David is a Regional Mobilizer with Reaching & Teaching

Reaching & Teaching seeks to advance the gospel by partnering with local churches as they send qualified missionaries to make mature disciples, establish healthy churches, and train local leaders around the world.

David, along with his wife Sonya and their two sons, Noah and Caleb, have lived on the Mississippi Gulf Coast for the past 6 years after serving the Lord as missionaries in the Philippines. David was a pastor in Gulfport, MS for the past 5 years. He is excited to work with RTIM to assist healthy, local churches to send equipped, healthy missionaries to places around the world to proclaim the gospel. David is currently working on his MDiv at SBTS. They are members of Redeemer Baptist Church. When David has downtime, he can usually be found playing a round of disc golf, riding his motorcycle, or cheering with his family for one of his favorite Philly sports teams.

Chankú Wašté Ranch was founded in 2011 with the vision to build a free summer camp for kids in our community. I am truly grateful when I look back and see what Summer Camp has become over the years. Then the Lord allowed us to expand into a Construction Lane of Ministry. There are far too many stories to share here, but through this lane we have been able to accomplish incredible things and are now building a couple of houses each year for families in our community. The Lord then opened the door for us to start a Wellness Lane of Ministry, offering free dental and vision services for people in our community. The Wellness Lane has established an amazing office that not only looks and feels welcoming and safe, but also provides excellent care for many people who are often overlooked in our community. Just two years ago, we began our FAMily Lane of Ministry. This fourth lane seeks to walk alongside families in our community, advocating for them as they take healthy steps forward in life.

Dale and Linnea Kellar are engaged in long-term missions work in Reykjavík, Iceland. They are partnering with a church planting network called The Iceland Project which seeks to establish and strengthen healthy, biblically-minded local congregations throughout the nation. They are covenant members of Loftstofan Baptistakirkja (Upper Room Baptist Church), where Dale serves on the pastoral staff and Linnea participates in and helps lead both the Women’s and Children’s ministries. They are also actively engaged in Icelandic language acquisition and continued cultural acclamation. The Kellars both studied at Reformed Baptist Seminary (Coconut Creek, FL) and Dale completed his Masters of Theological Studies in 2019. Dale and Linnea have been married since 2017 and they have four wonderful children: Cedar, Zion, Avonlea and Isla. They are joyfully sent out from Five Points Community Church in Auburn Hills, Michigan.

We live and minister in Bergsjön, Sweden, which is a suburb of Gothenburg. This is an immigrant area with 144 nationalities and many unreached people groups represented. 

Our family has just team-worked to record a theological album of songs for children into Swedish, soon to be released. We have grown so much from Songs for Saplings catechism, especially understanding sanctification and justification and memorizing God's word, so we are thrilled to be able to share this to Sweden!

Tiago Oliveira has been married to Marta since 2001, and they have three boys: Rúben, David, and Tiago. Tiago and Marta were raised in Christian families and the Lord saved them at an early age. After more than a decade of serving at Igreja Evangélica Baptista da Graça in Lisbon, Portugal, Tiago moved to Mississippi for additional training to return to Portugal to continue serving as a pastor and be involved in Seminary training.

Tiago now serves as the Senior Pastor at First Baptist Church of Lisbon (a church revitalization work) and leads Martin Bucer Seminary Portugal. Tiago also serves the Portuguese Bible Society as an exegetical consultant and reviser of Portugal’s most used Bible Translation.

Martin Bucer Seminary

Located in the city center of Lisbon, Portugal, Martin Bucer Seminary seeks to serve local churches by preparing men through an undergraduate and graduate theological education based on the authority of the inerrant Word of God.

Martin Bucer Seminary teaches men how to read, interpret, apply, and teach the Word of God, to build up local churches in Portugal, by training pastors or aspiring pastors, and missionaries.