Global Missionaries
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The map above shows the locations of our global missionaires. Move your mouse over the red buttons to get the name of the missionary. Click on the red button and a new window or tab pops up so you can learn more about the organization or missionary.
Chuck & Doni Antone - Kona Coast Chaplaincy - Kona, Hawaii and Taiwan
Chuck and Doni began attending CBC in 1969. They were involved with Bible study, choir, teaching, Good News Clubs and organizing social events. In 1981 they moved to Hawaii to join the Waikiki Beach Chaplaincy, an evangelistic ministry that reaches out to the residents and the visitors. In 1992 they started the Kona Coast Chaplaincy on the Big Island. Chuck serves there as the Pastor/Director and Doni as Co-Director/Administrator.
They also minister in Taiwan several months each year - teaching, preaching and giving musical concerts.
They have two grown children and four grandchildren and they have been married since 1953.
The Curry’s attended Calvary Bible Church from 1999 to 2003. During the time they attended CBC, God called them to serve Him as Wycliffe missionaries.
Steve and Lori Curry serve in Papua New Guinea with Wycliffe. Steve serves through computer software development and support while Lori serves as a teacher providing educational services. They support the work of translators and literacy teachers who work in numerous languages in Papua New Guinea (PNG). Ethnically and linguistically PNG is the world’s most complex nation with approximately one thousand different people groups speaking 829 distinct languages. The Curry’s’ support is vital to the work of Wycliffe translators. The Curry’s two children, Andrew and Daniel, attend school in Ukarumpa where the family resides.
Chris & Karen Jackson – Wycliffe – Cameroon
Chris and Karen Jackson have served with Wycliffe since July 1992. Karen attended CBC’s youth group before she went away to college and married Chris. They, along with their 2 daughters, Karissa and Katelyn serve in Cameroon. Chris serves as Literacy Coordinator for SIL Cameroon, coordinating and supporting literacy projects throughout Cameroon. SIL is a sister organization of Wycliffe.
In addition, Chris and Karen are developing Sunday School curriculum, Bible School programs and training Cameroonians to run effective children’s programs in their local churches. Their project is teaching children God’s word in their heart language.
Jim & Judy Kemp - Christian Home Ministries - Brazil
Jim Kemp grew up in Nevada County. He and his wife, Judy, went to Brazil in 1967. In those early years, they founded a ministry for training in discipleship and evangelism. Many of those young people are leaders in the Brazilian church today.
Presently, the Kemps are working with families in the Portuguese-speaking world. They teach ten-hour seminars for couples, young people and pastors. Between them, they have written 56 books. They also publish a magazine on family life and wrote the devotionals for a Family Bible that is being translated into several other languages. Jim also wrote the daily devotionals for a Teen Bible.
The Lord has given the Kemps three Brazilian daughters and three grandchildren. Jim is a graduate of Biola University, Western Theological Seminary in Portland, OR and was given an honorary doctorate from Biola.
Jo Miller - Wycliffe - Papua New Guinea
Jo Miller has been a member of CBC since 1973 and raised her family here. Since January 2005, she has been teaching primary school in Papua New Guinea. She supports Bible translation through teaching missionary children. Jo loves the children in her primary classes and creates a family atmosphere for these children who come from many different nations. She is part of Wycliffe’s vision of providing the Scriptures in the heart language of each people group around the world. Wycliffe’s sister organization, SIL-PNG, under which Jo serves, currently serves over 180 language communities in translation and literacy work in PNG.
Steve & Mary Santos - Wycliffe – Cameroon
Steve and Mary Santos came to Calvary Bible Church in 1997 and jumped into a Young Married Sunday School class. These California natives went to Cameroon, Africa, in September 2000 to do a construction project for Wycliffe. After the project was completed, Steve ran the Construction and Maintenance Department, which has overseen the upkeep for three centers. Mary home schooled Spencer and Maureka and helped other missionaries by showing hospitality.
Steve now directs non-language related services which benefit missionaries in Cameroon (aviation, computer services, maintenance, auto repair, public relations, etc). Mary is the principal for the home school support network and an elementary school for missionary kids.
What started as a 2-year venture with Wycliffe turned into the opportunity for a lifetime!
What started as a 2-year venture with Wycliffe turned into the opportunity for a lifetime!
Jeff & Linda Stout -Wycliffe - Papua New Guinea
Jeff and Linda Stout moved to Nevada County in 1983 and have been part of CBC since their arrival. They joined Wycliffe Bible Translators in 1993 and have served in Papua New Guinea (PNG). Jeff is a family physician and Linda is a nurse. They are both assigned to the clinic at the SIL (the part of Wycliffe that does translation work) Center in the PNG Highlands. The clinic provides health care services to all SIL missionaries in PNG, their families, and a large population of local people. Jeff and Linda appreciate the opportunity to serve on the large team God has called to provide the scriptures to the peoples of PNG in their heart languages. 
