GDOP 2010 – Mission Track speakers
Mission Track Summaries
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Nicholas Osameyan
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Rev. Dr. Nicholas Osameyan is the Africa Area Director of World Thrust International.
Nicholas is the founder and General overseer of His Grace Evangelical Church. His Grace Evangelical Church is one of the leading indigenous missionary churches in Nigeria. For over the last three decades now, Nicholas has served in different capacities as a Pastor, Mission Executive, Trainer, Mission Mobilizer and Missionary.
Nicholas was a former General Secretary of the Nigeria Evangelical Missions Associations (NEMA) and currently serves as an Associate of the Mission Commission (AMC) of the world Evangelical Alliance (WEA). He is the founder and International President of the Africa Missions Outreach and Leadership Development. He travels extensively, teaching and mentoring local church leaders to become more effectively involved in evangelisation of the World (with local churches becoming strong sending bases).
Nicholas is married to Joji and they have four children. |
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Mukengeshay Mpunga
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Rev. Mukengeshay Mpunga (Shay) is the Director of Campus Crusade for Francophone Africa.
His headquarters are in Abidjan, Republic of Côte d'Ivoire. Shay served the Lord for 20 years as the National Director of Campus Crusade for Christ in the RDC. Whilst serving in this capacity Shay was able to build a strong ministry and encourage indigenous leadership despite civil war. As a result, he gives leadership to over 700 staff members, almost 200 of which are Congolese nationals. This humble servant of God is very solicited throughout the world for seminars and conferences on evangelism and discipleship training.
Shay is married to Makoyi Annie and they have five children and five grand children. Shay’s preferred scripture passage is Acts 20:24. |
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Dr. Avery Willis
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Dr. Avery T. Willis is the Executive Director of the International Orality Network.
He serves as the Ambassador for the Avery T. Willis Center for Global Outreach, Oklahoma Baptist Universits; Chairman of the OneStory Partnership Advisory Board; Member of Table 71 (strategic alliance of the largest evangelical mission agencies); Member of the management team for Call2All; and is a TWR board member.
Avery served as pastor of three Churches in Oklhoma and Texas for ten years. Together with his family they served as missionaries to Indonesia for fourteen years. Here he served as President of the Indonesian Baptist Theological Seminary. He is best known for creating the MasterLife discipleship materials in Indonesia which was translated into over 50 languages and is used in over 100 countries. Avery also led the discipleship department for LifeWay Christian Resources for the next fifteen years, after which he served as Senior Vice president for Overseas Operation of the International Mission Board, overseeing the work of 5600 missionaries in 183 countries.
Avery is married to Shirley and they have five children |
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Dr. Paul Eshleman
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Dr. Paul Eshleman is Vice President – Networks and Partnerships, for Campus Crusade for Christ International and consults on all of the major evangelism strategies of CCCI.
Additionally, Paul founded The JESUS Film Project and served as its Director for 25 years. This 2-hour film on the life of Christ has been translated into over 1,000 languages. It has been shown in every country of the world and has been viewed or heard over 6 billion times, worldwide.
Paul also provides leadership to numerous coalitions and ministry networks, including the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelism. He serves as Director for the “Finishing the Task” Movement, seeking to enlist churches to take responsibility for over 1,100 Unengaged, Unreached People Groups throughout the world who have never heard the name of Jesus.
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Peter Tarantal
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Peter Tarantal is currently the facilitator for the National Christian Leadership Development Forum which seeks to encourage a new generation of leaders, as well as respond to critical leadership issues.
Peter served OM as their National Director of OM South Africa for fourteen years. He relinquished this post and now heads up the Emerging Missions Movement for OM International, and initiative aimed at raising up workers from Africa, Latin America and Asia. He is currently the coordinator of WENSA (World Evangelisation Network of South Africa), an umbrella organisation seeking to coordinate missions in and outside South Africa. Peter also served for five years as one of the National Executive Members of The Evangelical Alliance of South Africa. He is also the Southern Africa Coordinator for MANI (Movement for African National Initiatives). In addition he also serves on the Global leadership team of the Lausanne Movement’s leadership development working group and on the Global Leadership Council of the World Evangelical Alliance Mission Commission (WEA MC)
Peter is married to Kathi and they have two children. |
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Paul Becker
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Dr. Paul Becker is founder and President of Dynamic Church Planting International.
DCPI is focused on equipping leaders to plant dynamic churches worldwide and was founded in 1995. In its first fifteen years, the Lord used DCPI to train over 35,000 leaders to establish more than 96,000 churches in 86 nations. At the end of 2009, there were over 3000 volunteer DCPI trainers and leaders actively equipping church planters in 54 nations. May God receive all the glory!
Paul has planted four churches and mentored more than 50 church planters. He is the author of four books.
Paul is married to Cathy. They live in San Diego County in the United States and have two children.
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CCH |
CCH is the DOA of Singapore Campus Crusade over an expanded area of Asia. CCH and his wife began full time ministry with SCC in 1975. He has also served as CCC’s Singapore National Director for about 10 years. He has extensive experience working with students, military, adults and professionals.
CCH and his Church Planting teams have exposed millions to Christ including populations in the interior and minority language groups. They have worked to help plant mission practicing churches. CCH and his team are the first to admit God’s favour and total dependence on God. They emphasize the importance of spiritual multiplication deeply founded on the teaching and practice of His Word.
