Larry & Bella Mori

Prayer Requests

Larry—I attended the Urbana mission conference in 1987 while I was working as an engineer at IBM. During the conference, I responded to God’s call to serve Him overseas due to the Great Commission in Matthew 28:19-20. That led to eventually going to Japan as a 2 year term missionary with the EFCA. During that time, I made a deeper commitment to become a career missionary to Japan. I met my wife, Bella, on the mission field and God blessed us with two children, Timothy and Tiffany.

Bella—While I was attending Bible school in Canada, God gave me the burden for Japan through the sharing of missionaries. I was sent to Japan through the EFC of Hong Kong as a missionary until I met Larry on the mission field and were married in Hong Kong.

Our Current Role
We have started Sendai Izumi Church in Sendai City. We teach Outreach English classes at Sendai Izumi Church and also at community centers (when invited) as a means to reach out to our community. In the past, we also spent a few years serving the Tsunami victims while we were church planting the Sendai Izumi Church. We have a small congregation and we meet every Sunday for worship, weekly prayer meeting and hold Outreach English classes weekly.

About EFCA
We are serving with the EFCA ReachGlobal and EFC of China – Hong Kong Overseas Mission Board.
EFC of China – Hong Kong Overseas Mission Board Purpose: Spread the Gospel to the whole world and benefit all peoples by spreading the Word.
EFCA ReachGlobal Purpose: Focus is to invest in disciplemakers to establish the church where the gospel isn’t known.

Sam and Colleen Yim

Read more about Christ-honoring transformation https://www.christar.org/cycle-of-transformation and why we share the gospel with least-reached people. https://www.christar.org/why-we-share

[email protected] 517-732-4353
[email protected] 517-526-5614

  • Greetings,

    We just wanted to get out a quick prayer list as we have just started Christar’s two week training program in Muslim evangelism and would appreciate your prayer power for the students, teachers and the interaction and outreach students have with our contacts and the contacts they may make on their own while here. The training consists of daytime classes and afternoon/evening outreach. We will be teaching some of the sessions, helping in the kitchen and taking them on outreach. Pray we can give our best in all areas.

    ESL classes will end after this week and the students, thankfully, are very disappointed. So, I will be having “informal” classes this summer and we will be reading through Lewis’ “The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe”. They are excited about coming together for a book club during the summer and I’ll be making the connections between the text and the gospel. We will all be taking turns hosting in one another’s homes so are also getting closer in our personal relationships. We pray this leads to deeper trust to be able to share the truths of the gospel.

    I will also be leading a book club for our church this summer and we will be reading “The Sermon on the Mount” from John Stott. It is a great book and thick book that is very deep. Pray we can gain God would have for us from this resource as we study the Sermon on the Mount.

    Lots going on this summer that has already started, so thank-you for praying for us.

    Sam and Colleen

    Pray:

    -ESL summer “informal” class. Good participation, connections from the book to gospel, seeds and salvation.

    -Justice, whatever that looks like, for the Middle East.

    -Jiran outreach: for the Muslims who come to hear the Bible stories and all the story tellers.

    -Manarah, C*’s training program for Muslim Evangelism, has begun. Pray for students and teachers as they teach, learn and interact in outreach to the community.

    -Leaders from Arab service have decided to pause this ministry. Pray as they go forward to consider if we continue.

    -Friendship Friday: The joyful friendships made with these contacts will allow for deep conversations at other times.

    -Continue to pray for Afghani friend and her daughter. Very thankful for her citizenship and the arrival of her American passports. She has begun to be anemic, is taking medicine for depression and is shaking a bit. Pray for her health in all areas.

    -We will also be helping with Christar’s North American Annual conference this August. Please pray as we are currently trying to get a teach of child care workers.

    -Our discipleship class will produce lasting fruit and growth.

    -Sermon on the Mount summer book club.

    -Along with our regular Saturday coffee days, we are planning outings for our students this summer. Again, pray for opportunties to share the gospel.

    Praise:

    -We are completing another year of ESL and have made lasting friendships.

    -A discipleship group with my Iranian student and a few other younger women from my church has begun.

    -Manarah has begun and we look forward to the next two weeks of training and seeing what these eleven students will do as they take up the baton.

    -We will welcoming Sam’s family for a visit the first week of July.

    -A former student from Iraq will be getting married in July in Toronto and we are very happy to be attending his wedding. Between ISIS, losing his home and career, and having to put off marriage for many years, we are so happy to be celebrating with him.

