John and Gay Davis

 

FIELD OF MINISTRY

John and Gay Davis are nationally appointed Assemblies of God US missionaries to Native Americans with the Institute for Ministry Development in Rapid City, SD.  

SYNOPSIS OF MINISTRYJohn and Gay Davis

John and Gay have served as faculty since the spring of 1998 with the Institute for Ministry Development [formerly Black Hills Indian Bible College]. They teach a variety of classes and seminars in Bible, theology, and church ministries. To best meet the needs of the Native American population these classes and seminars are taught completely on an extension basis throughout the area. The Assemblies of God has credentialed or advanced the credential of at least 18 of their students over the last 3 years. Prior to their appointment with US Missions they were pastors for 12 years in Northern Missouri. 

BURDEN AND VISION

As is necessary and Biblically mandated the mostly non-Indian churches have been sending and continue to send missionaries to the Indian peoples. However, the American Indian has also been oppressed, deceived and robbed by whites for hundreds of years. This history of the two groups is an inherent limit on the effectiveness of those missionaries. The result has been that today only a small portion of over 3 million Native Americans have actually heard the Gospel in a culturally comprehensible form and the fraction of practicing believers is very small. There is a solution. In the world of missions, people hear the Gospel from the outside, then God calls some of those who have believed into ministry. After training, these God-called believers reach the bulk of their people. This pattern is biblically sound and has been effective in missions around the world. Training Native Americans to reach Native Americans follows this Biblical pattern of missionary practice and provides the best possibility of reaching the bulk of Native people. John and Gay are working to obey the Biblical command to "teach them all things whatsoever I have commanded you"--"both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth”. 

EDUCATION

John has earned a D.Min. and Gay has earned a Masters Degree in Cross Cultural Communications from the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary.  

FAMILY

John and Gay have 2 children. Andrew is a CBC graduate in Children’s Ministry and currently serving as children's pastor at Crossroads Assembly of God in Sturgis, SD. Sarah is a junior at Central Bible College in Springfield, MO.

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