OUR Missionaries
Amy Dodd
I joined Athletes In Action (sports ministry of Cru) in 2009 serving at the University of Alabama until 2011. I then spent nine years serving at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA, and three more years serving in Raleigh, NC, at NC State University and Shaw University.
I'm currently serving with the Ultimate Training Camp Executive Team with a focus on resourcing, training, and equipping our AIA global staff. I love working with Athletes In Action (AIA) ministering to staff, athletes, and coaches all over the world sharing the powerful love of Christ. I count it a privilege to serve the Lord full-time with AIA, and I invite you to join me financially and prayerfully.
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Chuck and Naomi Smith
Missionaries serving in the USA play vital roles on the church planting team such as training, accounting for and transferring gifts, recruiting missionaries and informing and involving churches and individuals. Like those who serve overseas, USA missionaries are responsible to raise financial support to pay their salary and ministry expenses, looking to God, trusting only in Him to provide through His people.
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Dave and Elizabeth Mayner
Elizabeth joined BMM in 1981 to serve in Campus Bible Fellowship (CBF). She and Dave married in 1988, and he later joined BMM. They serve with CBF in Binghamton, New York.
Dave and Elizabeth Mayner have enjoyed their involvement with Campus Bible Fellowship at Binghamton University since 1994. Dave serves as Chaplain, and both of them participate in leading Bible studies and assisting with various events, as well as advising and counseling students.
Dave & Marsha West
Serving in the Far North
Missionaries to the Native People of Northwestern Québec, Canada
We came to live here in Northwestern Québec on April 10, 1981. We came to love the Native people for Christ's sake and to minister to them (John 3:16). Though we do speak French, our ministry in Northwestern Québec is mostly in English with English-speaking Algonquin and Cree Indians and Inuit. Though the province of Québec is French-speaking, Native people here usually prefer English over French.
Our main work is with our church in Malartic, a French-Canadian town of about 3,500 people. A community of Native people lives in Malartic among the French-Canadian majority. We have Algonquin Indians, Cree Indians, a Blackfoot lady, and one non-Native (white) family besides us that attend. We have Sunday Morning Service, Sunday School, Bible Club after school on Wednesday afternoons, and Prayer Meeting on Wednesday evenings. Our attendance is between 10 and 30 with more on special occasions. We visit in town, in the bush, and in the hospital; have a jail ministry every week; and distribute tracts, literature, Gospels of John and Romans, and Bibles in Malartic and the surrounding area. In each part of our work we use the Source of Light (Parole par Poste) Bible correspondence courses.
We conduct activities for the young people and adults, conduct Vacation Bible School in town and in the bush, and take kids to camp every summer (a 600 mile trip, one way). Other activities we do are soul winning, teaching typing or piano, cutting firewood, helping people with gardens, construction, filling out government and business forms in French, tutoring math, English, or French, and doing anything else that we can do with the people here.
We also visit the Pikogan, Winneway, and Lac Simon Algonquin Indian Reserves which are located in the area. We did have a regular service at the Lac Simon Algonquin Reserve. However, that had to be terminated because of problems with alcohol.
More people have trusted Christ among the children and young people in our church than in any other part of our work. Two of our former young people have graduated from Bible College, Praise the Lord! Also, we have had a good number of people repent and trust Christ in the jail ministry. Some former inmates continue taking our Bible lessons even after getting out of jail.
Our overall goal is to win souls, baptize and disciple converts, train local leadership, and to allow Christ to work through us to start local, indigenous New Testament, fundamental, independent Baptist churches. When we first came here we felt we could start our first church and have it functioning on its own in five years. We could then leave and start another. Now we are certain that planting a real, indigenous church here will take many, many years, possibly a generation. May God help us to faithfully continue doing His will, even if the work here is slower than we had first imagined it would be! (1 Corinthians 4:2; 15:58, Galatians 6:9)
Dennis and Stasi COchardo
Dennis and Stasi Cochardo have been on staff with Kingdom Air Corps since the summer of 2020. Serving seasonally at first, they relocated to Alaska permanently in the summer of 2023 and joined us full time. The Cochardos are originally from upstate New York, where Dennis worked as a CNC machinist while Stasi faithfully homeschooled their six children.
Dennis serves as the Human Resources/Member Care Manager and Stasi as Hospitality Supervisor. They currently live on-site in one of the KAC staff homes.
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Dwayne and Kathy King
Dwayne grew up in a Christian home in Vestal, New York and was saved at Lake Arrowhead Bible Conference when he was 12 years old. During high school he was active in Bible club and Youth for Christ where he met Carolyn, who became his wife in 1963.
