Berean Baptist Church

Eddie and Rachel Andersen serve in Northern Kenya with their six children: Uriah, Ja-el, Acacia, Miriam, Silas, and Ezra. Located in Dukana, Kenya, the Andersen’s work includes evangelism and discipleship through practical skills and Bible teaching. They work among the Gabbra people, a nomadic pastoralist group who live in the desert herding camels, cattle, goats and sheep. The Gabbra people are an unreached people group of 89,000 people with approximately 200 known believers.
The Andersens have lived in East Africa since 2008. Eddie grew up as a missionary kid in Kenya and Rachel comes from Michigan. They met at Bible college while pursuing degrees in cross cultural studies. Eddie uses his skills in mechanics and engineering to reach out to people in the community while Rachel, pursuing midwifery studies, is able to build relationships while helping women and babies. Their children are home schooled as well as attend a boarding school for missionary children located in Kenya.

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Seth Beebe

Seth came to know Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior as a child, while living in Nova Scotia, Canada.  His family moved to Maine and he was baptized at age 8 in Livermore, Maine. Seth grew in his heart for the Lord and for people.  Through his studies at Word of Life Bible Institute, he was called into Christian ministry.  This call would be affirmed while studying at Baptist Bible College (PA.), ministering in Indiana, and studies and ministry at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (KY.), where he obtained his MDiv in Missions, Evangelism, and Church Growth.

Over the past 12 years, the Lord put a burden for Canada on his heart, an interest in engaging people from other world religions, cross-cultural ministry, and a desire to engage in cutting-edge missions’ strategy of reaching the unreached people groups who are immigrating to Global Cities in the West.  Having previously worked in missions in Toronto, from 2011-2013, Seth is now back in Toronto with Global Gates to proclaim the gospel, make new disciples, form churches, develop leaders and strengthen existing churches in the task of reaching the ends of the earth through Toronto.

Growing up in Maine, Seth, is a lover of the outdoors and a diehard Boston Red Sox fan.  You can take the boy out of Maine, but you can never take Maine out of the boy – Ayuh!

Judy received Christ as her Savior when she was eight years old, while attending church with her family (Navy) in Tennessee. When she was 12 years old, the Navy moved her family to Maine, and it was at Berean Baptist Church that the Lord began to draw her heart towards missions. At the age of 14, while at Word of Life camp, she committed her life to the Lord to go anywhere/do anything for Him. Judy began teaching 5 Day Clubs with Child Evangelism Fellowship the following year. She graduated from Tennessee Temple University with a BRE in missions in 1986. She then worked for two years while researching mission boards, until God led her to ABWE in mid-1988. In September of 1990, after just a year of raising support and then attending linguistics training, Judy left the U.S. for language study in Quebec, Canada. She arrived in Togo on March 1, 1992. She was instrumental in developing the literature ministry, leading to the opening of the Communications Resource Center (CRC) in 1996, which she continues to manage. The CRC is a bookstore and print shop that provides affordable Christian books, Bibles, and other literature to the local people in several languages. In addition to print materials, the CRC is developing an audio/visual ministry for distribution of scriptures, edifying music, videoed seminars, etc. Judy’s other ministries include creation and mission’s photography with the goal of introducing our Creator to the Togolese and others, as well as assisting with logistics Community Health Evangelism and lending support to the Togolese as they plan and execute camp for kids and teens in the summer months. Judy would appreciate your prayers as she serves in Togo. http://www.abwe.org/

Eric & Lori live in Oakland, ME they have three children Courtney, Nathan & Kristyn.

We are missionaries with Word of Life Local Church Ministries.
Word of Life’s desire is to help the church as it spreads the Gospel, disciples, and develops leaders that reproduce leaders.
We love spending time with not only youth, but youth leaders and pastors in local churches.
We are passionate about serving local churches here in Northern New England in any way that we can.
Sometimes that “serving” is helping churches use Word of Life’s awesome youth ministry tools, speaking at a church or youth group, or simply spending time with a pastor.
We are so thankful to be a part of such an incredible ministry!

http://www.wol.org/

Kent and Becky Bryant are leaders of the Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF) work in the island nation of Fiji. Before their marriage, Becky served two terms in Gabon, West Africa as a CEF missionary. Kent started as CEF missionary to Fiji in 1986. Their passion is to train teachers to teach the Word of God to boys and girls. The Bryant’s have two children.

CEF has been in Fiji since 1953. The national office has either been a rented apartment or home. For the past eleven years, it was in the Bryant’s home. In 2007, God provide funds to purchase a piece of property on which to build a national CEF office. In 2010, a boundary fence was erected to provide security. Because there is no indoor training facility in the current house, which also has significant structural issues, the Bryants hope to soon construct the new office/training center.
http://www.cefonline.com/

At the age of four at a family camp in Uruguay, where my parents are missionaries, after the children’s class, I indicated that I wanted to receive Christ as my Savior. The teacher took three of us aside and explained John 3:16. When I was 12, at another camp, I dedicated my life to the Lord—whatever He wanted of me, I was available!
After turning 15, while living in Ecuador, I had my first taste of Child Evangelism Fellowship®. The workers there encouraged me to go to Children’s Ministries Institute in Brazil. After that, I was off to Word of Life in Argentina and that was the end of my contact with CEF® (or so I thought). When I returned home (to Uruguay) from school, I got back in touch with CEF. After a couple years, the CEF workers retired and I kind of “inherited” the job. Vassilios Constantinidis came to Uruguay various times and spoke of the need. I knew it was the Lord who had prepared the way for me.
From April, 2004 until now I’ve been working with children, training teachers and the various other ministries involved with CEF.
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After graduating from New Brunswick Bible Institute (NBBI) in Canada, Jim spent a year and a half as an assistant pastor. He and Debbie were accepted as career missionaries to Uruguay in December 1978. Deb, a “PK” from Maine, is also, an NBBI graduate. Jim and Debbie Carter have been church-planters in Uruguay since, 1981.A new church in the city of La Paz, started in 2000 grew to a place where it was turned over to a national pastor. They have three children grown children, 2 daughters-in-law’s, and 3 grandchildren. Their daughter Abby is also serving in Uruguay, as a missionary with CEF. Present ministry includes teaching in the Uruguayan Bible College, pulpit supply, CEF support ministry, maintaining and hosting at the GMSA mission house in Montevideo.

Joe is one of our “Home-Grown” missionaries from Berean. In January 2000 he followed God into fulltime ministry with CCC on the Orono campus of the University of Maine. Joe met Angie on a Lifelines summer project and they were married in 2003. At the University of Maine 75% of all freshmen indicate they have no spiritual background. Joe helped start the Lifelines ministry at the U of M in 2000. Lifelines is the outdoor/adventure ministry of CCC whose mission is to use the outdoor experience to help students grow in their relationship with God, with each other, and in leadership/character. We seek to be involved in Non-Christians lives long term in order to help guide them into a saving faith in Jesus Christ. In 2010, The Lifelines ministry expanded to it’s sixth campus at Cornell University, and now have 26 full time staff and 4 interns. Joe and Angie live in Old Town, Maine