God at Work Around the World

Joel C. Rosenberg is the New York Times bestselling author of ten novels—The Last Jihad, The Last Days, The Ezekiel Option, The Copper Scroll, Dead Heat, The Twelfth Imam, The Tehran Initiative, Damascus Countdown, The Auschwitz Escape, and The Third Target—and five nonfiction books: Epicenter, Inside the Revolution, Implosion, Israel at War, and The Invested Life, with more than 3 million copies sold. The Ezekiel Option received the Christian Book Award as the "Best Novel of 2006" from the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association. Joel is the producer of two documentary films based on his nonfiction books. He is also the founder of The Joshua Fund, a nonprofit educational and charitable organization to mobilize Christians to "bless Israel and her neighbors in the name of Jesus" with food, clothing, medical supplies, and other humanitarian relief.
As a communications advisor, Joel has worked with a number of U.S. and Israeli leaders, including Steve Forbes, Rush Limbaugh, Natan Sharansky, and Benjamin Netanyahu. As an author, he has been interviewed on hundreds of radio and TV programs, including ABC's Nightline, CNN Headline News, FOX News Channel, The History Channel, MSNBC, The Rush Limbaugh Show, The Sean Hannity Show, and The Glenn Beck Show. He has been profiled by the New York Times, the Washington Times, the Jerusalem Post, and World magazine. He has addressed audiences all over the world, including those in Israel, Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, Turkey, Russia, and the Philippines. He has also spoken at the White House, the Pentagon, and to members of Congress.
In 2008, Joel designed and hosted the first Epicenter Conference in Jerusalem. The event drew two thousand Christians who wanted to "learn, pray, give, and go" to the Lord's work in Israel and the Middle East. Subsequent Epicenter Conferences have been held in San Diego (2009); Manila, Philippines (2010); Philadelphia (2010); Jerusalem (2011); Albuquerque, New Mexico; (2012) and Jerusalem again in 2013. The Epicenter Conferences have allowed thousands of people from more than ninety countries to listen to speakers such as Israeli Vice Prime Minister Moshe Ya'alon; pastors from the U.S., Israel, and Iran; Lt. General (ret.) Jerry Boykin; Kay Arthur; Janet Parshall; Tony Perkins; Anne Graham Lotz; and many others.
The son of a Jewish father and a Gentile mother, Joel is an evangelical Christian with a passion to make disciples of all nations and teach Bible prophecy. A graduate of Syracuse University with a BFA in filmmaking, he is married and lives with his family in Israel.

Terence “Terry” Ascott has lived in the Middle East and served as the leader for indigenous media ministries for more than 40 years. In 1973 Terry moved to Beirut, Lebanon and worked to launch an Arabic Christian publishing ministry. After the start of the Lebanese Civil War, Terry and his family evacuated to Egypt. In Egypt Terry launched an Arabic youth magazine called “Magalla”. This was the first Christian magazine to be successfully distributed on newsstands, in more than a dozen Arab counties. “Magalla” was published for over two decades and was, for many, their first exposure to the Christian faith.

While working on the magazine, Terry’s ministry became involved in other media projects including video production. In 1995 he, along with Middle Eastern Christian leaders and around twenty partner organizations working in the region, launched SAT-7: The first Arabic language Christian satellite television channel. The channel was a pioneer in many areas, breaking ground for other ministries to follow. In the years since its launch, SAT-7 has grown from a two-hour a week broadcast, to a network of five 24-hour channels: SAT-7 ARABIC (Arabic Christian programming for every age group), SAT-7 KIDS (the first and currently the only Arabic Christian channel for children), SAT-7 PLUS (The best Arabic programming from the other channels, broadcast to a different audience, over a different satellite), SAT-7 PARS (a 24 hour channel in Farsi/Persian, with some programming in Dari for Afghanistan) and SAT-7 TÜRK (Christian programming for 100 million Turkish-speakers in the region).

SAT-7 has more than 170 employees, mostly Middle Eastern nationals, who work in its offices and studios in Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey, Cyprus and the UK.

Terry holds a first class B.Sc. in Civil Engineering, with Honours, from Middlesex University, England. In December 2011, he was awarded the Honorary Doctor of Christian Ministries degree from Belhaven University “for extraordinary work and achievements in promoting Christianity throughout the Middle East and North Africa.”

He and his wife Jacqueline live in Nicosia, Cyprus and have three grown children and two grandchildren.

Fernando is senior pastor of Iglesia Evangelica de Iñaquito in (Evangelical Church of Inaquito) Quito, Ecuador. His church has a weekly attendance of around 5,000 people in three locations, and their Vision's first line is: "To disciple families....".

Fernando has been serving the Lord full time for almost 50 years: 9 years in youth ministry with 'Youth For Christ'/Campus Life (in Peru, Colombia and Rochester, NY/USA); 13 years as youth Pastor with the Christian and Missionary Alliance church in Lima, Peru; 13 years as youth Pastor at the Iñaquito church, and as Senior Pastor since 2000 at the same church in Quito, Ecuador.

Quito, Ecuador, the world’s highest capital city. It sits on the slopes of an active volcano at a dizzying elevation of 9,350 feet about sea level.

His family includes:
His wife, Teresa, coordinator for the women in our church.
His son, Samuel, a senior at Crown College (Christian college, Minneapolis)
His daughter, Sara, second year in college in Ecuador.

My wife, Liz and I have been with the IMB for the past 19 years working in Minsk, Belarus; Novosibirsk Russia and since December in Moscow Russia. I am third generation pastor married to a mk from Venezuela, so we have been gifted with an incredible heritage. I was born in El Paso, TX, grew up in Illinois, was a pastor in Missouri. We have three wonderful daughters who are in either college or graduate school and are spread out from Virginia to Missouri to Los Angeles. I focus my work on mentoring and discipling young believers in their walk with the Lord, personal evangelism and leading in ministry. We have planted churches in Minsk and Novosibirsk and are gearing up to work with church planters in Moscow. Our desire is to see Russians reaching Russians by finding God prepared people, sowing the gospel, discipling believers and bringing them into groups that will grow into reproducing churches. My wife and I love to bicycle, make things with our hands and see God transform lives.