Joel & Marissa Bidderman, Missionaries with Apache Youth Ministries (AYM)

Apache Youth Ministries in Whiteriver, AZ, on the Fort Apache Reservation (near Show Low).
1342 S. O.C. Dr.
Pinetop, AZ  85935

Joel & Marissa Bidderman are missionaries who are passionate about prayer, worship, and social justice.  Many at Epic may remember them from the times that they would lead worship at Epic. Well, Joel & Marissa have been working with Apache Youth Ministries (AYM) since 2008. AYM is a youth focused, non-denominational Christian organization that serves the White Mountain Apache tribe in northern Arizona. AYM staff members mentor Apache youth by utilizing a number of settings, all geared around living out the hope found in Jesus Christ. Whether the relationships that are built take place in AYM’s youth center, its discipleship program, its economic development program (Little Bluebird Studios), or another connecting point, AYM’s mission is to “Empower Apache youth to impact the world.”

On staff with AYM, Joel is the ministry’s Director of Staff and Resource Development as well as the Media Director for AYM’s Little Bluebird Studios, and Marissa is the ministry’s bookkeeper. Throughout the week they build relationships at the ministry’s youth center, help to lead a weekly discipleship group, and aid in administrative tasks necessary to the functioning, productivity, and growth of the ministry.

To learn more about AYM visit: www.apacheyouth.com

And to learn more about Joel & Marissa, you can visit their website at: www.thirdfloorministries.org

Paul and Karen Whitley

Paul & Karen Whitley are 25 year veteran missionaries who have served until recently in Eastern Europe where they lived for 7 years. The Whitley’s have been members of Epic for over 15 years.  Paul is now serving as Director of Mission for Faith Christian Fellowship Int’l.  Most of their ministry is now centered in South America principally in Peru and Bolivia.  They take several short term mission trips to South America each year and welcome inquiries.  They may be reached at 678 371 1452 or itd7773@aol.com

Paul and Eilene Allen

Dr. Paul and Eileen Allyn are 29 year veteran missionaries serving in the Dominican Republic and around the world since 1980. Their ministry is incorporated in the USA under the name HARVEST NOW MINISTRIES, INC. and functions in the Dominican Republic as CONFRATERNIDAD DE MINISTERIOS CRISTIANOS “EL CALVARIO” which serves as an umbrella organization for the various ministries they have started and for other ministries that have come to them for spiritual covering. They are committed to:

• Bring in the harvest
• Prepare a “kairos” generation of men and women to fulfill God’s call to ministry that is over the nation
• Mobilize Dominicans for Missions
• Spreading revival throughout the country
• Fostering a truly functional and lasting unity in the Body of Christ

Preparing Workers for the Harvest

This past year the ministry opened three new branches of the church planting institute. One in Nagua, near the north coast, and the other in Quisqueya de San Pedro, in the east. The third, new institute operates in Santiago. Plans are in the works to re-open the Haitian Church Planting Institute this fall.

A major thrust of the ministry is the training of men and women of all ages for ministry. They offer two institute programs. One focuses on church planting, missions and church growth. The other is designed for general ministry preparation. Their institutes have graduated close to a thousand students over the past 7 years. These graduates have gone on to start numerous churches and ministries.