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Ronald & Donna Mueller
Serving in Africa
Ron and Donna Mueller grew up in California and responded to God’s call to missions during their home church’s missions convention. They served for 1 year in Namibia, Africa and it was there that God began drawing them towards the people of Angola. Ron is an Ordained minister with the Assemblies of God and Donna is a Registered Nurse. They responded to God's call to go to Angola and after studying Portuguese they arrived in Angola in 2002. They have enjoyed traveling together with their 2 daughters and ministering as a family these past 16 years. They have seen an incredible hunger for God's Word throughout the country after 27 years of civil war and have had many opportunities to minister God’s Word through; the Book of Hope to many schools, police, hospitals, and children’s evangelistic outreaches, Evangelistic Film Crusades with local churches where many have responded for salvation, extension bible training courses to leaders throughout Angola, Tabernacle Evangelism where they have constructed 25 church structures.
Current Ministry:
The Mueller's continue to respond to the need for extension Bible training using Roots of Faith in Portuguese throughout Angola (twice the size of Texas). There is such a hunger to study God’s Word that as soon as the 1 year Bible training course is completed there is a waiting list of students ready to start the next 1 year program. Currently, there are over 3,000 pastors and leaders receiving Roots of Faith training in all of Angola’s 18 provinces.
Current Ministry:
The Mueller's continue to respond to the need for extension Bible training using Roots of Faith in Portuguese throughout Angola (twice the size of Texas). There is such a hunger to study God’s Word that as soon as the 1 year Bible training course is completed there is a waiting list of students ready to start the next 1 year program. Currently, there are over 3,000 pastors and leaders receiving Roots of Faith training in all of Angola’s 18 provinces.
Ryan & Amy Jacobs
Serving in Africa
Current Commission:
The Jacobs serve as educators at the Malawi Assemblies of God Institute of Theology and the Malawi Assemblies of God University. Ryan teaches theology and biblical languages courses and Amy teaches health, pastoral counseling, and teacher certification courses. The Jacobs partner closely with the Malawi Assemblies of God and are in the process of creating a nation-wide extension school program for church planters and pastoral students, a continuing education program for rural pastors who need refreshing and encouragement, and a Community Health Evangelism (CHE) ministry with a focus on agriculture and nutrition.
Ministry Calling:
Ryan and Amy both felt a call to missions as teenagers while on separate AIM missions trips; Ryan in Belarus in 1989 and Amy in Ecuador in 1994. They met at Central Bible College in Music Theory Class and were married in 1995. Over the next 24 years, the couple dedicated themselves to pastoral ministry, church planting, and life-long learning.
In 2016, Ryan attended a Speed-the-Light Summit to raise funds for Africa's Hope, the AGWM ministry that overseas training on the African continent. When presented with the need for biblically trained pastors in Africa, the Jacobs overwhelmingly sensed the Holy Spirit's prompting to transition into their foreign missions calling that they received as youth. With over 2 decades of pastoral and church planting experience, they were better prepared to train others to do the same. In October 2018, Ryan and Amy were commissioned as career missionaries to Malawi.
The Jacobs serve as educators at the Malawi Assemblies of God Institute of Theology and the Malawi Assemblies of God University. Ryan teaches theology and biblical languages courses and Amy teaches health, pastoral counseling, and teacher certification courses. The Jacobs partner closely with the Malawi Assemblies of God and are in the process of creating a nation-wide extension school program for church planters and pastoral students, a continuing education program for rural pastors who need refreshing and encouragement, and a Community Health Evangelism (CHE) ministry with a focus on agriculture and nutrition.
Ministry Calling:
Ryan and Amy both felt a call to missions as teenagers while on separate AIM missions trips; Ryan in Belarus in 1989 and Amy in Ecuador in 1994. They met at Central Bible College in Music Theory Class and were married in 1995. Over the next 24 years, the couple dedicated themselves to pastoral ministry, church planting, and life-long learning.