Sam: I was raised in a Christian home and I followed my parents when they went to church. When I was a teenager, I attended a Billy Graham’s evangelistic meeting and I made decision to follow Christ. When I was a high school teacher, I felt I need to be equipped to reach out to to high school kids, so I decided to go to seminary. During the mission course, I found there are many unreached people groups in India. At that time, I knew I would like to go to India to share the gospel with them.

Colleen: While working for the Department of Natural Resources in a rustic park, while working, my boss would always share the gospel with me. After a couple years of sharing and praying, I finally really understood what the scriptures he was sharing meant, and on June 10, 1981, I repented and started following Jesus.

My Current Role in Christar
We are ministering in Dearborn, MI, home of the largest Arab Muslim population in the US. We work along with a church in Dearborn teaching ESL during the week, hosting a Friday night outreach, visitation, and participating in another city wide outreach called Jiran, a time of Arab/English singing and Bible storying. We also give on-line training for an organization in HK called Oasis, who train Nepalis in HK for pastoral work.

Alliance Seminary HK: Sam just completed mentoring 2 D.Miss students and they have us both as second readers for their D.Miss program.

Writing is also a continuing ministry. Sam continues writing for Christian Times from HK.

Columbia International University: Sam continues to teach as an on-line professor to students in the mainland.

About Christar
Christar workers PARTICIPATE by planting churches in these LEAST-REACHED communities, where He is yet to be worshiped. The vision of Christar is to cultivate Christ-honoring transformation in communities where He is yet to be worshiped.

Christ-honoring transformation speaks to the process as well as the outcome. In the establishment of indigenous churches, we pursue a Christ-honoring influence on the community at large. As workers who partner with God in His work, we are a part of the transformation process that God is bringing about. God’s promise in Revelation 5:9 is clear. People from every tongue, tribe, people and nation will worship God in eternity.

Our vision is to go to those people who are not accounted for in the eternal roll call of nations!

Doug and Katia

  • The end of the semester at SBS was busy. Seven out of nine students graduated from the Intensive English Centre (IEC) into the mainstream classroom. I am very thankful that the IEC initiative was a success, and these students were able to participate. God is good!

    Doug and I have improved considerably, but he is still coughing a bit, and I am still struggling with back pain occasionally. We covet your prayers for our health. 

    We are on holiday, although I have a lot of documents to prepare to transfer my visa to the new school. I have also started going to Cedar International School to discuss curriculum needs. Cedar is a Chinese Christian school that opened a year ago, aiming to serve the Christian community from China. The owners are two Chinese Christian ladies who have a big heart but little knowledge about education. One of them is married to a pastor who also started Bethlehem church in Chiang Mai. We will have a Bible study training for seven teachers in the next few days to prepare them to teach the Community Bible Study (CBS) program in the classroom from Kindergarten to secondary school. I will be teaching the Bible to teachers starting in August. God is good!

    God richly bless you and SCCEFC!

    Katia, for the Flowers

Doug – I came to Christ through the influence of a missionary family and Christian teachers while teaching in northern Saskatchewan. I was initially Catholic, so it took over half a year to understand the Gospel and my need for a Savior. I accepted Christ on Easter morning in 1989. After I finished my teaching contract, I enrolled at Prairie Bible Institute to learn more about missions and how to be a Christian teacher. My wife Katia and I met and married at Prairie.

Katia - My mother and aunt led me to the Lord while attending university in Brazil. I had been experiencing much anguish, so my aunt invited me to visit her church in the countryside. I accepted Jesus and started a prayer and fasting campaign. After several weeks, I returned to my aunt’s town, and the Pastor prayed for me. When I woke up the following day, all my anguish was gone. I realized the evangelical faith was genuine and decided to pursue it.

After Doug and Katia met, we started seeking the Lord regarding which mission to join and where to go. He led us step by step, and we feel honored to have been serving God in Asia for the last 28 years.

Our Current Role in Action
Our heart’s passion is two-fold:
a. To reach students and teachers for Christ in international schools. We are “tent-makers,” and the school setting provides ideal opportunities for witnessing and discipling, opening doors to impact teachers, students, and their families. We integrate the truth into our classes and serve in weekly Bible clubs and evangelistic meetings for children and adults.

b. To develop a love of learning in people, equip teachers and church leaders, and raise educational and ethical standards. We train teachers, teach church leaders the Bible, and counsel those in need.

About Action
Action International Ministries (ACTION) is a global mission agency committed to sending multinational workers who treasure Jesus Christ and minister His Gospel in word and deed, primarily to the poor.

In 1974, ACTION started working alongside small Filipino churches on the streets of Manila, ministering to street kids who had run away from home. From that small beginning, we have grown into an evangelical, interdenominational sending organization with workers in 30 countries across Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East.

