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Africa
Africa Area Homepage
Scott & Natasha Edinger
Scott and Natasha Edinger provide pastoral care for FM missionaries in Africa. This role includes encouragement and spiritual nurture via emails, phone calls and field visits; special care in emergencies or times of crisis; and organization of prayer support.Pray For...
Jordan & Audrey Kaufmann
At the beginning of February 2025, the Kaufmann family moved to Lomé, Togo. Jordan is the VISA coordinator, facilitating short-term mission trips and projects between U.S. churches and West African congregations. Audrey focuses on administrative support for the FMWM...
Tim & Connie Kratzer
Tim and Connie Kratzer served in the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire) in the 1980’s. Tim was the medical director of Nundu Deaconess Hospital and Connie homeschooled their sons while also serving as the mission treasurer and provider of support services....
Glenn & Wendy Lorenz
Glenn Lorenz began serving as the Africa Area associate director in October 2022. His work includes recruiting, training, and coaching missionaries who will live in Africa and assisting national pastors and leaders as they plant churches and develop new leaders. Glenn...
Emmanuel & Rachel Nzungize
Rachel and Emmanuel Nzungize serve as associate missionaries at Kibogora Hospital in Rwanda, where they are both nurses. They also assist with responsibilities at the mission guest house and teach at the local nursing school. Children: Noella, Matayo, LukaEchoes of...
Mike & Vickie Reynen
Mike Reynen works with African leaders toward the expansion of the church and the formation of local churches. Church planting and ministerial education are vital. Mike and Vickie both encourage the missionary team in its work of strengthening and developing national...
Hendrik & Kaylene Smidderks
Hink and Kaylene Smidderks are serving in Togo alongside national church leaders. Hink oversees the training and equipping resources of Free Methodist World Missions in Africa through education, training, mentoring and discipleship. Hink works with four curriculum...
Moisés & Jacione Souza
Sent by the Free Methodist Church in Portugal, Moisés and Jacione Souza serve as international missionaries to the islands of São Tomé and Príncipe off the west coast of Africa. They launched the first Free Methodist church in São Tomé in January 2019 and now work...
Dosseh Takpale
Dosseh Takpale is superintendent of the Togo Provisional Annual Conference and pastor of the FMC in Lomé, Togo. As an international missionary, he also supervises FM work in several other countries: Guinea, Ivory Coast, Guinea Bissau and Burkina Faso (Creative...
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Asia
Asia Area Homepage
Alan & Ammabellee Bacus
Alan and Ammabellee Bacus are FMWM Asia’s first international missionaries to share the vision to “Influence a Million in Asia for Christ.” They envision mobilizing Free Methodist churches by intentionally planting community churches through campus ministry and...
Becca
Becca trains leaders for church ministry, church planting and evangelism. Becca conducts workshops, mentors, leads Bible studies and small groups, and preaches regularly. Asia FMC has a goal of reaching a million for Jesus. Becca looks forward to training Asian...
Bryan & Tammy
After working on university campuses in Creative Access-CA for a decade, Bryan and Tammy now serve with the Asia area leadership development team. They work with the Gethsemane Leadership Training pathway to equip and encourage pastors and church planters in Asia,...
Thom & Sherry Cahill
Thom and Sherry Cahill serve across Asia and focus on leadership development. Thom’s roles involve strategic planning, discipleship, coaching, mentoring, teaching through Gethsemane Leadership Training (GLT) modules and assisting the team in additional supportive...
David Clemente
David Clemente is currently based in the U.S. but serving Asia. As a member of the Asia Leadership Team, Dr. David Clemente regularly travels to consult with pastors and supervise selected Asian leaders. He is an Asia Area Assistant Director overseeing FMWM interests...
Darin & Jill
Darin and Jill have ministered in Asia since 2009. Darin serves as Asia Area Associate Director, and Jill fulfills various mentoring and administrative roles. Their ministry focus is training and credentialing Free Methodist leaders across Asia through the Gethsemane...
