Phyllis Eggan
Phyllis Eggan assists and encourages small, rural churches around her. Filling in gaps in the churches’ children and youth ministries as best she can, Phyllis...
Mike Miller
Mike is an HCML (Hope Center for Missional Leadership) pastoral resident. He is currently engaged in a residency program to become a pastor, which includes...
Denney Prophete
Denny serves in Delray Beach, Florida, primarily in the inner city among the Haitian community, working with children and young adults. After graduating from Word...
Sherri Murray
Sherri came to faith in Christ at age 15 and soon sensed a clear call to missions. A graduate of the Philadelphia College of Bible...
Matt & Terah Bagwell
Matt and Terah serve in Rainier, Oregon where they serve at Shiloh Basin Community Church, a small country church tucked away in a quiet basin...
Ansley Tyre
Ansley is honored to partner with InFaith and Hope Church to share the mission God has placed on her heart. Her ministry is driven by...
John Cecere
John’s ministry is centered on fostering Kingdom growth through local outreach. From his experience, when the church walks alongside individuals and families in their time...
Sarina Youngberg
Sarina is passionate about reaching teens and young adults through camps, after-school ministries, and other outreach opportunities. She aims to help them see their value...
Kevin Minto
Kevin Minto is the founder of Seasoned Servants, a ministry dedicated to mobilizing the wisdom and experience of retired or semi-retired evangelical Christians (50+) to...
Rod & Kathleen Smith
Rod and Kathleen Smith are passionate about serving rural communities and small towns in Southern California and Wyoming, with a special focus on reaching Spanish-speaking...
Steven Roatch
Steven has been blessed with a ministry to share a story of hope and redemption through Jesus Christ. Drawing from his life experiences and the...
Jenna Moss
Jenna Moss is joining the Hope Center for Missional Leadership (HCML) as an Outreach Ministry Resident. HCML, based at HOPE Church in Richmond, VA (...
Adam & Becky Fladie
Adam and Becky Fladie serve in East Tennessee through student programs: campus clubs in local schools, Bible Released-Time classes, and classes at the local Boys...
Brian & Lucia Efferding
Brian and Lucia Efferding serve in Delray Beach, Florida, primarily in the inner city among Haitian, African American, and Hispanic families. They serve as executive...
Melanie Reimer
Melanie Reimer reaches primarily young adult women in the Los Angeles county area, and also works to collaborate with the local church for outreach opportunities...
Randy & Rhonda Elliott
Randy and Rhonda Elliott serve in Yavapai County, a rural region in northwest Arizona marked by both beautiful mountain roads and deep spiritual need. While...
November 2016
Reach Local: Hungry Horse, Montana
“Our ministry exists because there’s no other place like it in Hungry Horse; there’s no other place for these kids to go. And in a lot of these kids’ lives, this is the only place that shows them the love of Jesus.” Kevin and Gina Bickel reach their local community of Hungry Horse, Montana through
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November 2016
Lori Thompson
Lori Thompson loves building relationships and walking alongside people of all ages in the rural communities of East Central MN. She desires to help them...
Pat & Don Teeter
Pat and Don Teeter travel to various towns throughout north Iowa to reach children with the gospel message. The Teeters invite children to attend InFaith...
Ken & Deb Quintus
Ken and Deb Quintus have ministries to support those reentering society. Ken has worked in prison ministry for nearly two decades, and used his knowledge...
Esther Brewer
Esther is serving as an intern alongside missionaries Ezra and Victoria-Joy Creighton, whose goal is to rebuild the foundation of Truth in the next generation...
Lexi Nickel
Lexi Nickel is a summer missionary serving at ride by faith ministry in Mountain Lake, Minnesota.
Joel & Debbie Banham
Joel and Debbie Banham have been ministering as church missionaries for more than twenty years. Joel serves as a “pastor at large”, filling the pulpit...
Anthony & Jenny Volkert
Anthony and Jenny Volkert serve in the rural area of southern Illinois. Anthony pastors Olive General Baptist Church. Anthony and Jenny started a children’s ministry...
Jason Stradtmann
Jason’s ministry is centered on walking alongside young people who are searching for guidance, hope, and a sense of direction. Twice a week, he serves...
Bud Lamb
Bud Lamb has been an ordained pastor for almost 20 years. He mentors men and encourages younger pastors. He works one-on-one, writes, and leads high...
