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Scott & Natasha Edinger
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
Jordan & Audrey Kaufmann

Jordan and Audrey are from McPherson, Kansas, and have been active members of the Free Methodist Church for five years. Audrey's background as an administrative assistant for the Central Region Conference of the Free Methodist Church has prepared her for their current...

Tim & Connie Kratzer
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 & Wendy Lorenz

Glenn and Wendy Lorenz, both ordained elders in the Free Methodist Church, were appointed career missionaries in April 2015. In January 2017, the Lorenz family moved to Costa Rica to work with Free Methodist World Missions, where Glenn coordinated the development of...

Emmanuel & Rachel Nzungize
Emmanuel & Rachel Nzungize

Rachel and Emmanuel are serving as associate missionaries at Kibogora Hospital in Rwanda. Both are nurses working at the hospital, teaching at the local nursing school, and assisting with responsibilities at the mission guest house. Children: Noella, MatayoEchoes of...

Mike & Vickie Reynen
Mike & Vickie Reynen

Mike Reynen works with African leaders for 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
Hendrik & Kaylene Smidderks

Hendrik, son of retired missionaries Dean and Faith Smidderks, spent his childhood in Southern Africa. Kaylene was raised in Peoria, Illinois. Hendrik and Kaylene met while students at Greenville College. They served pastorates in Illinois and Kansas for 31 years....

Moisés & Jacione Souza
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

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 several other countries: Guinea, Ivory Coast, Guinea Bissau, and Burkina Faso. In addition, Dosseh serves...

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Asia

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Alan & Ammabellee Bacus
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...

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Becca

Becca trains leaders for church ministry, church planting and evangelism. She is appointed by the Taiwan Annual Conference to assist the Lukai District, one of two tribal districts in the conference. Becca conducts workshops, mentors disciples, leads Bible studies and...

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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 & Sherry Cahill

Thom and Sherry serve across the Asia region, focusing on leadership development. Thom’s roles involve Gethsemane Leadership Training (GLT), strategic planning, discipleship, mentoring and coaching, teaching GLT modules, and additional supportive roles to the team....

David Clemente
David Clemente

David Clemente is currently a U.S.- based missionary 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...

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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 Dickinson
Richard & Sheila Dickinson

Richard and Sheila Dickinson have served the FM Church in various capacities: pastoring, church planting, and serving as missionaries. Their ministry experience spans six states and three continents. Sheila will train children’s ministry leaders. Richard will train...

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Eric & Virginia

As Asia Area director, Eric has three strategic priorities. He oversees the FMWM missionary team in Asia. He partners with national leaders to build support strategies that will help expand the church. And finally, he works to purposefully connect FMC-Asia with...

Trevor Foley
Trevor Foley

Trevor’s ministry includes working as an FMWM-Asia missionary to help reestablish a presence for the FMC in South Korea. He also works as a missionary with Voice of the Martyrs – Korea. Trevor is passionate about helping people discover the Word of God. Pray For the...

Gene & Minori Hall
Gene & Minori Hall

Gene and Minori Hall began serving in Japan in August 2019. With Christians comprising only 1% of the population, there is an urgent need for the gospel in Japan. The Halls serve in the area of leadership training in Southeast Asia and Japan, working to equip...

Helri & Phuong
Helri & Phuong

As vibrant, devoted followers of Jesus, Helri and Phuong have been fruitful in the FMC-Asia and were commissioned as an international missionary couple in November of 2023. Helri is an ordained elder with the Philippine General Conference, and Phuong has been an...

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Jason & Wendi

Jason and Wendi have been serving with FMWM in Asia since 2011. In July 2022 they moved to Chiang Mai, Thailand, to serve the Southeast Asia region through support in the areas of discipleship and love-driven justice. Their first year in the country was spent taking...

Kristen Marble
Kristen Marble

Kristen is new to the FMWM-Asia team and will provide support and development for the Asia area as assigned by the Asia Area Director. Her additional assignments will include coaching and encouraging female leadership in Asia and joining the teaching team for...

