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 online: Monthly Newsletter - Misionary News.

1) Gene & Marilyn Ahrens (Wycliffe Bible Translators) - North Carolina
Gene has been with Wycliffe Bible Translators for over 20 years; thirteen of those years in Papua New Guinea. Gene was married this past year to another Wycliffe Missionary: Marilyn Nickel. Marilyn has been a missionary with Wycliffe even longer than Gene! Gene is currently working with Kairos Prison Ministry of North Carolina. Marilyn is currently working at the museum there and hopes to perhaps use this opportunity as a recruitment tool for Wycliffe.

2) Mark & Sarah Anderson (International Teams, Inc.) - Illinois
Pray for Mark’s family, at the passing of his father, January 13. Mark & Sarah now care for Sarah’s father who is living with them, and in fragile health. Their trip to Bulgaria has been postponed due to these current family matters.

3) Rev. Jim Barnes Sr. (Mission in Media) - Missouri
Jim is moving into his 25th year with Mission in Media commissioned by Salem Evangelical & Reformed Church, Florissant, MO. He works as a media consultant for New Life Evangelistic Center. He has helped plan, engineer, construct, and operate eleven TV stations and fifteen radio stations in Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas. Presently, Jim is completing installation of two full power digital TV stations. He has been able to serve Christ by training formerly homeless men and women in broadcasting skills, all carried out in an atmosphere of sharing the Gospel with them as they learn.

4) Rick and Donna Burke (Reach Global) - Hungary
Pray for us as we seek to expand to 50 cities in Europe in the next seven years. Pray as we build infrastructure for greater missionary training. Pray as we develop better working opportunities for our national churches and develop national leadership opportunities.

5) Ken & Judy Hollingsworth (Wycliffe Bible Translators) - Cameroon, Africa
In 1978, Ken and Judy settled in the Mofu village of Mokong to begin analysis of the Mofu language as the first step toward Bible translation. Ken is also an ethnomusicologist and is helping to develop an indigenous hymnal for the Mofu. This past year they completed their translation. The dedication of the Mofu New testament Translation will be in February 2008.

6) Jim (OM) - North Africa
Since 1999, Jim has been doing friendship evangelism, discipleship, church planting, follow-up on Bible correspondence students, and leadership development among Muslims. He and his wife are currently working on a larger project: Project Desert Stream, and are trying to build a ministry center. They have the land and are trying to raise money for the center itself. Jim and his family will be on sabbatical in Pennsylvania in 2007.

7) Dave & Cindy Kahre (Campus Crusade for Christ) - Florida
Pray for the four of us that we would walk closely with God. Pray for Cindy & Dave for wisdom as we help give leadership to WSN (Worldwide Student Network) and as we spend time raising much needed additional financial support.

8) Solomon & Ruby Kendagor (International Students, Inc.) - St. Louis, Missouri
Students come from many nations of the world to study in St. Louis at the various universities. When they do, they need new friends and help adjusting to the USA. Solomon and Ruby offer monthly meetings for these international students to meet each other, learn English, fellowship, and be presented with the Gospel. They have recently been registered as one of the campus ministries at St. Louis University, UMSL, and Washington University, have been given a room at Forest Park College, and are being invited to Lindenwood. Besides their on-campus ministry, Solomon and Ruby have Bible studies in their homes, provide each student who would like a host family for the time they are in St. Louis, and provide trips during vacation times to historic sights. They have seen many students and visiting professors come to know Christ.

9) Derrill & Becky Martin (TEAM) - Missouri
Derrill and Becky have continued to extend their ministry to the Philippines by coordinating MSV, which is helping the national-run churches plant daughter churches among the southern Philippine least-reached people. St. Paul’s joined this partnership in 2007 and Pastor Mark attended the conference with the Martins in the Philippines in February, 2007.

10) Kevin & Shirley Nelstead (ReachGlobal) - Romania
Kevin and Shirley have returned their family to Bucharest, after a six month furlough in St. Louis, where they are serving as missionaries. Kevin is teaching high school science to missionary children at the Bucharest Christian Academy and Shirley has a ministry of prayer. They are also a part of a team doing outreach in the city of Bucharest and are actively involved in one of the two E-Free churches in Bucharest.