Daphnie Lattimore
Support Daphnie Lattimore as they continue their retirement with InFaith
Don & Susan White
Don and Susan White minister through InFaith: Search and Rescue, a ministry dedicated to finding and reaching individuals for relationship, healing, and discipleship in Jesus...
Josh Morgan
Josh serves in Sandy, Oregon where he trains, mobilizes and equips families and churches for a citywide, home-based disciple-making movement. He plans to accomplish this...
Colin Deay
Colin Deay is pastor of Open Door Presbyterian Church, a church plant of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church. They strive to be gospel-centered, value diversity, foster...
Mark Faulstich
Mark is the founder of Compassionate Truth Ministries (CTM). His desire is to disciple people who love God wholeheartedly and love others with the compassionate...
Angela Miller
Angela Miller uses horses as a bridge to build relationships with local kids in southern Minnesota. Her program offers one-on-one mentoring where the kids are...
Bob & Gale Romig
Bob and Gale Romig serve their area through a variety of ministries. They currently are involved in Pastoral Ministry at the Cotton Community Church and...
Bobby Jo Valencia
Bobby Jo Valencia has a passion to reach children and share the gospel with them. She serves at Camp Hope near Grand Junction, CO. The...
Bryon & Emelda Rush
Bryon and Emelda Rush serve in southern Arizona. Bryon ministers on three military bases through Bible studies, mentorship, and one-on-one evangelism. Emelda leads a widows’...
Dayjoh King
Dayjoh and Kayla serve in Upper Darby, PA where they prioritize various urban communities. They recognize a strong need for holistic discipleship among teenagers, many...
Ralph & Connie Schram
Ralph and Connie Schram are committed to reaching those around them with the gospel through Bible studies, kids’ Bible clubs, youth groups, and summer Bible...
Tad & Michelle Cooper
Support Tad & Michelle Cooper as they continue their retirement with InFaith.
Rodney & Ruth Stromlund
Rodney and Ruth Stromlund serve in the Ozark Mountains in north central Arkansas. Their ministries include Vacation Bible Schools, youth meetings and retreats, men’s and...
Chris Manley
Chris Manley is a Church planter in Chattanooga, Tennessee where he serves as an evangelist with the Presbytery of the Southeast, a collection of churches...
John & Anna Bazemore
John and Anna desire to see people embrace, know, and share the Christian faith. Thus, they provide the opportunity for the unsaved to receive Christ...
Doris & Dave Jasperson
Doris and Dave Jasperson work together in Barron County, Wisconsin to support adult addicts and offenders with the tools and faith-based support they need in...
Emily Mitchell
Emily Mitchell reaches women in Philadelphia’s shelter system by offering discipleship and mentoring to those who are unconnected to emotional and spiritual support. Her goal...
Gary & Linda Casady
Gary and Linda Casady founded the Youth Empowerment Shelter (Y.E.S.) to provide youth in crisis (ages 10 – 18) a place of physical and emotional...
Jeremy & Carolyn Holt
Jeremy and Carolyn serve through community outreach in the mountainous region of eastern Kentucky. Their heart is to stay connected with children and youth and...
John & Cindy Gardiner
John and Cindy Gardiner focus ministry on reaching those from broken homes— parents and children— by sharing with them the hope and healing found only...
Matthew & Elizabeth Ziegler
The Zieglers serve in Stillwater, Oklahoma through their local church and connection to Oklahoma State University and numerous para-church organizations. Mathew uses the tools and...
Matthew & Simone McKinnon
In their neighborhood of 1,000+ families in Rancocas Woods, Matthew and Simone encounter teens and families disconnected from each other, struggling without purpose...alone. They are...
Melvin Sensenig
Melvin Sensenig uses his urban church planting and academic experience to train urban pastors and leaders in Reading. Through Theologian-in-Residence for Urban Ministry (TIR), Melvin...
Shawn & Cheryl Ammons
Shawn and Cheryl Ammons serve in America's Heartland as Wilderness Shepherds and NextGen Mobilizers. They minister through environments of education, sports, and the outdoors. Shawn...
Wayne Wrzesinski
Wayne grew up and serves out of southwestern Washington where he focuses on disciple making and digital ministry. He leads a small group that meets...
