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About Our President
................................................... Gary Bishop, Veteran Missionary Leader, Accepts Call to Lead WMFC Gary Bishop comes to World Missions Far Corners with over a decade of serving as the leader of Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) and World Bible Translation Center. He is an ordained minister and has served in church leadership and as a Bible teacher. With his wife, Donna, they have been very active in churches and ministries for the last 35 years and have been leaders in Christian education, spearheaded ministries and have always been active in local church life. Through the years, they have been involved in mission work on five continents. Gary earned a bachelor’s degree in aviation management and an MBA from Dallas Baptist University. He also completed the Executive Development Program in financial management at Stanford Graduate School of Business. In addition, he studied processor and software technology at the Cambridge Training Center of the MIT Executive Program. Before answering the call to full-time mission work, Gary was the executive director/CEO of the Pittsburgh International Airport and held executive positions with the Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics and AT&T. Gary served as a commissioned officer in the military and an aviator in the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Navy. In his mission career, Bishop conceived and commissioned MAF’s Operation Access, a global research study that identified remote and unreached people groups isolated by transportation and communications barriers and the infrastructure and resources needed to overcome those barriers. Gary was also instrumental in pioneering new aircraft of mission aviation and enriching missionary member care. Gary is also the visionary of an organizational management planning, assessment and measurement system, “Job Performance Objectives.” He understands governmental agencies and regulations, cross-cultural interaction and community development. The Bishops have two married sons and five grandchildren.
Greetings from Gary Bishop
WMFC’s New President/CEO
Greetings in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I want to say to every person associated with World Missions Far Corners how humbled I am in receiving the call to serve with this organization. It is with respect and admiration I embrace the vision and God-honoring work of our founder, Dr. J. Leonard Bell. After serving as a consultant for WMFC for several months, I find myself very impassioned and excited about what God is doing through WMFC. We have a great legacy and foundation on which to respond to God’s leading in meeting the desperate needs of the world’s most neglected people—precious souls trapped in spiritual darkness. With your prayers and support, much has been done over the last 50 years. But you may not realize one dramatic change: there are actually more people today plagued by poverty, disease and cultural abuse—people that have never heard of the redeeming love and salvation of Jesus Christ—than there were 50 years ago! Our work is far from done. So I know you agree with me that we have a high calling to continue to identify and serve people around the globe who are suffering tragic human needs, but worse, have no eternal hope beyond this life. My commitment to you is to daily seek God’s direction in leading WMFC. We have great missionaries in the field and they need my help and your help to continue the life-changing work of WMFC. Today, thousands of people will die without salvation in Jesus. Many will die horrible deaths from starvation, illness and neglect. We must continue to respond to God’s call to love and help these people. After all, that is why he leaves many of us here on earth. The good news today is that we have the capability through technology and experience that will allow us to reach more people and meet more needs than ever before. I am excited about the future. I believe God will use WMFC to reach even greater numbers of people than at any time in our history. We serve Jehovah, the “God who owns the cattle on a thousand hills,” and it is He who is really leading this work. I look forward to communicating regularly with you about the work of WMFC and I would really enjoy hearing from you. May each of you experience the blessedness of being a child of the King. In His Grace,
Gary L. Bishop Gary L. Bishop
President/CEO
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