Richard & Sheila
Richard and Sheila have served the FM church in various capacities: pastoring, church planting and as missionaries. Their ministry experience spans six states and three continents. As U.S.-based partners, Sheila helps train children’s ministry leaders, and Richard...
Eric & Virginia
For 35 years, Pastor Eric and his wife, Virginia, have faithfully served the Free Methodist Church in advancing the gospel and strengthening the global church. As Asia Area director for Free Methodist World Missions, Eric serves on behalf of the FMC-USA Board of...
Trevor Foley
Trevor Foley is ordained in the Taiwan Annual Conference. He works as an FMWM-Asia missionary, helping reestablish an FM presence in South Korea. He and his wife also serve with Voice of the Martyrs – Korea (VOMK). Trevor oversees one of VOMK’s regional offices. He is...
Gene & Minori Hall
Gene and Minori Hall have been serving with the FMWM since August 2019. They make their home in Japan supporting the Free Methodist churches. Their primary role is leadership training in Southeast Asia, working to equip Christian leaders with the tools to lead well....
Helri & Phuong
Helri and Phuong are called to be a part of the Free Methodist vision to influence a million for Jesus in Asia, where 85.4% of the world’s least-evangelized people live. Helri is part of the Gethsemane Leadership Training team, developing faithful leaders who will...
Jason & Wendi
Jason and Wendi began their service with FMWM - Asia in 2011. They currently live in Chiang Mai, Thailand, supporting the growth and development of God’s kingdom in Thailand and broader Southeast Asia. Through graphic design, English education at Chiang Mai...
Kristen
As a U.S.-based partner for FMWM-Asia, Kristen travels to Asia to teach pastoral development modules as part of the Gethsemane Leadership Training team. She represents the Asia Area director supporting and developing the Free Methodist Church in Creative Access-BG in...
Mark & Judi Morrison
Mark and Judi Morrison were married in 1980; they have four children and 11 grandchildren. Mark has served in full-time pastoral ministry since 1977. Today he and Judi lead Shepherd Ministries, which is reaching out to university students, ministering to those who...
Teresita & Ian Norris
Teresita serves as president of the Philippine Free Methodist Social Ministries inc. (PFMSMI), which cares for abandoned and at-risk children. Ian volunteers as the physical plan maintenance worker at Ahon Community Care Center (ACCC). Now they are stepping into a new...
Joshua & Elizabeth Opena
Joshua and Elizabeth Opena serve the FMWM-Asia team as U.S.-based partners, providing support and development in Asia under the leadership of Area Director Eric and FMC-Asia missionary Alan Bacus. Joshua is the former lead pastor of God’s Family Christian Fellowship,...
Corey & Connie Persing
The Persings serve in Southeast Asia with a focus on the ministries of Thailand. Corey is the national coordinator of ICCM work in Thailand, serving seven project sites. He also serves on the Asia Leadership Team as a mentor/adviser for national leadership and...
Roger Stone
Roger Stone has been an affiliate missionary since 2008. He and his wife, Vangie, work in consulting with Ayta Mag-Indi and Ayta Mag-Antsi teams translating the Old Testament and the Ayta Ambala team translating the New Testament. They are also involved in promoting...
Susan
Susan currently chairs a nonprofit organization that serves as a platform for churches, government and non-governmental organizations in Taiwan and Creative Access Asia - IA. This group is active in sharing love, hope and faith with migrant workers, international...
Seth & Hlawn Hlawn Van Tifflin
Seth and Hlawn Hlawn Van Tifflin and their three children reside in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Seth serves as the events coordinator for FMWM-Asia and the executive director for In Better Hands (an affiliate ministry partner of FMC-USA). In Better Hands exists to care for...
Chris & Yuko Wilkins
Chris and Yuko Wilkins have joined the Gethsemane Leadership Training team, emphasizing pastoral training without requiring traditional seminary. They mentor leaders who, in turn, mentor others. They are also involved in various ministries in Japan, including café...
