"But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you;
and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all
Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."
Acts 1:8

Name	Country
Fred & Josie F.	Creative Access Country
Randy J.	Creative Access Country
Larry & Karen Wolters	Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, West Africa

First Alliance Church is a part of The Christian and Missionary Alliance, a church-based missionary movement committed to reaching all peoples everywhere with the whole gospel of Jesus Christ. With more than 800 missionaries ministering in over 60 countries, our middle name is missionary and our focus is on the whole world.

Visit the C&MA's site to learn more.

 

FRED & JOSIE F. - Creative Access Country

Fred and Josie F. are long-time First Alliance members. With their daughter, Rebecca, they went to a "creative-access country" in 2005. A creative-access country is one where traditional missionaries identified as such may not enter because of political and/or religious restrictions.

Fred is a university English professor, which affords him opportunity to interact with college and grad-level students. By dint of hard work, excellence in teaching and building personal relationship with his students, Fred is able to present the message of Christ to young people who have been brought up in materialism and atheism. Josie home schools Rebecca and also meets with young women from the university for tea and Bible study. This family is supported by First Alliance and other churches and individuals committed to doing whatever it takes to reach the unreached.

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RANDY J. - Creative Access Country

Randy J. was born and raised to missionary parents. After graduating from high school, he returned to the U.S. where he entered University, graduating in 1992. As an "MK (missionary kid)," Randy had moved around a lot and his goal in life was to get a good job, settle down and move no more. But God had other plans.

In the late 1990s, Randy began to discover that security and sameness was not "all they're cracked up to be." God began to put a desire in his heart to be part of taking Christ to the nations. After a time of preparation, he was given opportunity to give up the "good life," move overseas to a "creative-access country" and begin a new career as an university English teacher. He has been doing so since 2001. His experience in ministry has given him the joy of telling bright students, future leaders in business, education and government, the life-changing message of Christ's love for them. It is our privilege as a Great Commission church to count Randy as one of our own.

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LARRY & KAREN WOLTERS - Burkina Faso, West Africa

Larry and Karen Wolters, and their two children, Abby and Micah are “homegrown” missionaries of First Alliance, who carry on this long tradition of Great Commission commitment.

Larry and Karen are from New York State. Larry was raised in a C&MA church where missions was emphasized. Karen gained a missions vision after becoming a follower of Jesus as a young adult. They met at church, dated and later married, dedicating themselves to serve the Lord and His church.

As newlyweds, they moved to Delaware where Larry took a job with a major construction company, and Karen started teaching. Right away they joined First Alliance and began to work for the Lord in any number of capacities: Sunday School, youth, the church office and missions committee, cleaning, maintenance and much more. Their children Abby and Micah were raised "in church." Several years ago, Larry went on a short-term missions work project to Burkina Faso in West Africa. While there, he came to appreciate the missionaries, their families and the warm and friendly Burkinabé nationals that he worked with. Over several years, he returned with other teams to work on a variety of projects.

Eventually God put into his heart a desire to return to Burkina Faso, not as a short-term worker but a long-term career missionary. He felt led to use his skills and experience as a civil engineer to organize and coordinate the many short-term work teams that were going to help that needy West African nation build churches, schools and many other building projects. God put this same desire into the heart of Karen and the kids after visiting the field. As a result, they made a huge career move, quit their jobs, sold their house, paid their bills and moved to the field in the summer of 2004. After a tough year of French and local language study, they are now full-time members of the missionary team.

Learn more about the Wolters family.

Visit the Burkina Faso Field website.

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