Mr. S

Mr. S will be working with BEE World in the Middle East. He will be helping to establish training centers for discipleship with a local church. He is in the process of raising support.

How can we most effectively pray for you?
1. Pray for many to pray for me frequently, as the area I am in is high-security.
2. Pray that the Lord will provide for my financial support.
3. Pray that God will be preparing the hearts for those I will be ministering to.

Erik & Marguerite Greyvenstein

Erik & Marguerite are newlyweds. They both serve with Youth With A Mission in South Africa. Marguerite has served with School of the Bible for years. She and Julia Sepulveda pioneered an SOTB in Durban, S. Africa. Erik has a ministry with a swim team. They are in the process of melding their ministries together.

What are you most excited to see God doing in your ministry?
God is opening doors in almost all the schools (white and black) here in Bethlehem South Africa through Erik's swimming ministry. We are being invited into the schools to work with the youth and hope to do camps with them also in the future. YWAM Bethlehem has looked for ways to get into the schools for a long time and this is a real answer to prayer. Teaching a child to swim can bring hope and dignity, especially in the developing communities and it opens a way to minister to young people from any community.

How can we effectively pray for you?

1. Pray for more relationships in the community

2. Pray for God's strategy for the swimming programs and for the young people to have prepared hearts
3. Pray for us to grow together in God's call on us as a couple as we experience each other's ministries and help each other respectively.

Contact info:
erikmarg@2him.org

Jared & Sarah Binder

Jared graduated in May and is attending Graduate school in the Dallas area. To contact them:

nirvanasun@juno.com

Dan Bolin

Dan is the director for Christian Camping International (CCI). A majority of Christians are introduced to their faith before they leave high school. Christian camping is geared to sharing the gospel with school age children, and is an international ministry. It is a fun way for kids to relate to each other, be discipled in the word, and develop a firm foundation for their lives.

What are you most excited to see God doing in your ministry?
I’m most excited about the new CCI association that is forming in Kenya and the network that is forming in Albania. I am also excited about the growth of Christian camping in Southern India.

How can we effectively pray for you?
1. Please pray for CCI-Philippines, CCI-Romania and CCI-Poland. All of these associations are facing difficult leadership transitions.
2. Please pray for the leadership of four camps in Australia totally destroyed by the fires a few months ago.
3. Pray for the leadership of Alton Bay Christian Camp in New Hampshire as it recovers from a fire that destroyed over 50 buildings on Easter Sunday.

Contact info:
dan@cciworldwide.org

Young Life Tyler, Garrick Bailey

Garrick is the director for Young Life Tyler (YLT). YLT is an outreach specifically designed for high school and middle school students. Garrick and other volunteers spend time with students for the purpose of developing relationships. This gives them the opportunity to disciple them, and encourage them to follow the Lord. For some students, it gives them an open door to share the gospel.

What are you most excited to see God doing in your ministry?
I am excited to see God beginning to grow the ministry - not because of volunteer leader efforts, but because of the vision He's given high school kids to be a part of something bigger than themselves. We believe God is opening the doors to begin Wyldlife (middle school ministry) in the next 6 months!

How can we effectively pray for you?
As always...pray for resources. We need to pray people into Leadership teams, the adult committee (which we call Bommittee...a mix between board/committee), and into our donor base. We're also praying for the financial provision for an additional full-time staff member...and eventually a permanent home for offices & Club or at least a better Club location.

Contact info:
garrick@tyler.younglife.org

Rebecca Sorge

Rebecca is serving with Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF) here in the Tyler area. CEF is a ministry specifically designed to share the gospel with children through summer Bible clubs, Good News clubs in schools, and other avenues.

What are you most excited to see God doing in your ministry?
I am excited to see how God has grown the ministry in the last year. We currently have 11 Good News Clubs. 2 years ago we had 5! The Lord is burdening the hearts of His people to go into all the world and preach the gospel…I am thankful that includes the children in our own community. He is raising an awareness of the need to reach the children.

