Serge Annual Report for FY2025

Empowered

by Grace 12-MONTH MINISTRY REPORT JUNE 2024 – MAY 2025

Dear Friend, Because of your generosity, this report is packed with what God has done.

God’s grace has empowered His people to go and minister in the broken and frayed places of our world. And you have played a vital role in this Kingdom work.

After 20 years of faithful, humble service, Bob Osborne passed the baton, and I began serving as executive director on June 1st, 2025. I’m thankful for the incredible growth under Bob’s leadership. And I’m so grateful for the board and their care and consideration over the past year in executing a good and thoughtful transition plan.

I can’t imagine life without Serge’s impact on me. From early childhood, Sonship has shaped my whole life. I saw the gospel of grace transform my parents’ lives.

They showed me that Jesus is alive, and He’s transforming His people. That we have freedom to take risks — and freedom to fail. And that God delights to powerfully work His blessing in our failures.

I am committed to the Serge mission, vision, and values.

They are as powerful and relevant as ever.

The theme of this year’s report is Empowered by Grace. We’ve needed God’s grace in transitions. And we need His grace in the face of overwhelming need in our world.

Because of you, missionaries work to see communities and churches transformed through the gospel of grace. They are beautiful people who have an appetite for taking risks for Christ’s Kingdom in a world that is increasingly less reached by the gospel.

There are many stories here to celebrate. Baptisms of dozens of believers from different backgrounds. House churches are flourishing in the face of government persecution. Medical training graduates are returning to work in mission hospitals, just to name a few.

Jesus is alive and He’s transforming His people.

He delights to powerfully work His blessing in our failures.

What’s next?

• The Sonship message continues to be the heart of Serge. Sonship is the renewal tool for training new missionaries. And already new Sonship talks have been recorded to revise and refresh the curriculum to help renew missionaries and the church.

• Calling the next generation to be with Jesus on His global mission of making all things new.

• Taking care of missionaries to promote longevity for exponential impact.

And watching for open doors around the world.

As Jack Miller used to say, “Risk or rust.” After 40 years, Serge has no plans to rust.

Thank you for your partnership in this work.

Grace and Peace to you,

Matt Allison EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

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Because of your generosity,

THE LOVE OF JESUS

has been shown to the hurting and the lost.

THANKS TO YOU, the sick have been healed, the hungry fed, the gospel proclaimed, and new believers baptized in Jesus’ name.

This Year

WITH PARTNERS LIKE YOU, light has shined in the darkness, and the darkness has no chance. Thank you for loving the poor and vulnerable.

And thank you for helping free people from the darkness of shame and hopelessness.

MORE THAN 325 MISSIONARIES SERVING IN 29 COUNTRIES

from June 2024 through May 2025

26

newly deployed missionaries

to 9 countries

22

new missionaries appointed to 10 teams

including five appointed to three understaffed teams

1 5

new team Launched in kenya new PUBLICATIONS

• 3 in The Gospel-Centered Life in the Bible series (Acts, Colossians, and Job) • Life-Changing Mission • Why Should I Pray?

195

people mentored

through Sonship

640

Go Forms received

—a 4% increase over last year—that’s 640 people exploring missions opportunities.

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You Are Building

Gospel Communities

■ A B4T team serves in the coffee and food industry.

Their business and reputation have flourished through recent business “pop-ups.” And they’ve drawn many friends and influencers from across their city of over 15 million people. This interest has led some local residents to begin reading the Bible online and finding a neighborhood fellowship. Now they’re growing in their new faith alongside other like-minded friends with the support and encouragement of the B4T team.

…through Medical Missions ■ A former Burundi medical student who graduated ten years ago returned to Kibuye to visit the Serge doctors who trained her. She continued her studies to become a general surgeon and now serves with her husband as a missionary. She reported, “You know, for so many in my class, our time at Kibuye with you was so influential in terms of understanding mission and helping us think differently about medicine.”

■ Missionary Dr. Greg Sund was awarded the Gerson L’Chaim Prize. The annual prize recognizes one medical missionary improving rural healthcare for women and children in Africa. Greg will use the grant to help four hospitals in Burundi.

■ Missionary Dr. Jason Fader received the 2024 ACS/Pfizer Surgical Humanitarian Award for his exceptional contributions to global surgical care. Specifically for the team’s work at Kibuye Hope Hospital in four different countries, transforming a small mission hospital into a major medical center that performs more than 3,700 operations annually. The team has fostered a new generation of medical professionals through a robust surgical residency program.

■ The American Academy of Ophthalmology recognized missionary Dr. John Cropsey with the 2024 Outstanding Humanitarian Service Award for his unwavering commitment to improving eye care in the most resource-constrained areas of East Africa. John’s work as an eye surgeon with Serge has been a great inspiration to medical leaders around the world.

…through Business for Transformation (B4T)

■ The Rwanda International Institute of Ophthalmology graduated four ophthalmologists in 2024, bringing the total to ten since partnering with Serge in 2022. These specialist eye surgeons now serve in Rwanda, Burundi, and Congo (DRC) and are multiplying the impact and changing the lives of thousands each year.

