GRACE BIBLE CHURCH

Becca Ashton
Serves with Campus Crusade for Christ in Budapest.
The International Christian School of Budapest. 

Primary focus: She works with recruiting and retaining staff.  She also tutors a special needs young lady and advises in extracurricular activities.                    

Blair & Sue Alvidrez
Serve with Ambassadors of Grace International in Albania.
Primary focus: Provides administrative and leadership guidance to the church in Lushnjë.

Larry & Valerie Bockus
Serve with New Tribes Mission
Primary focus:  Write Bible studies in the local language to train & disciple an Indian tribe in South America from a distance.distance.

Mark & Barbara Case
Serve with The Navigators in SLO
Primary focus: Campus Evangelism:at Cal-Poly. SLO.

Rigoberto & Mary Chamorro
Serve with Palm Ministries in Quito, Ecuador
Primary focus: Church planting, evangelism, preaching, teaching, visitation and preparing Christian leaders to serve in their community.

Nicole (Framberger) Kyker 
Serves with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship.
Primary focus:  Team Leader for both Cal-Poly and Hancock College leading evangelism & discipleship ministries.

Jim & Jan Geisler
Serve with Pioneers
Primary focus: Support for church planting, evangelism, radio & television ministries in N. Africa.

Arvid & Rudi Gogaj
Primary Focus:  Establish the Mosaic Community Center to serve and do evangelism among Albanian Muslims living in Macedonia.

Tim & Ginny Gradin
Serve with North Canada Evangelical Mission
Primary focus:  Evangelism & discipleship of Native Americans in Saskatchewan.

Dori & Sabina Halili
Serve with Campus Crusade for Christ in Macedonia
Primary focus:  Campus evangelism and discipleship of Albanians in Macedonia.

Mick and Clarice Haupt have two very different roles within Campus Crusade of Orlando, Florida. Mick designs graphics for Crusade publication, working directly out of the President's office on major projects worldwide.  Clarice works with inner city kids and churches under the Here's Life Urban America ministry of Campus Crusade. Big projects, little people - they matter to Jesus and they matter to the Haupts.

Dustin & Natalie Hibbard bring practical help and encouragement to bush missionaries in Alaska as leaders in Arctic Barnabas Ministries.  Dustin is an encourager and a pilot, a project manager and dad.  He has recently turned over some of his fund raising role to others to focus on ministering to effective workers in the bush.  Natalie is raising their three children and supporting bush families through the the extremes of Arctic weather. 

Rod & Valerie Hochstetler serve with Mission Aviation Fellowship, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Rod flies all kinds of missions within the DRC, from transporting missionaries into the bush to med-evacing children to hospitals to flying Doctors without Borders and medical supplies into local clinics.  He is a lead mechanic and oversees many technical and administrative aspects of the base for the Western side of the war torn DRC.

Russ Hodder reaches out to street kids and trains street evangelists with Open Air Campaigners in Los Angeles. A talented artist and engaging speaker, Russ seeks out the lost on street corners, schools, tourist locations, and the pier front in Santa Monica. His chalk talks and kids clubs have touched thousands of hearts in LA county.

Chris & Karen Jackson
Serve with Wycliffe Bible Translators in Cameroon, Africa
Chris is Branch Literary Coordinator in Cameroon encouraging literacy work of SIL.  Karen is working on a Sunday School Curriculum project. Both are discipling young men and women.

Carole Ann Johnson
Serves with Child Evangelism Fellowship in Oregon
Primary focus: Reaching and teaching children  the Word of God through Good News Clubs and camps.

Darren & Andrea Johnson
Serve with Child Evangelism Fellowship in SLO County
Primary focus: Reaching children with the Gospel of Jesus Christ through Good News clubs and camps.

Wayne and Kathy Lidbeck have served with InFaith, formerly  American Missionary Fellowship for three decades. Wayne pastors and shepherds 10 congregations on the Central Coast, preaching over 100 times and traveling over 20,000 miles a year.  Wayne has served as an elder at GBC, has been missions team chairman and serves now as the missions team secretary. Kathy serves many women on the Central Coast and also our Global Outreach team.

Mark & Joanne Mackey serve with Greater Europe Mission in the Ukraine. The church in Ukraine continues to grow and impact many parts of the former Soviet Union.  Biblical training and leadership development is a pressing need. Mark helps lead the Zaporozhye Bible College and Seminary in the Ukraine &  teaching Bible & Theology to future pastors and teachers.  he recently lead major inter-denominiational worship services for Easter.

