Salina Bible Church supports and sends many missionaries around the world, including the United States. Each year an annual Missions Conference is held in the fall along with special weekends with our missionaries.
The last Sunday of each month is designated as missionary Sunday at Salina Bible Church. A member of the missions committee brings a short report from one of our missionaries and all of the offerings--unless otherwise designated--go into our missions budget.
At the present time Salina Bible Church contributes to the support of 18 missionary couples and one widow, representing 12 mission boards, in amounts of $50.00 to $275.00 per month. This includes 4 couples and 1 widow who are ‘retired’. We also support Calvary Bible College.
For all of its 75 years Salina Bible Church has had a missionary emphasis. Missionaries frequently present their field in our regular services.
A special event for Salina Bible Church is its annual 8 day missionary conference held the last full week of October each year. At the present time we invite 3 missionaries to be with us for the week. If possible, we have those missionaries we support but we also invite others if our own missionaries are not available at the time. During that week we have the missionaries speak in all Sunday services and on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday evenings. The missionaries take part in Awana on Wednesday and a men’s breakfast and ladies’ brunch or tea on Saturday.
Our conference in the past has been influential in calling young people and families to the mission field as well as encouraging us to be faithful in prayer and giving.
Our Missionary Speakers
October 21 - 28, 2007
Kevin and Pam Dunn have been missionaries with Biblical Ministries Worldwide since August of 1992. In November of 1996 they moved to Honduras where they served for 10 1/2 years. During that time their main ministry involved the use of an airplane to facilitate travel to remote areas with the purpose of church planting. They were also involved in teaching school, a prison ministry, youth ministry and one on one discipleship.
In January of 2008 the Dunn family will be transitioning to Tucson, AZ where they will be on loan to UIM Aviation. Kevin will initially be working in the shop maintaining the UIM airplanes and getting up to speed on flying the aircraft so that he will be able to use his piloting abilities in the near future.
Kevin and Pam Dunn have four children: Allison (17), Jeremy (15), Megan (13), and Lauren (11).
Jay and Rose Penner Jay grew up in the Salina area and met Rose at Rural Bible Crusade (Bible Impact Ministries) camp. They were married in 1975 near Hesston, Kansas. At the time of their marriage they were working with Rural Bible Crusade and in time were moved to Norfolk, Nebraska as field missionaries. They served in camp ministries in Michigan and Arkansas before coming to work with Bible Impact Ministries in Missouri. They have been there since 1994 when BIM took over Whispering Winds Bible Camp.
Their children are Mattias 9, Breanne 10 ½ , Melissa, who is married with two sons, and Charlotte who was married Oct. 6. She and her husband will live in St. Louis
Andrew Semenchuk was born in Ukraine and grew up in Canada. For 56 years he has ministered to people in the former Soviet Union as well as to Slavic refugees and immigrants in Europe, Alaska, Australia and South America. For 17 years Dr Semenchuk served as vice president of Slavic Gospel Association.
Today he is Senior Associate for International Missions for Slavic Gospel Association. He helps formulate mission strategy and coordinate ministries. He maintains close contact with churches and para-church, organizations in the CIS and the West, developing sister-church relationships and linking them in a network of joint ministries.
Currently, Dr. Semenchuk lives and serves with SGA out of San Diego, California. He is widely used as a spokesman for Russian Missions in churches, mission conferences, Christian colleges, conventions and consultations. He is regularly interviewed and speaks over Christian and secular radio and TV on the unprecedented opportunities and exciting new developments in the CIS and the great spiritual revival sweeping the former Soviet Union today.
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