Levi & Elliana Anderson
Levi and Elliana Anderson focus on disability discipleship and ministry, which includes church ministry development, pastoral/church leader mentorship, and individual discipleship of intellectually and developmentally...
Rick & Vicki Smith
Rick and Vicki Smith minister to InFaith field staff throughout the United States by providing personal assessment consultation for new candidates. Rick is an area...
Kerri Brown
Kerri Brown serves in Colcord, Oklahoma in the foothills of the Ozarks. She proclaims the gospel to children and families so they can live fruitful...
Lee & Pam Beldon
Support Lee & Pam Beldon as they continue their retirement with InFaith.
Paul & Glenda Lehman
Paul and Glenda Lehman serve as a pastoral team to Glade Park Bible Church and the community. The church aims to make a difference in...
Ric & Judy Hammond
Support Ric & Judy Hammond as they continue their retirement with InFaith.
Robert Payne
Robert Payne serves in Auburn, California where he plans to seek out those who are lost and lonely in his community. Robert has a huge...
Jim Asselin
Jim serves as Chaplain to First Responders through the City of Sunnyvale, and Correctional Officers through the State of California. Jim offers Critical Incident Stress...
Jody & Beth Stevens
In south-central Ohio, Jody and Beth Stevens serve through Vacation Bible Schools. They offer leadership training classes for the purpose of training leaders to serve...
Jon & Jerilyn Sousa
Jon and Jerilyn Sousa serve Spanish-speaking immigrants in the Willamette Valley. Since their start in 1986, they have planted two Spanish-speaking churches, and are still...
Daniel & Julee McIntosh
Daniel and Julee McIntosh have a deep passion for the people in rural, southeastern Kentucky. Pastoring a county church and providing community outreach to all...
Larry & Vonnie Pratt
Larry and Vonnie Pratt minister in the rural areas of the Pacific NW, as well as around the country at camps, churches, Vacation Bible Schools...
Patricia Montgomery
Patricia serves in her hometown of Booneville, Kentucky, where her ministry centers on her passion for singing and playing guitar. She writes her own music...
Nathan & Meagan Bath
Nathan and Meagan Bath serve as Field Directors in the northwest, where they encourage, love, and care for local InFaith missionaries in the area. Those...
Ed & Pennie Lochmoeller
Support Ed & Pennie Lochmoeller as they continue their retirement with InFaith.
Edna & Marty Ziegler
Reaching local and beyond, Edna and Marty Ziegler seek out God-directed opportunities to touch the lives of others wherever they happen to be. From South...
Jason & Lisa Frye
Jason and Lisa Frye live in Bend, OR. After serving as an InFaith field director in Ohio for several years, Jason now mentors youth workers...
Mira Kim Falcone
Mira serves refugee and immigrant communities in South Philadelphia, working alongside InFaith missionaries David and Lisa Grainge at SACCPhilly - a 120+ year old neighborhood...
Louis & Carrie Nelson
Louis and Carrie serve the children and families in the Grand Junction, CO area. They help kids realize that they are loved, valued, and created...
Megan DeHaven
Meg DeHaven serves in InFaith’s Home Office as the Director of Mobilization. With over a decade of next generation ministry and networking experience, Meg is...
David Mohr
David, based in Independence, Oregon, serves as a badged volunteer, faithfully bringing church services and spiritual support to incarcerated individuals across multiple correctional facilities each...
My Grandfather
My grandfather was an Italian immigrant who came to Philadelphia at the turn of the 20th century. He worked in a slaughterhouse and later at a refinery. He loved chin-ups and bowling and could fix anything. On a wall in the workshop basement of his small South Philadelphia row home was a collection of the hard hats he would wear
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April 2022
Dr. Jerry Iamurri
Jerry Iamurri serves in InFaith's Home Office as the Executive Director/CEO of InFaith. Jerry came to InFaith from the EPC (Evangelical Presbyterian Church), where he...
Circle: Autumn 2021
Hello, As you may already know, I am retiring at the end of this year from my leadership role at InFaith. I’ve had an amazing 14 years here; God has done some incredible things. You’ll hear more about His faithfulness in the issue that you’re about to read. I’m really thankful for the bedrock that this ministry is founded on
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March 2022
Ken & Karen Toews
Ken and Karen Toews serve in their local nursing home, weekly released time classes, and Karen leads a ladies’ Bible study. They also fill numerous...
