Supported Workers

Pray for and encourage our workers and ministries. They are in various parts of our city, our country, and our world. They are our hands and feet; sharing the good new with those who haven't heard.

Long-Term Workers

Ben

Ben’s been in Asia for over a year now, learning the language, the needs of the people, and how he will serve for the long-run…likely through music. Please pray for his language, direction for future ministry, and that his whole life would show the Savior to everyone he knows.

You can contact Ben through:
The North Heights Outreach Department.

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Ahna Boyum

Ahna has served for one year in Chiang Mai, Thailand, reaching out to children at risk of exploitation. Please pray for God to provide the staff, volunteers, and finances needed to for the ministry she works with to continue to impact the lives of these children and for the ministry to be able to develop and reach out to even more children.

You can contact Ahna at:
TawSaeng
P.O. Box 26 Chang Khlan Post Office
Chiang Mai 50101 THAILAND

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Jeff & Kathy Boyum

Jeff and Kathy Boyum King’s Kids USA Coordinators Cambridge, Minnesota King’s Kids is a ministry of Youth With A Mission (YWAM) that began in 1976 and exists worldwide. Jeff and Kathy have been with King’s Kids for 17 years working to bring children, youth and families to a proven knowledge of God and then making Him known worldwide. They are currently the King’s Kids USA Coordinators, but their work has deeply connected them in India and Africa. They also run the Cambridge, MN plant, one of 87 Satellite locations, of Kids Against Hunger, an organization which creates a nutritious meal through volunteer efforts with the goal of eliminating world hunger.

You can contact Jeff and Kathy at:

763-689-5267
763-267-1608 Jeff cell
763-267-1609 Kathy cell

www.kingskids.net North America site
www.kingskidsgl.org Great Lakes Region
www.kahcambridge.com Kids Against Hunger-Cambridge

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Scott & Kaddie Coulson

Scott and Kaddie are currently serving with Ripe for Harvest. Much of their work involves street evangelism here in the cities, connecting new believers to different ministries, and sending teams out into the world to deliver the good news. They’ve recently been to Nepal, Thailand, and China, where they’ve witnessed to many unbelievers and seen people come to faith in Jesus. Continue to pray for Scott and Kaddie as the Lord continues to move them into the work that he has for them. Scott and Kaddie have been serving for 17 years.

You can contact Scott and Kaddie at:
P.O. Box 24437 
Minneapolis, MN 55424
612-920-2193 
 

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Micah Engel

Micah has been working in Australia for 3 years serving in the music, communication and youth ministries of YWAM Townsville. Additionally, he helps create promotional media for YWAM’s Medical Ship that is outreaching to remote areas of Papua New Guinea. Please pray for creativity as he designs resources to communicate and promote the valuable work that is going on in Australia and Papua New Guinea.

You can contact Micah at:

http://www.musicinmissions.blogspot.com

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Rick & Heather E.

Rick & Heather helped pioneer the South Asia Frontier Mission and Neighbors Office in India in order to multiply long-term church-planting teams. Dozens and dozens of teams have been released and hundreds of congregations have now been planted among previously unreached people groups throughout South Asia. They now focus much of their energy on training and equipping national mission and church leaders. Heather also encourages national worship and the arts. Rick and Heather have been deeply connected to North Heights throughout their 25 years of service in India. They covet your prayers for them and their family. Please pray for God’s provision and guidance as well as ongoing fruitfulness in ministry. You can contact them through the North Heights global outreach office.

You can contact Rick and Heather through:
The North Heights Outreach Department.

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Victor & Sara Gaultney

Victor and Sara Gaultney have been serving full-time with Wycliffe Bible Translators for 20 years using their skills in administration, computer design and programming as well as bookkeeping to support the goal of translating the Bible into every language of the world that still needs it. Based in England near the Wycliffe UK offices, Victor designs computer fonts for minority languages, and is currently working on a collaborative website (www.scriptsource.org) to bring together knowledge of the world’s scripts and current computing needs for many minority languages. As a bookkeeper, Sara is responsible for forwarding funds to over 20 specific translation projects and assisting in the routine tasks of the UK Finance Office. Please pray that they can continue to serve effectively and creatively in their Wycliffe work in addition to participating in the many community activities they are currently involved in.