Creative Access Asia
“Some workers serve in countries that are considered creative access, countries in which the public proclamation of the gospel is restricted. Evangelistic efforts in these countries can pose dangers to one’s life, well-being or freedom.” Urbana for God’s Global...
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Europe
Europe Area Homepage
Cathy Alford
Cathy Alford is a Gallup CliftonStrengths® coach with over 17 years’ experience coaching individuals and teams to discover and understand their unique gifts and talents. A former pharmaceutical director, corporate trainer and recognized leader, she is passionate about...
Eduardo & Cindi Angelo
Cindi and Eduardo Angelo have planted and pastored churches near Lisbon since 1999. They focus on planting pioneer churches, reaching the lost, and training and releasing new Christians as leaders of small groups and future churches. The FMC in Portugal is now a...
Raul & Abigail Araña-Santana
Raúl and Abigail (Abi) Araña-Santana are appointed as national missionaries to Spain. Raúl serves as lead pastor for the Light & Life Free Methodist Church in Rivas-Vaciamadrid and as national director of the Spanish FMC. Raúl also oversees the John Wesley...
Paulo & Clara Bettiol
Paulo and Clara Bettiol are international missionaries from Brazil. Paulo has been serving the Europe area remotely by working alongside Area Director Josh Fajardo, providing support in administration, finance, leadership training and community development. The...
Algent & Erjona Bregu
Algent and Erjona Bregu are affiliate missionaries in Albania. Algent works bi-vocationally as a barber and engages his community through cycling, fishing and camping ministries. Erjona is a certified primary teacher. The Free Methodist Church in Europe is partnering...
Eric Casteel
Eric and Amy Castell are both ordained elders in the FMC. They relocated from the East Michigan Conference to Leuven, Belgium, seven years ago. Eric is passionate about growing and multiplying the church by developing and mobilizing leaders. Amy’s passion is...
Albert Delali-Yevunya
Albert Delali serves as pastor of Crowngate Church in the Greater London area of the United Kingdom. As an international missionary, he is the coordinator of the African European Church Network (AECN), a ministry initiative of FMWM Europe. This network addresses the...
Josh & Susy Fajardo
Josh Fajardo serves as Europe Area director. In addition, he provides leadership as chairperson for Impact Europe, an initiative for Community Church Planting and social, holistic ministries on the European continent. Susy serves as program director of the Mosaic...
Chance & Dee Dee Galloway
The Galloways currently reside in Kyustendil, Bulgaria. Their primary ministry objective is to encourage, empower, teach and train national leaders. They continue to work with church-planting initiatives throughout Bulgaria, North Macedonia and Serbia, having assisted...
Erin Kingsley
Erin Kingsley graduated from Spring Arbor University with a bachelor’s degree in visual arts education. In 2018 she received a Master of Fine Arts degree from Eastern Michigan University. Part of Erin’s educational training included student teaching at Morrison...
Kristi Lancaster
Kristi Lancaster grew up in Columbus, Georgia, where she attended Columbus State University, majoring in early childhood education. She later completed a master’s degree in middle-grades English. Kristi has passionately served military families and students for the...
Catherine Leech
Catherine serves as a project manager with Josiah Venture (JV), equipping young leaders to fulfill Christ’s commission through the local church across Central and Eastern Europe. Having previously taught math in secondary schools in the U.K., she is excited to use her...
Michael & Maria Long
Michael and Maria Long’s ministry is a unique, strategic, open-door response to the global immigration and refugee crisis. The FM Church of Thessaloniki Anagenesis (New Birth) is multicultural and multilingual, with English as the common language. Those from...
Cida Matos
Cida Matos has served as a missionary in Portugal since September 2000, supporting church-planting work and developing leaders. As an ordained elder in the Free Methodist Church, she leads the cell-group network in Portugal. She also teaches at the theological...
Todd & Deann Miller
Todd and Deann Miller have been married since 1982. As partners in ministry, they served 29 years in youth ministry, taking numerous teams of adults and students on short-term mission trips in seven different countries. Following their years in youth ministry, they...
