The Bemenderfers

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  • Serving beneath the Cross

    Serving beneath the Cross

    Still "reaping and training reapers" wherever the Lord takes us

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  • Tim on Guitar

    Tim on Guitar

    July of 2023, just before Tim left for the Dominican Republic.  He's also great on the piano!

  • George on Drums

    George on Drums

    George, with a fan. He's also become quite the guitar player, taking over leading worship once Tim left.

Our vision

To develop leaders in Christ's service anywhere in the world through foundational discipleship tools and sound Biblical teaching

With our years of experience in evangelism, discipleship, teaching and training, we plan to spend significant periods of time (1 to 3 months—or more!) with the many contacts we have made across the globe. We offer discipleship training both to enhance the ministry of those pastors, cross-cultural laborers and students we have met, and to build into the lives of those they are serving. We have opportunities to serve Christian schools and invitations to provide staff- and shepherd-development training. We also have a burden to encourage the Church in the US and abroad to get more "Great Commissional" in life and purpose. We want to serve wherever there is both need and hunger—and an open door!

A little about us

After 27 years serving the Lord in east Asia, we moved to the Dominican Republic to help disciple disciplers of teens in crisis. That door closed, so we returned to Iowa.  We now serve Lafayette Salem Evangelical Church, a small rural church north of Cedar Rapids, and the Hawkeye Chapter of Child Evangelism Fellowship.

Over the years, our ministry has focused on evangelism, establishing new believers, and discipling them as leaders in ministry.  It has expanded to preaching and pastoring.  We have always been about "reaping and training reapers."  We desire to serve a broader base, offering further training to friends and contacts in all parts of the world, including Europe, East Asia, South Asia, Africa and the Caribbean.

Recent News

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Winding Down and Gearing Up
We have our flight tickets and will be leaving for Bosnia on September 22nd!
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Moving Forward
We're going. To Bosnia. God willing and with your help.
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A Time to Go
"What are we thinking?" We're thinking seriously about going back overseas! Follow me down the rabbit-hole of my thoughts.

Recent Messages

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You Can Be Forgiven
We are all alike under sentence of death. We all deserve to die; we all alike deserve eternal condemnation.  We know we have done wrong,…
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Prayer and Peace
We are called out from the world to live in faith and obedience to Jesus Christ, to a life that stands apart from the ways of the world,…
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The Armor of God
We saw last week that our most basic mission is to stand firm on God’s Word and all He teaches, to hold fast to the Gospel and all the rest…

Recent Devotions

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September 16, 2025
Passage Read: John 21 - Acts 1 Meditation Verses: John 21:12-14 Thought The significance of the resurrection is hard to fully grasp.…
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September 15, 2025
Passage Read: John 19-20 Meditation Verse: 19:15 Thought What a sad but true confession of the chief priests. They should have claimed…
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September 14, 2025
Passage Read: John 17-18 Meditation Verses: 17:6-9 Thought There is a distinction between the world and those who belong to Jesus, and…

Random Posts

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March 11, 2024
Passage Read: 2 Chronicles 34 - Ezra 1 Meditation Verses: 2 Chronicles 35:21-22 Thought Josiah decided to tangle…
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October 18, 2022
Passage Read: Hebrews 5-6 Meditation Verses: 6:10-12 Thought The Lord will not forget all we have done on His…
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November 23, 2022
Passage Read: Genesis 41-44 Meditation Verses: 44:33-34 Thought The brothers didn't think about their father when…