Missionaries We Support

Joseph Dennison

Rev. Joseph Dennison is the founder and president of Berachah Ministries and Missions in India. It is a Christian ministry, committed to proclaim the love of Christ, obeying His great Commission (Matt 28:18-20). He has been serving the Lord since 1977, first with Campus Crusade for Christ in different parts of India till 1996 and then leading his own independent ministry. He has a degree in B.Sc. and M.A. in English literature and M.Div. in Theology. His wife also serves the Lord with him. He has two children, the elder one Judy who has a B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering and also studied in Christ For the Nations, Dallas for 3 years. She had her internship completed in House of Praise International Church in May 2010. His son, Hagin pursues his studies in a degree program.
Their ministries concentrate atleast in five areas.

Work among the professionals in the marketplace. It includes personal evangelism, follow-up and discipleship in small groups.
Church planting ministry. Establishing churches in villages and among the tribals.
Conducting seminars and conferences.
Berachah Bible College and Training Center.
Doing social and welfare work among widows, sick and old people.

For further information, please visit our website: www.bmmission.org
Email : berachahministry@gmail.com

Ruth Ruibal

Julio and Ruth Ruibal started Ekklesía Colombian Christian Center in Cali, Colombia, 1978 – a local church with ministries in education, health and communication. After Julio’s martyrdom in December 1995, Ruth and their two daughters, Abby and Sarah, stayed on – Ruth as senior pastor in Ekklesía. Due to continued threats against the lives and families of the leadership, over the next five year period the elders and leaders left for other countries. At the same time, threatened congregational members left, but the Lord sent new people, some who visited out of curiosity. They found the Lord, were discipled, and several are now being trained for leadership. The vision is to raise leaders who will not only take their place in the local church, but be used to help establish and strengthen other churches.

Ruth continues to be a vital part of the city-church leadership and an instrument to bring unity to the pastors in Cali. However, the message and ministry of unity that the Lord has given her has gone beyond their borders to over 30 countries in all six inhabited continents. Her travels make it all more imperative for strong leadership to be raised in the local church.

Abby, married in March 2008, continues her studies towards a masters’ degree in Child and Family Therapy at Liberty University. She and her husband, Shane Holcomb, have a call to full-time ministry and counseling. Sarah, to be married in October 2008 to Nathan Bashaw, is active in Ekklesía and the church’s grade school where she teaches choreography and disciples teens. She frequently accompanies Ruth in international ministry.

Newsletters

For more information about this ministry or to view our monthly newsletters, visit our website: www.ruibalministries.com.

Ken & Diana Kaasik

Kenneth and Diana were born again in the late 1970’s and met in the largest Assemblies of God Bible college in Springfield, Missouri. After graduating from this four-year Bible school, they were married and immediately left to go to Rhema Bible Training Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma in the early 1980’s. After graduating Rhema, they were actively involved many years in various ministries in the local church. Kenneth has been licensed and ordained with Rhema Ministerial Association International (RMAI) for approximately 15 years.

Kenneth Kaasik grew up in an Estonian household, having parents who escaped from Estonia during the Soviet take-over in 1944. Ken’s first language was Estonian.

Kenneth and Diana left for what was then the Soviet Union in early summer of 1990 with their 3-year old daughter and 1-year old son. They were planning to move to continental Europe as missionaries when they received a surprise invitation to move to Soviet-Estonia from Ken’s cousins who were the most popular singing group in the nation at the time, having much favor with the leadership of Estonia.

The Kaasiks were the first Word of Faith or full-Gospel missionaries to take up residence in Soviet Estonia, and possibly the first in all of the USSR. This was about fourteen months before the collapse of the Soviet Union.

For more information, please see our web site: www.jkk.ee/en

Philip Murdoch

Philip & Renée Murdoch

Pastor Philip is the founder of the GAP and of Light to The Nations Church. He is responsible for planting over 35 churches in Honduras, Brazil, Argentina and Chile during the last five years. He has a degree in Civil Engineering from Louisiana State University and has worked as the administrator of Bethany World Prayer Center. He is currently the Brazil World Zone Leader for the Global 12 Project, a church planting movement.

Renée is the worship leader for Light to the Nations Church in Rio de Janeiro, and teaches worship seminars at The GAP. She is also the leader of the women’s ministry at Light to the Nations church.