Mark & Judi Morrison
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...

Joshua & Elizabeth Opena
Joshua & Elizabeth Opena

Joshua and Ellizabeth are joining the FMWM Asia team as U.S. Based Partners providing support and development in Asia under the leadership of Area Director Eric and International Missionary Alan Bacus. Joshua and Elizabeth served as church planters in the Philippines...

Corey & Connie Persing
Corey & Connie Persing

The Persings serve full-time in Southeast Asia with a focus on the ministries of Thailand. Corey serves as the national coordinator of ICCM work in Thailand, including the Lahu children’s hostel and other projects across Thailand. He also serves on the Asia Area...

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Shivraj & Anita

Shivraj and Anita are deeply committed to promoting the ministries of the Free Methodist Church through teaching, preaching, hospitality, and prayer, underlining the motto, “Better Together.” Shivraj is an ordained elder in the New South Conference of FMC-USA. Anita...

Roger Stone
Roger Stone

Roger Stone has been an affiliate missionary since 2008. He and his wife, Vangie, are involved in consulting with the local Bible translation committees for Ayta languages as they translate the Old Testament and help distribute the newly published New Testaments in...

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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 & Hlawn Hlawn Van Tifflin

Seth and Hlawn Hlawn Van Tifflin and their three children reside in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Seth serves as the events and new connection coordinator for FMWM-Asia and the executive director of In Better Hands (an affiliate ministry partner of the FMC-USA). In Better...

Chris & Yuko Wilkins
Chris & Yuko Wilkins

Chris and Yuko Wilkins are FMWM missionaries with a vision to encourage discipleship in the church and help believers be involved in kingdom building. Chris and Yuko are training pastors and laity to multiply their faith. Train & Multiply is an obedience-based...

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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

Cathy Alford is a credentialed coach with the International Coach Federation, a certified CliftonStrengths® coach, and a certified Daring Way Facilitator. She is a former corporate trainer and a recognized leader. Cathy has a passion for helping others discover their...

Eduardo & Cindi Angelo
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 to be leaders of small groups and future churches. They were instrumental in...

Raul & Abigail Araña-Santana
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 & Clara Bettiol

Paulo and Clara are international missionaries from Brazil. Paulo is an architect by profession. He has served in administration, leading teams and serving communities in the Nikkei Conference of Brazil. Clara is a Third Culture Kid (TCK) with a multicultural...

Algent & Erjona Bregu
Algent & Erjona Bregu

Algent "Genti" Bregu, a local barber, serves as the executive director of Eagles Wings, a non-governmental organization, and leads the Korce Adventure Center. Genti is an avid adventurer with extensive international experience leading and supporting adventure events....

Eric Casteel
Eric Casteel

Eric serves as regional director of Northern Europe. He and his wife, Dr. Amy Casteel, live in Leuven, Belgium. Amy and Eric are both FM elders from the East Michigan Conference and have a passion for growing and multiplying the church by developing and mobilizing...

Albert Delali-Yevunya
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 was established...

Josh & Susy Fajardo
Josh & Susy Fajardo

Josh Fajardo serves as the Europe area director. Susy serves as director of the Mosaic Cultural Centre based in Rivas-Vaciamadrid, a suburb of Madrid. The center is a nongovernmental organization (NGO) encompassing an afterschool program and compassionate ministries....

Chance & Dee Dee Galloway
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 with 42 churches...

Erin Kingsley
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...

Michael & Maria Long
Michael & Maria Long

The ongoing refugee crisis has changed the focus of Michael and Maria Long’s ministry. The FM Church of Thessaloniki is multicultural and multilingual, with Muslims regularly visiting since Easter 2016. Currently, there are separate meetings in English and Farsi. The...

Cida Matos
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...

