Foreign Staff

Lester & Darlene Olfert

Lester and Darlene were both raised on farms in the Swift Current, Saskatchewan area. During their teenage years they both sensed a call to foreign missions. Darlene graduated from Millar College of the Bible, Pambrun, SK in 1963. Lester graduated from Steinbach Bible College in 1964.

A year after marriage they were accepted by EMC Board of Missions and served with that mission in Mexico for a year and in Nicaragua for 13 years in church planting and leadership development. Lester then served as pastor in Saskatchewan for a couple of years. In 1992 Lester took the position of foreign secretary for Latin America with EMC until 2005. During this time Darlene worked in a Hull’s Family Bookstore and served as manager for 10 years. They have two married children, Lyndon (Bailey) and Elizabeth (Scott Peters) and four grandchildren.

Since retirement from active ministry they have been involved with a ministry for Children at Risk (CINAG – Gethsemane Centre for Children at Risk) in Nicaragua, spending up to four months a year in Nicaragua. They are serving as short-term missionaries with ACTION Canada promoting the ministry of CINAG in Canada and offering consulting services to the board of directors of CINAG. They will continue to serve on site in Nicaragua a couple of months each year.

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Wally & Esther Wiebe

Wally was born and raised in La Crete, Alberta. He was the second oldest of 4 boys and grew up on a farm and learned all the aspects of hard work, raising animals and grain crops. He graduated from High School in 1988 and started working at a local grocery store which he bought into in 1991, he owned it in partnership till 1997. He then went on to work at La Crete Sawmills as office manager till 2004. Wally has also worked in real estate & landscaping.

Wally accepted Christ as his personal savior in 1991, while attending christian life classes at La Crete Christian Fellowship.

Esther was born in Bolivia, the youngest of 14 children. At a very young age, through the influence of a Christian lady in her community, Esther gave her life to Christ. Esther lost both her parents and one sibling by the age of ten. The following year, she and the rest of her siblings moved to Canada and settled in Alberta. She graduated from High School in 1992, after school she started her own gift & flower shop business and owned it till 1996. She is very busy raising the children and being a strong supporter of Wally.

Wally and Esther were married in 1992 and now have 4 children, Caleb, Hannah, Elijah & Rachel. The Lord has touched both Wally and Esther with a desire to minister to those less fortunate. Their desire is to serve at CINAG Gethsemane orphanage in Nicaragua. Wally will be helping primarily in the construction and planning and Esther will be first home schooling the children and also taking part in the programs at the orphanage.

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