OUR MISSIONARIES

ABOUT US Cole and Debbie served for 2 years in Lima Peru, with the heart for training and encouraging nationals for the work of local, nationally led church planting alongside partner missionaries. They currently are home based out of the US, actively training Latin American nationals in several different regions online as well as making several short term, high impact trips into these various regions. Through the work of assessing, training, supporting, and encouraging nationals, God is opening doors for the launch of healthy, nationally led, gospel-centered church plants in areas of great need.

ABOUT US Tim and Cara serve with ABWE as their registered architect in the position of ABWE / Construction Director.

ABOUT US Louis and Amber have been faithfully serving in Welkom, South Africa since 2008. They have 3 children, Meredith, Drake and Travis. They spent about 6 years running, building, and establishing children's homes in Welkom to care for orphaned and abandoned children. The passion of Louis and Amber to make disciples of Jesus led to a partnership with a local church. In 2014 God led the O'Tools to transition from full-time children's home ministry to discipleship work with young people in the community at large. In partnership with Pastor Joshua Bolaji and the Heffners, Louis and Amber began focusing on reaching and discipling youth from all over the city of Welkom by establishing Unashamed Youth Ministries and Thirst Discipleship.

ABOUT US Steve and Kelley are church planters in Lima, Peru. They have been serving in Lima since 2000. Their hearts' passion is to see God start a church planting movement that will support a global missions-sending movement out of Peru. To date, their church has started 2 church plants and is praying toward starting a third. (This may be outdated information...I have not been able to get any response back from them about updates.) Steve and Kelley have been blessed with five wonderful kids who love the Lord and desire to serve Him. Their son, Joseph, and his wife Kimberly serve alongside them through a sports ministry. The desire of the Frerichs' heart is to be able to serve the Savior in reaching the lost for Christ with all of their kids and their families.

ABOUT US Andy & Lindsey have been missionaries in Spain at the Sevilla Theological Seminary since 2009. They minister in Spain through evangelism, discipleship, & theological education, including teacher training for children's ministries. Andy and Lindsey have five children, Sofia, Lucas, Zoe, Eva, and Marcos. They have a strong desire to share the Gospel with boldness and to disciple and teach with wisdom those in the school and church they serve.

ABOUT US After serving 14 years as church planting missionaries in the Republic of South Africa, where they raised their four children, Jason, Monica, Jamie and Joshua, the Jacksons returned to the states at the invitation of their mission agency to become the Director of Africa, serving 70 missionaries and their churches. Eventually, the Jacksons relocated to the Des Moines, Iowa, area where they could take a more active role in the lives of eight of their 11 grandchildren. Continuing in full-time ministry under the name of Jackson Ministries, they write, train, educate and equip individuals for leadership positions, to serve as effective spiritual leaders in their homes, churches, high schools, colleges, and work places. In addition, they are extremely active in Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA), particularly at Simpson College, Indianola, where they work among student athletes, coaches, and professors, ministering to influence, teach, and disciple individuals to Jesus Christ. They seek to make lasting disciples through engaging, equipping and empowering athletes and coaches to know and grow in Christ and lead others to do the same. They are actively involved with Living Waters Fellowship and enjoy the ministries that are offered there.

ABOUT US Joseph and Kimberly Frerichs, along with their daughter Sadie and son Roman, are missionaries to Lima, Peru with Ambassadors Football. Their main focus is using soccer as a tool to share the Gospel. They partner with local churches to help them reach their communities through a tool that is very welcoming to many people that may not be interested in church events. They are also very excited to work alongside Joseph's parents' church in Sol de La Molina and bring sports ministry into each of the churches that they have planted.

ABOUT ME As an ABWE Missionary, Dave Newell is the Director of Gospel Centered Recovery (GCR) South, and resides in Des Moines, Iowa. GCR South, is a Bible-based support group for men and women who struggle with addictive sins of all kinds and is specifically designed to be a ministry operated by local churches. Truly biblical addiction recovery ministries must be tethered to and implemented by the local church. This requires educating, engaging, equipping, and mobilizing the church to obey Christ’s command found in Matthew 28:19-20. GCR South provides a place for men and women who have addictions (life-dominating sins) to be transparent with others while finding hope and encouragement from God’s Word. Under Dave’s leadership and supervision, GCR South has established a home in south Des Moines, called GCR-Restart Home which seeks to help men transition back into the community. Local churches like Living Waters Fellowship, desire to walk with them as their lives are transformed toward lasting spiritual change during their stay by providing discipleship, biblical counseling, financial stewardship, training in evangelism, while promoting godly habits based on biblical principles. The live-in Restart Home encourages men to develop and display Christ-like attitudes in their lives based on Matthew 28:18-20’s objectives: 1. Promoting Jesus 2. Sufficiency of Scripture 3. Local church ministries 4. Making disciples