Missions

Ernest and Cheryl Turner have been in ministry with IPHC World Missions Ministries for the last 37 years, serving the people on the great continent of Africa. Ernest is now serving as the Western Africa regional director. Cheryl is a teacher who has a heart for the next generation and the precious women of Africa. Focusing on the countries in West Africa, they are utilizing their ministry gifts to evangelize, encourage, and empower leaders and laity. Their desire is to teach, disciple, and mobilize believers, who will help them to reach the unreached people groups with the gospel.

Bill and Gretchen Schwartz have broad ministry experience as youth pastors, senior pastors, missionary church planters, and Bible school instructors and directors. They began serving as missionaries in 2002 with a church plant in the unreached city of Ronse, Belgium, in addition to serving at Logos Bible School of Brussels. Their vision is to reach, teach, and release with a desire to train local ministry leaders, establish college internships, and plant new churches in unreached cities. Their motto is “Training the Nations to Reach the World.”

The Dunnings serve as the coordinators for People to People Ministries in Kenya and Ethiopia. Their vision is to equip churches, schools, and orphanages to fulfill their purpose, using sustainable development and income-generating projects. Their desire is to empower individuals to provide a better future for themselves and their families through a micro-finance loan program. It is their joy to engage Kenyan churches and communities through teaching, worship, and sharing the love of Christ.

The McClungs have served with WMM for 30 years. After serving many years in Germany, Mark and Jeannie continue church planting and evangelism now in the German-speaking region of Belgium. Jeannie also leads a new outreach to prostituted and trafficked women over the border in Aachen, Germany.

Phillip has been a partner at Upward Christian Fellowship for many years. He has also lead countless of our in church missions trips. He continues to partner with us and serve us everyday.

Ron and Sharon have served with WMM and lived in Kenya for over 20 years. Ron serves as the regional director for Eastern/Sub-Saharan Africa. Sharon serves the region as the director of Women’s Ministries. Ron and Sharon are also the senior pastors of Calvary Worship Centre IPHC. It is an International church with five services in four different languages and reaches almost 20 different nationalities.

Joanne Chinkers is a certified Special Education teacher with over 30 years of classroom experience. In 2010, she accepted a challenge to spend a year in the interior region of Nigeria with the stated goal of improving the level of education in one of the first Christian schools built in that area. Through teacher training, coaching in the classroom, and direct contact with students, she saw dramatic changes in both teachers and students.

Justin and Rachel, along with their daughter Ellie, are missionaries to Slovenia. They served in Hungary for five years ministering in various capacities including coffeehouse ministry, youth ministry, hosting teams and internships, and discipling new believers. In November 2024, they felt God calling them to the neighboring country of Slovenia to pioneer ministry. Slovenia has one of the smallest Christian populations of all of Europe, with less than 0.05 percent and declining every year. Their assignment is to establish an IPHC presence through church planting, ministry training, and reaching Unreached People Groups throughout ex-Yugoslavia. Their heart is for the lost and forgotten souls of Europe and they plan to use their life to bring the Gospel and body of Christ to the millions of people still without access.

Jeff and Kimberly Oeder are based in Santa Ana, Costa Rica. Although they reside in Costa Rica, their field of ministry takes them throughout the Central American Region. Obeying the call of missions on their life, the Oeders moved to Costa Rica, and after a year of language studies, they are now actively working to reach souls for Christ. They feel their calling is to disciple new Christians in their walk with the Lord. Working with teams from the U.S. and the Costa Rican national church is also a great part of this ministry.

Russell and Sonya are missionaries in Kisoro District in Southwest Uganda. They run two Seeds of Hope Homes and Schools with over 200 children in attendance and living on the two campuses. They also work on church plants, evangelism, clean water projects and sanitation training, vocational training, business training and craft cooperatives, basic first aid training, and pregnancy care training amongst the Batwa Tribe.

As co-laborers for the gospel, Jon and Erica feel burdened to serve Jesus by helping connect his Church to her priority mission: namely, to make disciples of every nation. Whether in Western or Majority World contexts, Jon and Erica desire to train young leaders, explore innovative forms of ministry, teach the Word, share the gospel, and seek justice for the oppressed. Using their passions for leadership, teaching, humanitarian efforts, and marketplace ministry, they long to turn the hearts of God's people toward a Great Commission lifestyle. Together, they are excited to plant The Awakening’s International Base in Los Angeles, California, where they will focus on building young leaders, providing missions opportunities, and networking with ministry organizations and IPHC churches.

The Dunlaps’ mission is to touch the world for Christ by ministering to and discipling leaders and community members to foster spiritual, community, and economic growth. Together, they serve in the Dominican Republic alongside the national leaders of Dominican and Haitian congregations in order to advocate for the growth of the church locally and nationally. Christopher and Alicia both graduated from Emmanuel College with degrees in Agricultural Missions and Secondary Math Education, respectively. Christopher is passionate about training, educating, and empowering leaders and pastors to influence those within their cultural contexts. Alicia is passionate about building relationships that encourage people to grow in their walk with Jesus, personal goals, passions, and calling.

David and Cecilia Hodges have served as full-time missionaries to Peru for many years. In 2007, they planted a flourishing church and a missions compound in Jicamarca, a mountainous desert region on the outskirts of Lima, Peru. They are reaching Peru through the teaching of the kingdom, challenging believers to leave their cultural box and empowering them to be ambassadors in the marketplace. They are also working to establish leadership training in local churches through the Andes Mountains and the Amazon. Their mission is to train every generation to represent the kingdom in the real and whole way, being a relevant influence within the culture and society they live. Their vision raises up men and women who dynamically, creatively, properly, and powerfully live-out and represent the kingdom of God.

Jennings Muniz has been serving in active ministry since 2019 through ESL teaching, discipleship, and practical service in Honolulu. She serves as the TESOL Director at YWAM Honolulu, teaching English in Chinatown to older men and women from different cultural backgrounds. She believes teaching English is both a survival skill and a way to build relationships and share the Gospel. She also helps teach in ministry training schools that prepare students for outreaches to other nations. In addition, she serves through landscaping and maintenance work for the missionary base, supporting the mission base through practical service.

Elton and Gail founded KIDS 'n Missions in 2001, a leadership training ministry based in Guatemala whose focus is equipping children’s ministry leaders to disciple the next generation. Through their School of Children’s Ministry, they provide structured, biblically grounded training that prepares leaders to build sustainable, Christ-centered ministries within their own churches and communities. They believe that children are not the church of tomorrow, they are the church of today. When leaders are well trained: children are discipled deeply, families are supported, and the Gospel becomes active in every generation.

The Bicketts have the opportunity to reach the people of Peru, from the crowded metropolis of Lima, through the rugged Andes mountain region, and into the Amazon jungle. The heart of their family and ministry is to know God as best they can and help others do the same. With this in mind, the Bicketts will focus on both evangelizing the lost and planting new churches, utilizing methods such as street evangelism, children’s ministry, and small groups.