Jay & Melanie Cooper

The Coopers ministry is conducting Released Time Bible Classes and Vacation Bible Schools in southeastern Michigan. The Coopers began their ministry in June of 1984.

Jay teaches 29 Released Time Classes a month. He also teaches 3 after school latch key groups. Jay is currently teaching Released Time Classes in 14 school districts in Southeastern Michigan, which involves 39 elementary schools.

During the summer Jay teaches or directs anywhere from 10-13 Bible Schools. RBM has a 7 year cycle of VBS programs going through the entire Bible, from Genesis to Revelation.

The Coopers can be reached at:

cooper.jay@sbcglobal.net

Affiliated Mission: RBM Ministries

Tim & Alice Dysert

The Dyserts are missionaries to Madrid, Spain. They are ministering to the "Love of God Baptist Church" there and involved in a bookstore ministry as well.

Tim and Alice have four children: Stephen, Philip, Nicolas, and Lydia.

The Dyserts are sent to the field by Inter-City Baptist Church of Allen Park, MI. Their mission board is Baptist World Mission.

You can learn more about the Dyserts at their Home Page or by visiting Alice's blog.

John & Judy Garris

The Garris's minister at the Eglise Baptiste d'Orsainville (Baptist Church of Orsainville, Quebec, Canada) with Pastor Michael Webster. They are also heavily involved in a ministry of translating and printing biblical literature into French which they started called Éditions Ékklesia.

Their sending church is Emmanuel Baptist Church of Oldcastle, Ontario, Canada.

The Garris' may be reached at: garris@videotron.ca

Daniel & Rosamma Kumar

The Kumars began a ministry in the southern India state of Tamil Nadu called Grace Baptist Ministries India Trust. Grace Baptist Ministries includes numerous endeavors, including numerous churches they have planted throughout Tamil Nadu and Kerala, Grace Baptist Theological Seminary to train pastors for those churches, Grace Home for Children (an orphanage), Grace Christian School, and a tailoring institute to train ladies to sew.

Daniel oversees all these ministries which include numerous pastors, seminary professors, and others ministering in various roles.

The Kumars have three children: Merin, Dany, and Merlin (Silu).

The Kumars sending church is Inter-City Baptist Church of Allen Park, Michigan.

The Kumar's may be reached at: gbmit@vsnl.com