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The Hepps               T & M              The Metcalfes            Amy

      
  The Bluniers    The Mohlomis         The Estells
  

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Bryan and Jennifer Hepp - Kansas City, MO

Jennifer Hepp is a graduate of Eureka College and Bryan Hepp a graduate of the University of Missouri-KC. Jen and Bryan were both involved as students in Campus Crusade for Christ and met on a summer mission trip. After falling in love, Jen and Bryan got married in January of 2005. Sensing God's strong calling to invest in college students, Bryan and Jennifer joined the campus ministry, Jen in 2004 and Bryan in 2005. Currently, they are working on college campuses in and around Kansas City. On these campuses their goal is to reach every student with the message of Christ.  During summers, they take students on mission trips to reach college students in strategic places here in the States and all over the world. For Bryan and Jen, it is truly a joy to be a light on these campuses where there is so much darkness.

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T & M - East Asia - (Names, image,  and location cannot be revealed to maintain the safety of the missionary)

T & M started attending Eureka Bible Church during college. Over the past 6 years, the Lord has clarified His plans for them to serve overseas in East Asia. They will be in language study the first few years and desire to help plant churches in East Asia. They left for the field in January 2009.

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Metcalfes - sheffield, England

Rich and Becky Metcalfe are orphan advocates, serving with Lifesong for Orphans which is based in Gridley, IL.

With an estimated 160 million orphans throughout the world today, the current orphan crisis is severe. Lifesong seeks to bring joy and purpose to orphans and seeks to mobilize the church, to adopt, to care, and to give.

Lifesong serves in Ethiopia, Zambia, Liberia, India, Honduras and the Ukraine. In each of these countries the ministry varies slightly, but Lifesong is serving through orphanages, schools, feeding stations, medical care, teaching self-sustaining business, community improvement projects etc.

In each of the countries that Lifesong serves, they work to ensure that the children will have:
• No want for food, clothing, medical care, or shelter.
• Fundamental Christian training and discipleship.
• A quality education to provide a foundation for the future.
• Continued love and support as they transition into adult living.

Domestically, Lifesong manages and administers adoption funds on behalf of over 120 churches all over the USA. The funds help local churches to assist their congregations and communities to adopt both domestically and internationally. At no cost to the local church, Lifesong helps by screening applications, making funding recommendations, receipting donors, dealing with IRS regulations, assisting and encouraging adoptive families and much more.

To find out more about Lifesong, visit www.lifesongfororphans.org

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Amy  - East Africa

I am a member of Wycliffe Bible Translators. I am based in Sudan, and my current role is Language Programs Manager. As the title suggests, it is primarily an administrative position. A language program involves more than just translating the Bible. It also involves linguistic analysis, literacy, and Scripture use. Translation is only one part of the overall task of making sure people can use the produced Scriptures and benefit from them.

I try to help the Sudanese language teams through budgeting of the donated money, helping them to stay on track with their plans for the year, and helping with other practical details. Part of my job is aiding the teams to accurately report what they have done and how they have used funds. I also help to coordinate workshops for the teams in order for them to receive further training in translation, linguistics, literacy, etc.  So, basically, my function here is to assist the language teams and all the language program workers (both nationals and expatriates) to effectively carry out their work. I enjoy being a part of the “big picture” of the language work and thank the Lord for allowing me to be involved in what He is doing in the world to spread the good news and make His truth known.

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Gary and Cindy Blunier - Little Rock, AR

How can God use a farmer in full-time Christian work?  That was one of Gary's first questions as he felt God calling him into ministry. Growing up on his family's central Illinois farm, he says, "I raised corn, soybeans, hogs, and girls. (We have four daughters!) I was used to harvesting corn and soybeans, but felt God was calling me to the harvest referred to in Matthew 9:37-38." ( ... "The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.")

When Gary attended a Promise Keepers event in 1993, he saw thousands of men desiring to be better husbands and fathers. God began to tug on his heart to enter ministry. He and his wife, Cindy, had always felt that "someday" God would call them to the mission field -- overseas and after their girls graduated from high school. But the Lord had different plans for the Bluniers, and He showed them the vast mission field right here in the United States.

Today Gary and Cindy both work in the human resources department where Gary serves as the Manager of Staff Resources. He leads a team of 20 people who enlist, interview, evaluate, select, train (to raise support), and place all new FamilyLife paid and support staff members. Cindy works alongside Gary leading the team of evaluators who review all of the application materials of potential new staff.

The Bluniers are very grateful to be part of God's work through FamilyLife. Gary says, "I was happy where I was, but God has empowered me to see a bigger picture that I am now part of -- one of saving families from the ravages of sin and divorce in marriages. I am thankful that He chose Cindy and me ... to do this eternal work."

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Job and Marie Mohlomi - South Africa

Job is from Botshabelo, South Africa and Marie is from Eureka, IL USA. We met while working as missionaries in Albania with OM (Operation Mobilization) and were married in 2002. Our son, Tshepo was born in South Africa in 2006. We have now changed fields to work with OM South Africa. We are living in Pretoria, South Africa and working at the OM office there. Job's role will be leading an initiative called "Emerging Missions." This is a new initiative within OM that is aimed at offering the people from the third world countries (Africa, Asia, Middle East, Latin America and the former Eastern Europe) the opportunity to get involved in missions in their proximity and all over the world. This is really exciting as we will be involved in recruiting, preparing and sending out God's army to preach the good news. Job's role is that of raising awareness, creating opportunities, recruiting, resourcing, strategizing and networking for missions in the African churches in South Africa. Marie will work part time in the Communication/Public Relations department. Our commitment to OM South Africa is for the next 5 years.

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The Estells - Russell, Illinois

Shannon and Julie Estell were part of Eureka Bible Church for eleven years as Shannon served as Associate Pastor. They served EBC primariliy in the areas of youth and Christian Education. After a number of years at EBC, they began to sense that God might be preparing to move them on to another place and type of ministry. Over time that impression received more and more clarity as it became clear that God had given them a heart for church revitalization. Put simply, they have a desire to serve churches that are in decline, but that have a desire to see God work in new ways. They are serving at this time in the Russell Evangelical Free Church of Russell, Illinois.

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