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Our Missionaries:
Barry & Desma Abbott, Brianna, Brenden
The Abbotts serve in Cameroon in West Africa in front line, village ministry. Barry is a missionary team leader for World Team.
World Team has been in among the Baka, since the early 1990s. In recent years, workers are beginning to see the fruits of the many years of labor among the Baka.
One missionary said, “It’s been hard to get traction [among the Baka], Over the last ten years, there have been a couple of key leaders rising up.”
“One of them is named Nestor. He carries himself differently. He has a confidence that comes from his faith in Christ that makes him stand out in his own community.”
His growth has been a great encouragement to the team and is helping others in his community see the impact of Christ on a daily basis. As more and more leaders like Nestor begin to rise up, the team is seeing a change in the communities around them.
Steve and Alyson Baldwin
The Baldwins serve with Create International where create gospel films and media to share around the world. Often time their productions find their way on mobile devices and make-shift screens in otherwise inaccessible locations.
The Davis Family, Ken & Luci, Melissa, Michael, Mark
Ken and Lucimar Davis serve with World Venture in Brazil. Ken is the Executive Director of Edicoes Vida Nova (New Life Publishing). Our mission is to promote and publish God’s truth for the edification of His churches and their leaders. Vida Nova publishes with a ministry vision committed to the inerrancy of Scriptures, the sovereignty of God and the sufficiency of Christ for salvation.
Luci was born in Brazil and met Ken when he first went to Brazil as a missionary. They have ministered in Brazil in the areas of church revitalization, theological education, children’s ministry and publishing. Beginning in Manaus, in the heart of the Amazon, they transitioned to rural northeast Brazil and then later to the mega-city of San Paulo.
Ken and Luci work together at Vida Nova, a Christian publishing house, located in Sao Paulo. Vida Nova has a rich history of ministry. Founded in 1962 to provide theological resources for training pastors and leaders, God has sustained and multiplied its ministry which now offers Bibles, a wide variety of reference works and numerous Christian resources across the age and interest spectrum. With a catalog of over 600 titles Vida Nova has become one of the leading Christian publishers with an active voice in the Christian community as it seeks to influence the theological landscape and address current issues facing the churches in Brazil.
Early in Ken’s ministry a love was developed for training leaders, especially those in rural areas who would be best served with an extension seminary model. He teaches at two extension seminaries in the areas of Bible interpretation, expository preaching and Bible exposition.
Ken and Luci have three grown children. Melissa and her husband Johann have one child. and Mark and his wife have three kids. Mike returned to Brazil after graduating college and now works with us at the publishing house.
DAVID DIXON (Retired)
After 40 years of ministry in France with World Venture, Joyce and David Dixon retired “officially” in February 2003. But it was not to be full retirement!
David and Joyce had become dual nationals and felt that the Lord was leading them to continue ministry in France and to make France their home for the rest of their lives. In recent years, all the Mission-related churches had become members of the “Evangelical Association of French-speaking Baptist Churches”. As a result, the Mission churches had thus become fully “nationalized”, with the Mission churches making a big contribution toward church planting and foreign mission outreach in the Association.
The “Association” asked David and Joyce to be “visitors to the churches”, so their future ministry was laid out for several years to come. They were now associate members of WorldVenture as “IRS” (“International Resource Specialists”). They joined the developing church plant in Esbly and had an active ministry there as often as their travels permitted.
For the next 15 years, David and Joyce made numerous trips to Association churches throughout France, as well as Belgium and Switzerland. The primary goal set by the Association was to be an encouragement to churches without a pastor as well as to pastoral couples and church councils. Their ministry also involved preaching and teaching, working with interns, and in one case doing a complete study, or “audit”, of a church and its needs. The Association also wanted their visits to be a link with and show the concern of the Association board, of which David was an invited member. David and Joyce worked as a team and their combined contribution was sincerely appreciated. They visited a number of churches many times and established close relationships. They were an encouragement and an example to other pastoral couples.
David and Joyce’s ministry took them to other countries for WorldVenture, notably to Poland and Ireland on several occasions. A French-Swiss Evangelical NGO asked them to minister to their personnel in Laos on two occasions. David brought the messages to the week-long annual retreat, and on both trips, over 5-6 weeks, they visited the ministries of the workers literally from north to south of this beautiful country, meeting many of the lovely Laotians in their homes and huts. It was an incredible eye-opener to the deep needs of people in a developing country.
In June 2019, God called Joyce home with Him. David was absolutely convinced that the Lord’s timing was perfect. But, it was not easy to separate from his devoted wife and partner of 55 years, who had been a mainstay in their ministry. God has provided tremendous support, and David has continued the ministry he and Joyce had carried on for so many years. Unfortunately, Covid 19 has stopped visitations to churches for well over a year, but David would like to continue as soon as churches open again. He has continued assisting the Esbly church, mostly by monthly preaching and leading the Bible study.
David wants to be available to the Lord, as He sees fit, for as long as health and vitality permit. The Association has encouraged him to continue. Future ministry is in the Lord’s hands! May He be glorified as He gives direction and strength.
Kamanda Mansaray
Kamanda (shown above with his daughter, Lydia) is an experienced missionary with an effective ministry in Sierra Leone. Evangelism in a wide area and ministry at Grace School are part of how God is using Kamanda. He serves with https://villageministries.org
Howard & Eleanor Parker, Michael
Howard serves the Lord in Sierra Leone through church ministry, preaching and teaching on a regular basis. He is also very active in evangelism, school, transportation and hospital ministries. Howard is actively training distant churches in evangelism and doctrine. He serves with https://villageministries.org
Roberta Peabody
Roberta serves among returnees with TEAM. Japan is a culturally and technologically advanced nation that appears to be upwardly evolving, but remains a land of spiritual darkness. The hopelessness of the polytheistic religion of Shinto and the non-theistic philosophies of Buddhism have consistently resisted the light of the Gospel. It has instead created an atmosphere of despair evidenced by one of the highest suicide rates in the developed world, an alarming level of teen sexual activity, and an epidemic of social withdrawal syndrome. TEAM is preaching the Gospel alongside our Japanese brothers and sisters in Christ to build up the church.
Click on the link below for Roberta’s latest update:
https://falmouth.church/RJPupdate.pdf
Tony & Ming Perrello
Mobilizing future missionaries!
Pray for open hearts on both sides of the ocean and close relationships that lead people closer to Jesus and doing God’s will.
About Me:
Tony Perrello is serving WorldVenture as a missions mobilizer for the churches on the East Coast. He seeks to develop powerful partnerships with churches and individuals here and abroad to see people transformed by Jesus Christ.
Tony was born and raised in New York and became a Christian in high school. His wife, Ming, was born in Taiwan and raised in New York. They married in 1987 and have two children: Micah and Kristen.
The Perrellos served as missionaries in Taiwan and Macau for eight years with WorldVenture. They focused their ministry on planting churches and helping in leadership development. In 2001 the couple helped start the Great Praise Church in Macau. About a year after the first service at the church, the Perrellos were forced to return to the States because Tony developed multiple sclerosis. After returning to the States, Tony became the pastor of English ministries at the Chinese Christian Church in Somerset, New Jersey. He served in that position from August 2002 to August 2005 until he became a missions mobilizer with WorldVenture.
Michael Turay
During our 9 am service on October 3, 2021 Michael Turay shared the message. We will also featured Michael during our 10:15 am Adult Group. Michael is an experienced missionary with an effective ministry in Sierra Leone. See the videos from Michael’s visit on the sermon and livestream page for October 3, 2021.
All of our Supported Missionaries
