing for volunteers. Tim is serving as the country representative, village director and financial manager. Patty is serving as the childcare program director as well as teaching English classes.
National & International Ministries Supported
- Focus on the Family is a non-profit organization dedicated to strengthening the home. Headed by Dr. James Dobson, this ministry produces several radio programs and magazines as well as family oriented books, films, videos, and audiocassettes, all from a Christian perspective.
- The Family Research Council is an organization committed to assuring that the rights, interests, and values of the family are heard and respected in the formulation of public policy in Washington, D.C.
- Sun Valley Indian School is committed to providing Native American children with a quality Christian education. The school provides an education plan for children in elementary, junior, and senior high grades in a clean, warm, and safe boarding school environment, where the children live under the loving and prayerful care of dedicated dorm parents. The school is staffed by qualified and caring people who exemplify the love of God through their lifestyles and who have a "missionary heart" for their Native American students.
- World Relief is a Christian organization, wholly owned by churches, which responds to world disasters and helps the poor both physically and spiritually. Many agencies respond in these circumstances, but many are not Christian organizations and just give physical help but no spiritual help at all. People need both physical and spiritual help in disasters, wars, and other problems. World Relief also has special community banks to loan money to people too poor to get loans from commercial banks. These loans (many as little as $20.00) can start a small business, which helps support their families. The loans are repaid over time so others can borrow funds. They also give help and advice in starting and running a small business.
- MAP International is an organization that promotes the total health of people living in the world’s poorest communities by partnering in the provision of essential medicines, the promotion of community health development, and the prevention and eradication of disease.