Representative at Large

After receiving Bachelor and Masters degrees in Mathematics, I began to teach in a Christian school and at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte for 3 years each. God had other plans for me and Dr. Jack Hudson, pastor of Northside Baptist Church in Charlotte asked me to become the youth pastor which I did for 10 more years. I surrendered to Missions and Church planting at a conference where Dr. Ray Thompson (BIMI missionary and director - West Indies, Assistant to General Director) was the speaker and he has been a great influence on my life.

We joined BIMI and God used me to start the Northside Baptist Church in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada with about 10 families in January 1990. It has been a thriving church now for over 15 years and helped start 2 other area churches. In 2003, God moved us (my wife Donna and four children) back to North Carolina where I began a ministry in mostly Communist, Muslim and other places where we had no BIMI missionaries. Since then I have made trips of 2 to 4 weeks several times a year, teaching national pastors and working through them to reach Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, and other religious people. I have had the joy of personally winning many of these religious people to Christ and seeing them baptized. Just a few months ago, I was in Pakistan where we have just established 6 new Baptist churches and beginning a 7th. The last 3 years many Bible studies have been started with a Pakistani National who is on fire for God and has baptized scores of converts from the labor camps where he teaches in the desert outside Abu Dhabi and Dubai.

Every year I have gone to Africa, the Middle East and Asia in countries such as Haiti, Egypt, Myanmar, Jordan, Cambodia, Congo, Zambia and Uganda as well as many trips to Pakistan, Cuba, Malawi, United Arab Emirates and the Republic of Georgia. In these countries I spend many hours teaching national pastors, teaching in small Bible Colleges and preaching open air in villages, often guarded by soldiers. I can definitely say that doors have been opened for me in many countries because of nationals that would never be open to a missionary seeking to enter and live in the country. My ministry includes translating and publishing and distributing the New Testament into tribal languages, sending funds to build churches, providing eyeglasses, clothes, food and needed funds for ministry in many of these countries. In between these overseas trips, I have the privilege of preaching Missions Conferences and Prophecy Conferences in Canada, the USA and the West Indies.

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

John 15:5 I am the vine, ye [are] the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

Jonathon & Mandy Crews -  BRAZIL
Joel C & Brooke Daku -  KIRIBATI
Paul W & Martha Daku -  FIJI ISLANDS