Former Field Director/Teacher

Missionaries in Japan with OMS International for 40 years, Art and Carol Shelton retired in August 1993. They were challenged by great opportunities for witness there and saw encouraging results.

During their first term, the Sheltons were assigned to pioneer church work in the Nagoya area. Cooperating with Japanese Christians, they endeavored to establish and strengthen churches planted by the Every Community for Christ door-to-door evangelism teams.

When Art and Carol returned to Japan for their second term, they were appointed to Tokyo, where they worked until their retirement. As a professor at Tokyo Biblical Seminary (TBS), Art, with a master of divinity degree from Western Evangelical Seminary, has been involved in the training of Japanese Christians for church leadership. He served at various times as field treasurer and for several years was the field director.

As field director, Art was responsible for planning the overall work and strategy of OMS in Japan. He also served on the faculty and board of TBS and many church committees as well as on boards and committees for other interdenominational organizations.

Dave Shaferly first visited Haiti as an OMS NOW Corpsman in 1966. Already sensing God's call to missions, he responded to the field's request to remain. There he met his wife, Marilyn, who had served in Haiti since 1963. They were married in Haiti in January of 1971.

A graduate of Kentucky Mountain Bible Institute and Marion College (now Indiana Wesleyan University) with training in electronics from Purdue University, Dave served for several years as an instructor and director at the OMS Emmaus Bible College, and directed an agricultural co-op. From 1978 to 2005, Dave coordinated all construction for the Mission in Haiti and directed Men for Missions work teams which built churches, parsonages, schools and other needed buildings. In 1994 Dave was appointed Field Director for OMS/Haiti, a responsibility he filled for fourteen years.

Church Musician/Teacher

Carol Mitchell first served with OMS International from 1968 to 1970 as a music teacher in South Korea at Seoul Foreign School. When she returned to South Korea as a career missionary in 1972, she studied the Korean language and began to teach music at Seoul Theological University (STU) a year later. STU’s church music department began in 1977, and at the time of Carol’s compulsory retirement from STU in November 2005, there were nearly 400 church music students, a faculty of 12 full-time instructors and almost 100 part-time instructors.

Eugene and Elaine Lain served as associate regional directors for OMS in northeast U.S., from 1993 to 1998 concentrating in western Pennsylvania, West Virginia, western New York, and western Maryland. In this capacity they assisted churches in planning missions programs. In addition to scheduling missionary speakers from the 15 fields of OMS, they presented challenges from their experiences in Haiti.

The Lains were missionaries with OMS International in Haiti from 1972- 1993. After language school and internship, they served in Haiti from 1975 until 1986. Eugene taught, and was academic dean of the Emmaus Vocational Bible College in Cap-Haitien. Elaine taught there as well, along with serving as teacher of missionary children at Cowman International School. From 1986 until 1990 the Lains were OMS campus representatives at Asbury College and the seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky. While there Eugene completed a Masters of Divinity equivalency from Asbury Theological Seminary (ATS). After serving as campus representatives, the Lains returned to Haiti where they served from in 1990 -1993.

Born in Canada, Alice has lived in the United States since her association with OMS in 1954. She has taught and written on prayer and conducted prayer seminars. Her primary job had been to generate prayer support for OMS ministries around the world. Although no longer in the leadership of World Intercessors, the prayer department of OMS, she continues to speak in retreats and churches. Her travels have taken her to 14 countries in Asia, Europe, and Latin America, and ministry trips to Australia and New Zealand.

Miss Huff is the author of a 50-page text, World Intercessors School of Prayer Notebook, with scriptural outlines, patterns of prayer, illustrations, and testimonies designed to strengthen the intercessor’s prayer life. Her seminars encourage Christians to realize fully the enormous potential of their prayers.

In July of 1987, a devotional book compiled by Alice Huff and Eleanor Burr was published by Francis Asbury Press, a division of Zondervan Publishers. A Watered Garden contains 90 days of devotionals written by OMS missionaries in the tradition of Streams in the Desert by Mrs. Charles Cowman, co-founder and president of OMS International (1928-1949).

Missionary ID #803066

Preacher/Teacher/Administrator

Missionaries in Japan with OMS International from 1956-1995, Charles and JoAnn Dupree enjoyed a successful and varied ministry. Charles and JoAnn are graduates of Asbury College and studied at Asbury Theological Seminary. Charles went to Japan in 1953 as a short-termer with the OMS Every Creature Crusade. For two years he worked in door-to-door and tent evangelism. He returned to Japan in 1956 with JoAnn, where they supervised the Every reature Crusade teams, assisted the new churches and pioneered a youth camping program.

Cynthia Carr served with OMS International in Ecuador from 1968 to 2003. In August 2003, she moved to Bradenton, Florida, to begin retirement.

Cynthia graduated from Wayne State University with a bachelor of science degree in elementary education and taught elementary school in Michigan for two years. After receiving her master of religious education degree from Asbury Theological Seminary, and prior to beginning her missionary career in Ecuador, she served in an Alabama church as director of Christian education.

While serving in Ecuador, Cynthia taught in the Evangelical Bible Seminary of Guayaquil and the Ecuador Biblical Seminary of Cuenca. She actively promoted world missions in the seminary and the Christian Bible Church in Ecuador. She created a missions committee at the church to coordinate the missions program and to support Ecuadorian missionaries who were being sent out to serve in other countries around the globe.

Mabel, who is from Ireland, first joined the staff of OMS International in 1964 to work in the medical clinic in Saraguro. Bruce visited Ecuador in 1967 and married Mabel in 1970. A graduate of Emmanuel Bible College in England and the Missionary School of Medicine, Mabel received her Master’s degree in social sciences in 1989 from Azusa Pacific University.
Bruce is a 1973 graduate of Fort Wayne Bible College with a B.A. degree in missions. He continued his studies at London Bible College and earned a diploma in theology in 1972 and a B.D. degree in 1982 from the University of London. He studied for one year in the School of World Mission at Fuller Theological Seminary.

Bruce and Mabel both taught in the Sinai Bible Institute in Carboncillo in the Southern Andes Mountains training young Ecuadoreans for church leadership in the remote southern mountain region of Ecuador. They were on the original team of missionaries that founded the Christian Bible Church in Guayaquil in 1986-1995.