Be Praying for These Extended Congo Team Members

Kevin Kompelien, Pastor Selenga, and Rachel Martin in front of the Tandala Hospital.

Kevin Kompelien – International Director for Africa of the EFCA International Mission. Kevin is the team leader.

Tom Cairns – Director of Medical Ministries for TouchGlobal and Point person for Congo; spent 19 years at Tandala Hospital as the Medical Director.

Thelma Landrud – 42-year veteran missionary in Congo, now moving toward retirement but helping with all the logistics of the trip.

Rev. Martin Schlomer – Senior Pastor of Elim Evangelical Free Church, Puyallup, Washington.

Dr. Calvin Kierum – Pediatrician and lay leader at Elim EFC.

Mrs. Linda McCoy – Also from Elim EFC.

Rev. J. Nils Swanson – Senior Pastor of Cornerstone Community Church, Pullman, Washington.

Jay Swanson – Son of Nils, and fluent in French; children’s ministry at church and Campus Crusade at university where he graduates this spring.

Mark, Zelda and Michael Anderson – Mark and Zelda were missionaries in Congo in the early 90’s and are nurses. They will be working at Tandala.

Steve and Cathy Austvold – ReachGlobal staff involved with our Connect division and helping churches connect with ministry around the world.

Rachel Wenzel – Sophomore at Iowa State University in linguistics; French background; will help with various projects with Rachel Martin.

Rachel Bliss – TouchGlobal staff working with our projects in Indonesia and Congo. She is particularly involved with the CEVO and women’s work in the Congo.

Sarah Bliss – Rachel’s daughter and a college student going to help her mom with the projects.

In addition, there are several people who were already on site when the team arrived:

Rachel Martin – Leader of the AIDS ministry for TouchGlobal and specifically for the Global Fingerprints initiative for sponsorship of orphans in the Congo.

Dave Turner – Videographer for the EFCA, hails from Michigan. He will be doing two weeks with Rachel and others on the AIDS work and other projects in the Congo.

Matt Hoppe – Assisting Dave with the videography.

Danae Cole – Nursing student in Iowa who will be helping with the filming project.

Dave, Matt and Danae will be there the two weeks (from July 7 to 21).