Joshua & Stephanie Lewis

Career Missionaries since 2016 serving the Great River People of Southeast Asia.

Both of us had the privilege of growing up in the mission field. Our parents showed us the needs of the world.

Stephanie was born into a missionary family that served in Africa and then on the island of Papua, Indonesia. She grew up hearing her dad’s bush plane flying in and out of the grass airstrip right outside her bedroom window. She has many fond memories of helping her parents with medical emergencies and dentistry, translating, flying with her dad, and of course making beautiful lifelong friendships with local people. To this day, she enjoys Indonesian food more than American food. At age 14 she preached her first evangelistic series and felt God calling her to work for Him overseas for the rest of her life.

Joshua has a head start in ministering to the Great River people because he already speaks their language. He was seven years old in 1995 when his family went out as AFM missionaries. After graduating from college he accepted a one-year student-missionary call with AFM to the Great River Project that turned into almost four years. He had the joy of praying with secret Muslim-background believers and telling the creation story for the first time to his friends by lamplight on hot evenings. He saw that there was a great work to do there, and God needed someone willing to go.

We met through mutual friends who planned a game night to introduce us. We soon realized we had much in common—most importantly our desire to serve as missionaries overseas. Stephanie was graduating from college, and she was ready to go overseas with or without a husband. Happily, we decided that it would be with!

We prayed for quite a while, asking God to give us clear direction for where He wanted us to serve. He was very clear that was Cambodia. God has been so good to us—we can’t even begin to describe it all. That is why we are excited to have a part in the great plans He has in store for the Great River people.

Frontier Stories

Choose Your Own Adventure:  DBS and the Rabbit Church

Discovery Bible Study puts the elements of the early church into your study time so that by the time they know what a church is, they will already know how to run one.

By: Josh Lewis
February 01 2024, 7:22 pm | Comments 0

Choose Your Own Adventure

May God bless you as you pursue a deeper understanding and relationship with Jesus.

By: Josh Lewis
January 01 2024, 3:40 pm | Comments 0

Soty and Vari

Pray that they will make Jesus the King of their lives, counting the cost and counting it joy.

By: Josh Lewis
December 01 2023, 2:56 pm | Comments 0

Manan:  Big Liver. Even Bigger Heart.

Pray that we can use this time together to disciple Srey Neang into a soul winner with a vision to reach her people for Jesus. Pray that Vanna will take a stand for Christ. Pray that the testimony of what God has done for them will be too good not to share.

By: Josh Lewis
November 01 2023, 1:02 pm | Comments 0

Being Neighborly

We are in their social systems, part of their families. Pray that we will be in tune with the Holy Spirit when He is providing the opportunity to share Jesus with them.

By: Josh Lewis
October 01 2023, 2:58 pm | Comments 0

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