OMF, Int’l. - Bill & Kwai Lin Stephens - Mongolia

Bill & Kwai Lin started their long-term service in Mongolia the summer of 1994. Kwai Lin has been the Director (Principal) of the Union Bible Training Center since April 2002 and Bill is the Dean of Student Affairs. They are also involved in the teaching and train leaders for the Mongolian church. They travel frequently throughout Mongolia visiting former students, and newly planted churches.

Presbyterian Church (USA) - Jay & Susan Boone - China

Jay and Susan are on assignment through the Worldwide Ministries of the Presbyterian Church (USA) where they both teach at the Central China Normal University in Wuhan. Jay teaches international economic law to both graduate and undergraduate students. Susan teaches English. Their weekends are usually filled with building relationships with Chinese people outside of class. They open their home to students to share the love of Christ in friendship.

SEND International - Gardner & Rebecca Kerin– Siberia

Hi, we're the Kerins and are long-term missionaries with SEND International. After studying language in Far East Russia for 14 months, we moved to Ulan Ude, Siberia in October, 2004 to complete our studies and begin church planting along side the national church. We live in the Republic of Buryatia, where religion consists of a mix of Tibetan Buddhism, Shamanism, folk religion, Russian Orthodoxy and atheism. We enjoy our Russian and Buryat friends and neighbors and look forward to the plans God has for our time here. We’re excited about opportunities to use English classes/clubs, camps, Bible studies, youth and student groups, short-term teams and outdoors ministries to reach people for Christ. There are so many opportunities - and yet a great deal of obstacles needing to be overcome as well. We’re honored to be able to serve the Lord over here and continue looking to Him for guidance and wisdom.

Here’s a little bit more about ourselves…..We’re from the west coast and have lived near San Francisco, Los Angeles and Seattle. After coming to know the Lord as a college student at CPC, Gardner worked with the high school and young adult ministries before moving to Southern CA where he completed his bachelor's degree and M.Div from Biola and Talbot School of Theology in May, 2000. We met each other at Biola University in Southern CA and were married July 18, 1998.Rebecca graduated from Biola with a B.A. in education and taught fourth grade for a couple of years while completing her TESOL certificate. Rebecca’s teaching background has been a wonderful asset in our ministry here. Our first son Andrew was born June 2, 2002, our daughter Katie was born April 23, 2002 and Matthew was born April 27, 2004 during a short time in America.

Our desire is for our kids to be able to attend Russian schools and learn the language here well. Andrew has already started attending pre-school and we’ll be stateside every other summer to keep our kids from missing too many Russian classes. We’re so grateful for how God is taking care of our family and for the encouragement and support from friends, family and ministry partners back home. www.coldkerins.com