You can contact Victor and Sara at:

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Scott & Jenny Groethe

Scott and Jenny are serving with Bethany International Ministries in Thailand. Scott works with a Bible translation team and Jenny teaches English and Chinese in order to share the gospel. They would appreciate your prayers as they continue to witness to resistant cultures.  Scott and Jenny have three children and have been serving in Thailand for 11 years.

You can contact Scott and Jenny at:
225/17 Sinthana Mu 2
T. Sanpranet A. Sansai
Chiang Mai 50210, Thailand

http://www.infomekong.com/tailue.htm
http://www.everyculture.com/East-Southeast-Asia/Tai-Lue-History-and-Cultural-Relations.html

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Kim & Marlene Gustafson

Kim and Marlene are consultants for Common Ground. Their vision is to see movements of Muslim followers of Jesus growing within Islamic communities worldwide. Their job is to train and equip laborers to lovingly and effectively communicate Jesus and his kingdom to and among Muslims. Please pray that all their travel expenses will be provided for and that many more people from North Heights will come onboard to keep their ministry in prayer. Kim and Marlene have four adult children and have been serving for 34 years.

You can contact Kim and Marlene at:
1643-132nd Lane NE 
Blaine, MN 55449
763-757-5832 / 763-566-5900

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Todd & Vickie Hedgepeth

Todd and Vickie have been serving at YWAM together for over 16 years. Todd is currently the director of a YWAM Base near Charlotte, North Carolina, and much of their work involves running the Discipleship Training School (DTS). Todd and Vickie have been all around the world from London to Thailand teaching and preparing future missionaries and DTS staff. The Hedgepeth family includes two children, Ashley and Jackson.

You can contact the Hedgepeths at:
410 E. Talleyrand Avenue
Monroe, NC 28112
704-291-2597

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Mark & Jill Herringshaw

Mark and Jill Herringshaw are North American Coordinators of Youth with a Mission Associates, a ministry serving YWAM’s 3 million alumni. Please pray for them as they work to identify, challenge and mobilize this vast network of Kingdom-committed disciples.

You can contact Mark and Jill at:

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John & Diane Hutton

You can contact the Huttons through:
The North Heights Outreach Department.

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Suman John

Suman has been working with the slum people with the help of YWAM during the last 20 years. She teaches slum children, provides medial aids and treats slum people(She is trained in Primary Health Care), shares the Gospel and trains women to be self-dependent. Please pray for her as she expands the basic infrastructure of her school and clinic at a slum area in Pimpri, Pune.

You can contact Suman at:
Phone: +919689651054

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Jean Johnson

Jean has spent 6 years serving as a missionary among Cambodians, USA and 16 years as a missionary to Cambodia. Presently, Jean coaches worldwide church leaders (Asia, Africa, USA) how to conceptualize, plant, cultivate and multiply churches and ministries that are indigenous in nature: culturally relevant, healthy self-image, healthy community-image, self-functioning, self-determining, self-supporting, self-propagating, and self-giving.

You can contact Jean at:
Phone number: 612-998-2170

www.wmausa.org

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Al & Debbie Klaver (son Daniel)

Al and Debbie have served for 9 years together and Debbie for 10 previous years with World Mission Prayer League, a Lutheran community committed to pray and send out workers (120 in 19 countries). They currently serve as Midwest Regional Coordinators at the Home Office in Minneapolis mobilizing the Church for praying, sending, and doing God’s mission in the world. Previously, Debbie served as a single missionary teacher and counselor in Ecuador and as Personnel Director. Please pray that God will ignite His people to pray for the over two billion people in unreached people groups and that God might send out workers into His harvest fields. Pray for needed support for His workers around the world, for protection from the evil one, for spiritual, emotional, and physical health and for JOY in His service.

