American Missionary Fellowship

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Field Director Profile

Jim VanVoorst

Location: Kalama, WA

Occupation: Field Director

About Me

Field Director Jim Van Voorst served for seventeen years as an area missionary in central Oregon before becoming a regional director in 2000. With the help of his wife, Linda, he served for eight years as the regional director of the North-Central Region before taking the same position in the Northwest Region in May 2008. He now serves in a slightly modified role, that of field director, concentrating on encouraging the missionaries on that field.

Jim loves sports, hunting, fishing, climbing mountains, and spending time with his four grown children and four grandchildren. Since graduating from Multnomah Bible College in Portland, Oregon, he has served on several camp and church boards, has worked with Christian camping and outdoor outreach ministries, and has been involved with numerous church planting and development ministry endeavors. His passion is to find new workers to work in existing ministries and start new ones throughout the Northwest, and to encourage and build up the AMF missionary team in Oregon, Washington, and western Idaho.

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About Field Directors

We at AMF know that ministry is simultaneously fulfilling and taxing. Our field directors are dedicated to making missionaries’ work less difficult. With the assistance of experienced missionaries who serve as area coordinators, field directors provide the encouragement and support that enable missionaries to focus on the goal of introducing people to Christ and helping them follow Him more closely.

Some of the care that field directors give is in the form of visits and phone calls. They also seek ways to pray for their missionaries. The needs of AMF ministries are vast and need to be taken to the number-one source of help and encouragement: our Lord. Some of missionaries’ prayer needs are daily guidance in their ministries, family concerns, transitional concerns, and church concerns.

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