Don & Marty Slager - Bible Translation in West Africa  - has worked for the CEFL and CRWM on Bible translation, and is now a UBS translation consultant. Don reports that the Bassa Bible was published at the end of 2004!  This was a 15-year+ project of translating into the language spoken by people in Liberia. Don is currently involved in translating the Bible into Klao, another western African language.

Our congregation supports the ongoing needs of the translation team in Liberia and neighboring Ivory Coast. more...

Dan and Deanne Gerard are now working with Campus Crusade for Christ in Wisconsin. They have been able to turn their work in Mexico over to local leadership and are now happy to do much the same type of mission work right in their home territory.

"One of the most exciting things that has happened to us in ministry, aside from seeing people come to know Christ, is seeing people respond to the call and become laborers in the harvest field. This year we have four students from Puebla applying to do one-year internships with Crusade with an eye for full-time in the future. Praise God with us for these students. We believe they will eventually be much more effective than we ever would be at reaching Mexican college students for Christ."

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Ruth Veltkamp, 39-year veteran of Nigeria missions serving with I.D.E.A. Ministries: Africa.  Teaching missions in a seminary and also training and encouraging MBB's (Muslim Based Believers). more.....

Ruth Veltkamp
BA, MA, MA
Senior Lecturer /
Director of Missions Department

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Johanna Theunissen - South Africa - works for a non-profit organization
called Botshabelo, as the Home-Based Care coordinator. Botshabelo includes three programs: the Babies' Home for orphaned and abandoned children (some of them HIV+), Home-Based Care, and Community-Based Child Care. Both the Home-Based Care and Community-Based Child Care work into the needy community of Olievenhoutbosch, an area containing 30,000 people living in shacks or government-built housing.

In the Home-Based Care, six Community Health Workers (CHW) currently work with Johanna, providing emotional, physical and spiritual care to 60 people who have HIV, TB, or both.  The CHW support them and the affected families by addressing issues such as nutrition, the importance of accessing medical treatment and anti-retrovirals, and how to deal with common problems such as diarrhea.  They listen to, pray for and encourage these individuals and families.  With a disease such as HIV/AIDS, there is so much stigma and
shame attached to it that friendship and love can make a huge difference. 
This is one of the main goals of the program: to establish close relationships between volunteer and "patient" and among members of the community, forming a network of support.  

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Donate to Johanna's work online.