The Ackermans

Matt and Molly Ackerman are serving with Missionary TECH Team in Longview, Texas. Matt is an intern architect in the Facilities Planning Services department, where he designs 2D and 3D buildings, including churches and hospitals, for ministries around the globe. Molly is a graphics artist in the Graphics Services departments where she helps to provide, for ministries world-wide, the displays and literature used for deputation, recruiting, or evangelistic purposes. (You can keep up with their work on their blog).

The Avileses

Art & Denice Aviles are serving with Wycliffe Bible Translators. They are working on literacy, linguistics, and translation among the Daju people in the Guera region of Central Chad in Africa. Art and Denice have five children: Micah (grade 8), Josiah (grade 6), Hope (grade 4), Jason (grade 1) and Eden (pre-school).

The Clemenses

Lance & Julie Clemens serve with Greater Europe Mission in Sofia, Bulgaria. They are focused on language acquisition and cultural adaptation. Lance teaches English at United Theological Seminary and partners with Bulgarian church leaders and believers to grow the Church's influence in that nation's capital. Julie and GEM co-worker Michelle Asbill, a social worker, are effectively launching a disabilities ministry. Julie's training as an Occupational Therapist has uniquely equipped her for this work. Their daughters are Taylor and Lauren.

The Hibbards

Dustin & Natalie Hibbard are career staff with Arctic Barnabas Ministries in Alaska. Their mission is to provide encouragement through pastoral care, practical helps, and retreat opportunities for missionaries and pastors in remote villages across the Arctic, whose ministry among Native peoples is very challenging physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Presently, Dustin's responsibilities include coordination of volunteers teams as well as fundraising, donor relations, and media development for the organization. He anticipates the opportunity to begin flying for the mission as flight training and aircraft become available for staff. Natalie is a stay-at-home mom caring for their son Skylar and daughter Kaia. She also provides assistance with printing and mailing of Arctic Barnabas publications and women's ministry events.

Their websites:
http://www.thehibbards.org/
http://arcticbarnabas.org/

The Krups

Ken & Denise Krup are Awana Missionaries. They serve the Greater Chicago area, meeting with Awana commanders and directors and their pastors. They also conduct orientation and training sessions. Their daughter, Karissa, is at Grace College in Indiana.

Renee McLean

Renee McLean is an EFCA missionary serving in the Czech Republic. Her main area of service is to the Roma people.

The Maupins

Rick & Susie Maupin work with FamilyLife Ministries (headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas), where Rick is an Event Ministry Representative. A major focus of their lives is working with couples who share their heart for marriage and family, to make a difference right where they live.

The Moxnesses

Mike & Gay Moxness are serving Wycliffe in Southeast Asia. They have five children: Adelle, Melanie, Mikaela, Jacob, and Delayne.

Susan Sevey

Susan serves as principal of the middle school at Yongsan International School of Seoul, Korea. The school is one of the Network of International Christian Schools (NICS) and instructs students from 48 countries.

The Snyders

Jim Snyder is the TouchGlobal Director for Africa, a ministry of the Evangelical Free Church of America (EFCA). He is committed to the development of an effective integration of holistic ministry within the church planting efforts globally, but with an intentional focus on Africa. Ruth continues to provide assistance in the printing and mailing of prayer letters for nearly 40 missionary families, most of them with EFCA ReachGlobal. In addition to this, she works at the local school as a teacher’s aide, providing one-on-one assistance to a child with autism.

The Vollraths

Paul and Karen Vollrath are career members of Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc., who lived and worked among the Hewa people group in Papua New Guinea for more than 20 years, translating the Word of God into the Hewa language. Paul has recently retired from full-time service at Wycliffe in Dallas TX, but continues to volunteer his editing skills in the translation resources team. Karen works half-time processing approval requests at Wycliffe and SIL to receive Bible Society software as well as problem solving and distribution decisions.