Asia Partners
Bill & Susie Antolec: Chiang Rai, Thailand
Acorn2Oaks, Inc. Bill & Susie live in a small village east of Chiang Rai, Thailand. Their primary ministry is to mid-late teenaged students who previously attended the local village school, Christian Paisansat School, and lived in Baan Farm Children’s Home, which is located on the school grounds. There are 6 predominant Hill Tribe people groups in northern Thailand. Most are farmers, considered the poorest of the poor, therefore there are few schools in these villages so they must send their children to places like Baan Farm Children’s Home in order to get an education.
Bill and Susie are currently supporting 5 students, 2 girls and 3 boys, helping them to be able to go to high school and perhaps college. They provide housing for them and mentor them regarding life’s challenges with the hope that they will know Jesus and will want to share their knowledge of Him with their families and others in their mountain top villages. The hope is that these students will become leaders in their communities allowing them to impact their world for Jesus!
The Antolec’s also work with students currently living at Baan Farm Children’s Home. Today over 90 boys and girls from 1st through 9th grade live in this dormitory while studying at the school. Bill & Susie’s primary purpose in being at the school is to build relationships with the older students, especially 9th graders, getting to know them so that, with help from the Holy Spirit, students can be selected to study further.
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Bill Antolec via email for information.
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Chris & Esther Hoagland: Chiang Rai, Thailand
Chris and Esther have been serving in Thailand for more than 16 years. Baan Farm Children's Home exists to reach non-Christian elementary and junior high school students for Jesus, edifying and equipping them to grow in their faith by honoring God, caring for one another, discovering their gifts, and demonstrating God's love by serving others. They give underprivileged tribal and Thai children the opportunity to study in a safe and loving environment, while they are away from their families.
Their goals are to share God’s love with students and their families, to establish young believers in faith through worship, fellowship and discipleship, to equip the believers so they can serve others, and to improve the quality of life for boarding school or dormitory students. They are committed to this project and expect God to do great things. Thanks for your prayers and support!
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David: South East Asia
David has been serving in South East Asia for over 10 years. The primary focus of his ministry is leadership development and providing ministry resources to church leadership. In addition to training Pastors in a school setting, he helps facilitate short-term specialized training at various times throughout the year as well as coordinates and directs materials from overseas and in country - feeding a national distribution network (tracts, Bibles, leadership development materials, and books). David also partners in planting churches and assisting in the training and development of the leadership of those plants. He often hosts national and international Pastors, Bible Teachers, and Missionaries in his home and is continually engaged in one-on-one evangelism in the city where he lives.
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Other Asia Partners
They have been teaching Church Planting in Asia for the last 10 years and are developing a national partnership of churches and pastors to reach the major cities of their host country. This partnership exists to see house churches trained up to plant other churches themselves until there is one church per apartment building. To do this, they envision, listen, train, consult, encourage, challenge and just plain experience life with these leaders; anything and everything required to see this vision reproduced in the lives of the people they mentor.
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This Asia Partner via email for information and for their monthly newsletter.
Ken & Lisa: Yunnan Province, China - Bless China, International
Ken and Lisa have been part of the North Way family since 1983. Along with their sons, Ben and Matt, they were sent out by North Way to serve in Western China in 1988. For more than two decades their focus continues to be building local Christians to serve in a variety of ways, especially in the remote border regions of western China. These regions are home to many tribal minority groups including Tibetans, Yi, Lisu, Dai, and many more.
Currently, Ken and Lisa are both serving with Bless China, International (BCI), a large Christian development organization. Lisa serves as a teacher both within BCI as well as in the local community where they live. Ken serves as the BCI Yunnan Director, overseeing about 30 projects in 8 locations across the province. While these projects include everything from HIV/AIDS prevention to orphan care, all of them focus on building local leaders, fostering communities of Christians, and building spiritual depth and character in the lives of locals.
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Gerry & Grace Zitzmann: Hong Kong, China/Asia
Gerry and Grace currently reside in Hong Kong and are working with the local church there. They work to raise up worshipers through conferences, weekly youth meetings and services. Their focus is on mentoring youth and youth leaders as well as pioneering and developing a missions department at their local church. They also continue to support agricultural and medical partnerships they have developed with those who work with orphans, particularly the Foster Care Network in SW China and Cambodia. They have five children, Parke, Carson, Emilia, Rachael and Salem for whom they provide schooling.
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Emmanuel & Allison Pothen – Rockport, Mass., USA
Reaching India & Nepal, Influence International Inc. & Daya Project
Emmanuel and Allison Pothen are serving as International Directors of Influence International, Inc. an indigenous missions movement that works to bring a holistic transformation to the communities of India and Nepal.
Four areas of focus.
