About
Disciples of Christ live between two cultures–this world and the next. As missionaries, we have joined the armada of evangelists Jesus commissioned to make disciples.
I am the husband of one wife, a student of two cultures, a follower of three Persons, a lover of Five Solas, and a father of nine children. Two college trips to Ghana and Hudson Taylor’s two-volume biography wooed me toward missions. In 2006 I began living in a rural South African village where for the first two years I resided with the chief’s children and one of his wives. There was no running water but the close proximity to the people helped me learn the language and make disciples.
The greatest challenges we face in ministry are men leaving the village and the Prosperity Gospel. Besides our main task of establishing churches, we facilitate Miseve–a classical Christian school in the village. We also lead several annual GYM Camps, a gathering of youth which promotes godly masculinity and femininity, and spearhead frequent trips to an unreached people group in Eastern Africa.
Our family (pronounced SHLAY-line) lives about an hour’s drive from the borders of Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Botswana. We own a pack of German Shepherds, cheer for the Green Bay Packers, and read non-fiction by the pallet. I subscribe to the 1689 and studied at RTS, TMS (DMin), and NWU-Potchefstroom (PhD). I’ve also been published by Banner, Missionary, and Imbila. Our family’s favorite authors include Thomas Watson, Chuck Spurgeon, John MacArthur, Thomas Sowell, John Frame, Anthony Esolen, and G.A. Henty.
We’d love to hear from you. Contact us at: paul@odbmissions.org
Our mission field lies in the Limpopo Province, the northeastern tip of South Africa where the beloved Tsonga people live. Here we preach in Xitsonga several times per week in the local church plants and village Bible studies. Some years ago we planted Trinity Baptist, an indigenous church now pastored by local leadership.