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Commended Workers
Many people who have attended VEC are now working for various organisations both in the UK and worldwide. We call these people commended workers. Click on the links below to find out more about them:
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James and Christina Baldwin
Working in Grandview, MO, USA
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Since 2004, James and Christina Baldwin have worked with YWAM's Impact World Tour (IWT). In 2007, they moved to the USA to serve the church in completing the Great Commission through public school-based evangelistic outreaches - seeing over 25,000 public commitments for Christ since they arrived in Ohio.
From Australia and the UK, the Baldwin’s now have 2 American-born children, Lincoln and Jaslen (and 1 on the way). As well as occasionally serving international locations, James has recently become the US Field Director for Impact World Tour, and they lead a team of coordinators, serving in North Dakota, Minnesota and Missouri.
James and Christina now live in Moorhead,USA - near both IWT's headquarters, and the International House of Prayer.
They have a passion to know God and make Him known.
For more information about James and Christina's work see the Impact World Tour website or the Baldwins' own website. |
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Simeon Garrett
Working in The Philippines |
Simeon is currently working in the Philippines with Impact World Tour (IWT) under Youth With a Mission (YWAM). He is responsible for coordinating citywide events in arenas, schools, prisons etc that speak to the public about Jesus in a relevant way using dance, strength feats, and much, much more. A a result of these events discipleship groups are moulded as well as increased church unity and prayer movements.
For more inforation about Simeon's work see the Impact World Tour website. |
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Roger and Yvonne Malstead
Working in Turkey |
Roger and Yvonne came to VEC about 1983. They are married with four children and twelve grandchildren in the US, UK and India. They have been doing missionary work in Turkey since the early 1960s, starting a Bible Correspondence Course and publishing translations of Christian books, producing DVDs, supporting Turkish Christian workers and also being involved with inductive bible teaching and counselling.
For more information see please the Firm Foundations Trust website or read Yvonne's Blog.
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Graham and Steph Ree
Working in Derbyshire and Sheffield |
Graham and Steph continue to engage in a variety of activities related to their calling to evangelism and discipleship, particularly amongst young people. Steph work part time as a community nurse. She is also a part of the local "Healing Rooms" team, where people from the local community come to a room belonging to a local pub for prayer, advice and a little TLC. Graham has three part time jobs. He works with Valley CIDs, a charity focusing on sharing Jesus' love in Derbyshire schools through assemblies, RE lessons, lunch time and after school clubs. He has also been co-opted on the leadership team of a Sheffield church with an elderly congregation that wants to grow and move forward. Lastly he runs two senior school Christian Unions for The Oaks Community Church in Dronfield. Graham enjoys preaching in a variety of churches most Sundays.
Their other passion is Latvia where they make frequent visits to speak at camps, conferences and in churches. In the summer they take a team of around 25 people from the UK and Ireland to help run "English" camps. For more information on the camps see Children Worldwide Latvia.
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