Section 1 Missionary Schedule for 2025

Here are the Global Missionaries listed below along with the dates that they will be in your section. Please select the dates that you wish to host each of these. If a date is not checkable another church has already scheduled that date.

You can select multiple dates if desired.

Section 2 Missionary Schedule for 2025

Here are the Global Missionaries listed below along with the dates that they will be in your section. Please select the dates that you wish to host each of these. If a date is not checkable another church has already scheduled that date.

You can select multiple dates if desired.

Section 3 Missionary Schedule for 2025

Here are the 3 Global Missionaries listed below along with the dates that they will be in your section. Please select the dates that you wish to host each of these. If a date is not checkable another church has already scheduled that date.

You can select multiple dates if desired.

Section 4 Missionary Schedule for 2025

Here are the Global Missionaries listed below along with the dates that they will be in your section. Please select the dates that you wish to host each of these. If a date is not checkable another church has already scheduled that date.

You can select multiple dates if desired.

Section 6 Missionary Schedule for 2025

Here are the Global Missionaries listed below along with the dates that they will be in your section. Please select the dates that you wish to host each of these. If a date is not checkable another church has already scheduled that date.

You can select multiple dates if desired.

Section 7 Missionary Schedule for 2025

Here are the Global Missionaries listed below along with the dates that they will be in your section. Please select the dates that you wish to host each of these. If a date is not checkable another church has already scheduled that date.

You can select multiple dates if desired.

Matthew and Onnalisa Nash

Missionaries to French Polynesia

Matthew and Onnalisa Nash were married in 2006, and have three children.
Before missions, they served in many different capacities in their church, including being the leaders over Guest Services which oversaw ushers, greeters, and welcome center attendants, organizing monthly guest receptions, teaching Sunday school in nursery, school-age, youth, and Hyphen, serving on the youth staff, leading the young married’s group, singing in the choir and on the praise team, and being on the Multicultural Ministry team. Onnalisa also helped with ESL classes and is a certified TEFL/TESOL teacher.

In 2020, they went on their first AIM trip to Botswana and Zimbabwe for three
months. They taught and preached at different churches and taught classes at the Bible school in Zimbabwe. In November 2021, they went on their next AIM trip to Fiji for nine months, then back again in January 2023 for fifteen months. Throughout both terms in Fiji, they preached at churches, taught classes at the Bible school, started a Bible Quizzing program, and helped as furlough replacements for the missionaries for nine months. Matt completed many maintenance projects at both the Fiji UPCI Headquarters and the Bible school and helped to build two new churches. In addition to teaching Sunday school and speaking at ladies' ministry seminars, Onnalisa helped with administrative duties at the Bible school, which included transitioning the online program to a new platform. In May 2024, they were appointed Intermediate Missionaries to the unreached nation of French Polynesia, where they will be pioneering a new work to establish the first UPCI church there. They look forward to embracing the culture and making as many connections as possible to see this new work thrive and grow.

Please select the dates you wish to host Missionary Matthew and Onnalisa Nash:

ACN Missionary #0251

Missionary - Access Challenged Nation

Global Missions is intent on preaching Jesus in every nation and we’re almost there. We are also intent on preaching Jesus to every tribe and tongue, including those located in gospel resistant areas, or Access Challenged Nations.

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Jonathan and Amanda Butler

Missionary, AIMers to Bulgaria

Jonathan & Amanda Butler are working under Bro. and Sis. Patterson to help plant a church in the capital city of Sofia, a city of 1.3 million people. Bulgaria is a pilgrim country with unreached people groups. So far, we are working on establishing contacts and preaching points around the city. With the help of God there will be a church in Sofia.

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Monte and Dianne Showalter

Inter-Regional Evangelist, International, Europe

It was after fourteen years of full-time ministry, eight years as evangelists and six years pastoring in Wisconsin, that the Showalters accepted their call into missions. After serving on the Associates In Missions program in Haiti, Monte and Dianne were appointed career missionaries to El Salvador in 1986. They served as superintendent of the work in Guatemala from 1992 to mid-1997. They now serve as inter-regional missionary evangelists and also as the international coordinators of Global Campus Ministries. As missionary evangelists, they offer a variety of seminars on church growth, teaching on every aspect of evangelism and discipleship. They help organize crusades and have helped national works develop Bible school programs. They teach annually at Harvest Bible School in Glasgow, Scotland, as well as in Purpose Institute overseas. They also help in starting campus ministries and enjoy teaching university students.

