Michelle and Theresa have been friends for over 20 years, meeting as biology students at UW-Whitewater. In 2007, Theresa led Michelle to the Lord and a year later, Michelle was on the mission field with her in South Africa and Zambia. With God's leading, Michelle completed a Master's Degree in clinical social work and spent more than 8 years working in crisis mental health in Milwaukee. The last three years, she has worked as oncology counselor at a cancer center, providing support to both patients and family members. Michelle and her husband, Roy, continue to be involved in missions work, most recently in South America and multiple times to the Middle East.

As a child, my parents faithfully took me to Church. However, I remember staying home one Sunday, because I did not feel well. That morning, I watched Oral Roberts on our black and white TV. While watching, I remember getting down on my knees and surrendering my life to Jesus.

I told my parents about it, but they seemed to brush away my experience.  As I look back now, I can see how God kept calling to me from that day on. Years later, in my early twenties,  I began to seriously pursue God and have since been living out what I believe is God's calling for my life. While there are many significant moments, I recall one time, about nine years ago, I felt led to give a certain amount of money to a missionary's needs. I only had a small portion of that amount.  Yet, I prayed and God provided all that was necessary in ways truly only He could. I believe God has gifted me with gifts of Faith, especially in the area of finance. I always say "don't make it about the money.  God has the resources,” and I believe it.

One of my favorite ministries is Feed My Starving Children, which I have a long standing relationship with. I often volunteer by helping with their Manna pack meals. This ministry and Voice of the Martyrs are ministries I feel deeply drawn to. However, over the last year and a half, I have  become aware of the needs in Zambia through Theresa and Helen directly, and God has led me to get involved with this need. As a result, I am stepping into this ministry.

My question is: Will you join us? Please ask God how you too can "get involved"

Thank you and May God bless you.

Mark and Briana Harmon have been married for more than 25 years and have 4 grown children. Mark and Briana are both licensed and ordained apostolic ministers and have been involved in ministry for more than 25 years together.

Their ministry experiences have included: church planting, pastoral roles, missions and worship leading. Their passion is bringing the Kingdom of God to Earth through prophetic worship and prayer, and their calling is to “equip the saints for works of service so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity of faith and knowledge of the son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.” according to Ephesians 4:12-13.

Helen, a native to Zambia, found the Lord in her teen years. Reflecting on the timing of her salvation, she felt it "just the right time," as she was at an age where she may have started down the wrong path if not for finding Jesus. Upon graduating from high school in 2004, Helen studied at Gospel Literature Outreach (GLO) Zambia, where she obtained a Diploma in Christian Service. The following year, she attended Pro-Christo Global Missions in Kabwe, now OM Zambia, where she received another Diploma, this time in Cross-Cultural Missions. In 2007, she went to serve as a Missionary in Botswana among the bushmen people group of the Okavango Delta. Following this missions’ experience, she felt led to Petra College in South Africa where she specialized in counseling wounded/traumatized children. Helen met and married her husband, Alfred, shortly after. These early studies in missions had ignited a passion in Helen to go and serve; first as a missionary in Botswana, and later with her husband in the Kalahari Desert in South Africa. 

In 2015, Helen enrolled with the Information and Communication University to pursue a degree in social work, graduating in 2019. Helen remained with a local missions’ organization for a time and ministered primarily at a safe house for trafficked and abandoned girls. This time was interrupted when Helen became involved in the rescue of three abandoned babies. This touched her so deeply that in 2023, Helen and Alfred founded an NGO to assist in reaching out to the most vulnerable people in Zambia. One of their goals is to construct a home for abandoned babies in Kabwe, Zambia, which they have already started. Meanwhile, both Helen and Alfred minister to a large group of disabled kids and their parents/guardians. They have become well-known in their community as they partner with other like-minded locals and government agencies to advocate for and assist at-risk people with their needs.

Whatever the category, Helen and Alfred live their lives as missionaries in their own land ministering to "the least of these," including, but are not limited to abandoned babies, disabled kids and their parents/Guardians, trafficked girls, and women.