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Celestin Musekura
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Rev. Musekura is the president and founder of ALARM (African Leadership and Reconciliation Ministries). Celestin is an ordained Baptist Minister who was born and raised in Rwanda. He is a Ph.D candidate at Dallas Seminary, where he also serves as adjunct teacher in Theological Studies. Celestin is married to Bernadette and they have four children.
Email: Celestin@alarm-inc.org
Website (ALARM): www.alarm-inc.org
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James Baak
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James Baak is the ALARM (Africa Leadership and Reconciliation Ministries) Regional Coordinator for the Bahr Ghazar Region in Sudan. He is deeply involved in organizing leadership training conferences in Lietnhom, Sudan. Fellowship sends teams to teach at these conferences twice a year.
Email: alarmsudan@yahoo.com
Website (ALARM): www.alarm-inc.org
Updates: 10-25-2006
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Pastor Aniefiok Udo
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Pastor Aniefiok is the director of Africa Outreach Inc. and the pastor of Fellowship Bible Church in Ikot Ekpene, Nigeria. He is married to Judy and they have three boys. Read his bio below to learn more about Aniefiok's journey.
Biography: Aniefiok Ekanem Udo was born March 28, 1959, Ikot Ekpene, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. As a boy he was raised on a poultry farm and received his primary education from public schools. In 1978, he received a Nigerian National Teachers Certificate.
He made the decision in 1981 to came to the U.S. with big dreams to make big money to study plant and animal science at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Tifton Ga. A year later, Aniefiok transferred to Arkansas State University in Jonesboro to major in business finance. While attending Arkansas State he met many of the future board members of Africa Outreach. He was also actively involved with Campus Crusade for Christ and attended Central Baptist Church. After obtaining a B.S. in finance in the summer of 1984 Mr. Udo enrolled at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, Florida. In 1985 he graduated Embry Riddle with a MBA in Aviation. In 1986 enrolled in Florida Beacon Bible College to further his education in biblical studies. His experience on a foreign mission to Guatemala inspired him to return to Nigeria and reach his own people with the gospel. In 1987 Mr. Udo left the U.S. to return to Nigeria to teach at the Believers Bible School in Ikot Ekpene.
In 1988 he married his first wife, Grace, and a year later in the process of giving birth she and the baby girl died. Because of this tragedy Mr. Udo went back to the U.S. to grieve and evaluate his future. He enrolled at Dallas Theological Seminary in Dallas TX and during his time there, he met his current wife, Uduak “Judy” (also from Nigeria) who was a student at Texas Women’s University studying computer science. Irnonically, she was also from Nigeria, not 30 miles from where Udo grew up. After their marriage in August 1992 she chose to pursue a nursing degree in order to help provide much needed healthcare to their local village. In July 1993 their first born son, Stephen arrived.
In May 1995 he graduated from Dallas Theological Seminary with a T.H.M. (Masters of Theology) and their second son, Samuel was born.
In 1997 Uduak obtained her B.S. N. in Nursing and was board certified. Upon her graduation the family returned to Nigeria in November 1997, where they began to minister to the local community. In May 1998, their third son, James was born.
On December 31, 2004, Aniefiok resigned his positions with Believer’s Assembly to begin his dream for establishing Africa Outreach, Inc. God has directed him through this new work to more effectively meet the spiritual and physical needs of the people in Nigeria and the surrounding countries. The ministry under Udo’s leadership has purchased 15 acres and have completed the construction of a Pastor’s Resource Center that also is the home for Fellowship Bible Church Nigeria. Future plans include a medical clinic and a training facility to teach people vocational skills and how to provide food for their family. Welding, Carpentry, automobile mechanics, and computers are among the vocational skills he envisions offering.
There is a great need for books in order to train the pastors and help them as they grow new churches. Africa Outreach Inc has obtained 501-C3 status and all gifts made to the organization are tax deductible.
