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In just a few years they have taken a church that has seen enormous growth, but because of it had no program for missions and have since been able to send teams to Mexico, Haiti, Honduras, Dominican Republic, Trinidad, Tobago, India, Indonesia, and Vietnam. They have also been instrumental in adopting the Jambi Malay people in Indonesia through the Adopt-A-People program and support numerous ministries both locally and throughout the world. They have taken the following verse as their mandate and motivation to "go into all the world". Let all the world look to me for salvation!
For I am God; there is no other. I have sworn by myself and I will never go back
on my word, for it is true that every knee in all the world shall bow to me, and
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Steve Schmidt and
Keith LeMay - Ever
since I met Steve and Keith, I realized that here are two people who are a true
team, like Bud Abbott and Lou Costella or Billy Graham and George Beverly Shea.
They work together like few
people I have seen. Steve is the Missions Pastor of Woodland Hills
Church and Keith is the Pastor of Local Missions. Although they give
the Spirit of God the credit and glory, they have
developed a missions program for a church that could easily be an example to
follow. Steve started part time with Woodland Hills Church in 1998,
but within a year was full time and Keith joined shortly
thereafter. Steve had previously served with the Conservative
Baptist Mission and with STEM in Haiti for a total of 7 years.