From 1960 to 1963, Dwayne attended Practical Bible Training School in Johnson City, New York. He then went on to LeTourneau College in Longview, Texas to pursue missionary aviation. Dwayne received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Alaska Bible College in 1980 and a Master’s in Intercultural Studies from Columbia Biblical Seminary in 1997. Practical Bible College recognized Dwayne as Alumni of the Year in 2000. He received the same recognition from LeTourneau University in 2004. He also holds an honorary doctorate from Davis Bible College (formerly Practical Bible College).
In 1970, SEND International accepted Dwayne and Carolyn, as missionaries to Alaska. They ministered as church planters in the villages of Tok, Bettles, Tetlin, Tanacross, Anaktuvik Pass, and Allakaket. After beginning the aviation program, he also functioned as Chief Pilot for SEND at various times.
From 1986 to 1991, Dwayne served as Director of Development for Alaska Bible College and did medivac flying for Cross Road Medical Center, as well as ministering in the villages of the Copper River Basin.
In 1991, Dwayne made one of the first missionary airplane flights to Provideniya, Far East Russia and made 14 other flights in subsequent years. He and Carolyn moved to Khabarovsk, Russia to work with the Russian Baptist Church in October 1993 and remained there until March 1999. As field superintendent for SEND Far East Russia, working directly under the leadership of the Russian Baptist Church, Dwayne and Carolyn helped start and build new churches, train new leaders through Far East Russia Bible College, and recruit construction teams, teachers and new missionaries.
In October 1999, they moved back to the States where Dwayne served as Co-Eurasia Regional Director until 2003. He then served in the SEND International Office as the Regional Director for Eurasia Advancement. In 2008 Dwayne & Carolyn retired from full-time service with SEND Int’l to special assignment. In this role, Dwayne continues to support the work being done by SEND throughout Russia, Ukraine, Central Siberia, Far East Russia, and Kazakhstan.
Dwayne founded Kingdom Air Corps in 1999 with a purpose and a passion to train pilots and aviation mechanics to use airplanes to deliver the gospel to the remote places in the world unreachable by road. Carolyn faithfully worked with Dwayne in the founding and growth of Kingdom Air Corps until her death in October 2016.
Currently, 10 full time missionaries are serving in Alaska, and Thailand with a view toward expansion into India and the middle east. Students come from across the United States, including a large group from LeTourneau University’s aviation program, as well as international students who train at Kingdom Air Corps, then return to their own countries to serve the Lord as missionary pilots.
Dwayne has flown more than 20,000 hours and is a commercial, instrument and multi-engine rated pilot. He also holds an airframe & power plant rating with inspection authorization. Most of his flight time has been in Alaska and Far East Russia.
A New Chapter with an Old Friend
Kathy’s story is quite different. In 1974, between her third and fourth year of college, she and a girlfriend, along with her husky dog, hitchhiked from Los Angeles to Alaska. Her girlfriend went home after a couple of weeks but Kathy stayed to experience an Alaskan winter. By December, Kathy’s hippie lifestyle reaped tragic results and she began to earnestly seek the Lord, finally daring to sneak into a chapel under the cover of darkness at 30 below zero in search of a Bible. She found one on a bookshelf in the church lobby, as well as a book she’d heard much about: Hal Lindsey’s, The Late Great Planet Earth. She wrote a check for the books, put it on the pulpit and left the church quickly, before anyone had seen her. Lindsey’s book led her to a clear understanding of the gospel and, alone in her room on New Year’s Eve, 1974, she asked Jesus to be her Lord and Savior. When the pastor of the small chapel found her check, he searched for her in town, found her and introduced himself as Dwayne King. And, so began a lifelong friendship between Kathy and the Kings. They taught and encouraged her in her new faith, and urged her to attend Alaska Bible College.
She took their advice and there she met and married Ray Dondzila in August 1977. They moved to the east coast soon after the wedding and over the next six years, the Lord blessed them with five fabulous children. She lost touch with the Kings while they served in Far East Russia and arctic Alaska.
In 1989, Kathy went to work for the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) as a writer and editor, and continued in various roles for nearly 30 years before retiring in 2019. She earned her private pilot license in 1991 and an instrument rating soon after. She holds two Masters degrees: A Master of Business Administration, and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. In 2004, Dwayne called AOPA with a question and Kathy, overhearing the call, was able to reconnect with the Kings. Ray died in July 2005, and as Kathy refocused her life, she became involved in the ministry of Kingdom Air Corps. By November 2017, the Lord was speaking to both Kathy and Dwayne about his plan for them and they talked and prayed earnestly about his will and direction, deciding to marry in April 2018.
