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Ken and Joan are member missionaries sent out from Hampton Park. Upon his graduation from Bob Jones University in January 1976, Ken and his wife, Joan, entered the ministry of Evangelical Mission to the Unreached (EMU). Three years prior to this step, Ken had visited Uruguay for the first time with his parents, brother, and sister. It was during that time that the Lord laid the burden of Uruguay on his heart. In his last semester of college, Ken felt the Lord’s definite leading into the work of EMU. Before that time his parents, George and Marilyn, had prayed that the Lord would raise up someone to free them from the office work so they could travel together. They did not know at that time that they were raising the one whom God would use to answer their prayers.
Ken was the office administrator as well as a representative for the ministries in Uruguay until 1988 when he was appointed the director of the mission. Ken travels to Uruguay at least once each year for the annual missionary conference with the Uruguayan nationals and at other times to help with work projects at Camp Emmanuel and in EMU churches. Ken visits the other EMU fields on a rotating basis.
During Ken’s years as director, EMU has expanded beyond the borders of Uruguay to include missionaries serving in Cambodia, China, Chile, Croatia, France, India, Mexico, Peru, and the 10/40 Window. Ken is now the assistant director of EMU. Since 1990, Joan has also worked in the home office. She is currently the office administrator and travels with Ken to visit EMU’s missionaries on the field.
Ken and Joan have three adult children: Caroline, Charity, and Joshua.