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Jeff and Heidi Cecil

Missionary, Africa, Sierra Leone, The Gambia

Jeff and Heidi Cecil, natives of Raleigh, NC, served in various leadership roles in their local church for over two decades. After serving as daughter work pastors in Tarboro, NC, they went on the global mission field. In 2019, they assisted the mission and national church in Sierra Leone before being approved as Associate Missionaries to Sierra Leone and The Gambia in 2021. In just nine months serving in The Gambia, they baptized sixty people, established two preaching points and four home groups. At the UPCI General Conference of 2023, Jeff and Heidi Cecil were appointed as Intermediate Missionaries to The Gambia and Sierra Leone.

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Dale and Brenda Austin

Missionary, Africa, South Africa

Dale and Brenda Austin have always had a heart for missions. Both grew up in households of pastors who greatly admired the work of missionaries. As a child, Brenda, spent much time around her pioneer missionary grandparents, E.L. and Nona Freeman and was greatly influenced by their passion for souls in Africa. Dale graduated from Christian Life College in Stockton, California, with a major in missions. Prior to becoming a part of Global Missions, they served for nine years as associate pastor and Director of International Ministries in Salt Lake City. During that time, Dale did some short-term Bible school teaching in Germany. In 2019, they went to the country of Namibia in the Associates In Missions program to work with the Ikerds. They served in various capacities that included preaching, as well as teaching the GATS curriculum in several locations around the country. While there, they were asked if they would consider going to South Africa. After much prayer and counsel, and a request from the General Board of the UPCSA, they went to South Africa in December 2019. Since their arrival there, they have been involved in pastoring a church in Vanderbijlpark, a city in the industrial hub of the Gauteng province. From there they would launch out to minister in various capacities and events throughout the country. In 2021, they were promoted to Associate Missionary status, and in May 2023 they were appointed as Intermediate Missionaries to South Africa. They continue to preach and teach around the nation and work with the GATS program, while also assisting in the administration of the UPCSA.

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Peter and Robyn Gration

Missionary, Pacific, Vanuatu, Australia

The Grations, who are Australian by birth, were first appointed as pioneer missionaries to the Solomon Islands, under the UPC of Australia, in 1993. They served for five years and returned to pastor in Australia. In 2002, at the request of Global Missions, they went on the Associate In Missions program as furlough replacements to Papua New Guinea. In 2007 they received their intermediate appointment to Papua New Guinea. After serving nine years there, the Grations were led by God to apply for a change of field. In 2011 they arrived in the island nation of Vanuatu. All of the Grations’ ministry in missions has been to the Melanesian people of these nations. In 2014 the Grations received their career appointment to the nation of Vanuatu. Brother Gration serves as general superintendent of the work in Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands. He is area coordinator over the central Pacific area (nine nations) and is blessed to serve as president of two apostolic Bible colleges while acting as senior pastor of the headquarters church in Vanuatu.

Please select dates you wish to host Missionary Peter and Robyn Gration:

Ken and Kay Burgess

Missionary, Europe, Spain

Ken and Kay have been serving in Global Missions since July 1989. After serving twenty-seven months on the Associates In Missions program, they were appointed to the nation of Argentina in October 1991. During their twenty-one years of service in Argentina, they served in various capacities, including director of education, district superintendent and finally as president of the national work. Kay taught in the Bible school, led the national choir, served on the national ladies’ board, and founded a national ladies prayer group. In 2010 they were appointed to the nation of El Salvador, where they served as missionary supervisor and director of the department of education. Kay restructured the national book store and again founded a national prayer group among the pastors’ wives. During this time they were also instrumental in completely restructuring the Bible school system, opening up many new satellite schools throughout the country and leading the purchase and remodeling of the new national headquarters and Bible school facility in San Salvador. In February 2015 they were appointed to the nation of Spain, where they began their sixth term as career missionaries. Since their arrival in Spain they have served as pastors of Tabernáculo de Vida Madrid (Life Tabernacle Madrid), district superintendent and director of education. They have been blessed to be a part of a great revival in Madrid, where they have opened up seven new churches in the last four years.

