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and
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Filidis Family, serving in
and through
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Sean's
website,
click on the picture to the right
(Sean
In Cairo, Egypt in 2006)
BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCH
ON PAUL & MARY
AN INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK
perhaps comes easier to a couple that shares four
nationalities-- German/Greek and U.S./Colombian,
and who met in Afghanistan and married in the Netherlands....
Their paths crossed in 1972 in Kabul, Afghanistan, when they were both
ministering to young Western travelers; he, a recently-converted "hippie"
from Berlin (Germany), she, a Colombian-born "missionary kid" fresh from
high school in Southern California on a short-term mission trip.
Paul in 1972
Blessed
Christmas Season!
Above illustration by Mary is available as a
Christmas card and
signed print.
Produced by our Procla-Media
department:
1) short YWAM videos
2) Denver
memorial service (following Dec 2007 shooting deaths)
After graduating with a Masters degree from Fuller Seminary's School of World Missions in 1982, Paul served for nearly three years as vice-President with Issachar, (at the time) a frontier missions agency in Seattle, Washington.
Frontier missions--taking the gospel to the unreached--continued to be their motivation when they rejoined YWAM in Amsterdam, in 1986, establishing the mission's Research and Information Department.
In 1992, they moved a team of coworkers to Colorado Springs (USA), pioneering and directing YWAM International Communications, which strengthens YWAM's ministries carried out by about 17,000 volunteer staff people in over 1,000 locations worldwide.
Over the years Paul has served YWAM by tracking its worldwide ministries, collecting and distributing strategic information inside and outside of YWAM, consulting and networking with researchers and leaders from other agencies to promote YWAM, frontier missions, and a WorldChristian perspective. (See current ministry activities further below).
Mary, a published illustrator,
has contributed her skills to various mission projects, including many of
the cover drawings for the annual "
Noelle, 20,
loves cats (wants to be a veterinarian... or actress... or nurse... or
photographer... or...), has an unending source of energy, and, like mom,
loves to draw. She also likes to play on the computer, listen to music, and
chat online to several distant friends simultaneously. She is our social
butterfly, learned to read with Harry Potter, and worked for over a year at Starbucks. She
completed a YWAM Discipleship Training School in June, and is now back home
looking for work.
Sean,
25, is pictured here in front of The Cleft, a YWAM ministry house in the Red
Light district of Amsterdam. As of 2004 he is in love with God after having had
life-changing encounters attending a YWAM Discipleship Training School (in
Perth, AU) with outreach in South Africa. He attended a second school in
2005 (School of Worship). After helping his parents recover following their
car accident, he departed for Egypt on July 4 2006, and then moved to
Amsterdam to join YWAM staff there. Read more on