Vance and Kari Massengill

Vance, Kari, Leandra, and Kendra Massengill have served Church of God World Missions for almost 30 years. After spending 5 years in China and 21 years in the Middle East, the Massengills felt God calling them to return to the USA to help the church in the midwestern United States while continuing their service to the Islamic world.

The Massengills have been involved in evangelism to every world religion with a primary focus on Muslims. Their task involved not only evangelism but also the training and development of ministers, leaders, pastors, and missionaries who would focus primarily in nations and areas considered unreached by the Gospel. Through both formal and informal educational platforms, church planting, pastoring, and personal evangelism they have attempted to mobilize the whole church for the cause of the Great Commission fulfillment.

In 2021, after seeing the decline of the American church while itinerating, the Massengills were led by God to move to the USA in order to assist in whatever way possible. After spending more than half their lives on the mission field, their new assignment in their home country still is very much a missionary assignment. The America they left behind in 1995 is gone, and they find many of the skills they required as missionaries in Asia to now be needed in the USA.

Vance is the only person in the world with 3 degrees in Intercultural Studies (missiology) and seeks to travel back to the Middle East and North Africa as much as possible. Kari is currently obtaining her second masters in Christian counseling in order to minister to those in central Illinois with the addictions that have pervaded the area. Both Leandra and Kendra feel a call into ministry service. Even though they are currently residing in the USA, their hearts are and always will be in the areas of the world that are unreached by the Gospel of Christ.