Continuing Term

Nick and Iris Hung  serve in Gembu with the Mambilla Baptist Convention Nigeria (MBCN) in the area of evangelism and church planting that focuses on unreached villages, and creating opportunities for a church like yours to become a partner with an unreached people group.

Next scheduled Home Assignment:  July 2012.  

Anniversary - May 14

Birthday -
Nick - October 22
Iris - September 6

Gateway Teams (a Short-Term Mission agency) is assembling an open team that will be heading to serve at the CHAIN of Love Homes (CoL) ministry in Campo Bom, Brazil in March 2012!  And YOU are invited to apply!

Sarah and Rob Loane will be leading the team.  See attached information below.  Click Here to apply.

Doug and Sharon Woyke
8592 Stratford Lane North
Brooklyn Park, MN 55443
 

Our email address:
woykeds@msn.com
 

Church Planting

Doug has served as Field Director of the Japan mission since 1981.  Doug and Sharon have been called to serve as interim pastor of the Kongo Bible Church; they returned to that ministry after home assignment in 2003.

Anniversary - June 29

Birthdays:
Doug - January 21
Sharon - June 6

Raised in a Christian home, Julie accepted Jesus as her personal Savior at age ten.  She says, "It was not until college that I acknowledged Jesus' authority to be my Lord as well as my Savior.  I now take great delight in the fact that I am not my own.  The Lord has been truly gentle and merciful in His dealings with this sheep.  Hence, my greatest desire is to follow the Shepherd wherever He leads."

Born and raised in Portland, Ore., and a graduate of Portland State University, Ron Stoller first came to Japan in 1973 and served as an English teacher in NAB’s short-term missionary program. A few months later, he met Joan Youngquist, who grew up serving the Lord in Japan alongside her parents, Rev. and Mrs. Harris Youngquist from the Baptist General Conference, her two brothers and her sister, establishing churches since their arrival in 1950. At the time, Joan was teaching ESL in Japan’s public schools after graduating from Bethel College.

Seminary Instructor

Through a series of faith-building events and blessings, God led the Rundus family to Sioux Falls, South Dakota.  After receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree, Lance enrolled in North American Baptist Seminary (now Sioux Falls Seminary).  Lance has skills and interests in various arts, linguistics, philosophy, rhetoric, and theology.  Lance has been involved in ministry through leading worship team, serving as Youth Pastor, and serving as instructor in Biblical languages, exegesis, and hermeneutics at Sioux Falls Seminary.

Debi grew up in a Christian home where family prayer and Bible reading were the daily norm.  In second grade, Debi saw a film depicting the Rapture.  It was then that she realized that she was not a Christian just because her family was.  Her dad helped Debi pray the sinner's prayer and she trusted Christ as Savior.

Christian Education

"The moment I stepped off the train in Tsu, Japan," says Shan, "I felt at home.  I did not know the language or the customs; however, I felt I was home."

Carol's Profile:

Disciplemaker in Japan

“I will perpetuate your memory through all generations; therefore the nations will praise you for ever and ever"   Psalm 45:17 NIV

Dennis says, "Our call to missionary service has been a gradual process rather than a bolt-of-lightning experience.  It has been the result of many of our personal interests coming together under the guidance of the Holy Spirit."

Disciplemaker in Japan

As a Japanese-Canadian, Yuri has a unique, God-given background in being sent out from North America as a missionary to Japan.