Missionaries

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Lee and Violette Abuhl

Lee & Violette are missionaries with ABWE and work with supporting the Hospital of Hope in Mango, Togo — West Africa. They were both born and raised in Africa and have spent most of their life in ministry in several areas in Africa. After faithfully serving in college ministry on the campus of Iowa State…

Cole and Debbie Albright

Cole and Debbie Albright are missionaries to Lima, Peru with a focus on church planting. Lima is a South American urban city of over 10 million people. After spending 11 years at a Saylorville Church plant in south Des Moines (Living Waters Fellowship), they are thrilled to be able to serve cross-culturally to reach the…

Lucas and Teresa Bair

Lucas and Teresa serve in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Porto Alegre is the capital of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, the most southern state of Brazil. It is considered one of the most unreached parts of Brazil. They are currently in the process of planting a church with the partnership of a local Brazilian…

Nathan and Maam Beckman

Nathan and Maam Beckman, along with their 2 children, serve as church planters to the Thai people in Bangkok, Thailand. They have served in Thailand with Baptist Mid-Missions since 1998. The need for evangelism in Thailand is immense.  About 95% of Thais practice Buddhism mixed with Animism. The country has approximately 18,000 Buddhist temples.   Islam…

Tyler and Katherine Betz

Tyler and Katherine Betz serve the Lord in La Rochelle, France. Their primary focus is assisting an existing French Church, Eglise Baptiste de La Rochelle, to plant churches in neighboring towns where there is little to no gospel influence.

Jonathan and Holly Boyd

Jonathan and Holly Boyd are church planting missionaries with ABWE to the country of Colombia, South America. Holly’s parents were missionaries in Colombia, and now she and Jonathan and their four children serve in Santa Marta on the Caribbean coast where they currently working in the Impacto Bíblico church. Jonathan also teaches module courses at…

Bill and Deb Edmondson

Bill and Deb serve with Baptist Mid-Missions, and have been in Boston for 23 years. Recently, they moved to Williamsburg, Iowa. Although their ministry location has changed, their calling has not changed. Their stewardship is to serve in globalized cities in order to minister to the world. Our goal is to follow disciples home to…

Joseph and Kimberly Frerichs

Joseph and Kimberly Frerichs, along with their daughter Sadie and son Roman, are missionaries to Lima, Peru with Ambassadors Football.  Their main focus is using soccer as a tool to share the Gospel. They partner with local Churches to help them reach their communities through a tool that is very welcoming to many people that…

Steve and Kelley Frerichs

Steve and Kelley Frerichs are church planters in Lima, Peru. They have been serving in Lima since 2000. Upon arriving in Peru, they started working in the last church that Steve’s parents had started. In 2005, Steve was called to be the lead pastor of that church. For the next five years, Steve led that…

Henry and Molly John

Henry and Molly are missionaries with Baptist Mid-Missions. They are committed to planting churches in North India through equipping and encouraging local leaders and raising up national church planters to impact the next generation with the Gospel. They facilitate training modules and classes to provide quality Bible training through The North India Baptist Seminary. Their…