Circle: Autumn 2016
Reach Local. Kids’ Lives Change.
Children are often the ones forgotten and ignored in the face of poverty or addictions at home. Many who serve with InFaith love and care for the next generation in their communities by providing programs that share the amazing truths of God’s love and create consistent, safe environments.
Jim & Teri Wilson in Kearney, Nebraska
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November 2016
Circle: Spring 2016
Reach Local. Change Lives.
An intricate golden temple sits on the street corner across from Mifflin Square Park, with whiffs of exotically flavored meat on a stick filling the air from street vendors’ stands. It feels like a scene out of an adventure movie set in Asia, instead of what it is – a city block in South Philadelphia, just
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November 2016
Circle: Autumn 2015
I Reach Local Because I Live Here.
“This is my valley,” Rick Ediger says, pointing across the central Colorado landscape, his rough hands hinting of car oil around his fingernails. “This is the place God has given me [for ministry]. Aren’t I lucky?” he adds as tears pool in the corners of his eyes.
Earlier that day, Rick had been
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November 2016
September 2015
Reach Local in Southwest Washington
Lewis and Clark concluded their pioneering survey of the western United States in southwestern Washington. This beautiful area stretching along the Pacific coast with Portland to the south, Seattle to the north, and overlooked by Washington’s highest peak – Mt. Rainer – once again needs a pioneering survey, but this time of a spiritual nature
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September 2015
November 2015
Reach Local in Rural Nevada
InFaith has been ministering to an area 100 miles north, south and east of Reno, Nevada for years. (We had a missionary start a Sunday School there in 1915!) This section of rural western Nevada is marked by a spiritual dryness that reflects the starkness of the desert landscape. InFaith is looking for the right
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November 2015
January 2016
Wanted: Rugged Adventurer
In the starkly beautiful high country of the Rocky Mountains, you run across the occasional adventure-sport junkies, off-roading fanatics, and shepherds from Latin America contracted by local ranchers to care for their sheep. Herding sheep is a lonely job, marked by wind and silence, with a sheep dog as your only companion. InFaith is looking for rugged
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January 2016
March 2016
Organized? Love kids and Christian camping?
Do you love developing policies, working with numbers, updating legal documents, coordinating communication, and doing it all so that a Christian camp can function properly? If so, our camp office manager position in Idaho might just be the answer to the call you’ve felt on your life! We’re looking for someone to act as
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March 2016
May 2016
Inner-City Children’s Ministry Director Needed
Do you have a heart for children who are shaped by the inner-city neighborhood in which they live? We’re looking for someone to join other InFaith field staff at a community church in the Kensington section of Philadelphia. You’ll oversee a team of volunteers who run the children’s program, which includes kid’s clubs, an after-school
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May 2016
July 2016
“Gang Church” Pastor Needed
In an economically poor area comprised of many Spanish-speaking farmworkers and gang members, we are looking for someone to be the lead pastor of a developing “gang church”. Working with our current field staff members, the candidate will help to continue to develop and expand a church plant focused on former members of gangs and their
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July 2016
September 2016
Youth Center Program Director Needed
Want to help provide a safe, fun place for kids to hang out and learn about God after school? We’re looking for someone to join a well-established youth center ministry in Kearney, Nebraska, as program director. This is an opportunity to impact the lives of children and youth through job training, academic & emotional support
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September 2016
Ken Alford
Dr. Ken Alford serves in Easton, WA where he strives to bring God into the lives of people who are hurting and dealing with uncertain...
Circle: Spring 2021
Camp Galilee, La Follette, TN
Mark & Mellissa Lay
“We have so many children that live for the camp experience,” says Mark Lay, who serves as camp director with his wife, Mellissa, at Camp Galilee in the Appalachian Mountains of Tennessee. Some of their campers come from homes without adequate water, heat, or indoor plumbing. “It’s so sad to see
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March 2021
Thomas & Evlyn Bump
Thomas and Evlyn Bump have been in ministry for over 40 years. They have been ministering in churches together as Thomas pastors, while Evlyn teaches...
