Judy Bowen - Togo, West Africa (Association of Baptists for World Evangelism)
Judy received Christ as her Savior when she was eight years old, while attending church with her family (Navy) in Tennessee. When she was 12 years old, the Navy moved her family to Maine, and it was at Berean Baptist Church that the Lord began to draw her heart towards missions. At the age of 14, while at Word of Life camp, she committed her life to the Lord to go anywhere/do anything for Him. Judy began teaching 5 Day Clubs with Child Evangelism Fellowship the following year. She graduated from Tennessee Temple University with a BRE in missions in 1986. She then worked for a year and a half while researching mission boards, until God led her to ABWE in mid-1988. In September of 1990, after just over a year of working, raising support and then attending linguistics training, Judy left the U.S. for language study in Quebec, Canada. She arrived in Togo on March 1, 1992. She was instrumental in developing the literature ministry there, leading to the opening of the Communications Resource Center (CRC) in 1996, which she continues to manage. The CRC is a bookstore and print shop that provides affordable Christian books and literature to the local people in several languages. Additional ministries include creation and missions photography, Community Health Evangelism, and organizing a teen girls’ monthly class.
Jeff and Melanie Davis Awana missionaries for Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont
Jeff & Melanie have been serving Awana in Northern New England since 2002. They serve 87 churches in the Northern New England territory comprised of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. Their primary duties are to support the local Awana churches by providing the initial start up training, and then ongoing training, club visits and club evaluations when asked, and working with team members to help with the support of the churches in the different states. They also do missions conferences and Jeff will do pulpit supply when needed by churches, and anything else churches need to help their children and youth ministries to be successful in reaching them with the Gospel of Christ and then training them to serve Him. Melanie is currently in her second year of nursing school and plans to graduate next spring.
Melissa Doyon – World Hope International, Central Asia
Melissa is the daughter of an retired Army Sergeant Major and grew up in numerous places in the United States and around the world. She graduated from Seoul American High School in Seoul, South Korea in 2004 and went to Houghton College in Houghton, New York, where she earned her Bachelor's of Science degree in Childhood Education in 2008. Melissa works as a third and fourth grade teacher at a small missionary school in a closed Central Asian country.
Edward and Maria Jesus Fitzgerald – Biblical Ministries Worldwide, Honduras
Ed served as a church planter in Argentina for four years before moving to his current work in Honduras. While in Argentina, he helped to complete the process of planting two churches in Corrientes and Leguna Seca as well as training leaders to take over these works. These men he trained are presently pastoring these two churches. Since moving to Honduras, Ed has been conducting small group classes for selected members of churches he has helped to start, enabling them to become qualified church leaders. Ed met his wife to be in Santa Rita, Copan, where he worked for four years. They were married March 16th, 2008 in the local Baptist church. Soon after the wedding, Maria began a two year nursing program from which she graduated May 30th, 2010. In 2009, Ed & Maria bought land in San Rafael Mataras, Ocotepeque, and Ed built them a home from which to start a new work. Ed continues his teaching and church planting while Maria offers health care in the area as will as giving out the Gospel. With two churches established in Copan, Ed has begun working with believers from four outlying towns to establish churches there.
Miss Muriel Hersom - Biblical Ministries Worldwide - Los Angeles, CA
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Cousins - Campus Crusade for Christ, The University of Maine
Joe is one of our "Home-Grown" missionaries from Berean. In January 2000 he followed God into fulltime ministry with CCC on the Orono campus of the University of Maine. Joe met Angie on a Lifelines summer project and they were married in 2003. At the University of Maine 75% of all freshmen indicate they have no spiritual background. Joe helped start the Lifelines ministry at the U of M in 2000. Lifelines is the outdoor/adventure ministry of CCC whose mission is to use the outdoor experience to help students grow in their relationship with God, with each other, and in leadership/character. We seek to be involved in Non-Christians lives long term in order to help guide them into a saving faith in Jesus Christ. In 2010, The Lifelines ministry expanded to it’s sixth campus at Cornell University, and now have 26 full time staff and 4 interns. Joe and Angie live in Old Town, Maine.
CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP, INC.
State Work and Southern Maine Chapter
Kent and Becky Bryant - Child Evangelism Fellowship, Fiji Islands
Kent and Becky Bryant are leaders of the Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF) work in the island nation of Fiji. Before their marriage, Becky served two terms in Gabon, West Africa as a CEF missionary. Kent started as CEF missionary to Fiji in 1986. Their passion is to train teachers to teach the Word of God to boys and girls. The Bryant's have two children.
CEF has been in Fiji since 1953. The national office has either been a rented apartment or home. For the past eleven years, it was in the Bryant's home. In 2007, God provide funds to purchase a piece of property on which to build a national CEF office. In 2010, a boundary fence was erected to provide security. Because there is no indoor training facility in the current house, which also has significant structural issues, the Bryants hope to soon construct the new office/training center.
COMMUNITY BAPTIST CHURCH, Gorham, NH
Rev. and Mrs. James Carter - Uruguay
Susan Barrett – Crossworld, Germany
Susan’s home area is California. She accepted Jesus as her Savior at an early age and became interested in missions through missionaries visiting the church her family attended. She went to Europe in 1985 and has lived all but one year since in Germany. That one year was spent in Holland. For most of these years, she was connected with a printing ministry. Today she is involved in church work, Bible studies, meeting with different women and reaching out to foreigners through a book table which provides Christian Literature in different languages for the people in her city.
New Brunswick Bible Institute - Canada
Thom and Carolyn Cunningham – New Tribes Missions, Road Island, USA
Thom and Carolyn have served as Berean missionaries since 1972. They worked as Biblical Ministries Worldwide missionaries in evangelism, disciple making, and church-planting in Austria (1972-82), England (1983-85), and Scotland (1986-1994). Since 1995 they have served with New Tribes Mission (NTM) and have labored in Papua New Guinea, Scotland, and England, challenging, equipping and mobilizing Europeans for tribal missions. Since 2006 Thom and Carolyn have been serving as NTM representatives/ mobilizers in New England, and making frequent ministry trips to Europe, speaking and teaching training seminars in churches, and teaching evangelism and discipleship at the NTM European Bible & Missionary Training Center in England. (They are looking to return, Lord willing, to full-time ministry with NTM Europe in 2011.)
David and Patti Hodgdon – New Tribes Missions
David serves as teacher and member of the Academic Management Team at the New Tribes Bible Institute (NTBI) in Waukesha, WI. From 1990 until 2001, David and his wife Patti worked under New Tribes among the Lamogai people of Papua New Guinea. Before returning to the States to serve at NTBI in 2003, the Hodgdons were part of the regional NTM leadership team in PNG. David and Patti attended NBBI and have two sons.
Dustin and Hannah graduated from Messiah College in 2006. Both have a passion for sports, and serving the Lord. Upon graduation the Lord led them to a small ministry in Pennsylvania called Push The Rock. Since 2007 they have been involved in various camps and programs working with the local church to use sports as a platform to present the Gospel. Dustin began serving full time at Push The Rock in 2008 and currently oversees all domestic programs within the Greater Philadelphia Region. Hannah works as a Physical Therapist, and participates in Push The Rock programs as she is able throughout the year.