Camilo & Magaly Mora
Camilo and Magaly Mora were appointed to Europe and moved to Madrid, Spain, in September 2019. They are part of the training center helping implement the Community Church Planting strategy through the Impact Europe Network, where national leaders are developed to...
Misha & Lena Petrochenko
Misha and Lena Petrochenko have served in Rivne, Ukraine since 2010. As director of the Christian Mission, “The Lighthouse of Hope,” Misha oversees the recovery ministry for drug and alcohol addicts. He also serves as the Rivne church team leader and is involved in...
Moisés & Jacione Souza
Sent by the Free Methodist Church in Portugal, Moisés and Jacione Souza serve as international missionaries to the islands of São Tomé and Príncipe off the west coast of Africa. They launched the first Free Methodist church in São Tomé in January 2019 and now work...
Larry & Katie Winckles
Larry and Katie Winckles served as career missionaries in Hungary from 2000 until 2025. They will continue to be part of the FMWM team as U.S.-Based Partners sharing about missions in Europe, serving as advocates and consultants for missionary colleagues and national...
Creative Access Europe
Some workers in Europe serve in countries where the public proclamation of the gospel is restricted in certain settings or serve in countries where a significant portion of the population belongs to an ethnic group that is antagonistic to the gospel. Evangelism or...
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Latin America
Latin America Area Homepage
Guy & Betsy Crawford
Guy and Betsy Crawford provide pastoral care and support to FM missionaries in Latin America. Their role includes encouragement via bimonthly pastoral care groups, phone calls and field visits, and special care in emergencies or times of crisis. Pray For the Latin...
J.R. & Becky Crouse
Based in Quito, Ecuador, the Crouses assist the Free Methodist Church in Ecuador and the Latin America Area (LAA) through leadership development, education and holistic transformation. J.R. is a member of the LAA Empowering Holistic Transformation team. He also serves...
Jose “Gaby” Estrella & Dalia Sanchez
Jose "Gaby" Estrella and Dalia Sanchez are joining the Latin American mission team to contribute in multiple strategic ways. Gaby's primary role will be as a digital storyteller, harnessing his background in photography and videography, and utilizing these tools to...
Kay Stotts Godoy
Kay Stotts Godoy is deeply committed to the holistic development of children, with a special focus on nurturing their spiritual growth. She leads a dedicated team of Latin American children's leaders and FM missionaries in adapting, translating, writing and...
Ricardo & Beth Gómez
Based out of Medellín, Colombia, Ricardo Gómez serves as area director for Latin America. He oversees the U.S. missionaries and national leaders in 19 countries as they implement the shared vision to participate with God in the restoration of Latin America by...
Esteban & Cris Flores
Esteban and Cris Flores, originally from Baja California, Mexico, are fruitful leaders in the Free Methodist Church. For the past 15 years, they have served in various roles - worship leaders, youth pastors, short-term mission leaders and pastors of a local church. In...
Shane & Katie Jewell
Shane and Katie Jewell are developing worship teams for church plants in Colombia through mentorship and music lessons. Shane also serves the Latin American Area as VISA coordinator, helping connect the U.S. church with the Latin American church through short-term...
John Jairo Leal & Susana Castro
John Jairo Leal and Susana Castro are ordained pastors in Colombia and have served as pastors and church planters in Medellín. John is currently the field director for Community Church Planting with Impact Latin America and is part of the Colombian ministerial...
Dennis & Kyle Leon
Dennis and Kyle Leon moved to Esterillos, Costa Rica, with the vision of seeing everyone in every community have access to a living church by multiplying disciples, workers and churches. God has used them to lead to Christ and disciple many new believers, resulting in...
Casto & Flor Marlene
Dr. Casto is a pediatrician by trade who has served the FM Church for over 25 years. The church he pastored has become the largest and fastest-growing congregation in Latin America. Pastor Casto has a track record for training, mentoring, encouraging and empowering...
