Our Experience in Mission

For many years we served in Belize, Central America as long-term missionaries dedicated to pastoral ministry. This experience showed us that there is a widespread need around the world for better and more accessible ways to educate and equip emerging leaders for the church, especially in developing regions of the world like Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean. Our family is therefore answering the Lord’s call and is moving to the Netherlands to serve as part of the faculty of Tyndale Theological Seminary.

Our Vision for Mission

We want to see every congregation and Christian community throughout the global church – and particularly in the developing world – led by faithful servants of Jesus Christ who have been thoroughly equipped for effectual ministry, and when possible, through a rigorous program of theological discipleship rooted in the Word of God and the rich history of our shared Christian inheritance.

Our Strategy for Mission

Our family will be serving just outside of Amsterdam at Tyndale Theological Seminary, a missionary-led theological graduate school with a passion for training emerging leaders for a growing global church. Each member of Tyndale’s faculty and staff raises his or her salary as a missionary, so that students coming from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean can earn their degree completely free of charge.

David has been called to teach systematic and historical theology, core disciplines in any ministry formation that help students broaden their understanding not only of the Bible and of their faith, but of their calling to serve as part of a church spanning continents and millennia.

To enable us to step into this new ministry for which God has prepared us, we need your support through prayer and regular giving! Keep reading to learn more about our other partner, and what we stand for as servants of Jesus Christ and ministers of his Gospel.

Tyndale Theological Seminary was started in 1985 with a vision to equip Christian leaders from around the world. The seminary is an accredited, graduate professional school located in Badhoevedorp, Netherlands. It is an interdenominational, evangelical seminary focused on world missions.

Tyndale offers two main degree programs: the Master of Divinity (MDiv) and Master of Evangelical Theology (MET). Both programs have been accredited by the European Evangelical Accrediting Association (now the European Council for Theological Education). In the 2010–11 school year, the Master of Evangelical Theology also was accredited by the Nederlands-Vlaamse Accreditatie Organisatie (NVAO). The NVAO is the official governmental accreditation agency for the Netherlands and Flanders. In 2011–12, Tyndale also received formal recognition as a Dutch institution for higher learning.

Every year, Tyndale has students from over 20 nations studying side-by-side within an intimate learning and discipleship environment. In its over 40 years of service, Tyndale has welcomed students from over 80 nations.

SAMS-USA is a voluntary missionary society in the Anglican tradition in the United States, linked with five other members of the SAMS family around the world. All missionaries work in partnership with the Episcopal/Anglican diocese where they are serving primarily in the Americas. In the USA, SAMS seeks to work cooperatively with executives of the Episcopal and Anglican churches to coordinate society and national church programs when appropriate.

The Society is dedicated to fulfilling Jesus Christ’s Great Commission to “Go … and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you …" (Matthew 28:19-20a). We seek to develop churches in the areas of service which are firmly rooted in the Gospel and which, while reflecting the indigenous culture, remain faithful to the traditions of the worldwide Episcopal/Anglican communion.

SAMS trains, sends and supports Episcopalians/Anglicans who are called of God to proclaim the Gospel alongside other members of the Anglican communion primarily in the Americas. Missionaries are also involved with social concerns for all sectors of the community through teaching, medicine, youth ministry, and community development, with a special focus on underprivileged and minority or marginal groups.

Into All The World began in 1981 when several pastors and lay people met in Kitchener, Ontario to begin a mission enabling society: to enable individuals and churches to fulfill the call of God on their life in the area of missions. It started with 3 workers going to Kenya in 1981 and has grown into 27 missionaries in the field, many short-term missionaries and partnering with nationals in their own country. IATW works with missionaries to help equip them with charitable status and the spiritual development to do the work God has called them to do. Although IATW manages projects all over the world, each project has been directed by God. IATW is a non-profit organization, member of Canadian Council of Christian Charities, is a registered charity, and it is based out of Guelph, Ontario, Canada.

IATW is a missions enabling agency with the desire is to see Christ’s great commission finished. They work with individuals, churches and denominations (Overseas and in North America) to partner with them to bring the good news of Jesus Christ and His salvation to all tribes and nations. IATW does this by training, equipping and assisting individuals to reach out and go to the nations to share Christ and His Kingdom as they serve the people of the land.

We Believe and Confess

Above all else in this life, we believe the Good News, what we Christians call the Gospel. The Good News is that although we all deserve, on account of our sin and rebellion against our Creator, to stand condemned, cursed, corrupt, and cast out from his favor and fellowship, God’s unfathomable love for us was able to overwhelm all our misery. In love God the Father decided to save us from ourselves, from Satan, from death, and from his just and holy wrath. In exchange, he now offers us forgiveness, righteousness, adoption as his sons and daughters, transformation, and eternal life with him forever. How has God been able to do this?

To accomplish this salvation once and for all, the Father sent his beloved Son into the world to rescue and to recreate us fallen sinners whom he has made in his image. God’s Son, though he is himself Almighty God, humbled himself and became human, conceived as a helpless baby in the womb of a virgin. When he was born he was given the name Jesus and was like us in every way except this: he never sinned. He was filled with the Spirit of God, and worked, taught, healed, and served like no one had before. Jesus obeyed God’s will perfectly on our behalf, and yet was betrayed into the hands of men who put him to death on a cross. In his body on that cross he carried the weight of our sins, our guilt, our death, and our condemnation as he offered to his Father through the shedding of his blood the full, perfect, and sufficient sacrifice for our sins.

But because of his faithfulness and great love, on the third day after his death God the Father sent his Spirit into the tomb and with great power raised his Son Jesus from the dead; and, after he was witnessed alive by his disciples, he ascended up to heaven until the Last Day when he will come again to judge the living and the dead. He is King of kings, and Lord of lords: his Kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his Dominion will never pass away. Until he comes, he has sent his Holy Spirit into the hearts of believers and bound them together as members of his body, the Church, his Bride who is anxiously awaiting his return. And though he is in heaven, he will never leave us nor forsake us.

So, this is the Good News: that Jesus has won, conquering sin, guilt, death, and all of our enemies, and today he promises to forgive us, transform us, keep us, and guide us if we turn away from our sins and trust him alone for our salvation. He has a purpose for each of us, and he promises to send the Holy Spirit into our lives not only to seal in our hearts and minds the fruit of his redeeming work, but also to empower us to become more like Jesus day by day as we offer ourselves in service to our heavenly Father. And he promises that on the Last Day, when he comes again in power and glory, he will raise us up guiltless from the dead, and we will reign with him forever and ever.

This is what we believe. This is what we confess. This is what we preach.

Creeds and Formularies

The Historic Creeds
The Thirty-Nine Articles (1563/1571)
The Book of Common Prayer (1662)
The SAMS Statement of Faith