1. Raising Christian leaders through theological and missiological training as Bible Institutes are established in the different languages.
2. Resourcing and sending leaders to plant churches in the unchurched areas as well as to establish other platforms of ministry.
3. Daya Project- A focus to empower children who are in great need due to poverty, child labor, sexual abuse etc. We work to start Daya homes, Daya community centers and schools.
4. Develop sustainable communities through adult literacy, vocational training, education, micro- business.
Emmanuel & Allison have a daughter named Karis. They live in Rockport, MA and work alongside Emmanuel's parents Abraham & Molly who are serving as National Directors of Influence International in India and are long-time friends of North Way.
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Dr. John & Ammini Abraham: Mumbai / India / South Asia
Doctor John and Ammini provide medical and spiritual aid to the poor in South Asia. They run a Community Health service promoting healthy behavior, wellness and prevention. They have worked to increase access to health care for children with malnutrition as well as provide training opportunities for families, encouraging them to live healthy lifestyles and improve their physical and spiritual health.
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Dr. John & Ammini Abraham via email for information.
Abraham & Molly Pothen: India, India Gospel Ministries
Abraham and Molly Pothen were born and raised in India. After completing advanced theological studies in the U.S. they returned to India and are pursuing the ministry for which God has called them the last twenty years:
- Leadership Training Programs for Church planters
- Bible Colleges in Kerala and Andhra Pradesh
- Three different Children Homes
- Home for Destitute women
- Church planting ministries (about 300 churches planted in 3 different states)
- Humanitarian ministries like providing aid for the poor
- Adult literacy programs
Their goal is to extend all these ministries to different states of India, to begin training programs in all the states of India, and send church planters to unreached people groups.
Abraham & Molly have two children, Emmanuel and Grace. Emmanuel and his wife, Allison, reside in the U.S. but work with his parents through Influence International, Inc. and Daya Project. Grace, their daughter, is also committed to continuing the vision of her parents, and is currently doing her undergraduate studies looking forward to becoming a Christian counselor and serving the Lord.
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Jose & Sarah Banks: Lonavala, India - Youth With A Mission
Jose and Sarah work with a Youth With A Mission training center called the University of Nations. Jose is the director of this campus that serves to train Indians and Asians for mission work. On the U of N Campus, students can study the entire Bible inductively, learn to hear God's voice, train in the performing arts and are discipled daily within the community. How exciting to see Asians going all over the world to share the Good News! They can go to places such as the Middle East with far more ease and less suspicion than Westerners. Together with their five children, Sarah and Jose spend a lot of time on the campus teaching and spending time with the young people that make up the student and staff body. Sarah keeps busy home-schooling their children and occasionally teaching on campus. No day is the same in the Jose family! What an adventure serving God in India is.
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Dan and Debbie Ecker, Thailand - Firstlight International
Dan and Debbie have been North Way partners since 1999 when they moved to Thailand, but their combined experience spans 28 years of full time service in 25 countries. They founded Firstlight International in 1997, with the purpose of reaching the nations of Southeast Asia with the gospel. After the tsunami of 2004, they felt strongly led to begin a foundation in Thailand to bring hope and connection to impoverished families, especially focused on single parent families with a multi-faceted approach, changing lives and transforming communities through health, education, moral, economic and community development. They are currently splitting their time between Pittsburgh and Thailand and have one son, Josiah, who is currently attending Seattle Pacific University.
One Firstlight project Dan & Debbie are particularly passionate about is Families Without Fathers (FWF). Through this project they are making a difference in the lives of 69 children from 47 families in 6 locations. They help these children by providing for their school fees and related supplies two times a year. Their team also makes weekly visits to homes and area schools where they share the love of Christ through prayer and Bible study. This is an exciting time of fruitfulness in Thailand!
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East Asia Partners
These global partners have been working in East Asia since 1990. They have worked on planting churches and taking care of abandoned infants and also helped to start a Foster Care Network in their city that is now run by local believers. Since the Foster Care Network started in 1999 there have been over 1000 children helped by the program. They have continued to work closely with the Foster Care Network often taking care of children that are sick until they are healthy enough to go into other foster homes.
They are currently working to open a more permanent facility called “Hope’s House.” This Pediatric Convalescent Hospice Facility helps support the Foster Care Network.
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East Asia Partners via email for information and for their monthly newsletter.
South East Asia Partner
Serving South East Asia for over two decades through their organization, South East Asia Prayer Center (SEAPC). Their ministry spans many countries in Asia and focuses on a variety of areas, from prayer, parenting and education to healthcare, micro-economics and ministry to children.
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China, N. Korea Partner
These Global Partners reside in the US but their focus is on China and N. Korea through the ministry China Harvest. They network with North American and international partners to provide for humanitarian and leadership development needs in these two countries.