Circle: Spring 2020
Reach Local: Serving Those Who Serve
The Travis Dalsis Story: Fort Polk, Louisiana
In the pre-dawn darkness on the U.S. Army installation of Fort Polk, Louisiana, InFaith-endorsed Chaplain (Captain) Travis Dalsis leads a hundred or so soldiers in physical training (PT). He pauses between exercises to give words of encouragement and talk about resilience. Travis does the exercises with three groups
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March 2020
September 2019
Video: Hope in the Midst of Addiction
Whatever the addiction – meth, alcohol, heroin, marijuana, opioids, gambling, or pornography – there is a person behind it with a story of pain, brokenness, and shame. Enter InFaith’s Doris and Dave Jasperson, who started The Gap—a refurbished old house where people in recovery can meet for support, accountability, mentoring, and counseling
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September 2019
March 2021
What’s InFaith All About?
We put on an event last month to help explain more about InFaith as a whole and share interviews with several field staffers about their ministries around the country. We also loved sharing in some laughs with Ridge Burns & Christian comedian Brad Stine.
If you weren’t able to join us that night, you can watch
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March 2021
Circle: Autumn 2020
Never Stop Loving: All Kinds of Locals
We stand and wait in of one of the most challenging times in our recent history. After COVID-19 we all look at each other differently. Stimulus packages, ZOOM meetings, and grocery stores have tried to meet many of our needs in these past months. But who is standing in the gap for those
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February 2021
Bob Miles
Bob Miles serves as a chaplain in senior facilities in western Washington. He leads regular chapel services, Bible studies, and prayer meetings at two complexes...
Jim & Teri Wilson
Jim and Teri Wilson serve in Kearney, Nebraska, as InFaith field staff. Their ministry centers on building godly relationships and helping people grow in their...
Circle: Spring 2017
INFAITH: 200 YEARS OF REACHING LOCAL AND CHANGING LIVES
InFaith has been reaching locally—actively responding to needs around us—for 200 years. In 1817, Philadelphia was full of children who worked six days a week, with no chance to go to school or learn how to read. A group of local people got together and formed our mission to address the
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March 2017
January 2017
2017 marks InFaith's 200th anniversary!
Our mission officially formed on May 13, 1817. From pioneering Sunday schools among poor children, to working with Native Americans, publishing books, sending missionary nurses to Appalachia, pioneering Christian camping, and meeting the needs of immigrants and refugees—our mission has been responding to local needs in the United States and teaching the unchanging truth
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January 2017
Steven & Sofi Boyle
Steven and Sofi Boyle lead seven different worship and discipleship ministries in Columbia Community Bible Church, and also participate in three community groups outside the...
Carl & Jan VanVoorst
Carl and Jan VanVoorst helped establish Hope for Life Community Church. The church brings the gospel of hope into the community by hosting home group...
Circle: Autumn 2017
FOR US, THE GOSPEL IS STILL LOCAL.
In May 1958, Betty Glover - a single registered nurse in her thirties - moved to the Cumberland Mountains of Tennessee to become a missionary to those living in extreme poverty deep in the mountains. The coal mines had recently shut down in this part of Tennessee. All of the men had started work
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August 2017
September 2019
Our missionaries are at a crisis point: their funding is shrinking because of inflation. The average InFaith missionary has lost $4,979—in terms of buying power—to cover basic household and ministry expenses since 2010. Will you help our missionaries keep up with inflation by increasing your regular gift to them by at least 10%? Or if you don’t yet financially support any of our missionaries, would you start now? Go to infaith.org/give.
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September 2019
Circle: Autumn 2019
Bridging the Gap: Hope in the Midst of Addiction
“Doris doesn’t judge anyone,” says Steven Roatch. “She’s always there to listen.”
For those, like Steven, who are coming out of drug addiction and jail, finding a place where they aren’t judged can be difficult, even in Barron County, Wisconsin, where—as in much of the nation—methamphetamine addiction has become a major
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September 2019
July 2017
Seeds of Change
by Rich Cundall, InFaith Board of Trustees
One hundred years ago, the faithfulness of one man changed the trajectory of my family's lives. In 1911, InFaith missionary C.A. Fahlgren recognized that there had been no gospel presence in Saline County Kansas for several decades. So he knocked on the door of Charles Buck, the trustee of the
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July 2017
May 2017
What It Means to Reach Local
by Dixie Massey, InFaith Board of Trustees
I grew up a part of the heritage work of InFaith. My dad was a missionary with InFaith and his work in Wyoming looked very much like the work of the early missionaries when our country was young. For him in rural Wyoming, reaching local meant driving
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May 2017
March 2017
To the Least, the Lost, the Lonely
"No one should be alone," InFaith's Ken Quintus says. "The church is called to go to the least, the lost, the lonely. The hope is that they will turn from darkness into the light of Jesus." Mason City, where Ken does much of his jail and reentry aftercare ministry, is a hub for
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March 2017
September 2018
Video: Helping Homeless Youth in Oregon
There are 300 homeless children and youth — out of only 3,000 students—in The Dalles, Oregon, according to local educators. Enter the Youth Empowerment Shelter (Y.E.S.). Started in 2014 by InFaith’s Gary and Linda Casady, Y.E.S.’s mission is to provide a place of physical and emotional safety for youth in crisis.