The Burgesses have one son, Kameron, who along with his wife, Gloria, have recently been appointed as associate missionaries to Spain, where they will be working alongside of their parents in this great mission field.

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Access Challenged Nation Missionary #0252

Missionary Access Challenged Nation

Global Missions is intent on preaching Jesus in every nation and we’re almost there. We are also intent on preaching Jesus to every tribe and tongue, including those located in gospel resistant areas, or Access Challenged Nations.

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Gerald and Tee Fudala

Missionaries to Thailand

On October 9th, 2004, Jerry and “Tee” Fudala were married in Pennsylvania and moved to Belleview, Florida in 2007. In July of 2017, they left their home church, Souls Harbor First Pentecostal Church of Belleview, FL, and moved to Chiang Mai, Thailand where they started the Pentecostals of Chiang Mai church. They both hold a general license with the UPCI and have served in various roles throughout their ministries. Jerry serves in many ways including pastoring, playing the drums, preaching at conferences and revivals, speaking at funerals, and teaching personal Bible studies. He is a student of the Word and desires to know Jesus and to make Him known. Tee is an effective minister, preacher, and translator who has worked with speakers such as David Bernard, Jack Cunningham, James Varnum, Brian Lane, Charles Robinette, Lynden Shalm, Bruce Howell, Nathanial Haney, and Rodney Shaw. She also coordinates accommodations and transportation for the Thai General Conference team annually.

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Lynne Jewett

Missionary, Central America/Caribbean, Guatemala

Lynne first went to Guatemala in 1989 as an AIMer under the supervision of Bro. T. W. Drost. In 1992 she followed the Drost family to Mexico where she worked in the national office, Bible school and children's ministries for seven years. She eventually returned to her "first love", Guatemala.

She became a fully appointed missionary in 1996 and has been working in Bible schools and children's ministries ever since. In 2002, she was appointed as the children's ministries coordinator for the Central American & Caribbean Region. She has traveled to many nations promoting children's ministries, teaching seminars and holding children's crusades. Her goal has been to see Sunday school established in every Pentecostal church in the region.

In 2003 she received her career missionary appointment after serving for fourteen years. Most of those years, she has had the privilege to work side by side with Brad and Regina Thompson, who she feels are great missionaries and true friends. She has served as a Bible school administrator for nearly twenty years, with over 500 Bible school students each year and twenty-four schools in operation around the country.

This past term she began a new adventure with the establishment of an orphanage. HOME International (A Home for Orphans, Ministry and Education), received their first child in October 2016. HOME is a fully accredited children's home working with Child Protective Services for the abused and abandoned children of Guatemala. This has literally been a dream come true! Sis. Lynne was an orphaned child from New Brunswick, Canada, that the Lord has used to provide a place of healing to every child that steps through the doors of HOME.

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Scott and Linda Guinn

Missionary, Central America/Caribbean, Cuba, Mexico

Scott and Linda are missionaries appointed to Mexico and Cuba. They have ministered for twenty-two years in Mexico pastoring in Mexico City and founding churches in Tuxtla, Gutierrez, Chiapas and Puebla. Linda served as the national Sunday school director and then as the ladies’ ministries director for several years. In 2013, they began working in Cuba and have been involved in establishing a training program for ministers there as well as traveling on the island and helping open new works. They now also have an itinerant ministry in the Central America/Caribbean Region and South American Region, working alongside national leadership and the supervising missionaries in several islands and countries, providing leadership and ministerial training.

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Stephen and Angelica Merritt

Missionary, Pacific, American Samoa, Western Samoa

Stephen felt the call of God to become a missionary when he was just fourteen. He enrolled at Gateway College of Evangelism in 2006 and graduated in 2008. In 2010, he was approved on the Associates In Missions program and served in Austria until 2013 when he transferred to Samoa to work as a Bible school teacher. Stephen was appointed as an Associate Missionary to New Zealand in 2014 and later became the National Youth President over both islands of New Zealand. In 2019, he married Angelica.