How can we effectively pray for you?
1. Pray that I will be an encouragement to the many volunteers God has placed in the ministry.
2. Pray for the children who attend these clubs. Pray the gospel would be presented clearly, that the children who are Christians would be challenged to grow in their faith. Pray especially for the 5th graders who will be leaving GNC this year.
3. Pray that God will give me an awareness of distractions that could hinder the ministry
4. Update - God has opened doors to churches and organizations who would be interested in outreach to children in the community through 5-Day Club summer outreach and/or After-School Good News Club Outreach. Pray for continued direction to churches who will help.
5. Pray that I can press on to diligently to complete the work the Lord has given me.
6. Pray for the local chapter financially stability - giving is down.

Contact info:
ceftyler@sbcglobal.net

Julia Sepulveda

Julia is serving with Youth With a Mission. She is temporarily at their Madison, WI base, She and others from the Durban S. Africa team had some serious setbacks, and are in the process of strategically planning on when and how to return to Africa. In the meantime she is helping with the School of the Bible in Madison.

What are you most excited to see God doing in your ministry?
I'm looking forward to spending some time with Lord as He helps me process the setbacks and losses I have experienced over the past 2 or 3 years. I know He is sufficient, and I look forward to hearing Him speak to my heart. I'm learning to trust Him in the midst of suffering. I'm sure He will give me many opportunities to share this with others.

How can we effectively pray for you?
1. Pray God would provide for my monthly support, and for transportation. He has provided a place for me to live, and a part-time job.
2. Pray for healing for me and for my family in the loss of my niece, Alondra. It has been a very difficult year as we watched cancer take her life.
3. Pray God will teach me to trust Him in all circumstances.

Contact info:
julia_sepulveda@yahoo.com

William & Mary

William & Mary are serving in a closed country in East Asia. They are reaching the nation for Christ through friendships with individuals that God brings across their path. Living the Christian life daily for others has had a tremendous impact and has given them many opportunities to share the gospel.

What are you most excited to see God doing in your ministry?

We have a weekly Bible study with 6 students who have all come to know Him in the past few years. They are actively participating and growing. Frisbee golf continues to be an arena to meet & cultivate friendships with people. Camaraderie has formed among the college students; graduating students try to get a job in the area so they can stay around their friends. We have participated in counseling students using scripture and prayer, and we have had many opportunities to receive training as well.

How can we effectively pray for you?

1. Ask that God would motivate the young believers to regularly spend time in the word on their own and catch God’s vision for their lives.

2. William is teaching 3 classes of college freshmen. Pray for wisdom in which of the 90 students we should spend time with.

3. This June 1st we will be hosting 12 college students from the U.S. for 6 weeks who are coming to cultivate relationships with our countries college students. Please pray for God’s sovereignty in planning, traveling, and times of interacting with our students, and that God would draw the right students. Pray for eternal fruit to be borne.

Emily Manasco

Emily is serving with International Students, Inc. (ISI) which is an outreach to international students on college campuses. She is currently focusing her efforts on the Univ. of Texas at Tyler and Tyler Junior College.

What are you most excited to see God doing in your ministry?
God has brought 300+ international students from around the globe to Tyler! God's heart for the world is spreading like wildfire through the Christian community. ISI Tyler is uniquely merging these two facts by equipping Christians to share Christ's love and message with international students from their own homes! He has given us a local ministry with a significant global impact!

How can we effectively pray for you?
1. Pray for the students - that God would open their hearts to receiving His love and grace.
2. As the ISI Tyler ministry is pioneered here, please pray for God's wisdom and guidance to be upon the leaders and staff.
3. That the Lord will lead me to more potential donors and give me the courage, discipline, and persistence to keep asking for support.
4. For supernatural wisdom in my personal life and ministry.
5. Please ask God how He can use you to reach the nations for Christ!