“These kids
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September 2018
Circle: Autumn 2018
Just say Y.E.S. — A local called home
Alone. Sixteen-year-old Zoey* stood on the side of the road as her dad drove out of view. He had just kicked her out of the car when they’d started fighting on their drive back to Portland after a visit to her uncle’s house. Her disagreements with her father had been getting more
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September 2018
May 2018
Summer Staff Profile: Ashley Watkins
Meet Ashley Watkins, one of our 2018 InFaith summer staffers. Some of her favorite things are rømmegrøt (a Norwegian pudding), the color orange, and the movies Tangled and The Princess Bride. But her greatest passions are God and horses. This summer, she gets to work in a ministry that combines those passions in a
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May 2018
March 2018
Hidden Locals
Our country has a hidden underbelly—sex trafficking, drug abuse, and homelessness. It’s here in our own country. But there are ministries that reach out to the people and systems that make up this evil, often-unseen part of our nation. However, these pockets of needs throughout the United States are so raw and InFaith’s work so sensitive that we
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March 2018
Dan Sheldon
Dan Sheldon serves in InFaith's Home Office as the Chief Financial Officer. In his role, Dan uses his skills and gifts in nonprofit finance and...
Circle: Spring 2018
REACH LOCAL: GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA
Glenwood takes up about one square mile of the city of Greensboro, North Carolina. In that square mile over twenty languages are spoken, forty percent of the people live in poverty, and substance abuse is common, but rays of light in the kingdom of God are breaking in. InFaith's Dayna Carr is part of a
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February 2018
January 2018
Local Reach: Greensboro, North Carolina
"When the real me meets the real you, change happens. We develop empathy for each other. We reflect Christ better and it's a more complete reflection of the kingdom of God."
InFaith's Dayna Carr has lived in the Glenwood neighborhood of Greensboro, NC for the last fourteen years. She seeks to reach out to her
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January 2018
November 2017
Give Local on #GivingTuesday
Amy was a drug dealer in Iowa, her relationship with her husband and children crumbling. Peter came to Philadelphia as a refugee, having suffered trauma, and was alienated by language and culture. If you've followed us at all on Facebook this month, you've heard pieces of their stories.
InFaith is all about reaching local—giving Amy help
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November 2017
September 2017
59 Years Reaching Local in the Mountains of TN
In 1958, InFaith's Betty Glover, armed with her nursing knowledge and the gospel of Christ, moved to the Cumberland Mountains of Tennessee to minister to those living in poverty. Her nursing career could have taken her anywhere, but it beckoned her to the poorest areas of these mountains, caring for needs
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September 2017
Anderson's Summer Missionary Matching Fund
Thank you for prayerfully and generously donating to our special fund we have created. We will use this special fund as a strong motivator for...
Sarah Long
Sarah provides physical therapy services for individuals with neurological and developmental conditions, utilizing equine therapy to accomplish therapy goals. She is driven by a deep...
Ian & McKayla Johnston
Ian & McKayla are driven by a shared calling to reach out to younger generations who are searching, wandering, and feeling isolated. They established Harbor...
Brooke Hamel (Out of the Ashes)
Brooke Hamel is a missionary based in Austin, Texas, dedicated to reaching individuals in trauma and abuse recovery. She provides essential resources and scriptural guidance...
Dennis & Bethany Tilzey
Dennis and Bethany Tilzey serve in Port Orchard, Washington, where they run a ministry called One Less Orphan which uses a retail store model to...
Tyson Hennis
Tyson Hennis is a missionary in Minnesota whose mission revolves around reaching the broken and marginalized within his community, particularly those in the prison system—prisoners...
