Shel & Kim Arensen

Scott & Sarah Carey

Jerry & Beth Crosby

David & Karen DeGraaf

Tom & Colleen Feeney

Matt & Tina Huisjen

Stephan & Michelle Jang

Terry & Lori Jackson

Scott & Elaine Jennings

Alec Kemper

David & Theresa Knauss

Todd & Cathy Lindley

Waffle & Val Lomilo

Iliya & Becky Majam

Jonathan & Janie Martin

Paul & Karyn Meier

Matt & Sharon Mormance

Pray for each person’s SPIRITUAL WALK

For renewal in the inner self

For strength to stand firm in their faith

For consistent devotions and prayer

Pray for each person’s PHYSICAL health

For adjustment to different time/climate

For strength, stamina and health

For safety in travel

Pray for each person’s FAMILY 

For families left behind

For their testimony to their extended family

For husband and wives, and for the children

Tom & Colleen Feeney

Field: Argentina

Agency: Sunrise Childrens Home

Tom and Colleen work at an Orphanage in the city of San Nicolas, Argentina called the Sunrise Children’s Home. Tom is the official Chaplain of the Orphanage which makes him and Colleen like surrogate parents for many of the 80 plus children (infant – 18) at the home.

They love involving the kids in many activities where they can learn and discover new things about God, His love, and themselves. They help transport kids to Sunday school, Adorarte (a weekly workshop that teaches kids different ways to worship God via art, music, acting, etc.), Boys and Girls Clubs, and weekly Bible club class, and more. They also host weekly meetings in their home for teens.

Nick & Hertha Troutt

Field: Haiti

Agency: Interlink Ministries

Nick and Hertha live in Haiti. Nick serves at the American University of the Caribbean in Les Cayes, Haiti as an English Teacher. He is also a qualified Mason and continues to teach and train locals in the art of building. In addition, he is very involved in the Deaf School ministry in Les Cayes.

Shel & Kym Arensen

Field: Kenya

Agency: Commission To Every Nation

Shel and Kym Arensen serve in Naivasha, Kenya. Shel works with the Dorobo, a hunter-gatherer group in Kenya’s highlands, planting churches and discipling church leaders. He is also involved in friendship evangelism among several other unreached people groups. Kym is the curriculum director for Eden Adventures, which teaches creation care in local government schools, as well as providing outdoor camping experiences for children from homes for street kids. She also volunteers at Little Hands, a mainstream schoolf for children with disabilities.

Faith Russell

Field: Serbia

Agency: Josiah Venture

Faith grew up at Good Shepherd and served on many different summer teams to Serbia. Through those trips, Faith fell in love with the people of Serbia. For the past five years, Faith has served in Serbia, working with the youth in her local church, teaching, training and discipling students.

Matt & Sharon Mormance

Field: Slovenia

Agency: Josiah Venture

Matt and Sharon live in Ljubljana, Slovenia. In addition to serving on the JV Slovenia Leadership Team, Matt overseas  Member Care, Interns, and the University Ministry. Sharon is also on the Member Care team with special care for JV single women in Slovenia. She is also the Intern program assistant and continues to disciple young women in the city.

Matt and Sharon have three children, Maia, Eliana and Alex.

Josh & Kristi Patty

Field: Slovenia

Agency: Josiah Venture

Josh and Kristi live in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Josiah Venture desires to see a movement of God among the youth of this region that finds its home in the local church and transforms society. To that end, Josh is Regional Balkan Director for Josiah Venture, and elder/pastor at their local church.  Kristi overseas all of the JV country leader wives, encouraging and discipling them, as well discipling women in their local church.

Josh and Kristi have four children, Blake, Rebecca, Kendra and Luke.

Jerry & Beth Crosby

Field: Oregon

Agency: InterAct

Jerry is HR and administrator for InterAct Ministries and is stationed at their home office on Kelso Rd. InterAct has ministry in Siberia, Alaska and Canada. Jerry and Beth are both very active in the life at GSCC. Jerry is an Adult Bible Study leader and Beth is a Women’s Bible Study leader, speaker and serves on the writing team.

Terry & Lori Jackson

Field: USA

Agency: Barnabas International

After fifteen years on the mission field and many more in church ministry, Terry and Lori are now working with Barnabas International, caring for individuals and families on the mission field. Their focus is on the Balkan region, traveling multiple times a year to agency conferences and to offer respite to weary workers. They will also be engaged in helping local churches care for their missionaries, as well as counseling and debriefing missionaries.

Scott & Elaine Jennings

Field: Florida

Agency: Cru

Scott and Elaine are serving in Orlando, working at Campus Crusade for Christ International headquarters. Scott is training operations leaders in a new global financial system. Elaine works with women around the globe in an effort to encourage the community through the Cru website.

Scott and Elaine have three children, Stephen, Anna, Phillip.