11) Allan & Cindy Pavey (International Teams) - France
For 14 years Allan and Cindy have been working in a French church in Grenoble doing youth work, discipleship, preaching, playing piano, running a nursery during the service and reaching out to French friends and neighbors. Allan has been the director of the Centre Evangelique, Le Belledonne, in Chamrousse, and at Champfleuri. Allan is currently helping to plant the International Church of Grenoble. This international church is for English speaking people from around the world who live and work in Grenoble. He is also still continuing with worship and Youth Ministries in the French church. He leads music every week, leads worship once a month, serves on the church council, and leads the youth group. Cindy is teaching English in a French elementary school and also teaches Religion to the 4th and 5th grade at the school.

12) Mark & Mary Esther Penner (WorldVenture) - Japan
Mark grew up in Japan and has lived there 30 years. He and Mary Esther have been in this current assignment for over 16 years. Bible translation related activities take most of Mark’s time, but he also does pulpit supply for deaf and hearing churches and various kinds of outreach to non-Christian deaf people. Mary Esther is also active in reclaiming wheel chairs to be sent all over Asia.

13) Tim & Jeana Roth (Wycliffe Bible Translators) - Tanzania, Africa
Tim and Jeana are St. Paul's first members to become full-time missionaries. Praise God for successful Orthography 1 workshops. Praise for no current health issues. Pray that God would continue to protect our physical bodies from sickness and disease. Pray for the linguists who will continue to process data collected at the recent workshops. Pray for the participants who will be doing some informal language testing before the second workshops. Pray for Tim as he prepares to step into a new role or Linguistics Coordinator. Pray for good leadership and communication skills. Praise that we were able to return home after Christmas vacation in Kenya despite the civil unrest. Pray for our SIL colleagues near the city center of Nairobi.

14) Paul & Shari Salzman (HCJB Global - Texas
Paul and Shari have been missionaries for 23 years, serving in Ecuador their first mission term. Since then, they have been ministering in Brownsville, Texas where they started a new Spanish station. Paul was the manager and engineer at that station for 9 1/2 years. They are continuing to build and start new radio stations along the U.S.-Mexican border. The latest start is in Las Cruces, New Mexico – KRUC- the only all-Spanish station in the city where Paul is the engineer. Almost all of the stations are very understaffed and that is a constant prayer request. Shari is a homemaker, mother and home school teacher.

15) Craig & LaDonna Smith (On Eagles Wings) - Arizona
Along with their music and evangelistic ministry, Craig and LaDonna have been involved in church planting and pastoral ministry for over three decades. Craig has represented Native Americans at the White House in Washington, D.C., and he has been a featured speaker for Promise Keepers at their national stadium conferences. Craig is currently the director of the fast-growing year-round On Eagles Wings outreach that provides year-round spiritual encouragement, develops Next Generation Native leaders, multiplies effective youth ministries, and produces cutting-edge native resources to Native America.

16) Scott & Cathy Waller (Campus Crusade for Christ) - California
Scott and Cathy have been with Campus Crusade for over 13 years. After receiving a M.A. in Philosophy of Religion and Ethics from Talbot School of Theology, Scott took a position with Academic Initiative. He intends to influence the university and the world for Christ by helping to train ministers of the Gospel in this country who are struggling to reach an increasingly secular environment. Scott is currently working on his Ph.D. and traveling around the country reaching college students for Christ.

17) Nate & Faith Walter (International Teams) - Spain
Nate and Faith Walter began their ministry in Spain in September of 2007 with a youth hostel ministry. Their vision is to create an inviting place that encourages the community and gives them the opportunity to share the Good News.

18) Tim & Patty Yoss (Bible Study Fellowship - Rafiki Foundation, Inc.,) - Rwanda
Tim and Patty work for the Rafiki Foundation, Inc., where they have focused their ministry on orphans and other children in Africa who have been victimized by the AIDS epidemic. Tim and Patty moved to Kigali, Rwanda in 2005 where Tim is serving as financial and purchasing manager, and Patty is the Children’s Center Director. Tim and Patty have asked for prayers for the construction of the Rafiki Center in Rwanda. Construction began in 2007.