In 2016, Ryan attended a Speed-the-Light Summit to raise funds for Africa's Hope, the AGWM ministry that overseas training on the African continent. When presented with the need for biblically trained pastors in Africa, the Jacobs overwhelmingly sensed the Holy Spirit's prompting to transition into their foreign missions calling that they received as youth. With over 2 decades of pastoral and church planting experience, they were better prepared to train others to do the same. In October 2018, Ryan and Amy were commissioned as career missionaries to Malawi.
The Persecuted Church
India
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Stan & Julie Wagner
NorCAl/Nevada District Missions
Stan and Julie Wagner spent most of their ministry career pastoring small, struggling Assemblies of God churches, receiving little or even no pay. They toiled in Northern California towns such as Lewiston, Berry Creek, Weaverville, Hayfork, Loomis, and Stirling City, each with under 7,000 inhabitants. In some locales, no other church existed.
The Wagners arrived, typically encountering a literal handful of congregants remaining from a divisive situation. Habitually, they built the congregation up to health again and moved on. “We just went where we felt God wanted us to go,” Julie says. “We didn’t realize until we looked back that every church we took was a troubled church.”
However, this isn’t a story about how a now-retired pastor couple, married for 58 years, are coping with poverty. Stan and Julie Wagner are both 80, but they aren’t retired. They still travel four times a year to foreign lands overseeing Northern California-Nevada District short-term missions teams on building projects connected with Assemblies of God World Missions.
Their journey is one of God’s miraculous provision in the midst of obedience. Stan came from a dysfunctional home, and accepted Jesus as Savior at 17 at Bethel Church in Modesto. Stan met Julie at Bethany College in Scotts Valley, and they wed before their junior year. Straight out of school, Stan began pastoring the AG church in Lewiston, which had 15 attendees.
The assignments didn’t get any easier. For instance, in Hayfork, Stan stepped in after a pastor had been killed in a logging accident. And the church had burned down. The couple stayed the longest, 17 years, in Loyalton, a mountainous logging community of 1,000 residents at the time. They arrived at the church when only five senior citizens and a teenager attended. “That first year we couldn’t see results no matter what we tried,” Stan remembers. “We couldn’t find anyone open to the Lord.”
Prompted by the Holy Spirit, Stan at every service thanked God for hunger that He would put in the hearts of local residents. Gradually, people who never had shown an interest in spirituality began attending church services and home Bible studies. Within three years, 100 people came every week to services. “People around town kept talking about what the Lord was doing in their lives,” Stan recalls. “Everybody just wanted to stay at church and talk and pray and share testimonies.”
The Wagners arrived, typically encountering a literal handful of congregants remaining from a divisive situation. Habitually, they built the congregation up to health again and moved on. “We just went where we felt God wanted us to go,” Julie says. “We didn’t realize until we looked back that every church we took was a troubled church.”
However, this isn’t a story about how a now-retired pastor couple, married for 58 years, are coping with poverty. Stan and Julie Wagner are both 80, but they aren’t retired. They still travel four times a year to foreign lands overseeing Northern California-Nevada District short-term missions teams on building projects connected with Assemblies of God World Missions.
Their journey is one of God’s miraculous provision in the midst of obedience. Stan came from a dysfunctional home, and accepted Jesus as Savior at 17 at Bethel Church in Modesto. Stan met Julie at Bethany College in Scotts Valley, and they wed before their junior year. Straight out of school, Stan began pastoring the AG church in Lewiston, which had 15 attendees.
The assignments didn’t get any easier. For instance, in Hayfork, Stan stepped in after a pastor had been killed in a logging accident. And the church had burned down. The couple stayed the longest, 17 years, in Loyalton, a mountainous logging community of 1,000 residents at the time. They arrived at the church when only five senior citizens and a teenager attended. “That first year we couldn’t see results no matter what we tried,” Stan remembers. “We couldn’t find anyone open to the Lord.”
Prompted by the Holy Spirit, Stan at every service thanked God for hunger that He would put in the hearts of local residents. Gradually, people who never had shown an interest in spirituality began attending church services and home Bible studies. Within three years, 100 people came every week to services. “People around town kept talking about what the Lord was doing in their lives,” Stan recalls. “Everybody just wanted to stay at church and talk and pray and share testimonies.”