Contact info:
emanasco@isiwebnet.net

Vincent & Samantha Luwizhi

Vincent & Samantha are currently serving with Youth With A Mission. Vincent is working on a degree in Sustainable Community Development and working at YWAM in the areas of teaching, discipleship, mercy works locally, training missionaries, and leading church teams to Africa. Their heart is to take teams to Africa and share the gospel through community development, specifically with orphans.

What are you most excited to see God doing in your ministry?
It is exciting to learn and understand more each day that God is all we need. He provides for all our needs; both spiritual and physically. We are also excited about being ambassaders for Christ as we continue to share our faith daily with unbelivers we come in contact with - both here in the states and abroad.

How can we effectively pray for you?
1. We need to stay focused on Jesus - especially in these days with so much conflict in the world around us.
2. Samantha's pregnancy to go well from now to her delivery date in July.
3. Pray for the Ywam Ministry. Many of the young people we are dealing with are from broken families, and they need a lot of love and compassion as we teach them to live for Jesus. Pray God will give us what we need to disciple them.

Contact info:
luwizhis@gmail.com

Bev Kline and Living Alternatives

Bev is the founder and executive director for Living Alternatives, an outreach to unwed pregnant women and their families. This ministry has numerous facets including such areas as: pregnancy testing, educational resources, adoption help, facilities for pregnant girls to live temporarily, and aftercare followup once the baby is delivered.

What are you most excited to see God doing in your ministry?
We are seeing new doors of hope open for moms and children. We have found favor from a local judge which has given us, as the church, more opportunity to provide forever homes for abused and neglected children. This has expanded our ministry care beyond the womb. We have new houseparents at Fatherheart who are doing a great job! Their love for God is overflowing into the girls lives and we are seeing a high lever of "God Awareness" in the girls who live here. They are sensitive to the Lord's presence and are responding! Our newest progam is called "School of New Beginning" which is an evening discipleship program for the girls. It has been ministering deeply into the lives of our young moms by preparing them for a future as they prepare to give birth to their babies.


How can we effectively pray for you?
1. Pray for strength for the battle. To finish strong!
2. Pray for those who will follow me to not only take what God has done through my life in L.A., but also bring new things to the ministry.
3. Pray for the January 2010 launch of a 5 month training school for those interested in starting or strengthening their pro-life work in their communities

Contact Info. Mslivalt@aol.com

John & Suzanne Hunter

John & Suzanne have served with Youth With A Mission for years, and currently run Community Hope School in Namibia, Africa. They have a heart for sharing the gospel through education in Africa.

What are you most excited to see God doing in your ministry?
I excited about the opportunity we have to disciple the youth of our community in Katutra. We have the chance to give them a quality Christian education that is invaluable in leading them to a life of faith in our Saviour that is eteranl. As we watch the children learn and grow spiritually, we see God's loving hand reaching out to them in every area of their lives. Entire families are being transformed by the school. Our teachers example of Christian character is exemplary, and their dedication to God and the children is inspiring. The love, compassion and expertise they bring to the classroom each day is life changing.

How can we effectively pray for you?
1. John is currently undergoing concer treatments. Pray for strength and wisdom for us during this trying time.
2. Pray for our staff to be focussed on Jesus during during our absence.
3. Pray for the ongoing funding needed to hire new teachers and operate the school.
4. Ask God to open doors of opportunity for us to share the vision and needs of the children at Community Hope School to people who have a a heart and the means to help financially.


Contact Info.
jrhunter@mac.com

Togtokh Family

The Togtokh family is serving with Youth With A Mission. They are in process to reaching a closed nation in East Asia.

What are you most excited to see God doing in your ministry?
I am excited to see how God is using us to share His word to the nations, even the most closed countries. We visited with another family who lived in this closed country the last several years. It was a big encouragement, and it strengthened us to see God's provision for our future ministry.