James Brown
James Brown is an InFaith missionary–pastor devoted to restoring the soul of small churches—transforming them from barely surviving into thriving centers of faith, hope, and...
Jim Matteri
Jim’s ministry is focused on reaching at-risk youth in Sonoma County through Fusion, a faith-based youth program for teens connected to Juvenile Hall, probation, or...
Michael & Karen Caruso
Michael and Karen Caruso serve in Sweet Home, Oregon, meeting the diverse needs of their community. Their ministry focuses on three main aspects: providing a...
Resurrection and Reconciliation
“Fellow Israelites, I can tell you confidently that the patriarch David died and was buried, and his tomb is here to this day. But he was a prophet and knew that God had promised him on oath that he would place one of his descendants on his throne. Seeing what was to come, David spoke of the resurrection of the Messiah, that he was not abandoned
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April 2023
JJ & Tiana Pen
JJ and Tiana serve out of Oregon where they serve out of the small town of Glendale, Oregon. As missionaries, they see their ministry efforts...
David & Lucinda Lewis
David and Lucinda serve Urban Camps across the US that minister to people of color and disenfranchised and underserved youth. They do this by taking...
Jordan & Hannah Hoffman
Jordan and Hannah are dedicated to magnifying the name of Christ through relationship-based mentoring and counseling, with a focus on nurturing both spiritual and emotional...
Shane Sunn
The pastoral crisis in 21st-century North America has been well documented. For 30 years, Shane’s ministry focused on church planting. Recently his call shifted to...
Partnership & Perseverance
What A Savior
Boxing gloves hung from the meat rack in the back of the butcher shop. They were there in case anyone wanted to stop by the shop and square off with the butcher for a round or two. My wife Sandi’s grandfather was the butcher, and he is remembered as a man who was always ready to throw down. Sometimes he
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February 2023
True Ministry Stories
One of the most intriguing pages on our new website is the one dedicated to the stories of InFaith Missionaries (https://infaith.org/stories). Men and women of God called and committed to sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ across America; these stories capture the ordinary and extraordinary moments of their service. An InFaith missionary couple shared one such story with my
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January 2023
Our Present Sufferings...
Prayers for Damar Hamlin and Jeremy Renner.
I was late turning the game on and was surprised by the hushed tones and serious faces of the commentators. Everything about the broadcast communicated that something had gone wrong—very seriously wrong. What seemed like a typical NFL hit had stopped an athlete’s heart on live television. At some point after that, I
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January 2023
Measuring with the Right Stick
About 18 months ago, InFaith Missionary Connie Lyn Ediger wrote that God’s holiness, sovereignty, love, and faithfulness are not measured by life’s ups and downs, but by His character.
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September 2023
Servant-Leader?
Never Beyond God's Grace
InFaith Helps Church Planters
Church planting is deep in the heart of InFaith’s DNA. From our beginnings as the American Sunday School Union through our time as the American Missionary Fellowship, InFaith has always focused on creating Christ-following communities across the United States. This week, I had the opportunity to speak with some church planters, consultants, and denominational leaders about how InFaith helps serve and support
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September 2022
Making a Difference
I love to hear the stories of InFaith missionaries making a difference in people’s lives. Bill and Patsy Curry serve in one of the most under resourced neighborhoods in the United States, and, by God’s immeasurable grace, they are faithful and fruitful, and they are reaping an amazing harvest. Some of those they’ve ministered to have reached out recently to thank
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September 2022
Fellowship
On a recent visit to the Pacific Northwest, I enjoyed being part of an Area Fellowship under the leadership of field director, Nathan Bath, and area coordinator, Tom Hiscox.
While there, I had the privilege of participating in the presentation of a Certificate of Fellowship to the Little Church in the Valley in Stabler, WA. This church is led by Pastor John Vales and his wife
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September 2022
Mark & Joy Miller
Mark and Joy Miller have been serving the Lord through InFaith since 1990 in many different capacities. They began as summer missionaries, then moved into...
Generational Impact
While visiting Camp Galilee in Tennessee this summer, I had the joy of spending some time with Mark & Mellissa Lay and witnessing the incredible ministry they are doing there. One afternoon while visiting Betty Glover (see last week's blog post), Mark shared a testimony that spoke to the generational impact of InFaith missionaries. I hope his story inspires you too:
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August 2022
Bonnie Ellis
Support Bonnie Ellis as they continue their retirement with InFaith.