In early 2020, the Merritts restarted Samoa's national Bible college. They also established a new church in Apia with a congregation of thirty-five to forty members. The church has grown to sixty attendees per week, with a record attendance of eighty-one. They have outgrown the current building, and have moved to a new location that can seat up to 130 people. Almost all members of the church have received the gift of the Holy Ghost, baptism in Jesus' name, and the revelation of the oneness of God.

Their ultimate vision is to build a permanent brick and mortar national Bible college campus in Upolu and start remote campuses in Savaii and American Samoa.

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Stephan and Debra Summers

Missionary, Europe, Cyprus

Stephan and Debra Summers received full intermediate missionary appointment to Cyprus in March 2011 and are the only UPCI missionaries under appointment to that country. During their Cyprus AIM assignment, they taught Bible studies, established a church in the city of Larnaca as well as two preaching points on the island, and were involved in the translation of church materials into Arabic and Greek. Their plans while living in Cyprus are to study both Greek and Arabic, initiate Bible school programs for both international and national students in Cyprus, plant churches and work within the existing structure to promote leadership development for local ministry.

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Access Challenged Nation Missionary #0253

Missionary Access Challenged Nation

Global Missions is intent on preaching Jesus in every nation and we’re almost there. We are also intent on preaching Jesus to every tribe and tongue, including those located in gospel resistant areas, or Access Challenged Nations.

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Jonathan and Maria Strickland

Missionary, Europe, Ireland

Jonathan and Maria were appointed to Greece in 1999 as intermediate missionaries. They served in Greece until 2012. They were privileged to pastor the incredible people of the Crossroads Church in Athens for the duration of their time in Greece. They also administrated the Crossroads Bible School, which not only prepared many incredible lay ministers within the Crossroads Church, but also developed evangelistic and pastoral gifts within others that propelled them into church plants within Greece, across Europe, and around the world. At their departure from Greece, there were twenty church plants that were direct results of Crossroads leadership and Crossroads Bible School graduates. They also were honored during their time in Greece to pioneer the national youth ministry. They were able to sponsor some incredible youth conferences where for the first five years, everyone who came without the Holy Spirit received it. From those first youth conferences were born ministries that are today vital to the churches of Greece. During these years, they were asked to serve as secretary of the initial Europe/Middle East regional youth commission, where they participated in the foundational processes that are today reaping such bountiful harvest within the EME youth.

In 2012 God asked the Strickland family to accept a new challenge in Ireland. They arrived in Ireland in December 2014. It was initially their distinct privilege to replace missionaries Terry & Cindy McFarland until their return in August 2015. They truly enjoyed their time pastoring the Pentecostals of Dublin and will always have a fondness in their hearts for the great people which make the POD a special place. Since the McFarland’s return, they felt the call to plant two churches, simultaneously! They have seen in two years over fifty baptized with the Holy Spirit. They also have been able, through the North Dublin and West Dublin campuses, to start two other preaching points in Mullingar and Cork.

They are honored to serve the pastors of Ireland as their presbyter to the UPCGB&I Northern District Board. The work in Ireland, though in its infancy, is full of promise. Their cry is, “Lord bless us with the ‘Unity of the Spirit,’ that we may accomplish what God has sent us all to this great land for.”

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Luke and Larissa Havens

Missionary, Europe, Latvia

Luke and Larissa Havens grew up together in the same church in Farmington, NM. They were involved in various ministries including bible studies, music, multimedia, Sunday school, and evangelism. After Luke spent one and a half years in Latvia as an AIMer, he returned to Farmington to marry Larissa. After continuing on AIM for one year they were approved as associate missionaries, and were recently approved as intermediate missionaries to Latvia at General Conference 2016. Their vision is to reach the country of Latvia through starting home groups in each region of Latvia, and then expanding into more cities.