Alec Kemper

Field: USA

Agency: YWAM

After serving with YWAM in both New Zealand and more recently just an hour away in Salem, Alec is in the beginning stages of planting a brand new YWAM location in Damascus, Oregon. He is currently building a team and networking in the Greater Portland area and is looking forward to continuing to train that next generation in the Great Commission.

David & Theresa Knauss

Field: USA

Agency: Life Impact Ministries

David and Theresa met at Good Shepherd in the 80’s. Now with over 30 years of cross-cultural experience, including church planting in Central Asia, they lead Life Impact and provide pastoral care for Life Impact’s US and global staff. Life Impact provides hosted places of rest where missionaries and pastors (both foreign and nationals) can receive skilled, personalized care, and experience the goodness of God while finding refreshment and encouragement for their souls. David & Theresa’s love and passion for the Lord and their heart for His ministry leaders goes hand in hand. They have four grown children and three grandsons.

Todd & Cathy Lindley

Field: USA

Agency: Wycliffe

After a decade of service in Papua New Guinea, Todd and Cathy have returned to the Pacific Northwest. In May of 2022, Todd came on staff at Good Shepherd as the new Connect Ministry Director. In summer 2022, Cathy will be transitioning to a new role within Wycliffe USA, continuing to support Wycliffe staff and Bible translation throughout the globe.

Jonathan & Janie Martin

Field: USA

Agency: Co-Serve International

Jonathan and Janie live in Oregon and serve around the world with Co-Serve International. They teach and mentor the principal Biblical servant leadership. This involves working with the missionaries, their teams, their organizations, and their sending churches with the goal to help them share Jesus’ love through building thriving servant-led communities.

Karl & Gwynn Schumacher

Field: USA

Agency: Cru International

Karl and Gwynn live in Sandy, OR. Karl’s ministry focus includes seminaries in Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe. He works with Cru International to help get the Theological development they need to effectively do the work they do in evangelism, discipleship, and leadership training for community impact. He also works with the International Leadership Consortium (ILC) to maximize the contribution of member institutions in equipping kingdom-leaders to build spiritual movements that transform society.

Karl and Gwynn have seven children, Joshua, Graham, Micah, Hannah, Zachary, Josiah and Grace.

Waffle & Val Lomilo

Field: Uganda

Agency: New Horizons

Val and Waffle are serving with CLIDE, an indigenous Ugandan organization working among the Karamojong in NE Uganda. Val is a Veterinarian and Waffle is a “Jack of all Trades”. They are currently developing two new ministries: agro-forestry and herbal medicine development. In addition to this, they have been involved in many different evangelistic and humanitarian areas in the region they live in, including Peace Villages, church planting, evangelism, training and building church leaders, clean drinking water and well digging, education and Bible programs and medical programs.

J

Field: Africa

J has been appointed to minister in Africa, and is hoping to use her agriculture and business skills as part of a team of missionaries. She will begin language school soon. 

E & J

Field: Asia

E and J and their family moved to Central Asia fifteen years ago. They work in a remote area and have been part of a team involved in a variety of agricultural projects over the years. E has also been working on a number of translation projects and seminary level classes for locals.

Z & M

Field: Central Asia

Z & M live and work in Central Asia. Their vision is to see multiplying house churches among the target people group. As the associate field leader, Z’s job is to facilitate the teams to continue to move toward the company vision which is: “We want to see vibrant communities of Jesus followers among the least reached.”

They recently moved to the capital to begin a parallel team working with the same minority people group that they were working with in the mountains. They are forming relationships with people from this community and will begin small seeker study groups that they hope will grow into house churches. They will also be doing discipleship movement training with local believers from their target people group.

D & J

Field: Africa & Asia

D & J are faithful staff who are serving through aviation to help alleviate human suffering. J ministers in their local community through encouraging women and hospitality.

Myrna Alexander

Myrna and her husband, Ralph, retired from working for SEND. They served for years behind the Iron Curtain and in Moscow where they taught and helped start Seminary training in post-Soviet nations. Although Ralph suffered from Parkinsons, the Alexanders continued to greatly influence our body through their prayers and care. Ralph was for years one of the foremost OT scholars and archeologists in our nation, having studied Hebrew at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in the mid 60’s. He taught at both Dallas Theological Seminary and at Western Seminary. Myrna was for years a much sought after speaker and Bible teacher and she is the author of several Bible study books for women. Ralph went to be with Lord at the end of March of 2020.

Marshall & Joy Christensen

After Marshall retired as President of Warner Pacific College, he has devoted his time and energy to developing Servant Leadership courses and teaching material. He is the founder of Co-Serve and has been instrumental in teaching and leading university level courses on Servant Leadership in many countries.

Earle & Doris Senn

Earle and Doris are officially retired, but continue to pour their hearts and lives into serving Nigerian brothers and sisters both through visits to the country and through hosting them at their home here in Troutdale. They are also very commited to reaching the local international students in the area.

Don & Suzie Warren

Don serves on a “Business as Mission” farm in Ghana, West Africa. He oversees many of the aspects of the running of the farm, trains and mentors locals and preaches in local churches on the weekends.