Below is a list of our Missionary Associates along with a brief deScription of their respective ministries. Please join us in praying for them and their families as they continue serving the Lord.
Don Baret / Mission to North America / Greenville, SC
Don is the Media Producer and Assistant ESL Ministry Director for Mission to North America (MNA). Since the ministry began in 2019, Don has produced 35 editions of the monthlyvideo docuseries Multiply. Additionally, he has created videos for other PCA ministries such as RTS Orlando and Ridge Haven Conference Center.
Don is also the ESL (English as a Second Language) Asssistant Director for MNA. He conducts training sessions and offers support for ESL programs throught the US and Canada.
Both of these ministries work to further MNA's goal of planting 3000 new churches by 2033. He is excited about how his videos and the ESL program are being used to support this vision. He and Kim are very grateful for the support and encouragement they receive from FPC.
Prayer needs:
- Continued monetary support for the Media and ESL ministries
- Continued strength and health to travel across the country, produce the videos as a one-man operation, and conduct ESL trainings.
- Continued guidance and direction for each video
- That each video would glorify the Lord, not the people highlighted, and would help fulfill His Great Commision.
Rev. Esaïe & Natacha Etienne / Mission to the World / Gonaives, Haiti
Esaïe and Natacha are natives of Haïti. They have three sons, Ishtyler, Isaiah, and Ishmaiah, and a grandson, Emmaus. Esaïe has been in the church-planting ministry since 1993 and is a graduate of Reformed Theological Seminary with a Master of Divinity. They have worked in Haïti as MTW missionaries since 2006, moving to Gonaïves in 2008 and Port-au-Prince in 2009. Their ministry includes church planting, leadership training, and mercy ministry. Following several natural disasters, they returned to South Florida. Esaïe routinely travelled back and forth between there and Haïti until moving to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic in 2024 to lead and oversee ministries there and in Haïti. The choice of supporting the ministry from the Dominican Republic is the result of increased violence everywhere in Haïti. This and the increased poverty among the people because of inflation and the invasive nature of gangs controlling Haïti presented many challenges for their ministry, including theft of electricity-producing equipment, the need to provide more security for the ministry, difficulty in hiring staff, and the inability to get food for the school in Dociné. The need is great for substantially more resources. Please visit Mission to the World (MTW.org) and Haïti projects listed in the prayer needs below to help support their ministries.
Prayer needs:
- Pray that everything continues to go well for the remainder of their visa and residency process for the Dominican Republic.
- Pray for the health of their new daughter-in-law, Kristine.
- Pray for the new presidency council of nine members that was installed in Haïti to lead the country and to establish a new path of government for the people.
- Pray for the multinational military and police forces arriving in Haïti to help the national forces get the security of the country under control.
- Please pray for the ministry in Gonaïves and all the different ministry needs. Below is the list of ministry accounts in terms of priority needs.
• Haïti LoveOne Project, account # 91493 (needs four more classrooms and a cafeteria/church sanctuary for Dociné PC)
• Truth PC Construction, account # 92317 (needs to drill a well to provide potable water for church and community)
• Church Planting and Leadership Development, account # 92315
• Esaïe & Natacha Etienne, account # 12139
Joe & Bev Fitzpatrick / Mission to the World / San Juan, Puerto Rico 
Joe is part of Mission to the World’s Global Theological Education team with a concentration in teaching Spanish-speaking pastors and church leaders in Latin America. After having served with MTW in Manila, Philippines, for six years and in Puerto Rico, the homeland of Joe’s mother, for 13 years, they are now based in the Philadelphia area. Joe travels for modular courses in mostly Old Testament topics. He provides one- to two-week classes for gatherings of students who prepare prior to and after the class weeks. Lately he has had the opportunity to assist SRL Seminary (srlseminary.org), which began through the vision of PCA churches in Philadelphia, to provide seminary education on-site in Latin America. They have a main campus in Medellín, Colombia, and sites in 15 locations. Joe loves what he does and never gets tired of seeing the Holy Spirit renew students’ desire to study the Word as they see the story of redemption in the Old Testament—the ‘unfolding mystery’ as Edmund Clowney called it in his classic book on seeing Christ in the Old Testament.
Prayer needs:
- Please pray as Joe teaches pastors and church leaders in Latin America. Many of these leaders are bi-vocational with busy lives and ministries as they also study the Word. Pray that the Spirit will nurture their love of Scripture and that they will be able to share that in their ministries to their churches and communities.
- Pray as Joe teaches a new course on the Holy Land. He is excited about sharing his passion for Biblical geography and history with his students.
- Joe and Bev are new grandparents of Evelyn Grace (born in March 2022) which is a joy. Pray as their three children (all in their twenties) work and study in FL, MD, and PA.
Brad & Stacy Hunter / PCA / World Harvest MissionVienna, Austria
Brad and Stacey have been in Vienna since 2007 at New City Wien, a bilingual German-English reformed church in the heart of Vienna, Austria. Brad is the Lead Pastor with responsibilities for church leadership and teaching/preaching, coaching and consulting to church planters in Vienna and Graz, new church planting, chairing the International Christian School of Vienna building project and its director-search committee, and supporting a myriad of local ministries. Stacey exercises her gift of hospitality by opening their home for home groups, dinners, and other gatherings, as well as by welcoming people in the church, meeting with many people, and partnering with Brad by offering pre-marital counseling and spiritual care. Additionally, she assists young mothers in the Moms & Tots ministry, which she founded. Their children, Luke (24), Abigail (22), Levi (19), are pursuing degrees in Chattanooga, Los Angeles, and Rotterdam, respectively.