E-mail: udo@africaoutreachinc.com
Website (Africa Outreach): www.africaoutreachinc.com
Reports: December '07
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Pastor Angel and Nelida Barrientos
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I have been married to Nelida Barrientos for 24 years and have 2 children, Abraham (22 years old) and Heidi (20 years old). I have been working in the ministry for 23 years, involved in both the church and school. I was a chaplain for 18 years in a school directed by Germans (the Gutenberg School in Comas) and was able to plant a church through the fruit of the work with the school.
My ministry has been focused on marriages (the family), and through the people in Comas that I came to know and love in this work, I was invited to lead the church in Comas as their senior pastor in January, 2007. I accepted the invitation out of obedience to God. Today we are all working on a project to reach all of Comas for Christ. I work with 11 other pastors who make up a great team to achieve our vision.
Email: angelobarri@hotmail.com
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Rosemary Khamati
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Rosemary is the Africa Director of Sudan Partners International SPI headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya. Rosemary oversees all Africa operations of SPI and Sudan Evangelical Alliance SEA Partners. She personally makes trips to facilitate and work with locals in Sudan and oversees and assists with the projects taking place “on the ground” in Sudan. Currently SPI is in the process of building a school for children in Boma, Sudan. Rosemary is actively involved in every aspect of this project, from hiring staff, to arranging the logistics of having all supplies brought in from outside the area, to encouraging those doing the hard work on the ground.
Rosemary also coordinates Sunday school teacher’s trainings all over Sudan, and assists in bringing over teams from all over the world to teach and help in all these projects. In addition to all her work in Sudan, Rosemary runs the office in Nairobi, handling the communications, daily operations and presenting the public “face” of SPI and SEA Partners in Africa.
Email: Rosemary@sea-partners.org
Website SEA Partners : www.sea-partners.org
Updates: 5-17-2006 5-10-2006
SEAP Newsletters: April 2006
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Pastor Benson Mutisya
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Pastor Benson is African Leadership's Regional Director of East Africa and the National Director of Kenya. He has about 4,000 pastors and church leaders under his care.
Website (African Leadership): www.africanleadership.org
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Pastor Darko Mikulic
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Pastor Darko leads a church of 25 people in Slavonski Brod, Croatia. They have been renting meeting space for their worship service each week and are currently trying to raise money to purchase their own property. Here’s a brief bio of Darko that will help you get to know him better:
Pastor Darko Mikulic was born in 1976 in Sisak, Croatia. He grew up in a Christian family, attending the church which was located next to his home in Moscenica. He accepted Jesus Christ as his savior and was baptized when he was 12 years old. He felt the call for ministry near the end of high school in 1995, after which he decided to attend the Evangelical Theological Seminary at Osijek. In 1998, at the request of missionary Tony Pedroni, he came to Slavonski Brod as an intern and interpreter for the summer missionary team. He and his fiancé Gorana continued to participate in the Slavonski Brod ministries while he finished his seminary education. In 1999, upon finishing seminary, he and Gorana were married and they moved to Slavonski Brod. Under the mentorship of Tony Pedroni he began his full time ministry of preaching, teaching, and evangelism. Grateful for the given opportunity, in 2000 he accepted the position of pastor of the Slavonski Brod Baptist Church and was ordained by the Baptist union of Croatia. Darko and Gorana are caring parents of their three children: daughters Lara (born 2000) and Hana (born 2003), and son Matija (born 2005). Their mutual desire is to see more and more people come to a saving faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and surrender in service to Him, so that God can build His Church which will be a light house of love in our town.
Email: To contact Pastor Darko, please email btunnell@FellowshipNashville.org
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Pastor Dinislam
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Salpagarov Dinislam is the pastor of a small church in Karachaevsk ssociated with the Church of Evangelical Christian-Baptists union in Russia. We have been partnering with him and his church for over two years. They face the unique challenge of proclaiming the Gospel in a predominantly Muslim community. Here’s a brief bio of Pastor Dinislam that will help you get to know him a little better:
"I was born in 1977. When I was 14 years old I finished special muslim school. But when I was 16 years old I disapointed in Islam and continued my searches. One day I played cards with some people and I win and I got Bible for Kids this way. I was interested and did read whole book for one night. And that day I prayed first time in my life not in Arabic language but just by simple words and asked God to send people who will share my new faith and explain more to me. Then later I found Gospels and Acts and were reading it and wrote down some verses from there. IN 6 months I met believers - they were from Baptist church. So I came to Christ then when I was 16 years old. Now I am 29 years old. When I was 20 years old and I came back after army service I went to bible school.
