Gospel Partners and Missionaries

Trevor & Hayley Amack

Sending Church: Taylor Creek Church, Maple Valley, WA

LBC relationship established May 2026

Our focus is to come alongside established churches to help them develop and train church leaders and their spouses in Biblical understanding; helping them mature in their faith by coordinating and facilitating training events across the country geared toward theology, evangelism, discipleship, and ministry while translating and providing much needed biblical resources for local church leadership.

Nick & Julia Brown

Sending Church: Killian Hill Baptist Church in Lilburn, Georgia

LBC relationship established in August, 2021

By God’s grace and His leading, we serve the church through leadership development, church planting, and missions, and through support and encouragement of ministry workers. We are actively looking to see how best we can mobilize local believers to more fully engage in the Great Commission.

Central Africa Baptist University

LBC Relationship established July 2018

CABU serves local churches through the discipling and equipping of pastors, missionaries, educators, and trainers for gospel advancement across Africa.

Faith Baptist Church Kakolo

Gospel Partner

Relationship with LBC established in January 2026 

Lakewood is investing in a monthly financial partnership in support of FBC Kakolo’s ongoing church planting efforts. Historically, LBC has partnered with FBC Kakolo by providing a parsonage and also by remodeling a home suitable for up to 3 pastors in training (interns), thus freeing-up their own funds for church planting. FBC Kakolo has current church plants at Kamilili and Chantente (where a special LBC offering paid the costs of a parsonage).

Faith Baptist Church Riverside

Gospel Partner

Relationship with LBC established in January 2026 

LBC is investing in a monthly financial partnership in support of FBC Riverside’s ongoing church planting and revitalization efforts. FBC Riverside has church revitalizations at Wusakile, Mindolo and Kalulushi, and church planting activities in Nchelenge (N. Zambia) and Sudan.

Will & Christy Galkin

LBC relationship established in January 2019

Our goal in Utah is to support the Gospel Family of Churches as they seek to plant and revitalize churches. We pray that God would use us to help move the percentage of evangelicals in Utah from 2% to 3%.

Waad & Febe Haddad

Sending Church: Tabernacle Baptist Church in Hazel Park, Michigan

LBC relationship established in January 2020

Waad serves as a Bible professor at National Bible College in the Middle East and also trains Muslim converts in Iraq through online studies and frequent short-term mission trips.  He resides in Michigan with his wife, Febe and daughter, Joy.

Emmanuel & Regina Juma

Sending Church: Kitwe Church, Kitwe, Zambia

LBC relationship established in April 2022

LBC partners with Kitwe Church as they support Emmanuel Juma in the planting and pastoring of Community Bible Church

Kitwe Church

Gospel Partner

Relationship with LBC established in January 2026 

LBC is investing in a monthly financial partnership in support of Kitwe Church’s ongoing church planting efforts. Kitwe Church is the sending church for church planting activities in Kasama, Zambia; Lemon Gaba, South Sudan (Jumas); among the Somali people in Nairobi, Kenya (Shiels); Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Quito, Angola.

Bryan & Amy Lenartz

Sending Church: Harvest Bible Church, Guam

LBC relationship established in April 2023

Our family is committed to reaching Japan for Christ by planting Bible-believing churches. We aim to train local leaders who can carry on the mission and serve their communities effectively. Additionally, we seek to inspire others to consider the mission field of Japan and share in this important work.

Kevin & Nichole Marshman

United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland

Sending Church: Lakewood Baptist Church in Pewaukee, Wisconsin

Kevin Marshman is a Navy Chaplain currently stationed at the United States Naval Academy. He counsels and disciples, preaches in the Academy Chapel, teaches ethics, and holds several other leadership roles in the Brigade of Midshipmen.

Risen Hope Church

LBC relationship established in September 2024

Risen Hope Church desires to glorify God by making and growing disciples of Jesus through his Word. We want to be a neighborhood church for West Allis and the surrounding communities.

Joshua & Rachel Roberts

Sending Church: Faith Baptist Church, Clinton Township, Michigan

LBC relationship established in February 2012

The primary focus of our ministry is the planting of Grace Baptist Church in Rhosllannerchrugog, Wales, UK. The ministry includes Sunday morning service, Sunday afternoon Sunday School, Teen Time every other Sunday night, Thursday night Bible studies, The Bright Corner Christian Bookshop, and regular outreach opportunities through community involvement.

Ryan & Samantha Shiel

Sending Church: Kitwe Church, Kitwe, Zambia

LBC relationship established in January 2024

We are working in Nairobi, Kenya to evangelize the 700,000 Somalis living in the city in the hope that, as the Gospel goes out, we would see a New Testament Somali-speaking church established.

Jonathan & Kristin Smedley

Sending Church: Word of Life Church, Bainbridge, PA

LBC relationship established May 2026

We serve as church planters among the Tampuan people of northeast Cambodia, one of the world’s least reached people groups. Our primary ministries are evangelism, discipleship, Bible translation, Scripture engagement and leadership development. 

Wisconsin Inmate Education Association

LBC relationship established in January 2019

This is an in-person college curriculum designed to transform inmates, families, and communities. The program provides a Bachelor of Arts in Biblical Studies for those who are incarcerated, having received sentences for either many years or for life. Requiring at least four years of study, upon graduation these men become “field mentors” who are able to guide other inmates in the correctional institutions where they may eventually be placed.

Lakewood Baptist Church also partners with six families in Undisclosed Locations.