We, as part of the body of Christ, at Westminster Presbyterian take Matthew 28:19-20 seriously. As we are only part of the body of Christ, we see that it is our privilege to support , both in prayer and financially, the following missions and missionaries.

Missions Receiving Support

Presbyterian Church in America Agencies

Administration Committee, Christian Education & Publications, Covenant College, Covenant Seminary, Mission to North America, Mission to the World

Other Congregational Designations for Support

North Texas Presbytery (PCA)

Southwest Church Planting Network

Reformed Theological Seminary

Westminster Theological Seminary (Dallas)

Gainesville Ministerial Alliance

ABBA Women's Crisis Pregnancy Center 

 Resources  

PCA

Churches

Education

Seminary

Creeds

Current Events 

Websites

Study Aid 

Book Stores 

 Blogs 

REFORMED RESOURCES

Missionaries receiving support from Westminster Presbyterian Church

Send inquiries about missionaries through the church. wpc-general@wpcgtx.org or (for MTW/PCA missionaries) to PCA’s Mission to the World   http://www.mtw.org/

 

Gene and LuAnn Bowman (MTW-PCA)

Gene and LuAnn have three adult children and four grand-children. Since 1988, God has used their participation in short-term mission projects to call them to a life in missions.  Gene now serves as Team Leader with BEAMM, (Border Evangelism and Mercy Ministries.) Based in El Paso, they work with all BEAMM ministries along the 2000 mile U.S./Mexican border, providing leadership and administrative assistance.  They also recruit new church planters and promote the work of BEAMM to churches of the Presbyterian Church in America and the National Presbyterian Church of Mexico.

Many people come to the border because they are able to find employment and attain a Mexican upper-middle class level of living.  Many are very open to hearing the gospel and receiving Christ.  Upon returning to their hometowns, they become community leaders and are instrumental in planting churches in their communities.

 

Dawn Brady Sparks (MTW-PCA)

Dawn, the daughter of a PCA minister, is a Certified Public Accountant. She has served six years in Kiev, Ukraine as Team Administrator, assisting the church-planting Team with administrative and financial details.  In April 2008, during her year’s Home Ministry Assignment, Dawn married Steve Sparks, whom she met when he went to Ukraine on a short-term Mission trip with his church.  At this time, (2008) their future plans are a bit uncertain.  Dawn will be visiting with her supporting churches and exploring avenues of service with her husband.

 

Juan and Rose (TEAM)

Rose is the niece of Westminster’s Dr. Marge Hendry and her brother Bob.  She and Juan with their young son Luca, served many years in restricted nations, living among, teaching, and witnessing to Muslims.  In 2005, they moved to Granada, Spain teaching in and administering a school established for the purpose of teaching Spanish speaking Christians how to witness to Muslims.  Currently, (2008) they are in the States, where Juan is on Medical leave, recovering from a severe illness his doctor’s describe as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.  At present, they are on deputation visiting supporters and supporting churches.  Juan also continues to develop and teach courses on Islam and ministry among Muslims. As to their future field of ministry this is being discussed by their mission agency leaders.

  

Keith and Debbie (MTW-PCA)

Keith and Debbie, parents of four adult children, ended their Home Ministry Assignment in June 2008 and are now in transition from West Africa where they served for ten years to a new Enterprise (Muslim) ministry in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. This new work will focus on the development of leadership for church planting. Presently they are doing groundwork in preparation for this new ministry. In addition, during the transition time they will be involved internationally with pre-field training for missionaries and helping start a new Enterprise work in the Caribbean. They are available to speak in churches and consult with churches interested in Muslim ministry.

  

John and Kathy Lesondak (MTW-PCA)

John and Kathy, the parents of six children, have served as missionaries in the Seychelles Islands, Kenya, the Czech Republic, and since 1997 in Trnava, Slovakia.  John is the team leader of the MTW Slovakia team based there.  Upon their return from their HMA (Home Ministry Assignment) in the fall of 2008, they will begin the process of launching a new church planting site in a city still to be determined. They will leave behind in Trnava a strong MTW team which will continue its outreach into more of Trnava working alongside of members of their first church plant which is now under national leadership.

  

Gary and Phyllis Waldecker (MTW-PCA)

Gary and Phyllis, parents of four adult children, served as church planters in Chile from 1983.  For the first 8 years they lived & worked among the poor in western Santiago.  Then Gary became the team leader of a church planting team whose focus was the unreached upper middle class of Viña del Mar.  Gary was Regional Director for South America for about 7 years and is currently the leader of a new resource team for all of Latin America. One of the tasks of this team is supporting our missionaries in the development of training programs for new national leadership, requiring extensive travel.

They currently live in Chattanooga, TN, where Phyllis works as a nurse in a hospital emergency room and Gary travels to his work in Latin America.  Gary has passed his exams and looks forward to defending his dissertation in pursuit of a doctorate in Organizational Learning at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

 

Dr. John Werner (HINTS International)

Dr. Werner, a widower, father of two and grandfather of five, is chairman of Help In New Testament Studies.  He is a missionary professor.  He is an ordained minister, now in the official status of retired minister. He is known as one of the premier experts in ancient Greek, and, although officially retired, his “Have Greek, Will Travel” motto still keeps him traveling to countries around the world.

For the past several years, representing HINTS International, he has traveled all over the world to help Bible translators and to teach in Seminaries and Colleges, wherever his expertise is needed.  He has gone to such countries as Papua New Guinea, Korea, Siberia, Ethiopia, Sudan, India, and Nepal, and, most recently, to Indonesia, Pakistan and Ukraine.

 

Bruce and Susan Young (MTW-PCA)

After more than 30 years in Japan (Bruce was born in Japan of missionary parents), in 2004 Bruce and Susan (parents of three adult children) began a NEW phase of service.  They now live in the Atlanta area and serve the Japanese people and our mission to them from there.  They spend about four months of the year in Japan, teaching and mentoring those missionaries and Japanese pastors serving there.  In the states they serve Japanese nationals who have found Christ while living in the U.S. and help to prepare them for witnessing to their own people when they return to Japan, as so many of them do, seeking to build a bridge to connect them to the church in Japan. 

In addition, Bruce & Susan serve as facilitators for the Living in Grace conferences and seminars for missionaries and PCA churches through the Spiritual Life Department of Mission to the World.  More and more, their work is drawing them into training and mentoring beginning missionaries in learning to adjust to cultures, learning methods to mastering a foreign language and how to be a team player, requiring much travel around the world.

 

Aaron and Leticia Zapata (MNA-PCA)

Aaron grew up in Yucatan, Mexico, in a Christian family.  He married Leticia in 1976. They have three adult children. He worked as a civil engineer for five years while serving as a lay leader in the church.  Feeling a call to become a pastor, Aaron attended Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, MS, where he obtained Master of Divinity and Master of Christian Education degrees.  Since then, Aaron has pastored five churches and has served as president of the San Pablo Theological Seminary in Mérida, Mexico.  Aaron and Leticia have now served with BEAMM (Border Evangelism And Mercy Ministries, a Presbyterian Church in America organization) in El Paso for the past eleven years.

Aaron now serves as Sub-Director of San Pablo Seminary in Juarez.  At present there are about 20 students in the School of Theology.  Funds have been found to purchase a building for joint use by the seminary and Gracia y Paz Church.