Fellowship
Missionaries
Sunny and Manju Abraham
Cochin, India
Sunny is a pastor, teacher, church planter, and minister of the Gospel in Cochin, India. He is working as a director of Way of Truth Baptist Ministry. Sunny reports: "By His grace and through your prayers we are doing good and the ministry is going well. Now we have ministry in 15 different villages in three states in India. I have started a pastor's training program for four days in two months, we use to have 25 to 30 pastors including our pastors. If God willing we are planning to have a regular Bible college soon. We need your prayers for this venture."
Sunny Abraham, Manju, Joanna Sunny, and Lenora Sunny
Daniel and Jenn Arnold
Eckental, Germany
Daniel is a church planter serving in Eckental, Germany. Daniel states: "We moved to Germany in 2011 as church-planters. Starting in 2016 we have been been planting the Freie Baptisten-Gemeinde Eckental (Independent Baptist Church of Eckental) near Fränkisch foothills. The focus is on training disciple-makers through preaching, teaching, theological training, and one-on-one discipleship. Jenn leads the children’s ministry and ladies weekly prayer meeting. We are also involved in helping with camp ministry several times throughout the year, and have a burden for the advancement of conservative Christian music in Germany.
Daniel, Jenn, Caleb, Lucy, Phillip, and Silas
Chris and Martha Best
Pinedale, Wyoming
Chris Best is the bi-vocational pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church in Pinedale, WY. Pinedale is a small-town, outdoor recreation haven that is very religious but in need of the Gospel. EBC exists to glorify God through joyful worship, edification of believers, and the spread of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the world.
Ken and Angela Duah
Ghana, West Africa
Ken writes: "I am a Ghanaian fundamental Baptist missionary who is planting independent village churches in rural eastern region of Ghana where most of our kinsmen are Muslims, voodoo worshipers and charismatics. What we seek to do is reach one village at a time. So far we've been able to get into 19. We also have 2 Christian village schools that help educate the majority poor in the community. Also, our military ministry is helping to reach the Ghanaian military for Christ."
Ron and Kathy Ehmann
Grantsville, Utah
Ron and Kathy Ehmann serve with Northwest Baptist Missions. Ron is the Director of the mission and Kathy is the financial secretary. They minister to the mission family, recruit new missionaries, speak in mission conferences and camps, host mission trips to the west and seek to advance church planting throughout the Western US. Ron also pastors Mountain View Baptist Church in Grantsville, Utah. Kathy is involved in the Sunday School, Children’s Church and Buckaroo Bible Club ministries.
Holly Gilbert
Western Cape, South Africa
Holly is serving in South Africa in the Cape Town metro area. She assists in the establishment of indigenous scriptural churches through evangelism and discipleship. Holly is assisting in church-planting ministries throughout the metro area but with a focus on a new church plant in Ravensmead. It is a suburb of about 21,000 people who are without a Bible teaching church. Her current ministries include outreach to senior adults, women, young adults, and children through one-on-one Bible studies, speaking at conferences, teaching group Bible studies, substitute teaching in a private school, teaching Life Skills in public schools, speaking in chapel, teaching Sunday school, counseling at camp, and teaching music. Other outreaches include patient advocacy, creating resumes, assisting with church music, planning retreats, providing and teaching graphic design, and meeting with a group of professional women for community outreach. Her delight is to share the gospel with people from all walks of life and see them come to the knowledge of the truth.
Bob and Joyce Landis
MTT Ministries
The goal of MTT Ministries is to give leadership training through short-term mission trips to help independent, fundamental, Bible-believing churches produce Christ-centered young people and adults with a servant’s heart . Their theme is "Molding the next generation for Christ."
OUR PURPOSE
- Glorify God through missions.
- Recruit and train young people and adults for short term mission teams in the U.S. and abroad. (from age 15 up)
- Give young people and adults hands-on opportunities and experience on the mission field.
- Encourage young people toward full-time Christian service.
- Encourage Pastors and Missionaries.
- Plant the seed of the Word of God in those who need Christ all over the world.
- See churches planted at home and abroad as a result of these mission trips.
- Make our family available to assist churches through special music, chalk drawings, and challenges from the Word of God.
