OUtreach profiles
Missionary
A missionary is one who is called by God to initiate evangelistic strategies and strong gospel witness for the effective establishing of local, indigenous churches characterized by true worship of God, effective biblical nurture of believers, and evangelization of unbelievers, to the end that these churches will reproduce themselves. This work occurs in a specific, strategic cross-cultural context involving the crossing of cultural-linguistic barriers.
Missionary Partner
A missionary partner is one who is primarily engaged in mobilizing missionaries or providing practical, technical or administrative services required by a sending agency to support the missionary who is sent by the local church.
EVANGELIST
An evangelist is one who is primarily engaged in evangelism of unbelievers and ongoing discipleship of Christians alongside the local church. They may do this by providing practical, technical or administrative services targeted at specific, strategic demographics in the US working within a parachurch organization and being commissioned/sent by the local church.
Church Planter
A church planter is one who is called by God to initiate evangelistic strategies and strong gospel witness for the effective establishing of local, indigenous churches characterized by true worship of God, effective biblical nurture of believers, and evangelization of unbelievers, to the end that these churches will reproduce themselves.
CHURCH REVITALIZER
A church revitalizer is one who is called to do most the same activities of a planter as evangelism/discipleship, hospitality, etc. But within an existing particular church who needs spiritual vitality, biblical leadership, and a new vision for faithful growth in and service unto Christ.
missionaries
Jon and Melissa Eager are members of the Hershey Evangelical Free Church and serve with Africa Inland Mission. Jon is a medical doctor and has been serving the Sandawe people of Tanzania together with medical workers from the Africa Inland Church of Tanzania. The Eagers joined the Cedar Crest BFC Tanzania team working among the Sandawe unreached people group.
Sheri serves with The Evangelical Alliance Mission in Spain. She is an Educational Therapist ministering to children with learning disabilities. Sheri also partners with “Push The Rock” sports ministry as a way to introduce young people to the gospel of Jesus Christ and to build relationships that otherwise may not have been built.
Alex and Shara are part of a church-planting team in Chad from AIM (Africa Inland Mission) among the K people.
Daniel and Elisabeth are serving with Wycliffe Bible Translators as a part of the Cedar Crest BFC Tanzania team. They have worked diligently to create a written Sandawe alphabet and translate the scriptures into the Sandawe language. They have translated the Jesus film into the local language and recorded and distributed audio bibles as well. They are currently working to help other translators in Tanzania to accomplish many of the same tasks in other tribal languages. Daniel and Elisabeth have four grown children.
Tony and Joanna serve as field director for International Tribal Ministries. Tony oversees the ITM aviation department and Joanna coordinates the medical service and mission home ministry. They have been involved in planting various churches among tribal groups in Bolivia. They are both involved at the Cochabamba International church doing teaching, music and leadership. They have four children.
Emmanuel and Esther have served among unreached people groups in Tanzania for the past 22 years with their 4 children Daniel, Elijah, Mary, and Julia. Their focus is on evangelizing other people groups in Tanzania and in training pastors to serve in churches and/or as missionaries. Emmanuel is also the Tanzania Missions Coordinator for the Africa Inland Church.
Efthemes and Irene are Greek members of Cedar Crest Bible Fellowship Church and serve under Fellowship International Mission. They are working among refugees in their native country Greece, using friendship evangelism as an avenue for meeting both spiritual & physical needs, such as language school, food, clothing and employment.
Luis and Haleigh (Ott) Vargas and their two sons serve in Bolivia. Their desire is to do church planting in unreached people groups in Bolivia and are currently serving in San Lorenzo, a jungle village.
D and A run a textile business in Central Asia and are learning a minority language with the vision to see a Body established and the Father worshipped among one of Asia’s many ethnic minority peoples.
E and D are working with unreached people in Southeast Asia, evangelizing the lost and raising up pastors.
D and J are planting churches among unreached people groups in North Africa.
