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Members in Missions

Locust Grove has several members who have answered the call to missions. The following is a list of people who are currently serving in missions. Please join with us in prayer for these people.

Rick, Anji Zook

Serving with New Tribes Mission in Papua New Guinea.

**still under construction**

Sheldon, Cindy, Jedediah, Annali, and Caleb Sharp

Stationed at Russian Mission, Alaska, Sheldon and Cindy Sharp are working at Kako Retreat Center. One of Sheldon's objectives is developing and leading Christ-centered wilderness camps for teenage boys who live in nearby Yup'ik villages.


Contact information:
PO Box 29
Russian Mission, AK 99657
(907)584-5166

scsharp@pa.net

You can check out their latest news at http://sharppointsak.blogspot.com

Dion, Naty, Gabriela, and Marcus Peachey

Dion and Naty have recently finished their term as missionary interns with Rosedale Mennonite Missions and are living in Columbus, OH where Dion is teaching ESL in the South-Western City School.

They have a strong desire to see the gospel spread in the Spanish speaking communities in Columbus. They actively reach out to their neighbors, and are involved with a house church movement in their area.

Contact Information:
136 Darien Avenue
Columbus, OH 46228

dionpeachey@gmail.com

Check out their latest news at:http://kafekakuma.blogspot.com

Mark & Gloria Zook

Mark and Gloria are natives of Belleville, Pennsylvania and have been members of Locust Grove for many years. The Lord gave them a burden to be tribal missionaries which led them to join New Tribes Mission in August 1979. They completed New Tribes Mission’s training for pioneer missionaries and moved to Papua New Guinea in 1983 to begin working with a remote people group. After several surveys into the Mouk territory, they believed the Lord wanted them to start a church planting work among the Mouk tribe located in a remote rainforest area.

Mark and Gloria studied and learned the unwritten Mouk language and developed an alphabet for teaching literacy. They also learned and analyzed the indigenous culture. Other ministry jobs included developing a Mouk language literacy program, Bible translation, writing Bible teaching curriculum, church planting work and starting a medical clinic. The New Testament and portions of the Old Testament have been translated into the Mouk language. A second printing of the New Testament was shipped in 2006 for the Mouk Christians.

Chronological Bible teaching was used for evangelism, teaching the new believers, and establishing the Mouk Church. At the first Gospel presentation on December 3, 1986, hundreds of Mouk people trusted in Christ's sacrificial work and were saved. These first believers were discipled and equipped to evangelize and plant churches in other Mouk villages and neighboring tribes. Today there are twenty-one Mouk Churches. More than one hundred Mouk men serve as elder-pastors, deacons, Bible teachers and trainees, and literacy program workers. The work of the Lord among the Mouk tribe is documented in the videos EE-TAOW and EE-TAOW, the Next Chapter (available from www.ntmbooks.com).

In addition to their ministry to the Mouk people, Mark served on the leadership team and was a church planting consultant. Gloria served as a literacy consultant and helped tribal missionaries develop tribal language literacy programs.

Gloria’s health needs in 1997 caused the Zooks to accept a new ministry with NTM. They moved to Pennsylvania and were appointed by NTM’s executive leaders to be on the team assigned to develop new cross-cultural church planting modules of study for missionaries in training with NTM. For four years they worked on curriculum development, while teaching and training missionary candidates.

Presently, their assignment is to serve itinerantly with NTM which includes presenting church planting seminars, international travel, coaching church planters via correspondence, and interacting with the Mouk Church leaders via visits and correspondence. Mark has presented church planting seminars in Ivory Coast, Senegal, Venezuela, Argentina, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Portugal, Argentina and in the United States. These seminars focus on using the Biblical narrative as the agent for developing a Biblical worldview, and, include practical advice for teaching God’s Word chronologically. Mark continues to develop Bible teaching curriculum for the Mouk church.

Mark and Gloria live in Belleville, Pennsylvania. They have two children, Rick and Nichole, and three grandchildren. Rick and Anj and their two children are cross-cultural tribal church planters in Papua New Guinea among the Lusi tribe. Nichole and her husband Ryan Falb and their daughter live in central Pennsylvania.


Contact information:
4975 Front Mountain Road
Belleville, PA 17004

markzook48@embarqmail.com

Bob Plank

In response to several earthquakes that devastated regions of Turkey in 1999, Bob decided to go to the affected areas to serve for a month. He returned several times following that trip to continue the relief efforts in the area.

During this time, friendships were formed with a group of Romanians who had also travelled to Turkey to help. As a result, he makes annual trips to Romania to teach at the YWAM base in Cluj. He also enjoys preaching, when given the opportunity.

Bob also currently serves as an elder at Locust Grove.


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