Bob and Jo-Ann Meier
Serve with AWANA in Southern Nevada and Southern California
Primary focus:  Oversee the AWANA programs in South central California and Nevada.

Scott & Lisa Nelson
Serve with Adventures in Missions
Primary focus: Scott is pursuing additional education at Multnoma University in Oregon.

Genci & Klodi Novaku
Serve with Campus Crusade for Christ in Kosovo
Primary focus:  Campus evangelism and discipleship ministry with university students in Kosovo.

Jamey & Gretchen Pappas
Serve with Campus Crusade for Christ at Cal Poly and Cuesta College.
Primary focus: Jamey directs the CCC ministry at Cal Poly & Cuesta and leads yearly mission trips to El Salvador with teams of students.

Alban & Dori Pasho serve with Campus Crusade for Christ in Tirana, Albania. They are discipling a new generation of Chrisian leaders for the post-communist state.  Alban and Dori have helped develop a variety of campus ministries in the capital city, and are developing new web based tools to reach out to students. The Pashos will have an extended visit with the GBC family and other supporters in May and June of 2011.  Meet them!

Gary & Robyn Peterson
Serve with Wycliffe Bible Translators in Orlando, Florida
Primary focus: Gary directs youth & young adult programs at WordSpring,  teaching   and promoting the work of Bible Translation.

Anila Qirjazi
Serves with Campus Crusade for Christ in Tirana, Albania
Primary focus:  Anila serves as a Financial Manager in the main office of Campus Crusade in Tirana.

Jim & Debbie Samland serve with Campus Crusade for Christ in Hungary.  Jim and Debbie train the senior leaders and trainers of Campus Crusade across the former Soviet Union.  Jim and his team in Hungary provide training materials and resources to  many countries.  They personally mentor CCC regional leaders and team leaders.  Debbie is also a mentor to Amy Ashton who teaches in the MK school which the Samland kids attend.

Learn about the ministry of Arden and Joy Sanders – Wycliffe Bible Translators who served for decades in Papua New Guinea translating the Scripture and teaching a remote tribe to read and write their own language.  Arden helped design and now teaches in the highest level translation program in the world, Wycliffe's Graduate Institute in Applied Linguistics (GIAL) in Dallas, Texas.

Jo Anne Shetler, who translated the New Testament into the Belango language in the northern Philippines now serves as an international trainer and consultant for Wycliffe Bible Translators, Besides consulting on the Belango translation of the Old Testament, Joanne and her coworker Amy train missionaries and translators how to apply scriptural truth to deep spiritual issues in local cultures

Carl & Lesley Shirk
Serve with Partners in Action in Bulembu, Swaziland
Primary focus:  Carl is a doctor ministering to children in the Bulembu Orphanage, Lesley counsels the children.  They are also involved with evangelism projects.

Sam & Jill Tabiendo
Serve with EV Free Church Ministries in Spain
Primary focus: They have returned to Madrid to begin new ministries of evangelism, discipleship, church planting, and compassion. 

Matt & Christy Taylor
Serve with SIL/Wycliffe Bible Translators in Papua New Guinea
Primary focus:  Learning language & culture of the Nukna people and translating the Bible into their heart language.

Steve & Marilyn Walden
Serve with Slavic Missionary Service in New York/New Jersey
Primary focus: Evangelism, discipleship, teaching Russian Jews in New York and Israel.

Fred & Marilyn West serve with Wycliffe Bible Translators. They served several terms in West Africa supporting Bible translators with computer tools and management.  While in the states caring for Marilyns mother, Fred took on sweeping management reponsiblities for Wycliffe.  Having spent several years streamlining US operations, Fred is now a key steward of Wycliffe resources, serving as Corporation Secretary & Director of Insurance. Marilyn continues to create mission materials for kids. 

Marty & Pat Wolf
Serve with Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry
Primary focus: Ministry to Jewish people in the San Fernando Valley through evangelism, discipleship and workshops to help churches reach their Jewish neighbors.

Jim & Joan Yost
Serve with City Team International in Papua, Indonesia                  
Primary focus: Jim works in church planting and evangelism with strong outreach to youth. Joan is a mid-wife and works in compassion ministry with disadvantaged women.