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ServeBeyond Missionaries & Agents
Helen Blackburn
Field: Tarija, Bolivia
Category: ServeBeyond Agent
EFCC District: Prairie
Account No: 2-3004
Project: Outreach Ministry in Bolivia
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Home Church: First Evangelical Free Church | Calgary AB
Personal Journey | Helen accepted Jesus at a Barry Moore Crusade in Saskatoon in 1971. In 1972 she took a year’s leave of absence from the Calgary School Board and left for Briercrest to find out about the Christian life. One year turned into three and after graduation at BBI she left for Swaziland in 1975 with AEF. In 1979, she entered Multnomah School of the Bibleand upon graduating in 1981, returned to teach and finish her BEd after her degree in Calgary. After her dad’s passing in 1983, she contacted the EFCM and left for France for a year of French and returned to Africa in 1986. Helen was commissioned as a Career Missionary with the EFCCM (now ServeBeyond) in Calgary in 1990 and returned to Bau, Zaire, until all expatriates were evacuated in 1991. Sevastopol, Ukraine was her next posting where she taught English at School #3 and held home Bible studies as follow-up to Summer English Institutes. In 1999 she was refused a new visa and given 10 days to leave the country. In the fall of that year she began Russian studies in Columbia, SC and left for Russia in 2000. She worked at the State Educational Center in St. Petersburg,teaching English and Bible, until 2004 when she returned to Canada. Helen retired in 2005 but accepted the Lord’s leading to Tarija, Bolvia where she now lives and works.
Current Ministry | The Outreach Ministry Project assists the children in a Boys’ Home and a Support Centre in Tarija, Bolivia. The main focus is working with the kids at the Support Centre and teaching English as a second language to students. This includes providing practical things that help the children in their studies, school supplies and uniforms, school fees when needed and occasional gifts of encouragement. The purpose of the English classes and relational outreach is to reach people with the good news of the Gospel and share God’s love with them. This is fundamental to the EFCC’s purpose of seeing lives transformed by the power of the Gospel. The local communities benefit from both the opportunity to improve their English and through the hope of the Gospel.
Scott & Shannon Crawford
Field: Ukraine
Category: ServeBeyond Agents
EFCC District: n/a
Account No: 2-2680
Project: Ukraine Outreach Ministry
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Home Church: n/a
Current Ministry | The Ukraine Outreach Ministry Project consists of short-term visits to Ukraine. The short-term mission work can take many forms, but it will always fit with the overall charitable purposes & objects of the EFCC. This may include organizing and supervising teams to accompany the AGENTS. AGENTS will also participate in and promote SEI (Summer English Institute) and other mission opportunities, including Bible Studies online.
John & Naomi Hall
Field: Latin America
Category: ServeBeyond Agents
EFCC District: Canadian Pacific
Account No: 2-3235
Project: Mission School Education
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Home Church: The Rock Christian Fellowship – Ladysmith BC
Personal Journey | John, from Saskatchewan, and Naomi, from Delaware, met at Briercrest BibleCollegeandmarried following graduation. In addition to their professional successes in many facets of education, they have served in a number of Christian ministries including three years in Ecuador with the renowned Jivaro (Shuar). Following retirement from public education, they joined ServeBeyond as Mission Associates to use their talents wherever the Lord indicates. They both hold Masters Degrees in Educational Leadership.
Current Ministry | The goal of this project is to coach and train Christian teachers so that they can be effective and productive, not only in academic endeavours but also in ministry (seeing their role of teaching as a ministry), especially in preparing the next generation for ministry. The schools with which we are involved in are Amilat Christian Bilingual School in El Salvador, Villa Nueva Colegio and associated schools in Bolivia, Panama Christian Academy in Panama, Colegio Bilingue Emanuel in Ecuador and Blue River, Blue Creek EMMC and Spanish Lookout EMMC schools in Belize.
