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Margaret Ann Bash

Our June 2026 Missionary Highlight is Margaret Ann Bash, retired missionary, with Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF).

 

She lived in Vienna and traveled into Eastern Communist Europe teaching/training pastors or individuals showing them how to present the Gospel to children. She focused on Hungary and Romania.

 

She moved from Budapest to Wilmington, NC in 2003. She continues to be involved in CEF even at the young age of 92. She is not only a missionary, but she has also written and autobiography detailing her ministry in Europe for over 39 years.

 

Praise God, no matter what our age, we can still be used as a vessel for our Lord and Savior to spread His Word.

 

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Mike & Kris Reed

Mike and Kris Reed with Awana. Awana ministry mainly focuses on children to teach and reach them about Jesus and to extend that to the whole family. As children grow in the Awana program they hopefully become disciples for the next generation of young Children


Prayer Requests:

  1. For our new Awana Brite and Club churches, that they would have a strong first year and have a grand impact in their new communities.
  2. For our latest Discover Awana participants that God would unite and direct His plans for their lives.

Goals:

  1. Provide effective training and encouragement for churches in the child discipleship efforts.
  2. Increase ministry team volunteers to better serve and equip leaders across Ohio and Kentucky.
  3. Host training of excellence at our Resilient Child Development Training in February and March.

Awana is not only in the United States but also around the world, pray for this ministry and for the young children involved with it.

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Dale & Jody Davis

Dale and Jody are presently on leave from ABWE working with Samaritan’s Purse on a hospital project in Niger.

Praise Reports: 

  1. The pediatric wing is in progress that will give many opportunities to present the Gospel.
  2. A young girl had a large tumor and after a successful surgery they were able to present the family with the Gospel.

Prayer Requests: 

  1. They are waiting to receive their visas so they can remain in Niger, the present one expires next month.
  2. They are in malaria season and medical staff pray that the Lord will renew their stamina.
  3. A construction worker passed away, please pray for his widow and family.

God is still working all over the world!

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Please meet Frank and Sherry DiBagno who are presently retired from their work in Italy, where they have planted a church in Deruta, Italy. We began their support in 1980.

 

They returned to the U.S. in 2018 and Frank is presently the chaplain at a detention center in South Carolina where he actively continues preaching and counseling.

 

Frank and Sherry plan to return to Italy in April to minister in two churches. Their prayer request is for additional funds to pay expenses during their stay in Italy as they are lacking $800.00.

 

Please pray the Lord will continue to bless them in their ministry.


we recognize Jews for Jesus missionaries

Stewart and Shoshannah Weinisch of New York City. We began

their support in the 1980’s. Their focus is to bring the Good

News (salvation) of Jesus Christ to the Jewish people.

Prayer requests: for Rita, Stewart’s mother, for health and to

come to know Jesus as her Messiah; and for their son Jonathan

to return to God and the family. For the online live chat

National online Evangelism Team (OET) where inquiries can be

answered concerning Jesus. Pray that the antisemitism in the

U.S. and around the world be stopped. Pray for the outreach

program to the Jews for Jesus’ Moshava Coffee gathering.

Needing more missionary staff to join the NYC branch. Please

pray the Lord will continue to bless them in their ministry

A charter member of Community Bible Church, Ellie Gross and her friend Darlene Williams, started the Joy Quilters in 2000. Ellie had moved to Minnesota and needed something to fill her spare time. The two women worked back and forth, between Ohio and Minnesota, to make baby quilts for needy children.

Ellie’s heart was always for underprivileged children, and many have benefited from that love. Upon moving back to Ohio, Ellie and Darlene, along with many others, continued to 

make baby quilts for missionaries to take to foreign lands. Also providing to crisis centers, pregnancy centers, and homeless shelters. In fact, one year 300 baby quilts were sent to Uganda.

The Joy quilters today still strive to follow God’s direction. A heart is attached to each quilt that reads “Wrapped In Jesus Love” John 3:16.  We are currently providing baby quilts and swaddling blankets to ‘Pathway To Hope’ a Christian pregnancy center in Hamilton, Ohio. Last year we provided them with over 100 baby quilts and 30 swaddling blankets for deserving babies and toddlers.

We would like to thank Community Bible Church for their continued support.

missionaries Bob and Debi Sayer, serving part-time as Ambassadors with Pioneer Missions, connecting with the Arab world since 1991.

 

On January 21st, 2025, pastors and leaders from the 7 branches of the Koalib tribe in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan gathered to celebrate the beginning of translation and audio recording of the Holy Scriptures into their own language, a collaborative project between Pioneers Egypt and SRB. Translating and recording the full Bible in this remote village will take about 5 years. They eagerly await the day when they can read and hear the Scriptures in their own language.

 

The Holy Spirit compels Bob & Debi to continue to engage and serve Christ in His kingdom harvest work, by His grace and for His glory, especially in light of God’s kingdom advances. Hope has a name and that name is Jesus!

This month our honored missionaries are Bob and Sharla Buhler, Ministry Regional Directors, serving as Church planters throughout the world. They are part of a team that trains and equips the countries local pastors so the Lord’s work can continue.

Praises: 

  • Connections with Avant Missionaries serving in Columbia and Mexico
  • Latin America appointees joining Avant
  • God’s protection over Sharla’s father following recent heart attack

Prayer Requests:

  • For wisdom in their new additional responsibilities as Regional Directors
  • For wisdom in the Avant-Espanol initiative
  • For family members

Please pray the Lord will continue to bless them in their ministries

Scott and Nikki Russell are serving as Executive Director for Latin America and the Caribbean. They direct the Regional Directors as they oversee all missionary operations throughout this area of the world. They are focused on serving the Great Commission by training leaders, multiplying churches, and launching mission movements among all people groups.

 

Please remember to pray for the Russells as they endeavor to bring many into the Kingdom of God.

Carl and Lois Sexton served as church planters in Argentina for 15 years and for the past 21 years in North America carrying out the EveryEthne initiative.

 

The Sexton’s lead a unique ministry they call H4 ministries; four people groups that God has led into their lives. Hispanics, Haitians, Heroes (new missionaries they coach), and the Heart, Mind & Soul LGBTQ seminar (Lois is a presenter and scheduler), and Carl leads a team of Spanish-speaking trainers for the Good Soil Evangelism and Discipleship seminars in Spanish speaking churches in North, Central and South America.

 

Please lift them up in prayer so their ministry will bring these people groups into the fold.