How can we effectively pray for you?
1. The country we will be serving needs Jesus! Please pray for them. Millions of people live worshiping one party and one person(dictator).
They need Jesus!
2. Pray for my family. We are going to Montana for TESOL(Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) course in end of July. We need tuition travel and living costs of $5000.
3. Please pray for wisdom and guidance of our ministry in the closed country.

Mr B

Mr. B is with Youth With A Mission. He is in process to reaching a closed country in East Asia.

What are you most excited to see God doing in your ministry?
I am so excited about the missions training program in our ministry. In our recent training program we had 4 families and 3 single students. From this training we are sending people Long-Term to Turkey, Azerbaijan, a closed nation in Asia, Tanzania and Sudan. I am so excited that one day people from these nations will be praising God, because of these people who are willing to GO.

How can we effectively pray for you?

- Pray for our family members and relatives that are sick with broke bones.
-Pray for provision and travel to States. We are planning to go on February and we need a place to stay.
- We want to cover some of the expenses to relate the baby’ birth. But I do not know how much it will be.
-Please pray for the answer from officials of our ex-ambassador, That country business council chairman about our request of became a student in That country.

Robby & Rose Roberts

Robby & Rose and their family have been serving in Italy for over 20 years. They are currently serving in Abruzzo with Crossworld. Their youngest of 4 is still serving with them.

What are you most excited to see God doing in the ministry you serve?
We have the opportunity to disciple older christians in their pratical walk of love and showing grace to one another as well a froming the youth in the same love and grace.


How can we effectively pray for you or your ministry?
1. Pray for healing for Vitaliano as he struggles with cancer.
2. Pray for Lucio and the proper treatment for a deformation of his lower cranium.
3. Pray for Simone who has chosen a lifestyle that is far from the Lord that he will repent and return to the Lord.
4. Pray for Lello who has an unjust court case brought against him for a work accident that he did not cause.
5. Salvation for Debora!
6. Pray for continued wisdom for us as we minister to this young church.
7. Pray for Wisdom for how to help our with the earthquaks victims that are only 50 miles from our house.

Contact Info.
ro.roberts@tin.it

Jonathan & Rosa Campbell

Jonathan & Rosa and their kids have been serving the Jamamadi Indians for years. They are located in Brazil. They currently serve with Missionary Compassion Ministries.

What are you most excited to see God doing in your ministry?

We are very excited to see the Jamamadi anxious to receive and study portions of Scriptures which are being translated. We are also very excited to see the Jamamadi reading and applying the Scriptures to their every day lives. Finally we are excited because the translation is going forward well.

How can we effectively pray for you?

1. That the translation will continue to progress well.

2. That misleading or confusing renditions will be found so they can be corrected.

3. Pray for Rosa as she home schools, keeps house and helps in various ways with the ministry.

Contact Info.
j-rcampbell@earthlink.net

David & Judy Payne

David & Judy have served with Wycliffe for many years. They spend most of their time time overseeing the project "One Story" which is an oral translation of Bible stories to unreached people groups. In addition they are helping to complete the Scripture translation for the Ashenika people in Peru which was their first assignment.

What are you most excited to see God doing in your ministry?
We're excited because Bible Storying projects around the world are seeing results! When people hear in their own mother-tongue God's story of redemption they are being drawn to Him.

How can we effectively pray for you?

Please pray against the enemy. He's continually throwing things in the way of these Bible Storying efforts -- illness, misunderstandings, expense of travel, all sorts of things that tend to discourage the teams involved in Storying, and slow down or stop the work.

Contact Info.
judy_payne@sil.org

Sierra Leone Ministry

Bethel is in the beginning stages of a partnership with a pastor, Peter, in Sierra Leone to minister to a growing church. Peter and his wife are natives to the courntry and have started a church in a rural area.

What are you most excited to see God doing in your ministry?
We are excited to have the opportunity for many to hear, receive and stand firm on the gospel through our weekly fellowship times. Through the integrated school services, we have the opportunity to revitalise the hope of many youth, who in the past have not had the opportunity to go to school due to poverty. Through the ministry God is calling both old and young men and women to serve in his vineyard, and we are thankful for Bethel's partnership.

