Bonner Gospel Mission

Serving the community since 1987

At Bonner Gospel Mission (BGM), we have a "1 Step necessary act" -- Repent! The Bible says that we have the victory over "seductions, temptations, and attractions of the world, not by a program but through a Person, Jesus Christ.

Sincerely, Corky Kalben

PO Box 263, Ponderay, ID 83852  208.263.6698

www.bonnergospelmission.org

Bruce and Lynda Morock 

Lynda and I started our walk with Christ here in the Northwest in 1976 although we are New England transplants.  A Sandpoint pastor and his family nurtured us through our "formative" years and enabled us to go away to Bible College to train for ministry. In 1983 we returned to Sandpoint on staff with Southside Christian School and Southside Community Church. After years of service and preparation, this same church sent us to Mexico in 1989. In 1991 we crossed the border into Mexico, our field of service until Sept. 2005. Since then, we have served at Cocolalla Lake Bible Camp, directing the over-all operations of the camp. We continue, also, to serve in and through our local church. As God allows, we lead mission teams back into Mexico to evangelize and also to encourage and edify the existing believers. Our children and grandchildren are all, by God's amazing grace, walking with the Lord Jesus Christ. Northside Christian Fellowship became part of our team in the very early years.

Cocollala Lake Bible Camp - Cocollala, Idaho

Rilla Springstead

Rilla Springstead was raised in a Christian home and came to Christ at an early age. Her love for the Lord grew and she was able to spend her college years studying the Bible in a rural setting in Montana . That’s where she met Keith & Corky Goullette. She later served in Alaska for several years at a Bible Camp and then moved back to Montana for 7 years. Rilla’s heart was moved toward the needs in Europe and she served with Greater Europe Mission in the countries of Austria , Serbia , Hungary , and then Germany , living overseas for 13 years. In 2004, Rilla moved to Charlotte , North Carolina to work with United World Mission where she currently serves as Executive Assistant to UWM’s CEO and CFO. She also interacts with new appointees to the mission field and enjoys helping to support 180 missionaries around the world in 30 countries with administrative support.

United World Mission - Charlotte, North Carolina

Wes and LeeAnn Reed

Wes gave his heart to Jesus in his late teens after his grandfather witnessed to him, and then extensive reading of the Bible. He later learned of the many language groups in the world who are without God’s Word in their heart language. He became a member of Wycliffe in 1977. LeeAnn came to know Christ as her Savior a year out of high school, and soon had a strong interest in missions. In 1979 Wes & LeeAnn met and got married, and headed to Papua New Guinea in 1982. They have worked with the Yopno people for the past 28 years, translating the NT and Psalms. In August of 2010 the Yopno received God’s Word in both printed and audio form. The Reeds said final good-byes to Yopno friends and PNG in October 2010 and returned to their home in Spokane, Washington, where they can be close to their children and mothers. They have two grown children; Diana, who is married and has a little boy, and Kevin, who is a registered nurse at a major hospital in Spokane. The Reeds are taking up a new role with Wycliffe USA. As part of the Recruitment Ministries, they will be helping young people with the application process and placing them in short-term field assignments.

Alu and Barbara Schmidt

Alu was born in the Black Forest mountains of southern Germany; Barbara is from Midwest City, Oklahoma. They met in a New Age Community in northern California and married in Boulder, Colorado. While pursuing their goal of opening a New Age Training Center in the Black Forest, the real Christ opened their eyes to the One and only Truth. Alu completed seminary in 1999 and has worked in church planting since 2004. Now their task is to reach out to the Vietnamese in and around Berlin, training and mentoring local Vietnamese Christians as church leaders (2Tim2:2) and church planters among their own people. They have two children, Ingrid, born 1980 and Thiemo born 1988.

Fuerstenwalde, Germany

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