By God’s grace, their church has grown to some 180 attendees from 25 nationalities and is expected to grow to 275 next year. Attendance includes numerous asylum seekers from Asia, Ukraine, Iran, Afghanistan, and other countries of dishevel, human trafficking, and Christian persecution. In 2020, they purchased a building for office use, Bible studies, and outreach, and began renting the adjacent, larger building for Sunday worship. They seek to purchase that building soon, as God provides and make church facilities available for support of critical Vienna ministries.
Prayer needs:
- For Brad and Stacey as empty nesters.
- For their kids around the world.
- Brad’s continued health improvement and praise for his recent return to the pulpit for Easter.
- That God would continue to open hearts to the Gospel.
- For the launching of a ministry apprenticeship this year.
- For unity, growth, provision, and protection of their church.
- For the purchase of their worship space.
- For the church plants in Vienna & Graz and more church planters.
- For the International Christian School of Vienna building project and director search.
Mike & Robin McMahan / Mission to the World / Chattanooga, TN
Mike and Robin McMahan plan to join a new MTW work in Kigali, Rwanda. Mike's primary focus will be on facilitating church planting, mentoring and discipling church leaders and assisting in a training center that will help train interns, MTW missionaries to Africa and Africans desiring to serve in missions. Robin will be working with Equipping Farmers International as their director of stewardship and savings groups. A major part of her role will be to help develop savings groups alongside regenerative farming training. Robin will also be involved with the MTW training center.
Prayer needs:
Pray for Robin's transition out of Kingdom Foundations with MTW. Pray that they find someone to replace her soon.
Pray for Mike as he travels to Rwanda at the end of June to assist with the MTW summer internship program during the month of July.
Pray for Mike and Robin as they need to raise additional ministry partners to help meet their financial needs.
Pray for Robin as she travels to Belgium in July to help with Pre-field training. Pray for both of them as they will be apart from each other for about a month this summer.
Kurt & Marlene Schimke / American Bible University / Kampala, Uganda
Kurt & Marlene serve at the African Bible University in Kampala, Uganda. Kurt is a teaching elder from Rocky Mountain Presbytery PCA, assigned to ABU, and therefore is a Professor who Heads the Biblical Studies department and teaches many of the Biblical and Pastoral courses. He also does evangelism and discipleship with Motorcycle taxi drivers. Marlene is active homeschooling their 2 children remaining at home, and is working hard to prepare Biblical parenting courses that they believe will have an impact with their graduates and others around the world.
Kurt and Marlene have four children: Zoe, who will be getting married in April (McKinney, TX), Ana, a massage therapist (Colorado Springs, CO), Nick, a high school senior (Kampala), and Lexie, a sixth-grader (Kampala)
Prayer needs:
- Strength and endurance during this extremely busy season of their lives
- Zoe and her fiancé, Seth, as they begin their life together after their wedding in April
- Kurt and Nick as they seek to get Nick into a German University by October
- Kurt is also going back and forth to Namibia to repair and fly a Cessna 182 from Namibia to Uganda, hopefully by April. ABU will be using this airplane to promote its degree programs and other Reformed work. Please pray for continued safety and effectiveness of this program.
Peter & Dagmar Smuts / 
Bible Institute of South Africa / Cape Town, South Africa
Pete is Dean of Graduate studies at BISA, and teaches in the college’s residential and online degree programs. He is also involved in a regular preaching ministry in the local churches. Dagi serves the women at the college and in our local church. She co-leads a women’s Bible study group at our church, and visits and encourages women in need.
The Smuts have 4 children, 3 of whom are married, and 5 grandchildren. Two of their children live nearby, one lives in a city about 500 miles away, and the other in London (UK).
Prayer needs:
- that the Lord would be glorified in our college’s centenary celebrations this year
- that the college’s government academic reaccreditation application will be successful
- for the Lord’s blessings on Pete & Dagi as they serve the Lord on and off campus
- for one of their children who is not walking with the Lord
Joel M. Kavala / 
Church Planting & Starting a Reformed Confessional Presbytery and Emmanual Theological College / Kenya
Dr. Kavala is married to Elizabeth and God has blessed them with three wonderful children: Rebecca, Grace, and Joseph. Together with his family, Dr. Kavala is planting Emmanuel Reformed Church, a confessional, reformed, and Presbyterian church, that holds to the Westminster standards, at Olooseos in Kajiado county, south of Nairobi.
Dr. Kavala has a PhD in Old Testament studies from the University of South Africa and is now using His education to train other African church leaders in Bible knowledge.
He is running Mobile Theological School in Northern Kenya. His focus group is untrained preachers serving among the least or unreached tribes and villages in Isiolo, Turkana, Samburu and Marsabit counties. These are dry, difficult areas and national security zones. He sets aside one week every month for these trainings. Over the last two years, he has trained 200 church leaders.
There are also plans to construct Emmanuel Theological College to train Kenyan pastors.
Prayer needs:
- People in the village where we are doing church planting believe in the prosperity gospel, blending the gospel with culture, animism, belief in dreams, and false prophecy. These are the constant battles we are finding ourselves involved in every day. Please pray for the truth to prevail in the minds and hearts of those we speak to.
- Pray for the construction of Emmanuel Theological College.
- We are quite aware that we are in a spiritual battle. Pray that we will be faithful and focused on what the Lord is calling us to do here.
- Pray that we will not become weary. Christ has called us to be overcomers, more than conquerors, co-rulers forever with him.
- We are planning on how we can get Westminster Confession of Faith Shorter Catechism translated in Swahili (official languages in Kenya and Tanzania).