Heights Baptist Church supports a number of missionaries. Additionally, as an SBC-affiliated church, we support the International Mission Board and the North American Mission Board through the cooperative program.
Our Missionaries
Jim & Olya Wiens
Serving in Volgograd, Russia.
Avant Ministries is an organization focused on planting and developing churches worldwide. Jim is a church planter and Missionary Training School teacher. He also trains young men to be pastors. He and Olya evangelize and disciple international students in Russia.
Ron, Julie, and Zoe Youde
ABWE Missionaries
The Gambia, West Africa
The Youde family previously served underprivileged youth and families in Costa Rica's Central Pacific region. They have now officially transitioned to missionary work in The Gambia, West Africa -- a small, predominantly Muslim nation where less than 1% of the population is evangelical Christian. The Youdes are currently engaged in pre-field training as they prepare to join an existing ABWE team.
In The Gambia, they will focus on identifying and encouraging local church leaders and Christian college students in their faith and biblical knowledge. The long-term goal is to establish a self-sustaining movement of healthy Gambian churches that disciple believers, evangelize the lost, and plant new congregations. The Youdes will also continue to use children's programs like youth sports and ESL courses to open doors to new relationships and the Gospel. Guided by Psalm 143:8, they trust God to show them the way as they bring the hope of the Gospel to this unreached context.