Michael & Tanya
Michael & Tanya

Michael and Tanya have served the orphans, disabled and elderly since 2003. They and their two children live among the people, transforming the lives of their community. Michael and Tanya serve with local Christians to spread the gospel and provide necessities to the...

Todd & Deann Miller
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 & 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 & 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
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 & Katie Winckles

Larry Winckles serves as the Europe Area associate director, working closely with Josh Fajardo, Europe Area director. As associate area director, Larry helps resource and equip developing FM ministries within continental Europe. He also serves as secretary of the...

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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

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Casto & Flor Marlene

Casto has served the FM Church for over 25 years. The church he pastored has become the largest and fastest-growing congregation in Latin America. His track record for training, mentoring, encouraging and empowering leaders, has resulted in more than 20 new churches...

Guy & Betsy Crawford
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
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 transformational development. J.R. is a member of the LAA Empowering Transformational Church team, serving...

Daniela DaCunha
Daniela DaCunha

Daniela DaCunha is passionate about Community Church Planting (CCP). As a successful CCP trainer in Paraguay, she moved to Maldonado, Uruguay, in 2021 to form and train new CCP teams. She is the regional mentor for the CCP network leaders in the southern cone,...

Kay Stotts Godoy
Kay Stotts Godoy

Kay Stotts Godoy is passionate about the holistic development of children, especially spiritual development. She oversees a team of missionaries and Latin American children’s leaders working on producing and implementing the Raices (Roots) curriculum throughout the...

Ricardo & Beth Gómez
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 17 countries as they implement the shared vision to participate with God in the restoration of Latin America by...

Shane & Katie Jewell
Shane & Katie Jewell

Shane Jewell was called to full-time missionary service as a young boy. He and his family now serve in Cajica, Colombia. Both Shane and Katie are helping to develop worship teams for church plants in Cajica and Tocancipa. Shane also serves the Latin American Area as...

John Jairo Leal & Susana Castro
John Jairo Leal & Susana Castro

John Jairo Leal and Susana Castro are ordained pastors in the Colombia Missionary District and have served as pastors and church planters in Medellin. John is currently director of Community Church Planting with Impact Latin America. Susana is coordinator of the...

Dennis & Kyle Leon
Dennis & Kyle Leon

Dennis and Kyle Leon moved to Esterillos, Costa Rica, with a vision to see 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 a...

David & Ginegda López
David & Ginegda López

David and Ginegda “Yeya” López are international missionaries who relocated to their home country last year. David is an ordained elder with a successful track record of multiplying disciples, leaders and churches. He is the coordinator for multiplying committed...

Dan & Hope Owsley
Dan & Hope Owsley

Dan and Hope Owsley have served in four major regions of Brazil over the past three decades, helping to start churches and organize 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
Juan Carlos Rodriguez & Yaneth Aguirre

Pastor Juan Carlos and Yaneth Aguirre have started a new adventure by moving to Paraguay from Mexico. They will be guiding leaders of the IML (Free Methodist Church) through mentoring and implementing the vision and mission of the Latin America Area. The vision also...

Thad & Nikki Roller
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 community and throughout Latin America. Thad’s primary role is to help train, mobilize and support pastors,...

Rodrigo & Tanya Rosado
Rodrigo & Tanya Rosado

The Rosados live and serve in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where they co-pastor The Harbor, an international multicultural church. The Harbor operates as a network of house churches and a residence for emerging leaders from across Latin America who are university...

Brook & Susan Selby
Brook & Susan Selby

Susan is a gifted leader and administrator. God uses her to bring health and fruitfulness to individuals, groups, and organizations by creating systems and structures to disciple people into more peaceful, trusting, and God-honoring ways of doing relationships. Brook,...

Rich & Laurie Sheriff
Rich & Laurie Sheriff

Rich and Laurie 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 FMC...

Dan & Dee Ann Snyder
Dan & Dee Ann Snyder

Dan and Dee Ann Snyder currently serve as associate missionaries to 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

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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...

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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

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
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
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...

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