Missionary in Residence

Barry and Ruth Rempel are serving as LeTourneau University's Missionaries in Residence for 2010-2011 while on home service assignment with SEND International. Currently, Barry is the area director for SEND's ministry in the Far North (Alaska and Northern Canada), where for the past nine years he has been leading the effort to take the Gospel to the unreached people of that region.

Prior to this ministry, the Rempels lived in Michigan, where Barry served three years as SEND's U.S. director of recruitment, mobilizing people for worldwide outreach. Barry and Ruth began their ministry with SEND in Spain, where they spent 10 years engaged in church planting work and leadership development. These 20-plus years of ministry give Barry a broad base of experience from which to share his passion to see lives transformed for God's glory.

Barry earned a bachelor's degree from Briercrest Bible College and a master's degree in church planting and evangelism at Columbia International University. He has enjoyed opportunities to be extensively involved with leadership/ministry training in diverse locations such as Spain, Ukraine and Russia.

The Rempels will celebrate 23 years of marriage this year, and they have two teenage daughters, Katya and Savanna, both born in Spain. Barry is a commercial/instrument rated pilot, but "serious" recreation would probably have to somehow include a fishing rod.