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Missions
Click on any missionary to read about the work they are doing for Jesus Christ. Please use the email references to converse and encourage them.
We have missionaries that are not listed here due to concerns for their safety. Please pray for all missionaries in countries under religious persecution. |
| Ray
and Kathy Albrektson Ray's ministry is promoting theological education in the Third World.  Ray and Kathy Albrektson have
been part of the Tab mission family since 1974. Kathy
is from the family of Phil and Marty Berns (now Marty
Lambrides), and Ray and Kathy were married at Tab in
1971. As staff for Campus Crusade for Christ,
they directed the Campus Crusade ministry at Ball State
University until 1980. After earning his Masters of Divinity
degree at International
School of Theology Ray
and Kathy helped plant a branch
of that seminary in the Philippines.
In addition to teaching residence courses in Baguio City,
Ray also taught short courses in many countries throughout
SouthEast Asia and the Pacific while simultaneously earning
a Doctor of Theology degree in New Testament studies
at Asian Baptist Graduate Theological Seminary. On their
return to the United States, Ray taught the first "open" Bible
course in Moscow in the summer of 1991, and was a founding
member of the "Co-Mission," a strategy to equip educators
in the former U.S.S.R. with a biblically-based curriculum
on ethics and morality. During the seven years that followed
over 40,000 educators were trained in four-day conferences
in the use of that curriculum, and many of them and their
students found faith in Christ as a result. During that
period Kathy earned her J.D. and began to direct the
Planned Giving Department of Campus Crusade for Christ.
Ray continues to teach residence courses at International
when he is not teaching short courses around the world.
Most recently he has been concentrating in helping develop
new institutions for non-graduate theological education
in Ukraine and Kazakhstan. Some of his current activities
cannot be published on the web for security reasons,
but feel free to send him an email
note and he'll give you an update on his current ministry
travels. Their oldest daughter, Laurie,
was married in the summer of 1999 to Chris Shumate, and
they are also on the staff of Campus Crusade for Christ
and ministering to students at the California State University--Chico. Their son, Josh,
is finishing up a biochemistry degree at U.C.L.A. He
hopes to become a doctor after finishing his Master's
degree. Ray & Kathy Albrektson in Redlands, CA |
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Though
forewarned of the habit-forming nature of serving Christ, the Johnsons
have continued to do so with World Gospel Mission since 1989. God has used them in several venues, including Tenwek Hospita,l and Kijabe and Saint Mary's Mission Hospitals in Kenya. When in the United States, the Johnsons make their home in Philadelphia. The Johnsons have four adult children: Elijah, Christina, Emmanuel and Keturah. |
Missio-Link
International 
Eugen Groza is executive director of "Missio
Link International." Romania’s Christmas
revolution of 1989 witnessed the conclusion
of one of history’s most oppressive Marxist
dictatorships. In the aftermath of this political
upheaval, Romanian Christians continue to address
the material and spiritual needs of the Romanian
people through church planting, social ministries,
and economic development projects. Their work
includes caring for orphans through both state
run and Christian institutions. |
| Marshall
and Larisa McKenna
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| Umoja
Project, Kenya
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| Mark
and Jeannie Wittig
This continues to excite me...the potential of this ministry and sports and retreat facility for helping Colombians (and others) come to a saving knowledge of Christ and by doing so, transform and heal their country. |
| Church in Zimnicea, Romania
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Glenn
and Marcia are Wycliffe Bible Translators in Senegal, West Africa.
They are partners with a number Senegalese Jola friends. As a
team they are working together to translate the New Testament
into the Jola-Fonyi
Marshall
and Larisa are currently working with the street children
in Bucharest, Romania. Many of these children have been abandoned
by their parents and live in the sewers. Often, these street
children sniff glue to dull their hunger pangs and to escape
their feelings of rejection and lack of identity. Marshall befriends
them and encourages many to leave the life of the streets and
enter the orphanage, go to school and live a structured life.
He joins the team in bringing food to these children, and in
the bitter cold of Romanian winters, distributes shoes and clothing. 
Tab Global Missions is a partner in the Umoja
Project in Kenya's Nyanza Province. 
Mark and Jeannie are working in Medellin, Colombia
where they are involved in a sports ministry which includes coaching
soccer at the soccer school which they organized. They also train
nationals at the Biblical Seminary of Colombia. They are also
involved in a cookie business, which provides jobs for the nationals.
It has become a high volume business and helps to fund their
work. 
Not
quite full, but you can see close to 1,000 people there. Thanks
for helping to make this happen! Each person was shared
(our chaplain Daniel Castro passing out Gospel's of John...)
the Good News of Jesus Christ! This is what it is all about! One
of these days there will be 2,000 people there at one time, and
of course, over the course of this year, many more will!
Many of Tab’s members went to Romania to build
the church in Zimnicea. It was dedicated in October 1996 with
more than 300 people in attendance. Zimnicea is a port city on
the Danube River along the southern border of Romania. There
are few evangelical churches in the area. The construction involved
33 members from Tabernacle Presbyterian Church and six mission
trips during four years.