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Jim and Eliza Passetti
Ministry: Linguistics Instructor at Missions Training Institute
Serving In: United States
Missionaries serving in the USA play vital roles on the church planting team such as training, accounting for and transferring gifts, recruiting missionaries and informing and involving churches and individuals. Like those who serve overseas, USA missionaries are responsible to raise financial support to pay their salary and ministry expenses, looking to God, trusting only in Him to provide through His people.
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Joel and LaReina King
fter serving with AIM AIR (AIM’s aviation division) for 8 years in Kenya and Uganda, Joel, LaReina, and their children returned to the US in 2021. Renee and Ian are in university and Joel and LaReina are serving stateside with the AIM US sending office.
Joel works part-time with Pre-field Pilot/Mechanics in the final stages of their training before joining the AIM AIR teams in Africa.
LaReina serves part-time with the US Short Term Department as Administrative Assistant and Interim Coordinator as needed. We are honored to have the opportunity to facilitate and encourage the next generation of missionaries!
Thank you for your financial support that allows us to serve.
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Lesa Morgan
Lesa Morgan originally from Binghamton, NY has been a fulltime missionary in Thailand for 12 years. She currently lives in Chiang Rai, Thailand. Since she was a teenager she has had a passion for children in need. She comes from a family that instilled that in her as well, as they took in foster children and adopted 7 of them. While serving in Thailand she has also had the privilege of working along side of various orphanages, children ministries, and university outreaches learning much from each of them. Living and working in Thailand has only made the passion grow stronger and deeper. She has been excited to see God unfold her dream of having a children’s home. Grace Haven Children’s Home has become a reality and currently serves 6 children.
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Sophie Chan Franks
Campus Staff at InterVarsity Christian Fellowship
If it is worth doing, it's worth doing right. I've tried my best to carry this mentality through life, and work hard to improve and correct mistakes. Currently I work with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship as a campus staff - my faith and students mean everything to me. I am also pursuing a Masters in Business Management as I move away from nursing for a career that fosters my passion for faith and management - this is worth doing right.
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Worker in South Asia
Equipping pastors, church leaders, and followers of Jesus to reach their own people through discipleship, church planting, biblical church ministry, and compassionate holistic ministry.
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Addison's Walk Institute for Christian Studies
The Addison's Walk Center for Chrisitan Studies is a non-profit organization located in Scranton, Pennsylvania under the direction of Andy Giessman. Engaging the academic community at the crossroads of faith, reason, and culture, Addison's Walk Institute is modeled after other Christian study centers around the world.
The role of a study center is unique within Christianity. The staff and participants are seeking to partner with the university community, within the larger context of the local city or town, for the purpose of demonstrating that orthodox Christianity belongs at the table of ideas.
A study center is similar to other para-church ministries (Cru, Intervarsity, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, etc.) in that it will engage college personnel in Bible study, activities, outreach (see below for more discussion of AW’s specific activities). There are, however, some rather unique differences. Unlike a para-church organization, a study center does not require the leadership of any one student in order to have an inroad on campus. We instead serve the college community by offering another voice. We wish to show students, faculty, staff, and administration that Christianity is an intellectually robust endeavor. This goal is accomplished through key pillar activities
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Child Evangelism Fellowship
David Lemmon is the Executive Director of Chile Evangelism Fellowship in Broome County. We are supporting the local Fellowship Directly. Dave is a member of our church and we gladly support the Children in our local schools.
Child Evangelism Fellowship® is a Bible-centered organization composed of born-again believers whose purpose is to evangelize boys and girls with the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ and to establish (disciple) them in the Word of God and in a local church for Christian living. We believe the light of God’s Word needs to be given to everyone, children included.
Child Evangelism Fellowship of Broome, Tioga, and Cortland Counties is a local chapter of Child Evangelism Fellowship USA Ministries. Our mission is to partner with local churches to train leaders to reach children in our local area with the gospel.
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Golden Key Prison Ministry
Curt Carter is the Executive Director for Golden Key Prinso Ministry.
Founded in 1977, Golden Key Prison Ministry serves Broome, Chemung, Tioga and Tompkins County Jails and Elmira & Southport Correctional Facilities.
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Life Choices Center
Our Mission
To provide help and support to women and men before, during, and after an unplanned pregnancy.
Your Support Makes a Difference
By partnering with Life Choices Center, you directly impact the lives of those in your community. Browse this page to discover ways to get involved and stay connected with our mission.
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Mailbox Bible School
Leslie Jenks is our resident support person for the Mailbox Bible School. It helps inmates study the Bible and learn of Jesus' love for them and the difference he can make in their lives.