The “K” Family

The “K” Family has been serving in England since 2015. They have a burden to see Christ’s name known and worshipped among the nations. They have strategically located in an area of England where there are thousands of Muslim immigrants from around the world. In the past couple years God blessed them a building which is called The Hope Center. The building is located in the shadows of several high-rise apartment complexes that are occupied mostly by Muslims from several African and Middle Eastern Nations. Their hope is that this building would become a “place of peace” and that people from around the world that now live in England would meet together. They have ministered the love of Christ through regular gatherings, activities and events aimed at reaching out to people in their neighborhood. As a result, God continues to bear fruit in their midst and see people come to Christ. Pray for many more to trust in Jesus. 

The Shehata Family

Egyptian-born Ezzat converted to Christianity in 1986 and two years later the Lord called him into ministry. He graduated from the Jordan Evangelical Theological Seminary (JETS) in 2001, joined Campus Crusade for Christ (CRU), and became the first Arab missionary to Mauritania in 2003. While attending JETS, Ezzat met and married his wife, Jaklin. They have a son, Matthew (18), and daughter Judy (12). They moved to Spain in 2012 & now live in the port of Malaga where Ezzat currently heads up the gospel distribution program for the ports in Spain. Here teams of Christians distribute Arabic Bibles, the Jesus film, and other materials to Muslim families departing on ferries for North African nations. This project, a ministry of CRU, has become the chief source of Bibles getting in to North Africa.

Emanuel University

The roots of Emanuel University were planted in 1986, when Emanuel Baptist Church of Oradea initiated an underground Bible institute to train the upcoming pastors and missionaries of Communist Romania. Their curriculum includes Departments of Business Management, Information Technology, Music, a Center of Muslim Studies, etc. Biblical teaching is incorporated throughout the curriculum. Their graduates are now serving in 40 or so nations – Afghanistan, Albania, Moldovia, Iran, Egypt, Jordan, Zimbabwe, China, Siberia, Ukraine, USA, and many others. The University currently has an enrollment of 300 students. They recruit students from other nations and cultures as well as from within Romania. To accommodate more students, they plan to grow slowly by creating additional universities. An example of this is the 30 additional students they now have studying in a facility in Italy.

The University is accredited by secular educators in Brussels who come looking for any imperfections they can find. However, when they have completed their evaluation, they depart completely turned around. They see the strong foundation that underpins the teaching, the quality of the students and graduates, etc. Now they are asking the University to develop teachings in ethics for use in other settings.  Emanuel University is not only being accredited, but is receiving the highest accreditation of “unlimited trust” by those who once opposed it!

The Bruno’s

The Johnson’s

The Barrett’s

Ridgeview Church | Fontana

Marshall and Jill Lewis

Marshall became a believer in 2010 while attending San Diego State Univ. After his conversion, he heard a missionary tell his story and, that night, he decided he wanted to make disciples among the unreached. Marshall attended Fellowship Church for several years and, in 2016, we sent him off to Texas to start his training with “To Every Tribe” ministry. There he met Jill Johnson, who was serving on staff, and they were married in 2017. After raising their support, they moved t0 Sioux Lookout, Ontario, Canada. They are working among the Cree and Ojibwe tribes by building relationships with their teens attending two public High Schools at Sioux Lookout. Many of these communities have suffered tragic histories, having had whole generations of their children removed against the will of their parents and sent to government schools. Many children never lived to be reunited with their families, others returned and discovered they could no longer communicate with their relatives. Marshall is interested in discipling men living on welfare to help them understand that work is a good thing. And Jill hopes to Biblically counsel and disciple women who have been sexually and physically abused, common among First Nation peoples.

Kevin and Debbie Ludwig

After attending college at Baylor, Kevin earned his M.D. at Dallas, where he met and married Debbie. They then moved to Phoenix for his residency. At a very young age, the Lord had put it on Kevin’s heart to become a missionary doctor, which he expected to do at the end of his residency. But the Lord had other plans and moved him into a family practice with 3 other doctors in Scottsdale. He served there for nine years, an important step in preparing for what was next. Soon a need was shared for a doctor in Papua New Guinea, where his older brother had been serving since the late 1970s. So, in 1996, Debbie and he headed off for PNG with 4 young children for a 2-year commitment, and now 25 years later, they are still there.  Kevin’s work involves providing direct medical care, medicines, and emergency medical services to nearly 800 New Tribes missionaries. They also take care of missionaries from many other ministries, as well as caring for the medical needs of the indigenous population living nearby. Most recently this involved heading off a polio epidemic among the tribal peoples. During these years, Debbie homeschooled their 5 children who are now grown and married – four of the families of whom are serving in the medical field.  With the children gone, Debbie continues to be a homeschool advocate and is the Homeschool Coordinator for NTM in PNG where she oversees the homeschooling of about 130 children.