Our Partners in the Gospel
Gildard, Jamie & Jackie
Jamie grew up in Maryland and was drawn to Christ through the Navigators ministry while attending the University of Maryland. After attending law school in Maine, he returned to Maryland to practice law. Jacki was raised in central New York. While attending Southhampton College of Long Island University, she became a Christian through the outreach of InterVarsity. Following college, Jacki worked as a paralegal in Washington, D.C. and met Jamie at a Bible study. Married in 1989, the Gildards attended Christ's Community PCA in Salisbury, Md, where Jamie was a ruling elder. The Gildards joined MTW in 1995, and served in West Aferica prior to France.
The Gildards are part of a church-planting team in Marseille, France. They are building relations, sharing the good news of Christ, and encouraging growth and leadership among French Christians.
Contact Info
- E-mail the Gildards
- Address: Les Cyclades
5 Allee de la Desiree
13009 Marseille, France - Phone:011-33-491-41-78-15
Gray, Rick & Wendy
Rick was born in Delaware and graduated from the University of Delaware. After completing seminary, Rick went to Bundibugyo, Uganda as a church planter. During graduate school, Wendy went on a short-term mission trip. She soon became interested in Bible translation and was invited to help with translation in Bundibugyo, where they met. After they were married, they returned to the remote Uganda-DR Congo border where they worked among the Babwisi tribe. Rick’s ministry focus is training and equipping local church leaders. Wendy utilized her PH.D in linguistics for translating the Bible into the Lubwisi language until their first son was born. They have three small sons Grant, Aidan and Chase.
Contact Info
- E-mail Rick
- E-mail Wendy
- P.O. Box 383, Fort Portal, Uganda
Gutierrez, Gerry & Ruth
Gerry, a Peru native, and his wife Ruth, worked from 1974 to 1978 among university students in Peru before going to Covenant Theological Seminary where Gerry received an ETTA teacher's diploma and M.Div. Gerry was ordained in March 1984. The Gutierrezes worked in Las Condes, Chile, from 1984 to 1987 as church planters. From 1987 to 1996 they worked in and from Washington DC among the Diplomatic Community as the Washington Representative and Director of International Relations for Mission to the World. Gerry help to coordinate the Presidential Prayer Breakfast movement in Central Asia, Russia, North Africa and Latin America.
The Gutierrezes returned to Peru in 1996 where Gerry is working with the Project Nehemiah Corporation in a "Word and Deed Ministry" helping Quechua children orphaned as a result of the terrorist activities of The Shining Path. He is also involved in the prayer breakfast movement and the mentoring of young people.
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Hayes, T.J. & Kyong A
Info/Bio: Since 2001 TJ, a covenant child of EP Church, and Kyong A Hayes have been serving with the Navigators in Tokyo, Japan through the BEST Clubs. "BEST” is an acronym for "Bible discussions," "English practice," "Sports," and "Travel," the core elements of the BEST Clubs, a ministry to Japanese college students. American Navigators staff co-labor with Japanese Navigators to run the BEST Clubs in several locations throughout the country.
From July 2006 to the present TJ and Kyong A, along with sons Jack and Sam and daughters Julia and Isabella, have been living in Colorado Springs working through the Navigators’ sabbatical process.
The Hayes will be heading back to Japan to join a Navigator ministry in Utsunomiya, a small city about an hour north of Tokyo. The Navigators have been ministering there for over 20 years and God has formed a multifaceted ministry reaching out to college students, businessmen and families. The Navigators also started a small church there a number of years ago, and it is mainly to those connected with the church that they will be ministering. TJ is excited to be able to study and teach the Word and to mentor/disciple men as they live out their faith in the context of their non-believing family and work situations. Kyong A and TJ both want to connect with other families and stimulate them toward a Christ-centered life.
Contact Info
- Address: 5745 Bourke Drive
Colorado Springs CO 80919
719-388-1654
Irwin, Kirk
Kirk has been on staff with Campus Crusade for 15 years. The last seven he has been in the New York City campus ministry. Once in NYC he was drawn to the art students in the top art schools there. He saw a opportunity to use the unique talents of these student artists to not only minister within Crusade but to prepare themselves to go back into the arts world and be a much needed influence for Christ .”We were neither giving them platforms to use their creativity in the context of the ministry , nor helping them integrate their art and faith in preparation for going into the 'real world.'" Since that time nearly 100 college students have participated in a Creative Student Ministry called transFORM.
Another aspect of Kirk’s ministry is with the International Arts Movement (IAM) . This ministry was started by
Makoto Fujimura, a successful painter and member of the National Council for the Arts, It is IAMs desire to bring cultural renewel to the hearts and minds of people via the arts that are fully united to the claims and life of Jesus Christ. Kirk has been honored to be on the board of this organization and served for a time as President. This is a fast growing ministry and many important contacts are being made through this organization. Kirk has also been asked by Crusade to serve on several international committees involving creativity.In October ‘07 Kirk will be married to Miss Sarah Kennedy, a beautiful red headed Texan who is presently a graphic designer at Crusade Headquarters in Orlando , FL. They hope to integrate their talents and calling and minister in NYC.
Artists as Reconcilers
"IAM inspires artists and creative catalysts to engage the culture that is, and create the world that ought to be.
Art is society’s existential statement, in answer to the question, "Why live?" International Arts Movement works as a catalyst to inspire people to hope, engage deeply into the depth of culture’s critical zones, and create a world that ought to be. We believe that artistic excellence as a model of "what ought to be" paves the way for lasting, enduring humanity." - Quoted from
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Kiewiet, Dave & Jan
The Kiewiet family arrived in Australia to join the Brisbane Church Planting Team of MTW in April of 1986. Dave and Jan have four children: Rachel, Nathan, Amy, and Rebecca. Upon arrival in Queensland, the Sunshine State of Australia, Dave took up the work of pastoring a small, struggling Westminster Presbyterian Church.
Later, their family moved to a new area. On Easter Sunday of 1989, Dave, Jan, and their children, were privileged to be a part of the beginning of the Presbyterian Church at Indooroopilly. A year later the church was officially organized with a charter membership of 45 people. In early 1990, the church began a ministry to students on the University of Queensland Campus. Just before leaving on HMA in November 1990, the church elected its own eldership and called its first pastor. Dave has been involved in the training of men for the ministry by teaching various courses at the Westminster Theological College of Queensland. Since 1987 Jan has had the opportunity to teach the Word of God, weekly, to children in the Australian state schools.
Since 1997 Dave has been the principal & a lecturer at the Westminster Theological College of Queensland.
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