CIM LEADERSHIP
CiM Mission Statement
The local church is the key resource to fulfill the Great Commission. We assist, counsel, and guide pastors and churches to take members on short term mission trips and encourage pastor couples through seminars.
CiM Vision Statement
We endeavor to provide a Christ-centered, life changing, quality experience through mission trips and pastoral care seminars at a reasonable price built on honesty and integrity.
The local church is the key resource to fulfill the Great Commission. We assist, counsel, and guide pastors and churches to take members on short term mission trips and encourage pastor couples through seminars.
CiM Vision Statement
We endeavor to provide a Christ-centered, life changing, quality experience through mission trips and pastoral care seminars at a reasonable price built on honesty and integrity.
Larry & Bea Henderson
President & Co-Founder |
Larry and Bea continue to celebrate their marriage since June 20, 1970. They have been blessed with three grown children – all married and four wonderful grandchildren. Larry, was saved at the age of 15 and immediately sensed the Lord had a purpose and calling for his life. He received his education from the Thomas Road Bible Institute, Liberty University, Clarksville School of Theology, Andersonville Baptist Theological Seminary and a Doctorate of Divinity from Amherst Theological Seminary and working on a Doctorate of Sacred Theology.
Larry has pastored three churches, two in the state of Virginia and one in the state of North Carolina for a total of 21 years. In 1998 the Lord led Larry and Bea into career missionary service. They served with Mainland China Missions International for three years as U.S. Director and Director of Church Relations. In June 2001 the Lord broadened their mission’s emphasis to the entire world, becoming Co-founder of Churches In Missions with Dr. Paul Hatmacher. Larry has served on twelve different missions, evangelist and Para-church ministries board of directors. He has traveled to 26 plus countries witnessing first-hand the great need for church planting, evangelism, discipleship, equipping national pastor and an outreach to the homeless and abandoned children. |
Sean & Kathy have been married since 1988, they were high school sweethearts! In God's timing, He blessed them with five beautiful children. Sean & Kathy's oldest daughter and husband have blessed them with two beautiful grandchildren to love and spoil. Sean came to Christ at the age of 15 when God rescued him from the clutches of the enemy. While serving in the United States Air Force, they surrendered to full time ministry at a missions conference in Germany. Sean & Kathy have been involved in ministry for more than 20 years. Sean pastored for 16 of those years and then God called them to full time missions and led them to join CiM in January 2015! Sean has had the privilege of serving God on short-term mission trips in many countries. He has a passion to help take the local church to a hurting and confused world and be the hands and feet of Christ. Kathy has a passion to mentor women one on one, helping them to be restored to their full identity in Christ. Together, they love to lead mission teams, reach out to pastors and their wives, fill the pulpit, and encourage believers through Churches in Missions.
Sean & Kathy Coffey
Vice President / Missionaries
Vice President / Missionaries
Dr. Paul & Barbara Hatmacher
Founder of Churches in Missions |
Paul Hatmacher is the founder of Churches In Missions. Churches in Missions is a missionary organization dedicated to enlisting pastors and churches in short-term mission opportunities around the world. In addition to pastoring four churches in Ohio, Virginia and Pennsylvania, he has been a missionary here and abroad. Prior to founding Churches In Missions the Hatmachers served with Trans World Radio and Mainland China Mission. They have ministered the Word in 51 countries, speaking in Bible Conferences, churches, underground churches and mission conferences. He has been a college professor and has spoken in more than a dozen universities. He received his education from Ohio University, Piedmont International University and Dallas Theological Seminary. The Hatmachers now reside in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania where they have opened a Satellite Office for Churches in Missions.
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Matt, Tiffanie, Maggie, Titus, & Noah Robinson
Missionary Appointee |
Matt and Tiffanie have been married since 2010 and reside in Martinsburg West Virginia. They fell in love during their time together in Bible college and since then have been blessed with three wonderful children (Noah, Maggie, and Titus). Matt came to know Christ at the age of 18 while Tiffanie trusted Jesus at the age of six. Shortly after being saved Matt felt a burning in his soul for full time service to Jesus. Matt graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree from Antietam Bible College and has since been involved in pastoral ministry for over twelve years, serving at three different churches in that time. Tiffanie also graduated from Antietam Bible College with a Bachelor’s Degree in Elementary Education and followed that up with a Master’s in Elementary Ed. from Bob Jones University. Matt has also enjoyed time working with Child Evangelism Fellowship, serving as the Dean at Camp ToHiGlo, and serving on the executive committee of the Fellowship of Bible Churches. Matt is also a certified teacher trainer through the Association of Baptists for World Evangelism and has a passion for training churches in the area of evangelism and discipleship, namely toward Millennials. Tiffanie is burdened for children’s ministry and has served with Child Evangelism Fellowship for multiple years in many different roles. Recently Matt was burdened for missions and on October 27th 2019 Matt and his family surrendered for a life of missions. As a family the Robinsons are excited to coordinate Christ honoring mission’s trips, to equip the local churches in the areas of training, offer pastoral care, lead missions and Bible conferences, assist/coordinate VBS for churches, or offer pulpit supply. We love to assist local churches in any way to enhance their ministries.
