Leadership

Dale & LyNan Redman

Dale & LyNan are not strangers to missionary work. LyNan is the daughter of missionary parents. As a young girl, some of her fondest memories are those of living on a Navajo Indian reservation in New Mexico where, in addition to their normal church work, her family ran an orphanage that housed approximately 60 children. At the age of eleven, her family departed for Guatemala where they worked primarily as church planters for the next five years. After returning to the States for a year of deputation, she and her parents departed for El Salvador for another term of service. Unfortunately, the Sandinista uprising interrupted their ministry after four years of service and they were forced to leave the country and return to the States for safety reasons. During that time in the States, LyNan and Dale, who originally met when they were 10 & 12 respectively and had maintained a friendship throughout all of those years, were married on September 1, 1979.

Shortly after their marriage, Dale felt a call to the mission field. In 1985, Dale and LyNan traveled to Costa Rica so that Dale could begin his language studies at the Spanish Language Institute. Afterward, they traveled to Honduras and worked as traditional missionaries for their first term. Secular degrees that Dale had obtained prior to feeling a call into ministry afforded Dale and LyNan the unique opportunity to serve as bi-vocational missionaries, primarily as church planters. Using that structure, they labored in Mexico, the Dominican Republic and the Slovak Republic working predominately as church planters. In addition, they have planted churches in the United States that are established congregations today in both English and Spanish contexts.

Today, the Redmans are serving as full-time, self-supported missionaries in Central America, whose primary focus is to share the love of Christ with the unreached and underserved in those seven countries. The Redman’s ministry is multifaceted with each initiative detailed on the tabs of this website. We invite you to explore each facet of our ministry, to bathe each outreach in prayer, and to financially support these projects as the Lord leads. May God’s richest blessings by yours as we join together in taking the Gospel to those who are often forgotten and marginalized.

Scott Shillings

Scott Shillings and one of his three sons went on their first international mission trip in 2008 to Zambia, Africa to visit Northrise University. He saw the need for the college students to get an accredited Christian education with a biblical worldview, which would raise their quality of life for generations to come.

Since then, he has actively served on the Board in multiple capacities and traveled to Africa many times. Dale Redman and Scott developed a friendship working together for many years in retail commercial real estate in several states. When Dale & LyNan started their ministry, Scott traveled to Panama and saw the need for this people group. With the help of a foundation and his church, Scott helped lead a team in outreach activities which include building a chapel from the foundation up in 4 days.

His experiences in agriculture have helped introduce and expand the Foundations for Farming initiative to share the Gospel and improve farming techniques on the Comarca. Scott & Diane attend Tallowood Baptist Church in Houston and have three sons and three grandchildren.