Maple Avenue Church of God

Missions

Tanzania

Missionaries to Tanzania
Mike and Heather Webb

Missions Focus:

Revitalizing the Theological Education by Extension (TEE) ministry.
Vocational education of women in the Tailoring School in Dodoma
Theological education of Church of God pastors and lay leaders.

Birthdays:
Mike: June 9
Heather: April 29
Madalyn November 9

Anniversary
December 28, 2000

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In 2007, Mike and Heather accepted a career missionary position with Global Missions to serve in East Africa. To prepare for this assignment they spent a year learning Swahili, worked as administrators of a Church of God tailoring school and became acquainted with the condition of the church in Tanzania.

Mike and Heather completed a two year SAM assignment in Southeast Asia in 2006, teaching at an international Christian school. Throughout their journey, God has repeatedly impressed upon their hearts a desire to serve the poor.

After marrying in 2000, Mike and Heather ministered at a small Church of God congregation in Wilmington, Ohio, where Mike served as pastor. Heather returned to school to study nursing. After a semester at HEART Missionary Training Institute, they went to Wheaton College, where Mike earned a master's degree in missions and intercultural studies.

Mike grew up in the Church of God and was introduced to missions at the age of four while on a trip to Haiti with his family. On a trip to Haiti while a student at Anderson University, Mike felt God's call to be devoted to ministry wherever that might lead. He pursued a degree from Huntington College in educational ministries emphasizing cross-cultural ministry.
Heather's call to ministry began in high school and was solidified on a similar trip to Haiti after her freshman year when she sensed God's specific call on her life to overseas ministry. She returned to Huntington College with a new passion for completing her educational ministries degree.

Mike and Heather welcomed their daughter Madalyn on November 9th, 2010.

Latin America

Dave and Barbara Miller
Regional Coordinators to Latin America

Missions Focus

Discipling the nations of Latin America in cooperation with local Church of God assemblies,
Equipping Latin Americans for bi-vocational ministry and tent-making missions.
Providing pastoral care and professional guidance to Church of God missionaries and their families in the region.

Birthdays
David: May 6
Barbara: January 6

Anniversary
February 2, 1980

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The Millers first went to South America with the Missionary Board of the Church of God in 1980. After a year of language study in Costa Rica, they moved on to Bolivia, where they stayed and ministered for the next twenty-one years, during which time the Bolivian church expanded at a steady pace from 82 to more than 230 local congregations.

Barbara spent her early years in the Belgian Congo and Zimbabwe as the daughter of United Methodist missionaries. Of her call to missions, she says, "From an early age, I felt the call to be involved in cross-cultural ministry. This was confirmed in1974 when I attended the Urbana Missions Conference at the University of Illinois."

Dave's call to missions came during his first semester at Asbury Theological Seminary in Kentucky. A speaker had shared that 94 percent of trained Christian workers serve in North America, which represents only 7 percent of the world's population. He was disturbed by the facts and felt that "somebody ought to do something about it." God heard him, and Dave heard His voice saying, "Okay, you're somebody, Dave. What are you going to do about it?"

Dave's family first began attending the Church of God in Akron, Indiana, when he was 7 years old, but it was while attending camp meeting in Anderson that he accepted Jesus Christ at the age of 16.

Ecuador

Jon and Karen Lambert
Career Missionaries to Ecuador

Missions Focus:

Leadership development is essential because the Church of God in Ecuador is relatively new (1986).
Directing the Ecuadorian church's Bible institute "Seminarrio S.E.T.E". This education program trains leaders and pastors. A newly built library and expanded dorm facilities are providing more opportunities for educational development.
Karen serves as coordinator for the Ecuadorian "Children of Promise" program. More than seventy Ecuadorian children and their families receive food, schooling and medical assistance through this program
Both Karen and Jon preach and teach weekly in the various Ecuadorian congregations and both serve on the National Council of the Church of God in Ecuador. They also host work camps from North America. Normally five work teams per year visit Ecuador, building churches, teaching seminars, training leaders, or bringing medical clinics. They hope the work camps provide a rich cultural exchange benefiting both visitors and nationals.

Birthdays:
Jon: May 2
Karen: July 12

Anniversary:
June 12, 1976

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Jon and Karen Lambert have served as career missionaries in the country of Ecuador since 1997. Prior to missionary service the Lamberts pastored in the US for eighteen years serving congregations in Texas, Virginia and Ohio. Jon and Karen attended Mid-America Christian University when it was Gulf-Coast Bible College in Houston Texas. Jon graduated from GBC in 1979.

The Lamberts have two children. Their son Jon is living in the Indianapolis area. Their daughter Rachel and husband Darryl Englebrecht, are living in Vancouver, British Colombia.

Honduras

For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me. I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.

Matthew 25: 35-36 & 40

Heart to Honduras is a holistic ministry that is centered in Christ and resourced by passionate partners. We strive to meet the spiritual and physical needs of the poor in Honduras. We provide:

Food for the Hungry
Clothing for the Naked
Housing for the Homeless
Healing for the Hurting
Hope for the Hopeless

Swaziland and Mozambique

In His Name Ministries

In His Name Ministries is dedicated to sharing the love of God through the practice of medical evangelism. IHNM was founded in 2000 by Roger Pacholka, M.D., and his wife, Katy Pacholka, R.N.

The Pacholkas have set up a permanent base of operations in South Africa where they will live, teach, house aid workers, and launch ongoing field work in the neighboring countries of Swaziland and Mozambique.

Purpose

1. To share the Gospel of Jesus Christ through medical evangelism.
2. To provide emergency aid, such as food and clothing, to those who are in need.
3. To organize volunteer teams of medical, construction, and evangelistic efforts to work in targeted areas.

Philosophy

Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness. When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Matthew 9:35-36 (NIV)