Harry and Kathy Walker have served as missionaries for 33 years. They spent 15 years church planting in France and 11 years teaching at Black Forest Academy, a school for missionary children in Germany. The last five years they have been working in French speaking West Africa to equip 18,000 pastors with a theological library. We’ve supported the Walkers since 2008.
Greg Moore leads Training Pastors International (TPI) which provides a non- formal theological education to Hispanic pastors who are without opportunity for training. TPI has trained, discipled, and mentored many national teacher-trainers in Central America, South America and Cuba. God has used TPI to train thousands of pastors and leaders who have reached tens of thousands in their own countries for Jesus Christ. Armitage has partnered with Greg Moore and TPI since 1997.
Paul is the Field Director for the countries of the Former Soviet Union with Bible Missions International. Paul and Katarina joined Armitage while Paul was a student at Moody Bible Institute and we have partnered with them as missionaries since 1993.
Watch here an interview with Paul and Pastor Jeremy
Pastor Chacko Thomas is the Pastor of the Church of Jesus Christ in India located in Mumbai, India. He also oversees other national Pastors in Indian cities such as Kerala, Pune, Auraganbad, Bhopal, Bangalore, and Mumbai. Along with him, Armitage supports ten other urban Pastors under his leadership. We have been partnering with them since January 2003.
Pastor Arnel Cruz is Pastor of Abundant Life Baptist Church in Manila, Philippines, and San Mateo Campus Dean for Baptist Bible College Asia. Pastor Arnel leads over 70 students in training. His wife is Liza and they have two boys, Gideon and Nico.
Hope Baptist Church is located in the largest slum in Nairobi and is led by Pastor James Wandera. Hope Baptist Church was started in 2004 through an Armitage short term missions trip. Hope Baptist Church has a Christian school and is presently building a new educational facility to minister to more people. He & his wife Wilfreisha have 4 children: Napher, Japheth, Shem, Consolata.
Kahawa Sukari Baptist Church was started by former Armitage member John Opiyo in Nairobi, Kenya, and today is led by Pastor Ezekiel Kayeli with his wife Ann and three children (Joshua, Imani, Abigail). KSBC is presently in a capital campaign as they build a new worship facility to reach and disciple more people. We have been partners since the churches birth in 1993.
Living Hope is a ministry of King of Kings Baptist Church in Cape Town, South Africa, that seeks to bring the hope and compassion of Jesus Christ to the chronically sick and dying in a holistic way and do everything possible to prevent the spread of HIV and AIDS. Living Hope was started and is led by Pastor John and Avril Thomas. Victor Thomas, son of John and Avril, is now serving as Executive Director. We have partnered with them since 2009.
Joseph and Esther joined Armitage in 2014 and we began partnering with them towards a return to India in 2016 as they moved to Annapolis, Maryland, to do a two -year pastoral residency at Bay Area Community Church. They moved to Hyderabad, India, in January 2019 and began working in leadership development with International Cultural Bible Ministries (ICBM).