You can contact Al and Debbie Klaver at:
World Mission Prayer League
232 Clifton Ave
Minneapolis, MN 55403

612-871-6843



http://wmpl.org/

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Jim & Cherie Levin

Jim and Cherie Levin serve with STEM Ministries, a division of Bethany International, that sends out short-term mission teams across the globe. Jim and Cherie have two adult sons, both married as of Oct 2011, one grandson, and have been serving with STEM for 19 years. Please continue to pray for effective ministry for the Levins.

You can contact Jim and Cherie at:
6820 Auto Club Rd
Bloomington, MN 55438
952-996-1385

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Mark & Rose

Mark and Rose are involved in Bible translation for an unreached people group in Central Asia. Currently they are working on the Old Testament. The biggest challenge the project has faced over the years has been finding native speakers to help who are gifted in writing. This has become even more difficult over the past years, as the people group's homeland has become more closed for foreigners to be able to live there and pressures have been increased on believers. However, having been on the field for many years now, it is amazing to see how the Lord continues to guide and work!

You can contact Mark and Rose through:
The North Heights Outreach Department.

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Ryan & Molly Nielsen

The Nielsens are full-time missionaries serving Living Hope International in Puebla, Mexico. Living Hope is a residential youth home for orphaned, abandoned, and hurting children which has about 100 children under it's full-time care. They moved to Puebla in October, 2003, to begin serving. A little over a year later, in November 2004, they quickly returned to Minnesota when their son, Josiah, was diagnosed with Leukemia, a cancer of the blood. For the past three-and-a-half years, the Nielsen’s served as stateside representatives for the organization while Josiah has went through over three years of chemotherapy treatment. Josiah finished treatment in January 2008, and has only a small chance that the cancer will ever return. PRAISE GOD!! The Nielsen’s returned to Puebla, Mexico in September 2008, to continue the call God has placed on their hearts, to "serve the least of these" (Matthew 25:40). Read the Nielsen family newsletter!

You can contact Ryan and Molly at:
651-755-8357

www.nielsenfamily.org

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Freddy & Daisy Paul

Fred and Daisy work with YWAM in Chennai, India. They are currently working with street kids and started a street church last year with around 40 people attending regularly on Sunday evenings. Much of their work involves bringing street kids into their shelter and trying to restore the children to their families. They are also doing VBS and a medical clinic in a local slum and hope to start a school there soon. They also operate a counseling clinic for people living on the streets. Fred and Daisy have two children and have been serving for 15 years.

You can contact Freddy and Daisy at:
No. 54 Dewan Rama Rd 
Purasaiwalkam, Chennai 600041 India 

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Wilson & Elizabeth Prabu

Wilson and Elizabeth are currently serving with YWAM in Chennai, India. Their focus has been reaching out to HIV/AIDS affected people in and around Chennai in a holistic way. Over the past ten years, Wilson and Elizabeth have witnessed over one thousand HIV-positive people give their lives to Jesus. Wilson and Elizabeth are also involved in training people in leadership to take a role in reaching out to HIV positive people in Chennai and beyond. Please continue to pray for the Prabu’s and consider visiting them sometime on a short term trip. Wilson and Elizabeth have two children and have been serving for 15 years.

You can contact Wilson and Elizabeth through:
The North Heights Outreach Department.

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Jamie & Gayle Pund

Jamie and Gayle Pund are in their 4th year of ministry in the Naples, Italy area with a focus on evangelism through small group discipleship. Jamie is involved in leadership development with the goal of equipping Italians to plant churches. Gayle will teach English and dance/fitness as a means of outreach to the community. Pray that the Punds’ lives would model humility and obedient Christian service so that Italians will see Jesus in them.

You can contact the Punds at:

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Carl & Cheryl Rich

Carl and Cheryl have worked in the Philippines for more than 22 years. They work with Youth With A Mission-Frontier Missions. They are involved in training, mobilizing, and coaching CP teams in Urban ministry. Cheryl is a teacher of TCK’s (Missionary Kids) at Faith Academy, Manila, Philippines. Currently on home assignment in Minnesota.