How can we effectively pray for you or your ministry?
Please pray for new Christians as they take a stand for their faith. Pray they would be strong, and God would provide them with peace, boldness, and security.
1. For the construction of a place of Worship and fellowship, and other facilities that will meet our needs.
2. God will continue to provide support for students who have been integrated into school for quality education, and broaden the support for others on the waiting list.
3. God will provide the ministry opportunity to equip our staff for effective and efficient service.
4. That we will always have the opportunity to preach and teach the Gospel.
5. That we may one day be a self-supporting ministry and begin to support the efforts of other churches in our area.

Contact info.
gemsl_2007@yahoo.com

Paul & Linda Tanner

Paul & Linda have served in the Phillipians, Jordan, and other areas. Paul currently serves with BEE World (Biblical Education thru Extension). He is the director for one part of the world with many unreached peoples. Linda is a trained counselor and helps with Living Alternatives in Tyler.

What are you most excited to see God doing in your ministry?
There are many things to be thankful for. One thing in particular that I am excited about is to have a new staff member on my team who is actually from an Arab country in the Middle East. He came to the U.S. to study several years ago, and has now joined our ministry and plans to return to his native country in the near future. He will be a great asset to our work.

How can we effectively pray for you?
1. We will be traveling to the Middle East in April to several different countries along with another member of our team to teach two courses. Pray for safety, effective communication, and for the class members to be able to attend.
2. Two of our groups in a closed country were closed down due to security issues. Pray that we will have wisdom in meeting with other groups and protection and wisdom if apprehended.
3. While not traveling, I am writing a new course for our ministry on the Psalms and Worship, and I would appreciate prayer for being able to see this through to completion. I hope to have it finished before summer.
4. Please pray that the upcoming trip will be successful, for my health and safety while travelling, and especially that the Lord will give us grace in establishing a new training center in a key Arab country.
5. Please continue praying for my precious wife, Linda, as she continues to battle cancer (she starts radiation treatments Jan 13 to run for 6 weeks).

Contact info: drtanner@beeworld.org

Terry & Alva Borens

Terry & Alva have started a church in North Tyler - Union Bible Fellowship. They are specifically targeting the unreached in that area.

What are you most excited to see God doing in your ministry?
I’m most excited about God using Union to reach out to the unchurched population within the city of Tyler and the surrounding areas. I’m also very grateful for the partnership that Union has with Bethel. Bethel has truly been a blessing in coming along side of us to help fulfill the vision of Union Bible Fellowship.

How can we effectively pray for you?
1. Pray for God to continue to send people to our church who are hurting and need a “Word” from the Lord to encourage their hearts.
2. Pray for the continued commitment of our present members.
3. Pray for God’s continued provision. (ie-we are praying for padded chairs (we would love to not only use these chairs (50) for our worship services but also possibly to donate them to the YMCA as a “thank you” gift for them for their hospitality to UBF) Pray for God’s provision for advertising cost.
4. Pray that God will make it clear for my family when it’s time for us to go into full time ministry ; without worrying about how He is going to provide. Update - He's made it clear. God has answered our prayers and I will begin full time ministry in the pastorate May 9th. Please pray God will continue to provide for our needs.

Contact Info:
unionbible@hotmail.com

Bob & Barbara Campbell

Bob & Barbara have served with Wycliffe for many years. They have devoted their life to translating the Scriptures for the Jamamadi Indians in Brazil. The Lord gave them the privilege of leading them to the Lord and continuing to serve them.

What are you most excited to see God doing in your ministry? The Jamamadi are reading and studying the translated Scripture. They are applying it to their lives and trying to reach out to others as well.

How can we effectively pray for you?
Pray that each person involved with the Jamamadi translation, both Jamamadi and Americans, will be guided by the Holy Spirit daily so that the Scripture is understandable and faithful to the text.

Contact Info:
robert_campbell@sil.org