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Jonathan and Jenny Follmer

Missionary, Europe, Sweden

Jonathan and Jenny worked in various capacities in their local churches before going on the Associates In Missions program to Scotland. Jonathan was heavily involved in worship leading and music, bus ministry, Sunday school and outreach. In 2006 he left for Scotland to attend Harvest Bible College. After graduating he did a one year internship with Bro. Kelley in Glasgow. Jenny graduated from Indiana Bible College and did an internship in Tulsa, Oklahoma, with Rev. Keith Townsley the following year. She then moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, to work with Bro. Paslay in The Calvary Academy as a teacher. She also worked with the youth while there. Jenny came to Scotland on AIM in 2009 and assisted the John Beek family in the nation's capital. In 2010 Jonathan and Jenny married and in 2011 returned on AIM to Glasgow, Scotland. They served in Harvest Bible College and worked in church planting. They both taught in the college and served in administrative capacities. Jonathan also served as Vice-Principal of the school. They recently helped to establish a second year program at Harvest. They were appointed as missionaries in February 2017 and will be going to the country of Sweden.

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Access Challenged Nation Missionary #0254

Missionary Access Challenged Nation

Global Missions is intent on preaching Jesus in every nation and we’re almost there. We are also intent on preaching Jesus to every tribe and tongue, including those located in gospel resistant areas, or Access Challenged Nations.

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Lonnie J. and Damarys Burton

Missionary, South America, Venezuela

Lonnie James Burton, the son of Lonnie R. and Gail Burton, arrived in Venezuela as a two and a half-year-old child and was raised in Venezuela. He grew to be a youth pastor and musician in Barcelona and in other churches in eastern Venezuela where his parents ministered. He returned to the states when he was eighteen to attend Indiana Bible College, graduating in 1997. He then returned to Venezuela in the following fall as an AIMer, working in the Bible school in Valera. During that time he ministered on the weekends as an evangelist and started to open churches in the Andes Mountains. After starting a work he would pastor them until there was a graduate from the Bible school that wanted to pastor that work.

He later married Damarys Martinez, whose father was a pastor and sectional presbyter. Together they worked as caretakers, administrators and teachers at the National Bible School. During this time they were able to start four churches, all of which all are still growing and are beautiful congregations today. Lonnie and Damarys received their missionary appointment to Venezuela in February 2004 and started deputation in September 2006. Upon their arrival in Venezuela, November 2008, they were given immediate oversight of the Bible school in the city of Valera as the directors. In the last four years working with the Bible school, the Burtons have seen over 230 students graduate. They also pastored a church during this term in the Andes Mountains called La Puerta for over two years. Also, they are involved in the Education and Missions Departments in the Venezuelan church and are still helping to establish more churches in this nation. During 2013-2015 they came back on deputation to raise more funds and special projects for the Nation of Venezuela. Upon their arrival May of 2015 they continued their work as Directors of the National Bible School in Venezuela in the City of Valera. In October they moved to another city in the east of Venezuela called Barcelona/Puerto La Cruz. In this area is where their main focus has been since 2013 for a new Bible school. In the last four years, they have seen over 462 students graduate. In forty-two years, “The Conquerors Bible School” has Graduated over 1870 of which 80% of them are pastoring in works here in Venezuela and around the world. Venezuela is having revival!

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Frances Day

Missionary, Asia, Bangladesh

Prior to joining the Associates In Missions program, Frances was involved with community service. She served in her home church in Thorp, Wisconsin, on the prayer team, teaching home Bible studies and as the hyphen leader. After serving in Bangladesh under the AIM program for four years, Frances was appointed as an associate missionary. While serving in Bangladesh she taught at the Guy E. Roam Bible College and was president of the Ladies Ministry and the youth leader. Frances also assisted with two Apostolic Youth Corps trips, India in 2015 and Bangladesh in 2018. In 2017 Frances received her general license with the UPCI. Frances has been preaching, teaching and hosting ladies' conferences, both in Bangladesh and in America. She is also TEFL/TESOL Certified (teaching English as a second language) and was a teacher at Abundant Life Christian Academy in Thorp, Wisconsin. In May 2019 Frances received her intermediate missionary appointment to Bangladesh.

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