Cooperative World Ministries

Jim and Nancy Agnor

• The Agnors serve with Wycliffe Bible Translators in the area of planned giving and estate planning. 
   

• They are based in Waxhaw, North Carolina where JAARS, a support arm of Wycliffe is located. 
   

• Wycliffe missionaries are actively attempting to translate the Bible into the language of some of the world’s most remote tribal peoples.

Brian and Yoko Broaddus

• Brian and Yoko have been serving in Japan with PIONEERS since 1998.
   

• Brian coordinates English ministries at Shimonoseki Christ Bible Church and teaches classes in English as a Second Language.
   

• Yoko assists with Brian’s ministry and leads the children’s ministry team.

Roger and Janice Dixon

• The Dixons are missionaries to Indonesia where they have ministered for more than 35 years to unreached Muslim Sundanese people.
   

• They now live in Bedford, VA, where they continue to support missions in Indonesia primarily through research, publication and short-term teaching missions. Following the December 2004 tsunami, the Dixons have been involved in ministry to the survivors.

Lyle and Mary Dorsett

• Begun as a children’s ministry by Lyle and Mary Dorsett, Christ for Children International now ministers to entire families in Fresnillo, Mexico, through a church the Dorsetts planted, ”Church of the Great Shepherd.”
   

• Lyle and Mary direct a team of young full-time missionaries who provide feeding programs, Bible clubs for children and youth, and adult evangelism and discipleship.
   

• Lyle is a professor at Beeson Theological Seminary (AL). Mary serves as both Executive and Field Director for CFCI.

Phil and Catherine Leckrone

• Phil and Catherine minister with Wycliffe Bible Translators in Guatemala, Central America.
   

• Phil serves as the computer support technician and electronic typesetter for the Bible translation teams. Phil has typeset many New Testaments and concordances.
   

• Catherine conducts Bible studies in both English and Spanish.

John and Carlene

• John is the coordinator of World Outreach's strategic ministries in sensitive areas of the world.

Jeff and Nancy

• Jeff and Nancy are part of a church-planting team in Southeast Asia.
   

• The EPC is very committed to sharing the gospel in that region, but this work is often very sensitive. Therefore, only general information is printed in order to protect the missionaries who work in these areas.

Murli and Usha Menon

• Murli is the founder director of Impact International, headqurtered in Ootacamund, India. Murli also serves as principal of the Nilgiris Institute of Christian Studies (NICS), which he founded in 1998.
   

• The Menons’ broad range of ministries also includes church planting, evangelism, leadership training, humanitarian relief, rescuing baby girls from infanticide, operating children's homes, camping programs, and ministries to various professional groups.
   

• Both Murli and Usha teach seminary classes at NICS. Murli also ministers internationally, traveling to Europe, Africa, and the U.S. to speak at conferences and seminars.
   

• Rivermont funded the startup of the Impact Children's Home in the state of Orissa in 2006, and has also provided guest lectureres for NICS on several occasions.

Eliya and Jyoti Pradhan

• Eliya and Jyoti Pradhan run the only indigenous ministry in Nepal whose primary aim is to share Good News of the gospel with children.
   

• In addition, they conduct conferences and Bible schools for children throughout Nepal. Eliya and Jyoti also train adult Christians in children’s ministry and write and publish native-language Sunday school materials.

Warren and Julie Stewart

• Antioch is a missions organization that mobilizes churches in the United States for cross-cultural church planting. Warren guides churches as they commit to church planting among specific unreached people groups.
   

• Warren and Julie are also developing models of evangelistic communities among young people in the United States.
   

• Globally, Warren focuses on working in Central “Turkish” Asia (the largest unreached area in the world), training Turkish Christians to reach others in Central Asia.

Phil and Diane Thrash

• Phil is a member of Team Berlin, a group seeking to share Christ’s love with their German neighbors and develop a church in Prenzlauer Berg, serving in areas such as intercessory prayer. Phil also serves as the team’s intercessory prayer leader.
   

• Although Germany is culturally Christian, only 2 percent of its people have accepted Christ. Realizing that many Germans would not come to a church they opened a family center.
   

• The family center offers an after-school program, and discipleship classes for children as well as an English class that uses the Bible as a text.

J.L. and Patt Williams

• Dr. Williams is the founder and director of New Directions International, a ministry that is committed to encouraging, equipping, and empowering indigenous national leaders to share the gospel with unreached people in their own countries.
   

• In this way, the gospel is presented in a relevant cultural context. J. L. and his wife Patt travel to many Third World countries to conduct marriage and family seminars, pastors’ and women’s conferences, missions conferences, revivals, and evangelistic crusades.

Tom and Jane Wills

• The Wills, based in Granada, Spain, minister to people of North Africa.
   

• Many North Africans come to Spain as students, tourists or workers because of their proximity to Spain and because of Spain’s cultural and economic ties to North Africa.
   

• The Wills share the gospel with North Africans on the university campus, in their home, and through other channels, such as distributing Christian literature.