Our Board and Accountability:

Our Agency

Our ministry is organized first and foremost under our sending church (Calvary Baptist of Geneva, IL). As we began looking for a mission agency that would come alongside and assist us in God’s calling on our lives to Alaska, we were directed through a series of circumstances to Central Missionary Clearinghouse. We are not against traditional mission boards, but we do believe that when sending churches are willing and able to function as both commisioning church and agency, this should be a viable option. Upon our initial calling and commissioning from our home church, the men decided to have the church function as both commissioning church and agency providing they could acquire some assitance with the finances incurred with our ministry. We became aware of the ministries of Central Missionary Clearinghouse through a fellow missionary family serving in Alaska’s bush. Central Missionary Clearinghouse is an independent Baptist ministry organized to serve missionaries and sending churches who wish to fully send the missionary, but who need some assistance with the finances. Our home church (Calvary Baptist) and Central Missionary Clearinghouse were a perfect match.

How CMC (Central Missionary Clearinghouse) Operates

The financial logistics function similarly to any traditional missionary agency. Churches and individuals send support to CMC’s offices (in Houston, TX) who in turn, route the support to us on a monthly basis. All donating and tax sensitve information is securely recorded and disbursed by CMC. For more information regarding CMC, please visit their website here.

What About Accountability?

In addition to our sending church keeping us accountable, CMC requires us to select at least 3 supporting pastors who form our accountability board. These pastors are regularly kept updated to our current ministry and any issues or decisions facing us. In this way we seek to be submissive to God’s leading, but also to God’s authority through the local church and it’s leaders. We strive to be Biblical and submissive as we humbly serve our Lord in the mission He has laid before us.

For your convenience you may contact our board of pastors below:

Our Board of Accountability Pastors

Pastor Rick Weesner (Sending Church Pastor – Calvary Baptist of Geneva, IL)

cbcgeneva@ameritech.net

I was reared on a grain farm in South-Central Illinois. When I was eight years old a missionary from the Philippines was visiting our church. After he presented the truth of the Gospel, I called upon the Lord to save me from my sin. Upon graduating High School, I attended one year of Bible College and then returned to my home town to pursue all “My” desires. After years of wrestling with God I returned to Bible College (Maranatha Baptist Bible College) and then Graduate School (MBBC) to continue my formal education. Through the preaching of God’s Word in a Mission’s Conference, I surrendered my will to God, to do whatever He wanted with my life. Since that day I have had a burning desire to preach the Word of God and to serve Him. The thirteen years of youth ministry and now ten years as senior pastor have been a gift from the Lord. Jesus said in John 10:10, “I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” As I look back over the years of ministry, I can honestly say, Jesus has kept His word.

Pastor Ken Foster (Antioch Baptist of Antioch, IL)

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ken46192000@yahoo.com

At the age of 7, after the loss of my sister in an accident at home, my parents came to know Christ. The tremendous change in their lives had a big impact on my heart and life even at that age. I soon came to know Christ as my Savior. I graduated from MBBC in 1982 majoring in Bible and Pastoral Studies after which I spent 15 years teaching and coaching in several Christian schools. In 1999, while teaching at Lake County Baptist School in Waukegan, IL, God, who had been working on my heart for many years, gave my wife and I the opportunity to start Antioch Baptist Church in Antioch, IL. We have served here the last 10 years and we have seen God work in wonderful ways as He has been building His church. We praise God for His work in us and through us in His harvest field.

Pastor Dave Jaspers (Bethel Baptist and SCS of Schaumburg, IL)

davejaspers@bethelministries.org

Dr. Dave Jaspers graduated from Maranatha Baptist Bible College majoring in Bible and Pastoral Studies. He has served in two pastorate positions in Michigan and Iowa. He has also served as president in several Christian school associations and Bible camp ministries. In 1986 Dr. Jaspers entered full-time evangelism, which he still continues to some degree today. He served as college president at Maranatha Baptist Bible College from 1998 – 2006. He has also served on the board of directors of Baptist World Mission from 1999 – 2006 and on the board of the Fundamental Baptist Fellowship from 2002 – 2006. Additionally, he served as the president of the American Association of Christian Colleges and Seminaries from 2001 – 2003. Pastor Dave Jaspers currently serves as Bethel Baptist’s Annex Pastor. He is a fulltime resource to the many families who enroll their children in Schaumburg Christian School but do not have a church of their own. Pastor Jaspers spends much of his time doing family and marriage counseling. On a limited basis Pastor Jaspers continues to travel as an evangelist to local churches as he has done for most of his ministry years.