Per and Beth Almquist

The Husters

Stanley and Donna Armes

Pastor Hong Key Chung

Global Outreach

Per and Beth Almquist

An avid sports fan, Per (pronounced “Pear”) believes that the pleasure of playing and watching sports is one sure sign that God exists. Per is a military brat who grew up all over the US, while his wife, Beth, is a native New Englander. Both greatly enjoy even the harsher aspects of Maine’s weather – though their three boys enjoy the snow even more than Mom and Dad do. Beth is a music teacher and the local story lady who enjoys her music, stories, and being spoiled as the only girl in the lives of her four guys at home.

Per has studied at the Johns Hopkins University, Covenant Theological Seminary, and the University of Missouri. Beth has degrees from Johns Hopkins and Covenant Theological Seminary. They moved to Maine in early 2005 after serving at Covenant Theological Seminary for a number of years. They were called to Maine to serve at Christ the Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Portland in order to prepare themselves and the church for planting a second church in Maine. They moved farther north away from the rest of the country to Lewiston in the fall of 2007 to see God take the next steps in making his kingdom more visible in Maine.

Meet The Husters

The Husters moved to Ocean Beach, a section of San Diego, CA, in July 2007. Jim and Michelle met at Lenior-Rhyne College in North Carolina and were married in 1993. They have 2 children, Faith (7) and Isaac (4). Jim is a graduate of Erskine Theological Seminary and served on staff at Covenant Presbyterian Church in Easley, South Carolina for eight years before moving to San Diego. Jim’s experience includes youth ministry, discipleship, leadership training, teaching, preaching, and missions. Harbor Ocean Beach began meeting for worship in September of 2008. Harbor's distinctive ministries include serving the homeless, partnering with an orphanage in nearby Tijuana and reaching families through small groups.

Stan and Donna Armes

Stanley has known missions all of his life. His parents were missionaries to the Kamba tribe in Kenya for 35 years. At an early age he felt a sense of God's call on his life. After graduating from Rift Valley Academy in Kenya in 1965, Stanley attended Covenant College then enrolled at Covenant Seminary. During that time he met his wife, Donna. Donna grew up in Springfield, IL, and at the age of ten accepted Jesus into her heart. God gave her an increasing desire to work for him on the foreign mission field. She completed her nursing degree at Southern Illinois University. Donna has worked in several U.S. hospitals, in community health in Kenya and served as the director of a U.S. home health agency. Following Stan's ordination in 1973, the Armes served in Kenya as missionaries for 10 years - first under World Presbyterian Missions until it joined Mission to the World. When the family returned to the States in 1987 due to health reasons, Donna worked as a nurse and Stan pastored a church in Virginia for 5 years. In 1997, God led them to Port Elizabeth, South Africa where Stan is a teacher in the Bible Institute of the Eastern Cape (BIEC). Donna is the HIV/AIDS training facilitator for MTW in Southern Africa.

Pastor Hong Key Chung

Our presbytery has a strategic partnership with Romania to plant churches throughout that country. Through prayer, financial support, and short and long term mission trips our partnership is helping extend Christ’s kingdom in Romania. Missionary Hong Key Chung has helped to plant three churches in Romania. He has now started a new work in the city of Cluj. Pastor Chung and his wife Ester have been missionaries to Romania since the mid-nineties, when they felt called by God to this struggling country. From their meager start on the streets of Bucharest, not knowing a word of the Romanian language, they have since planted a Presbyterian Church in that city, ordained the first national Presbyterian Pastor, and nurtured many adults and children in their walk with Christ through youth programs, home visitations and evangelism. In recent years, Pastor Chung has been focusing his energies in the Northern city of Cluj where God has opened doors for him in the political world, among the media, and with other Church leaders. A Conference on Family and Society has evolved from these contacts, as Pastor Chung began to see the need for reformation in the existing Orthodox Church of Romania. One of the aims of this conference is to help those with influence to learn the leadership skills necessary to move Romania out from under the continued communist way of life.

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