It’s an honor to be called of God to help fulfill HIS plan for this earth. We began in our home church in Duluth, Mn. in the 1960’s. We continued working in every activity of our church including, bible training classes, nursing home ministry, youth leadership, teaching Sunday school, serving as janitors, and submitting to our Pastor and leaders. God prepared us to for the Call of Missions in Mexico and Peru.
In the late 1960’s, John F. had a vision of a boat on a long crooked brown river in a forest of green jungle. In the vision, John saw himself step off of the boat and preach to Indians he had never seen before, in a language he had never heard before. He saw thousands give their heart to the Lord. In his heart John F. knew he had been shown the Amazon River in South America.
After graduating from Language School in 1974, God opened the door for us to move into Mexico and work with seasoned missionaries who helped us learn the customs of the Aztec peoples and to live in a foreign land. We helped establish and raise up many Indigenous churches in the Sierra Madre mountains and on the coast of Veracruz. Thank God for Mexico being that stepping stone into South America.
In 1983, we began the second phase of our ministry – serving in Peru. We flew to Iquitos, Peru, and began evangelizing – sharing the gospel of Jesus. We continued flying to Iquitos and boating to surrounding jungle villages to spiritually support the indigenous tribes until we would arrive with our houseboat to live there. We bought the Houseboat, (the one in John’s vision), and navigated it to Iquitos, Peru, South America, arriving in 1988.
Our ministry has planted many indigenous churches along the Amazon River and its tributaries to people who have never heard about Jesus. In the villages and city churches, our ministry was to:
- Plant the love of Jesus,
- Teach the bible and Godly principles, having seminars for pastors and leaders,
- Training them to be leaders full of God’s love and compassion for the lost,
- To be instruments of Gods mercy and love by living victoriously, demonstrating HIS love by our conduct and obedience to HIS WORD.
- Children ministries in every village
- Training and ongoing discipleship to all believers
Some of our projects were:
- Mobile Bible school
- Church buildings and Other buildings as needed
- Bible distributions and helpful materials
- Hays water purification System
- Building docks for boats and aircraft
- Ministry events