Ary & Carolyn Velloso - OC International - Brazil
Ary and Carolyn joined OC International in May 1970. Ary is a graduate of Dallas Seminary and he and Carolyn met in Brazil after he had finished internship with ray Stedman in Palo Alto, CA. Carolyn had gone to Brazil at the invitations of Jim and Judy Kemp to play the piano for the Vencedores team, one of the Kemp’s ministries.
Carolyn grew up in CBC, daughter of Dick and Norma Jones, the founders of Wolf Mountain Camp. She says that her best training for the mission filed was the ministry along side her parents at camp.
Ary and Carolyn concentrate on church planting and one to one discipleship. They worked in Sao Paulo for 35 years before moving to Loudrina in 2006 where they have begun another church. They are part of the OC team called Sepal Sul which works mainly in the southwest region of Brazil with pastors and leaders. Ary and Carolyn have two grown children and three grandchildren.
Kyle & Nell Stiff - OC International - Malaga, Spain
Kyle and Nell Stiff serve with OC (One Challenge) International. In January 2000, Kyle and Nell left Grass Valley for Guatemala after the birth of their first daughter, Mikayla, where they served for seven and a half years. During that time they were involved in Bible training for rural pastors, coordinating short-term teams throughout Central America, and preparing Central Americans for service as missionaries worldwide. Kyle has served as US Director of Personnel, mobilizing missionaries worldwide. Kyle currently is involved with discipling, mentoring, and coaching young men in ministry and missions.
The Stiff family has been invited to join OC’s North Africa-Middle East team in Malaga, Spain. This specialized team seeks to train and care for Latin American missionaries located throughout the region. They have enthusiastically accepted and target moving to Spain the summer of 2012.
Kyle and Nell both served in Calvary Bible Church’s youth ministry. After Kyle’s summer as an intern, he taught Spanish at Forest Lake Christian and volunteered in the high school youth ministry. Nell served as an intern during two summers of her college years. They have two daughters, Mikayla and Elena.
Sergio is from Guatemala. He trusted Jesus as his Savior as a child and committed his live in His service at the age of twenty. He met Miriam at seminary in Guatemala. She is from Mexico. After some years of ministry, the family moved to Dallas to further Sergio’s Bible training. Returning to Guatemala, the Lord impressed their hearts with the spiritual need in Spain. Raising their support to go to Spain as missionaries with CAM International, they met Craig and Barbara Prather who introduced them to Calvary Bible Church in 1984.
Sergio and Miriam have served in church planting in Spain since 1985, first in Bilbao and then in Santander. Miriam taught the Bible in the Spanish public schools for sixteen years and Sergio teaches the Bible in several cities.
India National Inland Mission - India and South Asia
India National Inland Mission has been one of Calvary Bible Church's longest supported missions. Paul Pillai, former orthodox Hindu and Communist, and his wife, Anne, began ministering in northern India in 1964. The history of their ministry sounds like the stories in Acts with its persecutions and supernatural advance of the gospel.
INIM's primary vision remains indigenous church planting and evangelism. They accomplish this goal through orphanages, Christian literature distribution ministries, medical and feeding ministries, Christian schools, a Bible college and seminary. Their trained Bible college graduates minister among the unreached in northern India, and other countries in which opposition to the gospel is great.
Bethesda Children's Home, established in 1976, their largest orphanage houses over 1,000 children, training them in God's word and the joy of a personal relationship with God through Jesus Christ, as well as providing their formal education.
Dan and Linda Iles - Indigenous Ministries International - California and the World
Dr. Dan Iles serves as the Director of Educational Development with Indigenous Ministries International. He and Linda serve where missionaries have limited access such as India, Indonesia and the Middle East. Their goal is to encourage, strengthen and support the indigenous Christian leaders. IMI provide conferences for pastors, micro-finance loans, and financial support for Bible colleges and church planters. The goal is to give a helping hand for a specific length of time to encourage independence rather than dependence.
Dan came to Calvary Bible Church as a summer intern in 1975. He was called by CBC to serve as Pastor of Youth and Christian Education in 1976 and was ordained by CBC. God called Dan and Linda to be the first pastor of Combie Bible Church at Lake of the Pines as a missions’ project of Calvary Bible. Dan and Linda have had a passion for missions in each of the churches they have served and are excited that God is using them to help nationals reach nationals.
China Radio
China Radio is a ministry that One Challenge International (OCI), began in 1982. Their program, entitled the Voice of Friendship Seminary (VFS), provides Bible training to pastors and Christian leaders in China. These people pastor churches in China with little or no training, often in spite of great opposition. These leaders have no opportunity to go to seminary or Bible College.
Far East Broadcasting Company (FEBC) broadcasts this program into China. The VFS, as it is known, is the largest program FEBC broadcasts into China and regularly receives about 2,000 responses a month.
Dick Hillis, who founded OCI in 1951, was the instigator of this program.
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