This summer, AFM has had the privilege of getting to know twelve dedicated, Christ-centered individuals as they prepared themselves for their coming year of service. These student and short-term missionaries come from many different countries and life experiences, but they all have one goal: to share Jesus’ love with the unreached. As training draws to a close, we send them off across the globe to make disciples in Cambodia, Georgia, Central Asia, Sierra Leone, Thailand, Central Africa and the Philippines.
Three of these committed disciple-makers are headed to Cambodia to serve at the Pnong project in Mondulkiri. Dailyn Patino and Alexia Rains will teach English and develop friendships with the students and villagers. Silvan Doernbrack, who comes from Germany, will focus on developing an agricultural outreach project for the local SDA school.
On the mountainous island of Palawan, the village medical clinic will be well stocked with helpers as they welcome in two doctors from Argentina, Paolo and Anais Cuculicchio, and a nurse, Abigail Hess. Also headed to Palawan is Eva Truitt, who will teach science classes at the village high school and conduct medical missionary evangelism.
Azaliah Jeresek will join Sinegugu Katenga, Celeste Diaz-Vazquez, and Heather Mariano as they finish the second half of their terms at the Central Thai project in Thailand. Azaliah will use her talents to teach piano to the locals and share the love of Jesus through music.
Using community development projects such as language tutoring and health education, Katie Parker* and Kayla Collins* will connect with the locals and make friends for Jesus at our Reach-Out project. Deborah Archer* will homeschool the Troy children at the Georgians of Georgia project and connect with the community.
Vernal Roseval will be headed to Sierra Leone to help the team connect with the local youth—building friendships, leading Pathfinders and teaching English. In addition, we are delighted that Eliza Moffat* has decided to stay for a second term using her medical skills in another creative-access country in Africa.
We thank God for every one of these young people who answered God’s call to “Go and make disciples of all nations” (Matthew 28:19). We also thank you, their support team, for keeping them in your prayers as they embark on this new journey. We know that God will do wondrous things through them this next year. We pray that you, too, might hear His call to be a frontier missionary and allow Him to do wondrous things through you.