Tom & Sandi Chambers
Support Tom & Sandi Chambers as they continue their retirement with InFaith.
Steven & Vicky Reeve
Support Steven & Vicky Reeve as they continue their retirement with InFaith.
Rick & Marie Parker
Support Rick & Marie Parker as they continue their retirement with InFaith.
Trusting the Goodness of God
“Behold, I am the servant of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word.” Luke 1:38
Mary the mother of Jesus so trusted the goodness of God that she submitted to a pregnancy that could crush her family, cancel her engagement, and consign her to the margins of society where she could never again hope for a
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December 2022
Advent
Advent is a season of waiting. God’s people waited for the Messiah to be born and, today, we eagerly await his return. In modern America, we seem to have a very hard time waiting. As a result, Christmas decorations start appearing before Thanksgiving and one of our local radio stations in Philadelphia starts playing Christmas music in November. Admittedly, I
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December 2022
The Hope of Jesus Christ
My dad passed away this week.
I got the call from my sister on Monday morning, my dad died. He had been a lifelong smoker who developed lung cancer that had already progressed to stage four by the time it was diagnosed. The last week of his life, he was in hospice care and his deteriorating condition was my first
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November 2022
When We Are Weak
2 Corinthians 12 must be one of the most powerful testimonies of God’s faithfulness in the whole of scripture. Paul, acknowledging the surpassing greatness of the revelations the Lord has shown him, goes on to say how a thorn in his flesh kept him from being conceited. He doesn’t say what the thorn is, only that he prayed for the
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November 2022
Why Use Half a Barbecue?
One of our Field Directors, Keith, shared with me about an experience he had visiting with a prospective missionary who currently has a thriving street ministry among the homeless in San Diego, California. Twice a week, this evangelist invites the residents of a tent community to come by and enjoy some hot dogs, fellowship, receive care items (clothes, etc.), and
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October 2022
God's Masterpiece
It is the end of the semester and final exams are coming up. You realize that you have an exam scheduled for a class that you never attended. You go to the registrar (who is the toughest administrator in the school) to see if they can withdraw you from the class or get you an extension.
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April 2023
Michael Thompson
Michael has been called to support and establish gospel centered rehabilitation ministries. After founding The Greater Hayward House of Hope, a men’s residential rehab ministry...
Labor in the Lord
What a great weekend I had with Shawn and Cheryl Ammons and their incredible team of leaders who will be serving camp this summer. My wife Sandi and I did the math and if the 30 leaders each have 40 years of ministry ahead of them that equals 1,200 ministry years represented in that group!
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June 2023
God Can Do The Impossible
We love to hear of God’s faithfulness and grace being poured out on communities served by InFaith missionaries. One church in particular, Cornerstone Community Church in the Kensington section of Philadelphia, is seeing God work in one of the most troubled neighborhoods in the United States
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June 2023
Nathan Cotton
Nathan is a missionary striving to plant healthy, sustainable, gospel-centered faith communities. His mission is to see the kingdom of God more visible in their...
Dan & Star Robinson
Dan and Star Robinson minister to their neighbors in this counter-cultural (hippie) area through a church that has been in place since the late sixties...
Ed & Fran Renk
Ed and Fran Renk serve in rural areas of eastern Oregon. Ed is involved in release-time Bible classes in six county schools, where he teaches...
Steven & Kay Dixon
Steve and Kay Dixon serve in a small, rural town in a “conservative pocket” of a liberal state. They work with six churches on their...
Ben & Sarah Bobeda
Ben and Sarah Bobeda help organize leadership trainings, youth retreats, and Camp of the Risen Son, a traditional Bible camp that hosts nearly three hundred...
Courtney Gunn
Courtney Gunn uses horses to reach young people with the gospel through the horse ministry at Trailhead Youth Ranch. Trailhead Youth Ranch provides a place...
Kenny & Amy Gray
Kenny & Amy serve in the Southern Oregon field. While residing in Grants Pass, their main ministry hub is Williams Community Bible Church (WCBC), where...
Josiah Centeno
Josiah Centeno is passionately dedicated to evangelizing the lost and equipping the saints in Camden and Philadelphia. These cities, known for poverty and crime, are...