After I finished it we planted one church together with friends in Dzheguta city. It is existed still. But that days it was hard for me to stay longer there because all my relatives were coming ad pushing on me and beating me so I decided to escape to Karachaevsk city. We went there together with my sister, she also came to Christ 3 years later me . In Karachaevsk I met Misha - he was a pastor and we worked together for some time. We had a good team.
Then Misha was saying that he is tired and wants to go off the ministry and I was already lay handed as a pastor, and 2 years ago Misha quit finally and I became working as pastor of Baptist church in Karachaevsk. I also got married when I was 25 years old, my wife's name is Inna. Now we have 2 kids. One daughter and one son he will be born soon - in one month -in Feb 2007 . This is my simple story.
Email: To contact Pastor Dinislam, please email da614feick@bellsouth.net
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Mr. & Mrs. Fellowship
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This Fellowship couple is partnering with a ministry in a closed country in East Asia that is working to grow the Church there and equip it's members to give their lives away. Helping establish and empower local churches in this country is seen as a key element in reaching this nation for Christ. For security reasons, their true identity cannot be published on the web.
Email: MrMrsFellowship@FellowshipNashville.org
Updates: 9-16-2006 8-14-2006 6-22-2006 2-10-2006
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The Edgar's
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Ken and Irene are once again stateside while they prayerfully consider where God is calling them to serve next. See updates below to read their most recent newsletter.
Email: ken_edgar@wycliffe.org
Updates: 2.5.2008 9.27.2007
Photos: Ken & Irene
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Erin Welton
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Erin will be spending the next year in Mozambique, Africa. She will be manifesting the love of God to impoverished, underserved populations in one of the poorest countries in the world. She will be ministering in many different ways - through church planting; education of Mozambican pastors; medical assistance (to over 800 children); outreach projects; and orphan care.
Erin is a registered nurse and will be caring for and overseeing the medical needs of the baby house (40 children birth through 5-year-olds) with the help of a western nursing assistant and a Mozambican nurse. She will also be helping another western nurse with the AIDS/HIV program in relation to the 25% of the children that are affected.
In her own words Erin‘s desire is to "affect a nation I believe God is moving amongst in a mighty way and preparing to be His army to spread the Gospel throughout Africa by lovingly being His hands while providing medical care to the orphans in Mozambique. I hope to help them grow their baby house to accommodate even more children as they move into the planning phase of moving the older children out earlier to create more space for children that are so desperately seeking our God in a place that has left them without hope. I just want them to be able to grow in a place where they are surrounded by the love, light, and life of Christ."
Erin’s email: weltoem@msn.com
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Clay & Ruth
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Clay and Ruth and their three children will soon be leaving for Skopje, Macedonia to answer God’s call on their lives to bring the hope of Christ to the hopeless in this part of the world. Their ministry will be frontline church planting using evangelism through apologetics and
business, discipleship through small groups, and leadership training through a ministry called Barnabas.
Macedonia is 65% Orthodox Christian (Slavs), but for most “Orthodox” is only a name. 33% of the population is Muslim (Albanian and Turkish), and only 0.1% is evangelical Christian. Clay and Ruth believe that the most effective and biblical way to evangelize the lost is through church planting. SEND is a church planting mission and has had a presence in Macedonia since the early 1990’s after the country split away peacefully from Yugoslavia.
Due to their background and interests, they would like to target the professional, educated class of Macedonian society. Clay has long had an interest in apologetics and matters of faith and science and would like to organize apologetics events and study groups to engage those with intellectual barriers to faith. With three engineering degrees between them and Clay’s work experience as a scientific reviewer for the FDA, they have felt the tension of faith and science and would like to help show others that faith in the God of the Bible and his son Jesus Christ is a reasonable position.
Please pray with them as they prepare to go and engage a foreign culture for Christ.
Email: clayruth@gmail.com
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