Our missionaries serve in areas such as Russia and the Caucasus, Central and Southeast Asia, South Asia, East Asia, Europe, North and East Africa, and the Caribbean and Central America. Many of our missionaries who based in the United States work worldwide. Others work in areas of the world that must remain undisclosed.

Many of our missionaries cannot be named on the website due their work in unreached areas of the world. They appreciate your prayers. 

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Russia and the Caucasus

Brennen and Stephanie Behimer are completing language school and will be training national church planters to establish biblically sound, culturally relevant and reproducing churches among unreached peoples in the former Soviet Union.

Bill & Wanda Diamond are committed to ministry in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia. Based in the US, they travel to Georgia to assist The EWMI country coordinator in support of national pastors and evangelical churches. The focus is to facilitate partnerships between US and Georgian Churches and establish a new ministry center in Tbilisi, Georgia.
 

Alisa Hale ministers to broken and abused women in Moscow, Russia. 14,000 women die each year from violent domestic abuse and 50,000 children run away from home. Sex abuse is one of the most under-reported crimes in the world, and it is where God longs to meet the broken hearted so He can set the captive free. 

Alexei and Svetlana Horoshev serve in Russia. Alexei is the director of BLTC in Krasnodar, Russia directing staff who lead church based training of evangelism and establishing churches among many people groups including Muslims. Svetlana coordinates the Social Outreach Ministries of BLTC, which enables members of local churches to minister to the neediest people in their areas.
 

Chuck Schwarz manages ministry projects in southern Russia and represents East-West in the Biblical Leadership Training Coalition (BLTC) of churches and agencies in the U. S. that provide resources to national churches and agencies engaged in ministries of evangelism, growing churches, and training church leaders in Russia.

Joe and Linda Wall have served with East West Ministries since its beginning and Joe currently serves as the Vice President of International Training and  Director of the Russia Field. Linda is on leadership teams for two women’s ministry initiatives, one in Krasnodar, Russia, and one in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Website

Steve and Natalie DuPuy live and serve in Russia. Steve is contributing to the growth and multiplication of Russian churches by mentoring national and regional Christian leaders in the areas of leadership development, team building and financial self-sufficiency. Natalie coordinates relationships between national church planters and US prayer partners. 

Central Asia and Southeast Asia

Linda Buckley is the Director of Operations in Central Asia and oversees aspects of human resource development, budget and financial management, reception and guest care. She provides mentoring and family relationships for students within our training programs and other believers in the young church of Central Asia. 

East Asia

Mike and Kathy Fisher train pastors, church planters and pastors’ wives out of the passion to begin a church planting movement in Southeast Asia.  As a Field Director and Assistant Field Director, Mike and Kathy work together with a quality team of national leaders making vital contributions to training, evangelism and mercy ministries in order to plant more churches.   Website 

Gene and Dawn Whitehurst serve in South East Asia in leadership training, prison ministry, literature printing and distribution, Bible distribution, and orphanage ministry. Their work includes ministering, training and supporting 35 full time nationals.

South Asia

Terry and Kay Spinelli - Terry and Kay serve as the India Field Co-directors.They give leadership to the national staff and ministry partners as they work together to share the gospel, equip believers and plant reproducing churches in a part of the world where less than 3% of the population have any knowledge of saving faith in Jesus Christ. 

Europe, North and East Africa

John and Jenny Burdge along with their children, Arian, Aden, Alec, and Audrey live in Southern Spain (Sevilla) where their ministry helps to prepare church planters, evangelist, church leaders, future and current pastors to establish grace oriented churches. They also minister in Northern Africa and Southern Europe. 

Chris and Beth Matthews serve in southern Spain to evangelize and to equip Spanish people to establish grace oriented churches among the unreached people in the southern Mediterranean region.

Todd and Sharon Palmer as associate missionaries will, as they are able, assist the Jamisons in the growing ministry that God has given in Kenya. Todd will travel to Kenya leading short-term trips, and teaching in the Mt Elgon Pastor’s Training Center.
 

Paul Fanka currently serves as the Senior Pastor of the African Baptist church of North Dallas, and East-West Ministries Director for West Africa. His heartbeat is reaching people with the Good News of Salvation and coaching God’s people to do the work of ministry.

Gary Glahn is Special Projects Manager on the East Africa team to provide support to indigenous tribal leaders who are working in remote parts of Kenya. Projects include humanitarian works, orphan homes and schools; education and financial assistance to widows and older orphans; and Bible training.

Amanda Goble serves as Kenya’s Director of Communications and leads short-term mission trips to East Africa. She facilitates long-term relationships between sponsors in the States and people in the East-West orphan-education program, AIDS-care ministry, and poverty-reduction plan.

The Caribbean and Central America

Gersan and Betty Valcin along with their children live in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Gersan serves as the Senior Pastor of the Evangelical Community Church of Haiti, and East-West Ministries Field leader. His vision is to see nationally led church planting movement through mentoring, training and encouraging national pastors to plant grace oriented churches.

Based in the U.S.A   working around the world

Doug and Karen Brown are regional representatives expanding the Ohio area’s awareness of the work East-West is doing around the world, and in particular, in East Asia. They will be developing church partnerships and teams for short term mission trip. 

Rusty Coffee gave up the business world to pursue missions full-time. Since that time he has travelled to Cuba, Haiti, and now the Philippines to preach and and teach God's Word. When in Texas he teaces the Bible in local Texas prisons, discipling men to be sincere followers of Christ. 

Rich and Becky Milne serve East-West Ministries by organizing prayer for the East-West's world-wide work, by training national pastors and other leaders, and visualizing the results of that ministry through photography. Website

Brad Greenstreet's ministry is to empower national pastors as their advocate, teacher, and mentor. He links national pastors to U.S. resources, trains them in skills and content, and is a mentor encouraging them. His focus is in Russia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan.

Kelly Shea coordinates short term mission trips all over the world helping to mobilize churches to get involved in a greater way with the global church and helping to ignite passion in people for evangelism and ministry. 

Bob and Veneta West - Bob serves as the EWMI Vice-President of Evangelism with the overall responsibility of evangelism in the countries in which God ministers through EWMI. Veneta assists Bob in leading short term mission trips and has been faithful to allow God to minister through her to women in Kazakhstan, Russia and India.

Tony and Judy Wood have been with EWMI since 1993. Tony as Assistant Director of Training is involved in the training of pastors and church leaders focusing in Russia and Central Asia. Judy is the U.S. Coordinator for Russian Women's Ministries, equipping Russian women for ministry through Bible and ministry skills training, MOPs, and Pregnancy Resource Centers

David and Sharon Windley - David serves as Director of Short Term Mission Trips/Church Partnerships for EWMI. Sharon serves on the Women’s Resource Team, assisting staff women locally and globally. 

Bill Taylor assists in recruiting and serving teachers for East-West's training centers in Russia and Central Asia, and in teaching and building centers in Russia, Central Asia, and Cambodia.  JoAnn jointly teams together with Bill primarily by under girding this in prayer and in working special projects.

Lee and Jodi Caple serve as chaplains to both domestic and overseas based staff, by facilitating prayer events, retreats, support groups, and making overseas visits.