Aldersgate's Partners on the Foreign Mission Field
These missionaries need our prayer support as well as the financial assistance we provide through the church budget. Please pray for them, their families, their ministries and those they serve.
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Ed & Linda Baker - Nicaragua
The Mission Society
Ed and Linda Baker served in Paraguay from 2002-2008. They drilled water wells to help existing Methodist churches and to assist in planting new churches. They were responsible for the construction of a Methodist School as well as several other church construction projects. Ed also shared the preaching load at the Tacuapi Methodist church. In 2009, the Bakers moved to Nicaragua to continue their well drilling and water systems ministry.
They are working with Amigos for Christ, a group that ministers very effectively through medical ministries, church planting and construction of water systems. Through the Aldersgate H2O Challenge in the summer of 2009, we helped to finance one of their well projects. Check out www.aguadevida.org
to learn more about Ed and Linda and their work in Nicaragua. They need our prayers as well as the financial support we provide.
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Don & Laura Dickerson - Kenya
SERV Ministries International
In July 2009, Don and Laura Dickerson completed four years of full-time missionary service with SERV Ministries International in Kenya. There they established Turning Point Ministries (TPM) which works with area churches that are biblically sound to provide mentoring, accountability and financial and business training.
As they settle back into the United States, the Dickersons will be involved in fundraising and marketing for TPM and SERV Ministries International. Laura will resume her M.Div. online with Asbury Theological Seminary. Don will resume a career in environmental engineering.Please keep this family in your prayers as they make this adjustment. Learn more at dickersonmissions.com.
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Cameron & Anne Gongwer - Ghana
The Missions Society
Dr. Cameron and Anne Gongwer serve in Ghana, West Africa, with The Mission Society and the Methodist Church of Ghana. Since 1998 their ministry has been centered in the small farming town of Ankaase where Cameron was the first full-time doctor. He now trains Ghanaian doctors, plants churches through medical evangelism outreaches, and assists with other medical ministry endeavors.
Anne coordinated the development of the Ankaase Literacy Program, teaching Ghanaians how to read the Bible in their native language and until recently home-schooled their daughter Caylor. The family relocated to the city of Acra in August 2009 to enter a new phase of ministry. Want to pray more effectively for this family? Visit them at www.themissionsociety.org/people/gongwer
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Szabolcs Kerekes - Hungary
Church Resource Ministries
Szabolcs Kerekes has been involved in church planting in Hungary for since 1998. He has written two books and translated materials for use in mentoring key pastors, church planters and future leaders. In partnership with The Bible League, Szabolcs is helping to build healthy, reproducible churches.
Szabolcs met with our Missions Committee this year while visiting in the U.S. and shared with us the challenges of trying to reach the post-modern world of eastern Europe with the Gospel. He is a gifted teacher and communicator who is dedicated to preparing life-changing materials for Hungarian churches. He appreciates our support and prayers.
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Andy and Jaimee Langeland - Ukraine
Hidden with Christ Ministries
Andy and Jaimee Langeland, a young couple from California, have been living in Ukraine since June 2007. Their ministry, Operation Lazarus, was founded to assist teenage orphans who are “aging out” of the orphanage system and have no place to go. The Langelands are trying to place as many of these young people as possible in Christian homes, then helping them find work, training for work or additional education. Through weekly Bible study and fellowship time in their home, they are loving and supporting these kids who would otherwise end up on the streets.
In September 2009, Andy and Jaimee returned to the U.S. for the birth of their first child. They will return to Ukraine in March 2010. Visit their website at operationlazarus.com to learn about their life in Ukraine and their work for the Lord there. Please be praying for the Langelands, the orphans they serve and baby Andee Joye.
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Rick & Debra Slingluff - Kenya
The Mission Society
UM pastors Rick and Debra Slingluff met and were married in 1992 in Kenya where they began their relationship with their partner church, Nairobi Chapel. In September 2007 they returned, this time with their children Bethany, Timothy and Josiah, to work in Kibera, the largest slum in Africa, located in Nairobi.
The Slingluffs are actively involved in starting a church planting ministry school that will teach how to better initiate discipleship ministries that transform slum communities and accelerate evangelism in the poorest urban communities in the world. To learn more about their ministry, go to Rick’s blog at http://nairobicall.blogspot.com/
. Please keep this family in your prayers.
Mark Wittig - Colombia
OMS International
Mark Wittig has served as a missionary with OMS International since 1984. Mark is professor of missions at the Biblical Seminary of Colombia in Medellín. As an ordained minister, he is also involved in a church-planting ministry and supervises the Christian Union Sports Club, a city-wide sports program, which evangelizes and disciples over 1,000 children and youth of Medellín through soccer on a weekly basis.
to learn more. Please keep Mark and his ministry in your prayers.