EASTERN AFRICA
Rev. Westin, Director, Nairobi, Kenya (Swahili, English) Mission points: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, refugees from Somalia and Sudan. Many churches are being impacted by the exchanged life.
E-mail: via South Africa email address
SOUTH AFRICA
Dr. Hendrik and Nehlsie de Bruto (Afrikaans and English), Cape Town. Rev. Piet du Toit is a board member who also conducts conferences. A number of people have completed internships at Curare with lives being transformed regularly.
E-mail: curare@vodamail.co.za Visit the de Bruto's blog (link).
Each field office needs prayer and financial supporters. You are invited to contact GFI to find out how you or your church could adopt a missionary and/or field.
AUSTRALIA
Rev. Bruce Charsley is the GFI representative in South Australia. He is primarily involved in networking via Internet and doing some counseling, teaching, and mentoring.
Bruce is from Zimbabwe, Africa and received our training in Denver, Colorado. He was educated in the UK and received his theological training in the US. He has pastored in Australia more than 20 years. Email: bcharsley@bigpond.com.
GFI also networks with Yvonne Brooker and Ian Lucas of Freedom Ministries Australia. They hosted a GFI conference in 2005 and carry some of the GFI publications.
Address: Ian Lucas, 7 Walker Street, South Windsor, NSW, 2756 Australia. Phone: (02) 4577 6100. Fax: (02) 4577 6711
INDIA
Professor P.P. Thomas came to the US for training with us in 1982 and returned to India where he established Grace Counseling India in Kerala. From the beginning, it was fostered by GFI and now has its own compound from which to minister in Kottayam, with the organization being chartered in Chennai.
Handbook to Happiness in English and Hindi there and the Wheel and Line tract is available in English, Hindi, Malayalam and other Indian languages. See them online at Solomon Publications.org
E-mail: fgcippt@sancharnet.in
or sambeena1234@gmail.com
Website: www.GraceCounselor.org
PHILIPPINES
Pastor Perfecto Mumar has an itinerant ministry of preaching, teaching, and equipping in many areas of the Philippines. He attended the Grace Fellowship Training in the United States at GFI in Tennessee.
He can be contacted at GFIPhilippines@yahoo.com
ROMANIA
The director of Grace Fellowship Romania is Rev. Peter Mihent in Oradea, near the Hungarian border.
Victor Condorachi serves as a counselor in Iasi, near the border of Moldova.
UKRAINE
Grace Fellowship Ukraine was established in 2000 under the leadership of Victor Zhuromsky who has translated Handbook to Happiness in Russian along with several supporting books and tracts. He has conducted conferences in Russia and Siberia and is networking with other leaders in the former USSR to spread the message of the Cross.
Victor Z. has published a two volume Russian-Greek Interlinear of the New Testament! He has web sites in Russian and will appreciate any assistance you can provide him as he reaches out to the Russian world. In July, 2006 Victor moved to Canada and the Ukranian GFI ministry leadership was taken up by Pastor Roman Shakin.
Grace Fellowship Ukraine Ministry (ru)
Christian Information Portal (ru)
E-mail
Contact: Peter Mihent | Victor Condorachi | Martin Mallette | Roman Shakin | Victor Zhuromsky
GERMANY
Eva Seyboth has been to the GFI training events in Tennessee. She provides Biblical counseling and training in German, and uses the German translation of Handbook to Happiness.
Eva is now based in the U.S.: 2807 West 11th Street, Greeley, CO 80634. E-mail: evaseyboth@frii.com
UNITED KINGDOM
Though some outreach has been done in London, GFI has not previously had an official contact with whom to work.
Sam Gill has been GFI for training and has burden for reaching the ethnic population there. Sam is Pakistani and is fluent in Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi as well as English.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Grace Fellowship International Headquarters is located in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee at the edge of the Smoky Mountain National Park.
In addition to counseling and training, materials are distributed to a worldwide network of associates in print and electronic media via Internet. Regular training is conducted near GFI headquarters the first week of March and November annually. Staff and adjunct staff are available to conduct conferences and other types of training at remote locations. The schedule of these conferences and workshops is updated on this web site. All of the GFI training is based on the books written by Dr. Solomon which give a cohesiveness to the training activities.
President and Founder: Dr. Charles Solomon
Executive Director: Dr. John Woodward
Administrative Manager: Cathy Solomon
Solmon Publications and Children's Ministry: Sue Solomon
Adjunct faculty: Rev. Stoney Shaw, St. Louis, MO.
Many other ministries also conduct training using a variety of materials and emphases, some of which are very similar to those developed by GFI in the early 70's. AELM.org
CANADA
Crossways to Life is an affiliate ministry in Kitchener, Ontario. CTL handles Canadian support for John Woodward, using GFI Counseling Institute as a joint venture. Website: Crossways to Life
Dominique and Eileen Gallou are ministry associates in the Montreal area. They can teach the conference material in English and French. Email: dgallou@primus.ca
Tim Britskey ia an associate in Toronto. Tim and his wife, Claudia, lead Bible studies. Tim also conducts conferences and is a musician. Email: tbritskey@sympatico.ca
Pastor Hans and Elly Timmermans serve with Village Missions in B.C. They are available to present or facilitate a conference. Email: hanselly.timmermans@gmail.com
ARGENTINA
Associacion Internacional de Consejeros Cristianos in Rosaria was inaugurated by GFI in 1981 under the leadership of Dr. Guillermo Donamaria. Since that time, training of various levels has been done in the majority of Spanish-speaking countries, including Cuba.
The work is now fully self-supporting and a counseling school has been established in Buenos Aires.
BRAZIL
John Woodward has recorded a 40 lesson video course on Christ-centered Counseling that is in English and Portuguese. The course is provided through ABECAR Seminary's distance education program. Visit ABECAR to learn more. The school's director is Rev. Willis Stitt.
GFI networks with veteran missionary leader, Edmund Spieker who conducts "Fermata" retreats for pastoral couples across Brazil.
The ministry of Back to the Bible works closely with ABECAR. Pastor Leandro Tarrataca uses GFI resources and has been involved in translating the ABECAR courses.
Handbook to Happiness and How to Exchange Your Life for a New One have been published in Portuguese.