Bud & Mandy Jackson
Field: n/a
Category: ServeBeyond Agents
EFCC District: Lower Pacific
Account No: 2-2253
Project: Global Outreach Ministry
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Home Church: Home Church Network, BC
Current Ministry | The Outreach Ministry Project consist of short-term visits to a field, where other global workers will be assisted with their ministries in the country they are posted. The global workers visited can be associated with another mission agency that is also theologically aligned with the EFCC’s mission and vision. The short-term mission work can take many forms, but it will always fit with the overall charitable purposes & objects of the EFCC. This may include organizing and supervising teams to accompany the Agent.
Sammy Kabyemera
Field: Uganda & Vancouver, BC
Category: ServeBeyond Agent
EFCC District: Lower Pacific
Account No: 2- 2106
Project: Africa Development
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Home Church: Jesus Grace International Church – Vancouver BC
Personal Journey | Sammy Kabyemera was born in 1968, in Bogoro, a small village in the East of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in central Africa. Eva Temanya is his beloved wife and they have been married since 1985 and have six children – four boys and two girls.
Sammy became an orphan when he was only eight years old. He was raised by a single mother in a Christian family who were farmers. After completing his education he became a secondary school teacher. In 1993 Kabyemera gave his life to the Lord after being convinced by a sermon given by late Theologian, Dr. Chelo Calvin. He then heard and accepted the call to ministry. After training he was ordained as a pastor in 1997 in the Evangelical Church. Due to the tribal conflicts and war, he fled with his family to an Uganda refugee camp in 2003. While there he served as a pastor until he immigrated to Canada in 2008.
Current Ministry | Sammy and Eva joined the EFCC in 2011 as a pastor leading Jesus Grace International Church in Vancouver, BC. Sammy has a heart for refugees in Uganda, so he works as a Missionary Associate under ServeBeyond. Twice every year he ministers to refugees by giving to vulnerable families and having discipleship training for church and leaders. He also has a literacy class program to help fight illiteracy in the refugee camp as part of his Community Development program. He does gospel outreach to street youth in Kampala. In Vancouver he preaches and leads a small African multicultural congregation.
David & Lina
Field: Tokyo, Japan
Category: ServeBeyond Agent
EFCC District: n/a
Account No: 2-2377
Project: TMC Chinese Ministries Church Planting
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Home Church: FCC
Personal Journey | David’s grandmother is a Christian and taught him about the Bible when he was a child. In 1997 he moved to Japan to work as an engineer, where he began attending Tokyo International Christian Church. It was there that he heard the gospel and believed, then was baptized in 2000. Returning to his home country in 2005 for work, he began attending a local church. In 2012 he started his seminary study at Dallas Theological Seminary (DTS). In 2015 he began full-time ministry in his church, and then in 2018 he launched a new church, FCC. In 2020 he graduated from DTS with a doctoral degree (DEDM). Lina heard the gospel and accepted Christ at her workplace in 2003. She gradually grew in her knowledge of Jesus though a Bible study and other small groups at her church. God led her to start a Bible study group in her new workplace in order to share the gospel with professionals. This grew into a worship service. While working at a US company in her home country she joined various ministries at her church such as worship leader and youth missionary leader on a part-time basis, David & Lina were married in 2009. They have two children, Jamie and Joshua. In 2018 God called them to serve as missionaries in Japan. So they joined SIM and in 2023 were seconded to ServeBeyond to serve at Tokyo Multicultural Church.
Current Ministry | David & Lina lead the Chinese ministries of Tokyo Multicultural Church that seeks to reach Japanese, Chinese and the international community of Tokyo with the gospel. In addition, David serves in their local community Chinese fellowship, and Lina leads a “MomCo” group for mothers of Japanese, Chinese and other international people groups.
Robert & Leslee Oudman
Field: Nicaragua
Category: ServeBeyond Agent
EFCC District: Prairie
Account No: 2-3269
Projects: La Semilla Ministries | Casa de Mi Padre
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Home Church: Taber EFC – Taber AB
Personal Journey | Rob grew up in a Christian home, school, and community but it wasn’t until 1984 that he made a public declaration of his need for a Saviour. Throughout her school years, Leslee was taken to church by her grand mother and later committed her life to the Lord in university. The two met while traveling in Spain and were married in 1988. Together they have had a significant role discipling the youth in their local church as well as being strong promoters of global missions. Rob and Leslee balance their time between time in Canada with family and leading/supervising missions projects in Nicaragua.