N & K and their daughter are seeking to establish a body of believers among an unreached people group in the Himalayan mountain region.
missionary partners
D and R are consultants assisting churches in Southeast Asia with campus ministry.
Glenn and Stacy are based in Oregon and serving with Global Training Network. Glenn is involved in leadership development and training for church leaders primarily in Africa.
S and K were both born in India and are members of the Ephrata Bible Fellowship Church. S is the founder and president of Life Change Ministries International. He and K serve the children of Asia, many of whom live in areas with little to no access to the gospel in Christian Camping ministries.
Francisco and Eliane are members of CCBFC and serve with Fellowship International Mission. They served as missionaries in Brazil, and Francisco now serves as the Director of Ministry Personnel. He is involved in member care to missionaries on the field. He specializes in assisting churches and helps them find, prepare, and deploy new missionaries. Francisco makes himself available to churches, bible schools, and seminaries for the advancement of missions in their locations.
Travis and Becky and their three children (Nathan, Hannah, and Grace) serve in Papua New Guinea with Ethnos360 in their Aviation ministry.
Matt serves as Teaching Pastor at Noble City Church in York, PA and is also the Executive Director of Noble Collective, a church-based missionary society that invests in pioneering evangelism, church planting, and leadership development. He and his wife Sukey have seven children.
John and Judy are members of Cedar Crest Bible Fellowship Church and serve with The Evangelical Alliance Mission (TEAM) in the home office providing many vital functions that support the missionary effort.
Nelson is a member of Cedar Crest Bible Fellowship Church and serves under the Bible Fellowship Church denominational board of missions as the Short-term mission trip coordinator. He is heavily involved with the Operation Christmas Shoebox ministry of Samaritan’s Purse that helps provide humanitarian aid for the purpose of sharing the gospel to many impoverished communities around the globe.
Dean and Ingrid are members of Cedar Crest Bible Fellowship Church and serve at Fellowship International Mission. They served in Bonaire for 24 years and are now in the home office where Dean edits the FIM Connection, maintains contact with MK’s, retirees, and singles in the FIM family and assists with personnel records and reporting.
Amy lives here in Allentown and serves with the BFC Board of Missions, training and assisting churches in launching their own ESL ministries. She also directs Cedar Crest’s ESL program.
church planters
Rick is a church planter and pastor at Citylight Bible Church, a new particular church of the BFC in East Allentown.
Steve serves as Pastor and Church Planter in a newly established congregation in Elkton, Maryland. In 2025, the church merged with Pastor DaQuan Gibson and Redemption Church to form One In Christ Bible Fellowship Church.
Joseph and Thanna started out ministering the gospel of Jesus in his homeland of Syria. After that, they moved back to America and the Lord led them to plant an Arabic speaking church in Rockville Maryland. Joseph & Thana are seeking to reach Arabic speaking peoples here in the US and oversees three churches in York, Harrisburg, and Rockville, while also working toward planting an Arabic speaking church in Allentown.
Emmanuel serves as pastor at HOPE community church in Allentown on 12th street with his wife Laura. They reach out specifically to children and families within their community through various evangelistic programs. God has blessed their church with much spiritual growth over the years as they follow Him.
Evangelists
Brett and Krista are serving with CRU on the campus of George Mason University. They have an exciting evangelism & discipleship ministry to college students both domestic & international, many of whom come from Unreached peoples of the world.
Nate serves on campuses in the Lehigh Valley with DiscipleMakers, evangelizing, teaching, and discipling college students.
Brendan and Jenn are members of Cedar Crest Bible Fellowship Church. Brendan is the founder and team lead for Slingshot Esports where he oversees vision, strategy, finances, and events. He also serves on the strategy team for GOGame, a global esports and gaming movement designed to impact the global gaming community for the Kingdom.
Church revitalizers
Tim, his wife Kaylena, and their two children moved to Elverson, PA in October of 2021 to revitalize the CROSSRoads Mission Church.