Shaun & Sondi Carlaw

Prayer Requests

Shaun was raised in a Christian home and placed his faith in Christ as Saviour at an early age. Söndi was introduced to Christ in her first year of college when she joined a choir led by a Christian student. Söndi and the choir sang Christian songs and she also attended Bible studies led by the choir director. From other believers, she experienced God’s love and came to see God’s truth in the Word which led her to faith in Jesus.

Shaun’s experience in Hungary began in 1991 when he first started teaching English as a tentmaker with the EFCCM. He attended Trinity Western University to earn a Teaching English as Second Language Certificate and then sought God’s leading for his next step.

Leaders in the EFCC encouraged him to apply to the mission and serve in Hungary full time. It was a step of faith but God is the provider and Shaun headed to serve in Budapest in June 1998. Söndi served in the Campus Crusade office in Budapest from 1993-1997 and then with an American EFC mission team in Budapest from 1997-2001. Shaun met Söndi at Kelenfold EFC, and they were married in Budapest in 2002. Söndi joined the EFCCM in August 2002.

Shaun and Söndi are living in the Budapest area and are a part of the Sarokkő Evangelical Church. Shaun uses English teaching as a tool holding outreach English clubs, Bible studies and summer camps as a means to reach the community and grow the church. Söndi volunteers with a Roma mission in outreaches and music ministry in Budapest and in different places throughout Hungary.

Our Current Role
Hungary is historically a “Christian” nation however Hungarian people have now mostly lost contact with the gospel. They seek answers to life’s problems in material possessions, personal pleasures, alcohol, and false religions. Mixing Eastern religious thought with other various spiritual ideas have increased in recent years. Those who would be true believers in Christ are less than 3% of the population.

In reaching out to others, people often respond indifferently and building relationships of trust is important in sharing the gospel. Serving among the Roma, one can see a spiritual openness but this can be towards evil practices. Ministry among the Roma is a real spiritual battle as it is for reaching out to others in Hungary too.

About Action International Ministries
Shaun and Söndi now serve with Action International Ministries as of May 1, 2025. Their former mission EFCC ServeBeyond laid off all its full time missionaries at the end of April 2025.

Action International Ministries (ACTION) is a global mission agency committed to sending multinational workers who treasure Jesus Christ and minister His Gospel in word and deed, primarily to the poor.

In 1974, ACTION started working alongside small Filipino churches on the streets of Manila, ministering to street kids who had run away from home. From that small beginning, we have grown into an evangelical, interdenominational sending organization with workers in 30 countries across Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East.

Shirley Unger

Address: 304-25 Ivybridge Gate, Winnipeg, MB, R3W 0L5 Canada
Email: [email protected] or [email protected].
Website: https://gemission.org/

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I became a Christian when I was a child. I grew up in a Christian home, learning about Christ at church and in Sunday School and Vacation Bible School. I was asked by a friend at a birthday party if I had a personal relationship with Christ. I went to my room, took out my little Bible that my parents had given me for Christmas and invited the Lord into my heart.

I had never considered going overseas to serve as a missionary in my earlier years. I went to Bible College and then got my teacher's degree at Brandon University. My goal was to teach elementary age children, but the thought of doing it outside of Manitoba didn't cross my mind.

After teaching on First Nations schools for four years, which was kind of a mission field of its own, a Greater Europe Mission (GEM) rep was at my parents' home for lunch and asked me to consider serving. That led to going to Spain on a summer mission trip. During the wrap-up time in Germany, opportunities to teach at Christian schools in Europe were mentioned. I applied, looking to serve for a year or two and the Lord expanded it to become a long term ministry, eventually with more than just teaching.

My Current Role at GEM
My current ministry is as an administrative assistant to both GEM Canada and to GEM Teams, where I served in person for over 16 years. My role with GEM Teams is to interact with teams and individuals who are wanting to serve on a short term team (1-3 weeks) and walk them through the GEM application process. I also read through their evaluations after a project and make our mobilization department aware of those who may want to return or consider longer term ministry. I meet with GEM Canada staff virtually once a week and with my supervisor also weekly. I meet with GEM Teams staff once a month and with that supervisor about once a month. I travel to Germany to be with the team in person once a year.

About GEM
Greater Europe Mission (GEM) began in 1952 because of a desire by Bob Evans to train leaders in the Bible. 22 Bible schools were established in the first 30 years, many that continue on. The ministry spread to include church planting. Today the mission has a wide variety of ministries, including Creative Arts, Business as a mission, sports, camps, children/youth education, justice, refugees, church planting, disciple making and so much more. GEM has over 700 missionaries from North America, Europe and beyond.

GEM's mission is to reach Europe by multiplying disciples and growing Christ's Church.