Current Ministry | As in country directors, Rob and Leslee are heavily invested in the agriculture development initiatives of La Semilla Ministries in Nicaragua. They also stay involved in serving the poor of Nicaragua through ministry of ServeBeyond and their local Nicaraguan church, Casa De Mi Padre, child development initiatives, rural medical clinics and a senior citizen care centre.
Rich & Lynn Peachey
Field: n/a
Category: ServeBeyond Agents
EFCC District: Lower Pacific
Account No: 2-2680
Project: Global Outreach Ministry
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Home Church: Town & Field Church, Langley BC
Personal Journey | Lynne and Rich both were raised in homes of ministering families. Lynne’s parents served first nations people with the Northern Canada Evangelical Mission on the shores of Great Bear Lake. Rich’s parents pastored churches in western Canada with the Canadian Sunday School Mission, General Conference Menonnite and the Evangelical Free Church of Canada. Rich and Lynne pastored the Evangelical Free Church in Delia Alberta for 10 years during which time Rich participated on the district board of the Prairie District and completed his ordination credentials with the EFCC. They served as missionaries with the EFCC primarily at Black Forest Academy in Germany, a boarding high school for missionary kids. They served both as dorm parents and boarding program administrators, training, mentoring, giving pastoral care, and managing facilities and resources in the care of over 100 students. Rich also served in the home office of the EFCC on the director term of Serve Beyond from 2008-2013 and later as Serve Beyond candidate director 2019-2021.
Current Ministry | Since that time Rich has been serving as Executive Pastor of the Free Church in Langley BC called Town and Field Church. Lynne has been a Medical Office Assistant in the campus clinic at TWU ,and until 2025 was a member of the international mission committee of the EFCC. Both retain a heart for global missions and the care of missionaries and their families.
Jon & Laura Prins
Field: Tokyo, Japan
Category: ServeBeyond Agent
EFCC District: n/a
Account No: 2-2640
Project: Tokyo Outreach
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Home Church: Watertown EFC – MN; Grace Fellowship EFC – NJ; Hallelujah Chinese EFC – Toronto, ON
Personal Journey | Jon was raised on the mission field in Japan where his parents served with the EFCM as church planters. He accepted Christ as Saviour when he was 5 years old. Jon was married in 1977 and has three grown sons, one daughter-in-law, and five grandchildren. Lyn, his wife of almost 36 years, died in February 2012 after a 3 year bout with cancer. Jon, along with Lyn, served as church planters in Japan with the EFCM for 20 years before returning to the U.S. to care for Lyn’smother. Jon married Laura Shannon in January 2018 after returning to Japan as a single missionary in 2016. Laura had been a single missionary serving in Japan since 1994, serving as an English teacher in KEEP (Kanto Evangelistic English Program). She continues with that ministry and serves with Jon at Tokyo Outreach. Before returning to Japan Jon worked with international students and ministered with area churches as a ‘biblically based cultural consultant’ with FIRE (Facilitating Intercultural Relationships Everywhere), mostly in the Twin City area in Minnesota. He has spent almost half his life in Japan and feels at home there, as does Laura who has served for 26 years in Japan.
Current Ministry | Jon and Laura work with a core group at Tokyo Outreach, an intercultural ministry that seeks to reach Japanese and the international community of Tokyo with the gospel. Laura also continues to teach English in three Tokyo area churches.
Norm & Michelle Smith
Field: Budapest, Hungary
Category: ServeBeyond Missionary in Canada
EFCC District: Prairie
Account No: 2-2680
Project: Deaf Camp
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Home Church: EFC of Lethbridge – Lethbridge, AB
Personal Journey | Norm and Michelle accepted Christ as children, thanks to the influence of Christian adults in their lives. They met in Victoria, BC at a baseball game shortly before attending the same Bible School in California. Married in Masset, BC in 1977, they have two married sons and six grandsons. From1988-1993 the Smiths served as dorm parents at Black Forest Academy. They joined the EFCM in 1990. In 1993, Norm became Administrative Assistant to the European Director and Michelle taught Sign Language with music at BFA, until Norm’s office moved to Budapest in 1999. In 2003 they joined the EFCCM (now ServeBeyond.) Since that time, Norm has continued to work with ReachGlobal’s Europe Resource Team. After Norm’s illness (2007), he and Michelle returned to Hungary in 2008 to continue ministry. In August 2014 Smith’s relocated back to the Lower Mainland of BC due to health and family issues.
