
MISSIONARIES WORLDWIDE
Steve, Julie, Kees & Sela Kramer
Steve and Julie Kramer have been Assemblies of God World and U.S. Missionaries for over 23 years, including 12 years in the Netherlands. Steve has a miraculous story, being born with cerebral palsy and being told he would never walk or be productive. The Lord is using Steve’s story to open new doors to help the Dutch Assemblies of God plant 100 churches in the next 10 years through compassion, outreach and discipleship. The Kramers are coming alongside local churches to help them minister to the most vulnerable in their communities utilizing scalable, plug and play models of ministry,
The Kramers have been married for almost 20 years and have two kids, Kees (age 16) and Sela (age 12).
RYAN & ANGELA MCCULLOUGH
Ryan and Angela strengthen the national church by encouraging and equipping the church in their community evangelism efforts.
“God has given us many opportunities to walk alongside pastors and breathe encouragement into the local churches in Wales. Sometimes that is preaching and encouraging congregations. Other times, it is consulting with a struggling church. Often, it is showing up and praying for pastors when they are feeling discouraged. In each and every situation we are seeing one common thread. The church here cares about reaching the lost for Christ. It is truly wonderful to work with like-minded people and do all we can to help them. Again and again, we are witnessing the churches here become increasingly mission-minded and outward-focused. Young leaders are emerging. It is a new day in Wales.”
Laurel Ellis
Laurel first went to Latin America in 1982 as a missionary associate alongside her husband, Rick, helping establish new churches in Argentina and Paraguay. They subsequently became career missionaries planting churches in Loja, Ecuador and in several cities in Chile. During those years three sons were born on the mission field.
In 2017 Rick unexpectedly died of a heart attack. Laurel continues to follow God's call as a missionary in Cuenca, Ecuador. She serves alongside Ecuadorian pastors and the missionary team, helping them to expand their ministries including church planting as well as identifying and developing leaders. She is also involved in training and mentoring Ecuadorian and AGWM missionaries.
Mike and Nikki McPeak
Chi Alpha is a mission outreach to the Idaho State University campus. Every year future leaders come from across the world to our campuses; lost, anxious about their future, and needing the truth of Jesus to transform their lives. Chi Alpha's mission is to reconcile students to Christ, transforming the university, the marketplace, and the world. Idaho State University Chi Alpha in Pocatello has been on campus for thirty years and we are passionate about seeing students follow Jesus with their whole lives, making disciples that make disciples.
PiERCE AND MEGHAN DAVIS
We are Pierce and Meghan, and along with our two sons, Eliot and Summit, we have lived in the Buddhist World for over ten years. Our dream is to realize multi-ethnic, multi-generational church planting movements amongst people groups throughout the Buddhist World. As part of this, we seek to equip, connect, and mobilize advocates, global workers, donors, and intercessors to reach the Buddhist World.
Faiz Rahman
Our work is primarily with the tribal kids of Eastern India, (Odisha, Bengal and Chattisgarh). We own and operate 30 Orphanages (Dream Centers) that provide total care 24/7 to about 2500 kids. Our distinctives are that we run a residential program that has a profound impact on the kids along with taking each child through University/Vo-tech if they stay the course.
In addition, we provide food, medicines, clothes, etc., to about 700 lepers at 8 leper colonies.
My wife died in 2012. My daughter is a physician (ICU and Anesthesia) in NYC, while my son is an Associate Pastor in a church in Dallas, TX.
David Speer
For over 23 years, we have passionately committed ourselves to God’s mission, stepping into the stories of the lost in Latin America Caribbean. As Area Directors, we work alongside a committed team of global workers to creatively share the Gospel with those who have never heard, plant churches in unreached areas, and disciple new believers. Through the power of the Holy Spirit, God is using our team to rewrite the eternal narrative of the Caribbean!
Darrell and Sandy Blatchley
Each week the Blatchley’s open their doors to over 10,000 children in power-packed services! Utilizing a team of about 30 people, they reach the children of their community through evangelism and teaching. They are seeing salvations and their numbers growing as they reach their hands out to the children of Davao.
Jonathan and Michelle Wellborn
We are creating an international media center for the Assemblies of God in Argentina, where national staff and interns will produce materials and programming for numerous ministries. Our passion is media missions. We want to train national media missionaries from the Latin America and the U.S. to partner with other missionaries and ministries around the world in the area of media; founding new media ministries and training a national staff to eventually take over the work for themselves.
Awaken also supports:
Randy Lindsey- retired missionary on special assignment
Richard Rigenhagen- retired missionary-motorcycle chaplain
Unnamed Family serving on the Asia Leadership Team for Crossworld which helps disciple-makers from all professions bring God's love to the live among the least-reached.