UB Church

Endorsed Missionaries

Endorsed Missionaries are persons who serve with non-UB mission organizations, but are free to raise support in UB churches. To receive this status, missionaries must be approved by the Global Ministries Leadership Team.

Here are the persons currently serving as endorsed missionaries.

Ron and Brenda Anderson do church planting work in Spain with European Christian Mission International.

Wes and Jean Bell do educational work with WBT in Brazil.

Brian and Cathy Birdsall are missionaries in Kiev, Ukraine, serving with Campus Crusade for Christ. Brian is the National Director for CCC ministries in Ukraine.

Neal and Carol Brinneman are with JAARS in North Carolina.

Mike and Jenny Burtnett serve at Wycliffe Bible Translators’ US headquarters in Orlando, Florida. Mike facilitates Bible translation through youth education and involvement, while Jenny does so through artwork and graphic design.

Fraser and Sherry Churchill serve with Operation Mobilization in the Canadian Head Office as Director of Development and Hospitality Coordinator.

Dave and Cathie Datema serve with the US Center for World Mission in Pasadena, Calif., an organization which focuses on unreached people groups.

Arek and Donna Delik are serving in Poland with Operation Mobilization. Donna is a UB from Hong Kong.

Abigail Farmer served as an art teacher at the Ukarumpa International School in Papua, New Guinea. She will be at the Wycliffe Center in Dallas during 2008.

Anna Geivett is preparing for service with Food for the Hungry in Lima, Peru.

Owen and Frances Gordon are with Jamaica Bible College in Jamaica. Owen is the president.

Troy and Julie Hendricks are currently in the US on home-service from serving in Spain with SEND International.

Bridget Ho, from Hong Kong, has been on a series of short-term assignments through Hong Kong Conference--Sri Lanka, Tibet, Myanmar, and is currently studying at All Nations Christian College in the UK in preparation for long term mission service.

Ruth Ann Price formerly served in Mexico and later in the Philippines. She served a number of years as Management Training Coordinator at the WBT headquarters in Dallas, Texas, and then in Orlando, Fla., where she served in a VP role. She continues to work with WBT, but also serves as Missionary in Residence at Huntington University.

Roger and Marilyn Reeck do Bible translation among the Garifuna people in La Ceiba, Honduras.

Gordon and Judith Rohn live in the Phoenix, Ariz., area, where Gordon serves on staff with Paraclete, a mission organization focused on the Muslim world.

Roger and Mary Lou Skinner work out of the OMS headquarters in Greenwood, Ind. For many years, they were OMS missionaries in Ecuador.

David Spencer, with his wife Becky, returned to Cuiaba, Brazil, in 2005 as Scripture Use Coordinator and Director's Assistant for Personnel, respectively.

Teddy and Helen (not their real names) went to Burma in 1998 to start a new mission field as an outreach of Hong Kong Conference. They are using an English Language Program similar to the one used in Macau as a way to make contacts. Teddy is from Myanmar (formerly known as Burma), and Helen is from Hong Kong.

Doug and Ruth Weber and family serve with HCJB radio in Ecuador.