Current Ministry | Norm’s primary role remains the same since even after the Smiths’ return to Canada. His duties include helping plan Europe events approved by the Europe Resource Team: including conferences, seminars, training events, staff retreats and meetings. He also works with North American teams who assist these events. He travels to the field once or twice a year, but is doing his daily work virtually with internet, Skype or Zoom meetings and other out-of-the box technology choices. Michelle continues to be involved in planning Deaf Summer Camp in Hungary. Michelle continues to be involved in the Deaf Community both in Hungary and Canada and as a result of further training, is now a qualified Educational Assistant working with a Deaf Child in a public school.
Karen & Scott Vandenberg
Field: Latin America
Category: ServeBeyond Agents
EFCC District: n/a
Account No: 2-2049
Project: El Buen Samaritano – Seniors Home
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Home Church: n/a
Personal Journey | Scott and Karen both grew up in Christian farm families, just an hour apart, though their paths didn’t cross until much later in life. In his early twenties, Scott survived a traumatic car accident that changed the direction of his life and eventually led him into long-haul trucking. Today, he owns and operates his own trucking company. Karen studied agriculture in college, but in 2002 felt God’s unmistakable call into missions. She spent 13 years serving overseas before returning to Canada with her adopted son, Alex, and beginning a master’s degree in counselling. She now runs a Christian counselling practice in Southern Alberta. In God’s timing, Scott and Karen met in the fall of 2019 and were married the following spring, blending their families into a joyful mix of five children and five grandchildren.
Current Ministry | Together, Scott and Karen serve as Canadian representatives for El Buen Samaritano, a seniors’ home in Baja, Mexico. They help raise awareness and funds to support the daily care of the residents, and they also organize and lead short-term mission teams to assist with building projects, maintenance, and hands-on ministry at the home. Closer to home, they are active members of Taber Christian Reformed Church and participate in various local ministries, grateful for every opportunity to serve God both in their daily work and in ministry.
Randy Wollf
Field: Asia
Category: ServeBeyond Agents
EFCC District: n/a
Account No: 2-3285
Project: Outreach Ministry
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Home Church: n/a
Current Ministry | The outreach ministry Project consists of short-term visits to Asia, where other global workers will be assisted with their ministries in the country they are posted. The global workers visited can be associated with another mission agency that is also theologically aligned with the EFCC’s mission and vision. The short-term mission work can take many forms, but it will always fit with the overall charitable purposes & objects of the EFCC. This may include organizing and supervising teams to accompany the Agent.
ServeBeyond Projects
AFRICA DEVELOPMENT
Personnel: Sammy Kabyemera
Account No: 2-2944
Africa development focuses on church growth, discipleship, education, and community outreach and development.
ASIA SENIORS MINISTRY
Personnel: Bob Shalom
Account No: 2-4401
This project is a partnership with a local church, local volunteer groups and retirement home management. The goal is to enrich the lives of seniors by introducing programs and providing resources to enhance the physical, psychological and spiritual wellness of seniors in rural areas in Asia.
CASA DE MI PADRE
Personnel: Rob & Leslee Oudman
Account No: 2-5063
Casa De Mi Padre is a Christian community with projects run by a church of the same name in Diriamba, Nicaragua. We are passionate about sharing the gospel and demonstrating God’s love in the local community. Missionaries Rob and Leslee Oudman oversee a Child Development Centre in the community of San Carlos and El Dulce Refugio Seniors Home in Diriamba alongside the church. As well as loving and serving children and seniors, the project also involves important church discipleship and outreach initiatives. Our vision is a vibrant church serving its community with JOY!
