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Worship Schedule:
Sunday Morning Worship - 9 AM
Children & Adult SS Classes - 10:30 AM
Sunday Evening Worship - 6 PM 
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David & Sylvia DeJong
David and Sylvia are missionaries 
with the Africa Inland Mission. 
Both have been in ministry most 
of their lives. David and his first 
wife did mission work for seventeen 
years in South Africa. David founded 
Helps International Ministries in 
1976 and was the president until 
he retired, seventeen years later. After that, he supervised the planning and remodeling of the U.S. headquarters for the Africa Inland Mission until Esther needed him full time for four years as she battled Parkinsons and Alzheimers until the Lord called her home in 2000. 

Sylvia was a pastor’s wife and nurse until the Lord called her husband home very suddenly in 1971, after eleven years of marriage. She raised her three children who, at the time of his death, were 10, 8, and 6 years of age. She served the Lord in urban missions with Children’s Haven in Massachusetts and New Jersey for 10 years and after a few years in New York, she returned to Wooster, Ohio, the area where she had grown up. She worked as a nurse until the Lord called her to resign her job and get a master’s degree at Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary in Boston. When she later returned to Wooster, she became the chaplain at the hospital where she had worked 
as a nurse. 

Sylvia and David were married in 2000, after which time they have made several ministry trips to Kenya. Sylvia started a ministry of writing Bible studies for widows in Kenya. These studies were later published in a book entitled Widows of the Old Testament. When she and David go to African countries, Sylvia ministers to widow groups while David ministers to pastors and church leaders. David also provides construction consultation and supervision to various African ministries. David and Sylvia live near Wooster, Ohio.
African Inland Mission