OMS Student Center/Asbury

Randall and Rachel Coleman currently minister as the directors of the OMS Student Center, serving the campuses of Asbury College and Asbury Theological Seminary. They served in Ecuador as seminary professors and church planters from 1992-2005. They are cofounders of SHALOM Christian Fellowship, a new church that is being launched among the professional class of Guayaquil. For three years, Randy served as pastor of worship of the new church; he was also professor of missiology and homiletics at El Camino Theological Seminary in Guayaquil. Rachel also served on the pastoral team of SHALOM church, where she shared preaching and teaching responsibilities and was in charge of developing the church’s systematic discipleship program. She was professor of biblical languages and Old Testament at the Guayaquil seminary. Randy and Rachel will serve as Every Community for Christ shepherds for national church planters on the fields of Spain and the Caribbean starting in June of 2010.
Randy and Rachel both hold undergraduate degrees from Asbury College in Wilmore, Kentucky. With his B.A. degree in church music and Christian ministries, Randy went on to receive his master of divinity degree from Asbury Theological Seminary in 1988. He received his doctor of missiology degree from Asbury Theological Seminary in 2007. 

Rachel’s B.A. degree is in Spanish and English secondary education. In 1986, she earned her master’s degree in Spanish literature and language from the University of Kentucky. In 2001, Rachel graduated from Asbury Theological Seminary with an M.A. in biblical studies. During the Colemans’ homeland ministry assignment, Rachel is teaching Spanish as full-time professor at Asbury College.

Randy first experienced the mission field as an OMS NOW corpsman to Japan and Hong Kong in 1983. In 1988, he went on a short-term mission trip to work at the OMS seminary in Medellín, Colombia. Rachel went to Ecuador with NOW Corps in 1981 and did her student teaching in Quito in 1983. During Randy’s three years as associate pastor in Huntington, Indiana, he continued to promote missions, taking a youth team to Durango, Mexico for two weeks.

The Colemans have two children, Robert (23) and Rebecca (21). Robert graduated from Asbury College in 2008, where he majored in history and psychology with a minor in Spanish. He married Brittany Richardson on September 8, 2008, and the two of them currently live in Nicholasville, Kentucky. Rebecca is a junior at Asbury College, where she majors in Christian ministries and minors in Spanish. She has an active interest in missions, both short and long term.

Missionary ID #801715