DEAF CAMP
Personnel: Norm & Michelle Smith
Account No: 2-2682
This project provides a way for the deaf to have a Christian camp experience where they can learn, feel and embrace the love of God.
EFCP MINISTRY PARTNERSHIP
Personnel: n/a
Account No: 2-4402
This project is a partnership with the Evangelical Free Church of the Philippines, established in order to facilitate the transformation of lives by Jesus Christ and His gospel through planting and establishing churches in the Philippines and internationally. The goal is for the churches to become self-sustaining, interdependent, Christ centered, Bible based, disciple-making churches that in turn plant missional churches. The goal is to plant 200 of these churches in the Philippines, Middle East, Europe, and North America.
EL BUEN SAMARITANO SENIORS HOME
Personnel: Karen & Scott Vandenberg
Account No: 2-5013
In Mexican culture, seniors are generally cared for by their family members; however, there are numerous cases where seniors have no family left or are abandoned. Life for seniors with no one to care for them is harsh and more often than not, these men and women end up on the streets, exposed to the elements. EL Buen Samaritano (‘The Good Samaritan’) is a 24 bed full care facility that is able to provide genuine loving care in the name of Christ to these seniors.
ESWATINI MINISTRY PARTNERSHIP
Personnel: n/a
Account No: 2-4025
The Eswatini Ministry Partnership exists to support the construction and operation of EMCU(Eswatini Medical Christian University) and orphanages established by ACM(Africa Continent Mission) in Eswatini.
ETCP MINISTRY PARTNERSHIP
Personnel: n/a
Account No: 2-4403
Evangelical Theological College of the Philippines (ETCP) Ministry Partnership is an arm of the EFCP Ministry Partnership. Its aim is to train qualified persons as church planters, pastor-teachers, evangelist, missionaries, Bible women lay workers, theological educators, and administrators for ministries with the Evangelical Free Church of the Philippines. This is accomplished through a combination of Extension (Satellite School) and Residential Training programs.
FEAL (EFC LEBANON)
Personnel: n/a
Account No: 2-5003
The Oasis program serves the refugee community and introduces them to Jesus. FEAL provides ongoing assistance to displaced families from Syria living in Lebanon.
GERMANY MINISTRY PARTNERSHIP
Personnel: Elizabeth Matthias
Account No: FFEC
Elizabeth Matthias Fund: The purpose of this account is to provide a means for Canadian donors to support the ministry of EFCC’s sister organization, the Free Evangelical Church of Germany (FFEC). The initial project is the renovation of the Free Evangelical Church in Eichstock, Germany. This is followed by the deployment of Canadian missionary personnel to work with FFEC in fulfilling the mission and vision of the Evangelical Free Church of Canada.
LA SEMILLA
Personnel: Rob & Leslee Oudman
Account No: 2-5062
La Semilla “The Seed” is a Nicaraguan based ministry project that promotes and teaches sustainable agriculture and focuses on training in biblical knowledge, best practice for raising children, health issues and education for rural communities.
RWANDA CHURCH PLANTING & DISCIPLE-MAKING
Personnel: n/a
Account No: 2-4026
The purpose of this project is to make-disciples and plant churches in Rwanda in partnership with the EFC Rwanda and Grace Hanin Community Church. The focus is on the transformation of lives in the Rwandan communities through Christ and the addition of new churches to the EFC family.
TMC CHINESE MINISTRIES CHURCH PLANTING
Personnel: David & Lina
Account No: 2-2377
The Chinese ministries of Tokyo Multiculturalh Church seeks to reach Chinese, Japanese, and the international community of Tokyo with the gospel.
TOKYO OUTREACH
Personnel: Jon & Laura Prins
Account No: 2-2640
Tokyo Outreach is a church that celebrates the cultural diversity of the world’s largest mega-city by worshiping and obeying Jesus in a warm and welcoming multicultural setting. Their desire is to eventually have multiple language-specific departments (English, Japanese, Chinese (Mandarin and/or Cantonese), Tagalog, Portuguese, etc.). Both short and long-term workers are welcomed to work with Tokyo Outreach as they reach out to the many nations represented in Tokyo.
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