Website: https://mttministries.org/
Monte and Jeneen Leavell
Missionary Evangelist
After serving as a pastor for eleven years, Monte Leavell entered missionary evangelism in 1994. He ministers in camps, conferences, retreats, and churches throughout the United States (especially in the West, including Alaska) and in several other countries.Monte has written a discipleship book, “Steadfast and Stable,” published by Journeyforth, a division of BJU Press.
Monte is a missionary evangelist whose passion is to bring people to faith in Christ and to edify believers through the local church. He and his wife, Jeneen, enjoys helping new church plants and being involved in rejuvenating struggling works.Another area of service has been in assisting churches without a pastor as they work through the process.
Dr. Bruce McAllister
GFA Missions
Director of Ministry Relations
Dr. Bruce McAllister oversees church planting and development, church staffing assistance, and pastor and church relations at GFA. He preaches in churches and conferences, representing GFA and building ministry relationships throughout the USA. God has uniquely prepared him for this outreach through almost four decades of experience working with the ministerial class at Bob Jones University. He mentored many men for ministry and continues to serve as a prayerful friend to them. His passion for church planting at home and abroad continues to this day. He loves to build new ministry relationships. He served on the GFA Board for 21 years and on the Executive Committee for 14 years. He and his wife, Ellen, have 4 children and 6 grandchildren.
Rolando and Hannah Ortiz
San Miguel El Alto Mexico
The Ortiz family is working in the highlands of Jalisco, Mexico. It is a region full of religion without relationship, 99% claiming Catholicism. Presently, they are working in two towns, Arandas and San Miguel el Alto. The Lord has been blessing the two missions, and they have both been growing gradually. In addition, they have started an unaccredited Bible institute in Arandas in January 2019. Rolando and Hannah have three children: Azelia, Viana, and Amadeo.
Belinda Richter
Papua New Guinea
Belinda Richter under the direction of Gospel Fellowship Association Missions (GFA) has been in Papua New Guinea since 1999. Belinda holds a BA in Physical Therapy, and she attended Bob Jones University as a graduate student from 1991-1997. Belinda served two short terms of service in 1999-2001 and went back to the field full time in 2003. Belinda works with the adult literacy program and evangelism and the growth of the national believers in two churches with a team of missionaries in the Highlands region of PNG. Belinda teaches the ladies one-on-one through discipleship lessons and group Bible studies. She also teaches children through Religious Instruction program in the government schools. Lastly Belinda is able to use some of her physical therapy skills by assisting in the medical clinic in Aibai. Her greatest joys are teaching the ladies and seeing them apply Scriptural principles to their own lives and “seeing the lights go on” as she teaches people how to read and write.
Dave and Anna Schaaf
Winnemucca, Nevada
In 2002, Dave Schaaf responded to God's call to pastor Grace Baptist Church in Winnemucca, Nevada. The church is growing and is committed to fulfilling the Great Commission through discipleship and mentoring and through outreach into the community, including a weekly program for kids, services in Trucker's Chapel in Puckerbrush, Nevada, and helping out at camp Utibaca in Utah.
Doug and Bethany Sondergaard
Shelley, Idaho
The Sondergaard's are missionaries serving at Shelley Baptist church in Shelley, ID. The church is located in Eastern Idaho along the Interstate 15 Corridor. It is a small work, and Doug works a second job to accommodate serving in Shelley.
Josh and Rachel Stewart
Taiwan
We’re Josh, Rachel, Nate, & Anna Stewart. We were first missionaries to China, but due to medical reasons we transferred to Taiwan. We’ve been in Taiwan 4 years, and are currently working with our co-workers at Cornerstone Baptist Church in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. As assistant pastor, Josh currently works with the teens, Sunday School teachers, men’s group, and is in charge of outreach at Cornerstone. Lord willing, we would like to leave Cornerstone and start a new church plant in another part of Kaohsiung in the coming term.
Jim and Myra Wright
Furlogh Replacement
After pastoring for 30 years Jim & Myra Wright were called into church planting missions through furlough replacement. They fill in for missionaries that must return to the states for furlough or for medical reasons. Jim and Myra seek to continue the missionary’s work to build the church so that when they return, they find it a little stronger, a little larger, and ready to follow them into the next steps for Christ.