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Gary & Debbie Bauchman
Auxiliary Missionaries |
Gary and Debbie Buchman have been serving the Lord for over 35 years in full-time ministry. They have served 5 churches as either an associate or senior pastor and Gary served for 4 years as a jail chaplain in North Central Maryland. Gary served for 3 years in the U.S. Army and then studied at the Washington Bible College, Capital Bible Seminary, and Bethany Theological Seminary. Debbie earned her degree in parenting 5 children and 14 grandchildren, while overseeing children’s church ministry, VBS ministry, and Senior Adult ministry in each of the churches they served. Missions and short-term mission trips have been an important part of Gary and Debbie’s ministries as has pastor care. In the fall of 2016, after listening to the founder of Churches in Missions, Gary and Debbie felt that God was leading them to resign from the pastorate and join CIM.
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David & Janet Keener
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Dave and Janet Keener served in pastoral ministry for 43 yrs. They enjoy meeting with pastor couples to encourage and share in Jesus’ powerful Word. Janet and Dave love serving others the gospel through short-term mission trips and making new friends through visiting churches. Dave received his BA in Biblical Education at Washington Bible College and his Master of Ministry from Moody Bible Institute. Janet received her diploma in nursing from Reading Hospital School of Nursing and is a current Registered Nurse. They are grateful parents of three married children and nine grand-children. They are very thankful to have grown children pursuing The Lord in full time ministry and or serving faithfully in their local church. Their children and grandchildren are their delight! Dave and Janet’s life verse as a couple in Philippians 1:21 For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.
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Humberto & Izanete de Lima
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Humberto and Izanete de Lima arrived in the village of Fagundes, Paraibe, Brazil in February of 2001, together with their three children: Max, Petrus and Elisa. It was in their living room that they had the first services and there they saw the first new brothers and sisters making a decision for Christ. Almost twelve years later, Fagundes Baptist Church is a blessed, lively and growing Christian community. FBC has planted another church in the nearby town of Galante. Their desire is to plant more churches throughout the State of Paraiba in NE Brazil. Their church has a sensitive heart to reach out with the Good News of Jesus Christ to these areas. Fagundes Baptist Church has its arms and doors wide open to welcome Short Term Missionary Teams from the United States to assist them in accomplishing this task of planting churches and speading the Good News of Jesus Christ! Pastor Humberto say “Together, We do more, We do better!”
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Marcos & Monica Souza Jr
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Marcos, Monica and their son, Mateus, have been involved with missions since 1998. Before that, we had the privilege of growing up in a Missionary Home. Marcos’ parents were full time missionaries under Word of Life Ministries for 17 years in Brazil. His dad was in charge of missionary camping and music at Word of Life Camp in Brazil. When Marcos turned 17, he moved to US to pursue his studies in High School in NJ; Word of Life Bible Institute; Cairn University in Philadelphia, completing his Bible Studies at Word of Life Seminary in Brazil. He met Monica, his wife, in one of their Bible camps and they were married 5 years later. They moved to US for 3 years traveling around to many churches and raising their support to become full-time missionaries to their home country of Brazil. Today, God has given us 2 main ministries in Brazil: Local Church planting and Bible Camp Ministries. In 2011 they joined the CiM Team as missionaries, hosting team in Sao Paulo Brazil. They are excited to assist churches with enlarging their impact in the world through short term mission trips.
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Edmund & Marli Spieker
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Edmund Spieker, was born in Germany and lived most of his life, based in Brazil and North America. At the tender age of 7, Edmund asked Jesus to be His Savior. The Lord gave him a complete understanding of salvation and at the age of 11, Edmund knew that Christ was calling him to be a missionary. Edmund became active in Evangelism at an early age and invested 34 years of his life in international ministry with Trans World Radio, before joining Churches in Missions in 2003. Edmund has been an ambassador for CiM by leading Pastor Care Clinics called Fermatas in Brazil and other five countries; advising and assisting his wife Marli, (founder and global ministry director of TWR-Project Hannah) and spear heading a radio ministry for men.
Edmund's theological studies started in the Seminary of the EFC in Germany. After getting a BA in Brazil he finished with an MA in Missions from CIU in the US. Edmund and Marli have their home base in Cary, North Carolina. They have been blessed with three children and eight grandchildren. |
Pastor Ramon and Laura are CiM's newest addition to our mission family. Roman came to faith in 1984 during a Sunday evening service. During that service he made his personal decision to accept Christ as his Savior. The zeal of his grandmother and mother in serving God faithfully was a big influence in him coming to Christ. He was ordained to Pastoral Ministry in 2014 (Igreja Batista Peniel). He is a member of the Lagoinha São Miguel Baptist Church, where he serves as assistant pastor. Pastor Ramon is part of the mission team, Behind the Bars. this ministry ministers to those behind the prison walls. He also is a member of the Baptist Convention of the State of São Paulo. and serves as Vice-President of AMAI - Missionary Agency for Indigenous Support. Pastor Ramon has a passion for bringing the gospel to the unreached people groups in Brazil. Both he and Lara, serve as teachers in the local school system and love spending time with their precious children.
Ramon, Laura, Clarissa, and Alicia