For more information, please see our web site: www.luzasnacoes.org/eng.

Bill Scheidler

Bill Scheidler served as a pastor and elder at City Bible Church in Portland, Oregon from 1974-2005. During that time he functioned as a professor at Portland Bible College specializing the Local Church, Pastoral Ministry and Church Planting.

For fifteen years he oversaw the Pastoral Department of the church and the church planting process. He was actively involved in mentoring church planters within City Bible Church and also assisting other churches in developing their church planting ministries. Bill worked alongside of Dick Iverson and the Apostolic Leadership Team of Ministers Fellowship International (MFI) as the Administrator and International Director of MFI from 1997 to 2005. He continues to serve as a member of the Apostolic Leadership Team of MFI. He is actively involved in training leaders, writing and assisting the growth and development of churches both nationally and internationally.

In October of 2005, He and his wife JoAnne moved to South Africa where Bill has established a School of Ministry for the training of leaders both within City Life Church and within other churches in the area. He heads up the pastoral department and serves as the associate pastor at City Life Church. City Life Church is a multi-racial congregation that began in June of 2001 and has grown to over 2500 in population.

Bill is in the process of developing curriculum and training resources for all believers and local churches around the world. So far about 30 courses have been developed with both teachers and student manuals. These printed materials with the audio are being offered for free on the City Life Church website (citylifechurch.co.za) to make it possible for millions to be trained anywhere in the world. The School of Ministry serves as a basis for further equipping pastors and leaders in South Africa and beyond. At the present time people from over 200 nations of the world are using School of Ministry materials from the website. New students are registering at a rate of 500+ per month. Many local church training institutes are being established from Nepal to Bolivia based on the material that is being produced.

Bill is the author and/or co-author of several books including The Local Church Today, Apostles, Growing Strong Churches, Maintaining Balance and Principles of Church Life.

For more information, please see our web site: www.citylifechurch.co.za/.

Jesse and Soar McCaul

The McCaul Family came to Cambodia in April 1995 to work alongside Pastor Eric Dooley. They started with a handful of young Cambodian men – most of whom had come to the Lord the previous year through Pastor Dooley. They met in a house and began the process of helping these young men to become disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ. In 1997 Pastor Eric moved his family to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and passed the baton to Pastor Chuck McCaul. Pastor Chuck served as the senior leader of the work in Cambodia until 2006. In 2004 he began to transfer the leadership of New Life Fellowship Phnom Penh to his son, Jesse while Chuck continued to oversee the rural Church plants. Under the leadership of Pastor Chuck, Pastor Jesse and the Cambodian leadership team, the Phnom Penh church grew to one of the largest Churches in Cambodia, provincial churches were planted, leaders were trained and relief and development ministries were established. Pastor Chuck and his family returned to the U.S. in 2006 and Pastor Jesse assumed responsibility as the senior leader of New Life Fellowship of Churches, Cambodia.

The Sems

Pastor Sophea Sem is a Cambodian national, who accepted the Lord in 1997 and entered the ministry part-time in 1999 as a youth pastor and small group leader. He later came on staff at the church full-time, working with the youth, with outreach to English students, discipleship groups among the students, and leading small group Bible studies. In 2001 he was serving as an assistant pastor in New Life Fellowship, with Chuck McCaul.

Jenny Ringer came to Cambodia, originally, in 1997, as a missionary intern with the McCaul family. She lived and worked with the McCauls for one year, from 1997 to 1998, and then returned to Portland, OR, where she finished a Bachelors of Theology at Portland Bible College. Upon graduation in 1999, she returned again to Cambodia, to work with the growing church there.

New Life Fellowship, Phnom Penh Thmey

Sophea was married to Jenny in 2003. A few months later, they both felt the Lord leading them to step out and pastor a church plant that was struggling. The church is located in an area just outside the city limits, called New Phnom Penh, or Phnom Penh Thmey (in the Cambodian language). They began working with the church plant at the end of 2003 and reopened the church in 2004, with the support of House of Praise International church. Pastor Gilbert Silva and Pastor Bob Kistemaker visited Cambodia in 2003 and it was a divine appointment from the Lord! In partnership with House of Praise, the church has grown in the last 6 years and now numbers about 200 people in our weekly worship service, with around 250 members meeting in 30 small groups in homes around the community every week.