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Tom and Claudia Rosson
Project #061-004
Easter Europe/Russia/CIS
Tom and Claudia have been appointed to Europe where Tom serves as coordinator of education for Europe/Russia/CIS.
Tom accepted his call to ministry and missions while in High School. He is a graduate of Lee College(B.S.), the Church
of God Theological Seminary(M. Div.), and Regent University(Ph.D.). His first Missionary appointment was to Germany where
he served as a full time faculty member at European Seminary(EBS). He met Claudia, a native of Germany, when she went to EBS
after completing the Discipleship Training of Youth with a Mission(YWAM).
Claudia is a trained dental assistant/hygienist who joined the EBS staff after she and Tom married. In addition to a preaching/teaching
ministry, Tom and Claudia are gifted in children's and music ministries.
Glen and Julia Anniskette
Project # 065-0013.
Glen & Julia Anniskette are Missionary evangelists
for Church of God World Missions. They travel world-wide to take teams, materials and the Good News around the world.
Born
to a Tlingit Indian family in Alaska, Glen has been blessed with cultural insight all his life. God brought him out of a life
of bondage into the glorious light of the gospel of Jesus Christ. When he was fifteen years old, Glen was saved at a Church
of God youth camp. A short time later, he was filled with the Holy Ghost. At the age of seventeen Glen set out to do the work
of the ministry. Since that day he has not looked back, but rather pressed on, pursuing the things of the Lord and the ministry
God prepared for him.
Julie was born in the state of Vermont. She was raised in a Pentecostal home. She attended and
later taught at Bethel Bible College in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1972, she and Glen met while doing ministry at a mission
church among the Navajo Indians in Farmington, New Mexico. Shortly after meeting they married and have been working together
in full time ministry since that time.
Carl and Anna Nobles Project #065-0107
Native Americans, South Dakota USA
After service in several areas of the Middle East, Carl
and Anna Nobles and their family moved through an open door to minister to Native Americans in South Dakota , USA . They are
pastoring the church in McLaughlin on the Standing Rock Reservation.
Biographical information...
Carl , born in South Carolina of Native American heritage, grew up in northeast Florida . He met Anna , a native
of Israel , at East Coast Bible College in North Carolina . Carl is a graduate of East Coast Bible College (B.S.) and the
Church of God Theological Seminary (M.A.). Anna is a graduate of European Bible Seminary in Germany , East Coast Bible College
(B.S.), and the University of Tennessee (M.A.).
From
the Heart...
Carl says, " Anna and I have a heavy burden for this kind of work and pray that the grace and favor
of God will rest upon us. It is a unique ministry to which we feel we can contribute much."
Vance and Kari Massengill
Project #065-0069
Mediterranean/Middle East
Vance and Kari are the education coordinators of the Mediterranean
Region and Middle East. Their assignment involves training national church leaders.
Biographical information...
Vance
grew up in the church in Arab, Alabama and felt a call to missions soon after his conversion in 1992. He enrolled in the Intercultural
Studies program at Lee University and met Kari, a Floridian who was majoring in psychology. Their first missions experience
after getting married was a 10-week missions practicum in the Philippines that involved medical missions, preaching, teaching,
and feeding programs.
After graduating from Lee in 1996, Vance and Kari
went to the People's Republic of China, where they taught English for four and a half years and completed their masters' degrees.
Kari majored in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) at Azusa Pacific University, and Vance received a
degree in Intercultural Studies from Wheaton College.
North Africa
Project #715-0116
Emma's Kids - Zambia
Emma’s Kids is a ministry to street kids in Zambia.
Since it’s beginning in 1997, Emma’s Kids has grown from three (3) to over 400! The children are fed and
educated. The building of a prayer tower has furthered the powerful intercessory prayer of the children. The recent addition
of a large piece of farmland allows them to learn agricultural methods, grow their own food and give the balance to others
in need.
Otoniel and Xiomara Collins
Rus Rus Hospital
Project #060-0038
Honduras
Drs. Otoniel and Xiomara Collins are medical missionaries
in Honduras, where they direct the ministry of the Rus Rus Hospital. This is their second appointment to the hospital in Rus
Rus. They first worked there when they graduated from medical school. They then served as overseer of Belize and returned
to Rus Rus in January 2003.
Otoniel and Xiomara met at medical school in Tegucigalpa,
Honduras, and both are doctors of medicine and surgery. They feel a divine call to use their medical skills for God's glory.
Comments Xiomara: "I use the profession God has given me to work with the people who are needy and to give them help in the
spiritual as well as the physical area. My heart is committed to work for the honor and glory of God."
Otoniel felt a call to missions as a young child. He says
that the call was confirmed "when we were confronted with the need of the Miskito Indians in North Honduras." It was at this
point that they responded to the need and accepted their first appointment to Rus Rus.
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