Under CCH’s leadership, the East Asia ministry has seen the consolidation of its several ministry arms into a cohesive approach to better help see the transformation of East Asia through the Gospel. His current focus is on helping to mobilise Student and Church led movements all across East Asia that will bring about Gospel transformation and see cross-cultural missionaries sent into the world.
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Samuel Chiang
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Rev. Samuel Chiang currently serves as the Global Coordinator of the International Orality Network (ION).
ION involves over 300 participating organizations globally and aims to make the Word of God available to unreached people groups using appropriate oral strategies, which are clearly communicated in their mother tongue, so that oral communicators may hear, understand, respond, live out, and further reproduce the message of the Gospel.
Samuel was born in Taiwan, grew up and worked in Canada (Ernst & Young), graduated from Dallas Seminary where he was also on staff. He ministers alongside of the global Church, and has had extensive experiences with the Church in China. He has been involved with leadership and community development. Samuel's writings have been published in Europe, North America and Asia. He was formerly the Chief Operating Officer for TWR, an international Christian media organization.
He is currently leading a team to work on the next Lausanne and International Orality Network book, which will be released in 2010. The new book is titled Orality Breakouts: Using Heart Language To Transform Hearts.
Samuel is married to Robbi. |
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Mark Anderson
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Mark Anderson is President of the Global Pastors Network and International Director of Call2All. He is the founding member of Table 71 and also serves on the YWAM Global Leadership Advisory Board of Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College, Executive committee of Proclamation Evangelism Network of Mission America.
Mark began his ministry organising and marketing evangelistic campaigns in cities across the United States. He then pastured a church for over a decade. Mark started an evangelistic and church planting ministry and worked in Asia, Europe and Africa, planting churches, schools, medical missions.
Mark introduced a significant church-planting movement and new models of ministry. He then joined with Youth With a Mission (YWAM) in 1991. He founded YWAM Campaigns and the Impact World Tour, which conducts campaigns in more than 100 cities each year.
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Reuben E. Ezemadu
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Rev. Reuben E. Ezemadu is the founding (and currently the International) Director of the Christian Missionary Foundation Inc. Reuben served as the pioneer General Secretary and later as the Chairman of NEMA (Nigerian Evangelical Missionary Association), the General Coordinator of the Third World Missions Association (TWMA) and currently the Continental Coordinator of the Movement for African National Initiatives (MANI) as well as the Nigeria Ministry Center Director of the Development Associates International (DAI).
Reuben’s contribution to the development of the missionary movement in Nigeria and beyond has earned him many awards. He has authored and edited a number of books on Missions, as well as contributed several articles to other publications.
Reuben is married to Bosede Olaitan Ezemadu, they have four children, a son-in-law and three grandchildren. |
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Steve Evans
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Steve Evans is a senior research fellow and communications specialist affiliated with the International Center for Ethnographic Studies in Atlanta-USA. He specialises in both cross-cultural communications and oral cultures. In addition to numerous articles on orality and biblical storytelling, he has authored three book chapters.
Steve serves as the chair of the Best and Fruitful Practices Task Force of the International Orality Network and the co-chair of the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelisation’s Orality Special Interest Group.
Steve lives in Johannesburg, South Africa with his wife. |
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Madam Gla
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YAO épse GLA Marie-Claire is Head of a Gramar School in Abidjan.
National President of Alliance Christian Women in Côte d’Ivoire from February 2001 to November 2009; Secretary General of the Pan-African Alliance Women Fellowship; Member of Continental Committee of GDOP; Member of the leading team of the Alliance Church College of prayer; Member of SIM-West Africa Office.
Madam Gla is married, has 4 children and 3 grandchildren. |
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Alex Abraham
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Dr Alex Abraham CEO Operation Agape is director of Operation Agape a pioneer church planting movement in North India. He also holds the post of Honorary professor of Neurology at the Christian Medical College, Ludhiana, Punjab where he has been serving as cross cultural missionary doctor since 1980.
Dr Abraham and his organization has been instrumental in planting several thousands of churches and training several indigenous church planters all across north India in the last 20 years time.
Dr Abraham has been coordinating the Finishing The Task India initiatives in India for the last five years. He is also the Unreached People Groups coordinator under the India Missions Association (A network of missions) and National Prayer and Church Transformation initiative (a network of churches). He established the national resource center which has published several research publications on the Unreached and Unengaged People Groups including Operation India (profiles of 310 UUPGs) Serve A Language India hand book with list of all Languages and lists of all the resources in different languages.
His wife Dr Annie Abraham is also with him in the ministry involved in training grass root women leaders for the end time harvest. |
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David Swarr
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Dr. David Swarr is President and CEO of Davar Partners International, an audio Scripture engagement organization. He serves on the leadership team of the International Orality Network.
David grew up in the Middle East, has lived and worked on five continents, and has developed programs in over twenty nations including India, Hong Kong, South Africa, Brazil, England, USA and Israel. He has a rich background in cross cultural leadership including senior positions in multinational companies, NGO’s, and a university. He is a co-founder and principal of Galilead, a company specializing in leadership development in international and intercultural companies and non-profit organizations. David is passionate about the role of audio scriptures in transforming communities and believes that everyone should have the opportunity to personally engage with the Word of God in their own language.
David is married to Sharon and they live in Israel. |
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