You can contact Carl and Cheryl at:
2844 38th Ave. South, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55336
Phone number contact: 612-724-1824, 320-864-6444.

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Daryl & Cheryl Rustad

Daryl and Cheryl planted an international, non-denominational church in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, four years ago. Daryl reaches students of all nationalities through teaching and counseling, and Cheryl mentors Tanzanian university students and works with Tanzanian orphans. Most of what they do involves making disciples, developing leaders and mobilizing the national church in their evangelism and church planting. The Rustads have three children and have been in Tanzania for the past 8 years.

You can contact Daryl and Cheryl at:
P.O. Box 2651
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

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Doug, Kelley and Isaac Samuelson

Doug, Kelley and Isaac are serving in Northern Asia as Regional Representatives for Global Teen Challenge. They are responsible for connecting with established TC centers, creating coalitions of similar groups, as well as training and equipping nationals throughout their region who have a heart for those who are trapped in the grip of life controlling substances. At this time they are living in the region taking language classes and building relationships with local like-minded people. Contact us through The North Heights Outreach Department.

http://www.globaltc.org/html/doug_samuelson.html
http://samuelsonsinchina.blogspot.com/

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Troy & Cheryl Scott

Troy & Cheryl Scott and their three kids serve the tribal people of north Thailand. They have a heart to see each village they work in have a sustainable self-propagating church body. They will work to bring economic solutions to the poorest villages and help them gain access to education. By building healthy Christ centered economically sustainable communities they plan to eliminate the reasons villagers sell children from these villages into the human trafficking/sex slave trade. Troy and Cheryl also host teams and love working with US churches to meet the needs of cost conscious team senders who want to meet a real in a very diverse culture. Keep up with the Scotts and add yourself their email updates at

www.teampossible.blogspot.com

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Jorge & Karen Silva

Jorge and Karen Silva have been working full-time with Youth With A Mission together as a couple since 1991. They have served with Mercy Ships and also on location in Mexico and Colombia. In 1997 they founded Proyecto Libertad, a community development ministry in the island community of Bocachica, just off the coast of Cartagena, Colombia. Please pray for finances and long-term staff needed as they are in the final stages of building and opening a new medical clinic which will serve the poor and needy of this island in northwestern Colombia.

You can contact Jorge & Karen at:
 (Jorge)
 (Karen)
Home/Office: 57-5-643-1607
Jorge Cell: 57-320-505-7058
Karen Cell: 57-320-504-0468
www.jyksilva.blogspot.com
Link for July 2011 Ministry Newsletter: http://issuu.com/proyectolibertad/docs/july_newsletter

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Brad & Jan Staurseth

Brad and Jan are equippers, mission mobilizers, and disciplers at the YWAM Rockford base. Brad and Jan work with an Asian immigrant people group. Brad trains and disciples future missionaries through the Discipleship Training School and School of Evangelism programs. Brad and Jan have one child, Sarina.

You can contact Brad and Jan at:
8150 20th St. SE
Buffalo, MN 55313
763-477-6429

www.ywam-mn.org
www.ywam.org

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Derek & Dorothy Washington

Derek and Dorothy provide pastoral care for missionaries through Barnabas International, whose primary focus is missionary care. They provide both proactive care – intentional care given to strengthen and nourish the spiritual lives of missionaries; and reactive care – care that is given in response to a need or loss. They provide pastoral visits to the field and retreats for missionaries, as well as serving missionaries through technology and when missionaries are on home leave. Pray for them as they serve missionaries, especially that they can hear God’s heart as they serve.

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Shedd & Kris Waskosky

Shedd and Kris have served in Ecuador for 24 years as Bible translators among the Salasaca Quichua people of the central Andean highlands. Please pray that the scriptures will be translated clearly, accurately, and in natural sounding Quichua and that both written and audio versions would give spiritual life to those who walk in darkness. May hearts be open to receiving God’s truth and walking in His ways.

You can contact Shedd and Kris at: .

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Hannah Zellmer

Hannah Zellmer is with WMPL to teach preschool to the children of the staff of LAMB hospital in Bangladesh for 2 years.

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