David López
David is an international missionary in Latin America. He and his family moved to their country of origin three years ago. David is an ordained elder with a successful track record of multiplying disciples, leaders and churches. He is the coordinator of the pillar for...
Anthony & Lizzette Owens
Anthony and Lizzette Owens are pioneering Free Methodist work in Panama. Anthony was born in Panama and ordained in the Free Methodist Church in Florida, where he planted and served in various church settings. In 2024, he and Lizzette took a step of faith, returning...
Dan & Hope Owsley
Dan and Hope Owsley have served in four major regions of Brazil over the past three decades, helping start churches and organizing conferences. Their ministry has included teaching Bible and theology to church leaders, mentoring men and women in ministry, sharing the...
Juan Carlos Rodriguez & Yaneth Aguirre
Pastor Juan Carlos and Yaneth Aguirre, moved by God’s love, have made their home in Encarnación, Paraguay, where they participate with God in the restoration of Latin America. Juan Carlos, building upon his experience as a conference superintendent in Mexico, serves...
Thad & Nikki Roller
The Rollers live and minister in Cajicá, just outside Bogotá, Colombia. They are passionate about seeing leaders, disciples and churches multiplied in their communities and throughout Latin America. Thad is assistant area director for Latin America and Colombia’s...
Rodrigo & Tanya Rosado
The Rosados are based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and lead in three main areas. They pastor and serve at the Harbor, an international multicultural church. The Harbor operates as a network of house churches equipping lay leaders of all ages, focusing on young adults...
Brook & Susan Selby
Susan and Brook Selby are excited to follow Jesus’ lead in pioneering a church-planting and multiplication movement in Panama, working alongside Antony and Lizette Owens. As a gifted leader and administrator, Susan enjoys creating systems and structures to disciple...
Rich & Laurie Sheriff
Rich and Laurie Sheriff serve in San Pedro de la Paz, on the edge of Concepción, Chile. Rich is an elder in the Keystone Conference. After years of pastoring in the U.S. and leading short-term mission teams to various parts of the world, the Chilean Conference of the...
Dan & Dee Ann Snyder
Dan and Dee Ann Snyder currently serve as U.S-based partners for Haiti. While involved in a Michigan medical practice, Dan raises funds and helps support the work of Claire Heureuse Hospital in Dessalines. Dee Ann works in support ministries.Pray For ongoing...
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Middle East
Middle East Area Homepage
Dale & Dawn
Dr. Dale is area director for the Middle East region. In this capacity, he is also executive director of Impact Middle East, through which the FMC serves in this region of the world. Dr. Dale and his wife, Dawn, have served with the FMC for 37 years as members of the...
Hany & Joanne
Hany and Joanne work in church planting and leadership development with Impact Middle East. Hany founded a training center, the Noor Center (Noor in Arabic, meaning “light”), to work with refugees. The Noor Center’s mission is “Bringing Healing, Light and Hope to...
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Global
Global Homepage
Kevin Austin
Kevin Austin is an FM missionary working domestically and globally through the Set Free Movement to end human trafficking. With roots in the 19th-century abolitionist movement, the Free Methodist Church is again championing the cause of holistic freedom. Now, as then,...
Art and Sylvia Brown
For nearly 10 years, the Browns served as pastors to the missionary team in Africa. In 2022, they passed this role on to Scott and Natasha Edinger. Art and Sylvia have now assumed a support role for our team of missionary care couples – Scott and Natasha Edinger...
Debra Gilmore
Beginning April 1, 2022, Debra Gilmore began a new role as a missionary trainer and coach for FMWM, using the Support Raising Solutions principles and contextualizing them for FMWM missionaries, international missionaries and national leaders. She will do training in...
Larry & Katie Winckles
Larry and Katie Winckles served as career missionaries in Hungary from 2000 until 2025. They will continue to be part of the FMWM team as U.S.-Based Partners sharing about missions in Europe, serving as advocates and consultants for missionary colleagues and national...