■ Serge medical doctors in Burundi help oversee a program that trains nationals to be surgeons who practice in their home country. In February, they had a white coat ceremony for their firstyear residents, Leilla and Fine. Upon completion of their 5-year program, they will be the first female general surgeons in Burundi.

■ Teams in Guatemala City and Antigua serve both urban and rural poor populations. They work in diabetes clinics, provide lactation training in newborn clinics, and provide occupational therapy.

■ Pastors and their families have experienced intense persecution in recent years. Many have been imprisoned. They are deeply blessed through the team’s trauma healing ministry. Providing care for these men and their families builds resilience in their calling despite the trauma of being jailed.

■ A team is launching a second business in a city in North Africa. Unemployment is high, and starting a business there is difficult. But they remain undaunted. Their hospitality business will create jobs and give people valuable skills training.

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im is 84 years old. Seven years ago, he and his wife lost one of their sons.

Three months later, Jim lost his wife to cancer. Jim has struggled for years with a painful congenital kidney disease. And recently, he began dialysis. Jim had considered refusing that care and letting the disease take him, but a nurse challenged him to fight to live. And she gave him a vision for how God could still use Jim. Jim is a faithful donor to Serge and loves hearing about the missionaries he supports. When he speaks about his disease, it is obvious he’s unafraid of death.

Jim came to Christ when he was 31 years old in a legalistic church full of rules for living. Years later, he met a man who invited him to study the doctrines of grace in an early Serge discipleship book called Gospel Transformation. Hearing about grace was transforming. He was a voracious student and built friendships that many times turned into discipling relationships over the years.

■ Business for Transformation sites are often a target of threats and attacks. There is a pressing need for more help to strengthen these teams. And more prayer is needed as the attacks come from every direction. Pray for creativity as they look for ways to start businesses in new places around the world.

■ The Freedom Bakeries celebrated their 10th anniversary. A fourth bakery in South Asia has just opened. This means 10 more women escaped the sex trade and have sustainable work, further healing, and the offer of eternal hope and healing through Jesus. Though obstacles are fierce and they remain at risk for re-entry into trafficking, the women continue to thrive.

The nurse who encouraged Jim to hang onto life in dialysis knew he could be used there. Indeed, Jim talks about his days in the dialysis room filled with sick people. He has developed friendships with nurses and patients. And he eagerly pursues people on those days when he is sitting for hours. He reports a common prayer he makes during the long drive to dialysis, “What surprise do you have for me today?”

Donors like Jim are so generous with their time, talents, and treasure. Donors are partners and one of three pillars that make up Serge — the missionaries doing the work, the home office supporting the missionaries, and the donors who make the whole thing possible!

Donors are wonderful partners in this Kingdom work. Jim is one of many who generously give to fuel the work. Recently, Jim excitedly added Serge to his will.

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Your Global

IMPACT

God is growing His Kingdom around the world through missionaries and donors like you — laying down our lives together to share the gospel with others.

People will go to hard places and do hard things for a really long time when they know that someone has their back. Thank you for having these missionaries’ backs.

Each of these dots represents a snapshot of the incredible gospel impact you have had in the lives of countless individuals, families, and communities.*

Netherlands

Germany

The team trains and mentors Dutch pastors, congregations, and global missionaries. They specialize in training and mentoring in leadership development, evangelism, and the arts.

The team runs a community center that reaches out to the neighborhood. They also co-lead a new church plant and are coordinating Mentored Sonship in Germany.

UK

Czech Republic

The years of sowing the gospel with the immigrant community are bringing a harvest. Church plants that used to take longer to reach critical mass are now starting with scores of new converts ready for baptism and membership. The teams are shocked at the quick growth, and they’re quick to admit their weakness in this beautiful work of the Spirit.

Two vibrant teams in Prague love this city. And two churches with a Serge presence are working to share the gospel with Czechs and foreigners. The teams also mentor believers in the marketplace and help to train national church planters in Europe through their local denomination.

Ireland and Northern Ireland

Renewal continues to reach more pastors and ministry leaders with gospel-centered mentoring, training, and resources that foster ongoing spiritual renewal and fuel grace-based mission. Interns and apprentices are sent to Serge sites overseas to be impacted by the Kingdom mission, and then they bring that mission back home.

Mobilization is creatively reaching Generation Z with the call of God to go and tell the story to those who have never heard.

Romania

Spain

Middle East

South Asia

Teams here are running businesses and salting the culture with renewal materials for the few believers hungry for the gospel.

These teams have huge dreams for the places they serve. There is powerful opposition that has brought discouragement. But God brought joyful revival, business expansion, new avenues of outreach, and encouragement for these teams. They’re running businesses, providing mental health services for trauma, and church planting for the believers emerging.

Dominican Republic (DR) The DR team continues reaching out to the unchurched Crucero region (outside of Jarabacoa) with food help, small business creation, and Bible studies.

They have welcomed shortterm teams from America.

North Africa Businesses are flourishing as they find new ways to speak into the culture. Many strong teams eagerly work to partner with locals in commerce and friendship.

DR Congo The team had to evacuate several times this year. Peace is fragile, but their work in the displaced persons camp has been fruitful.

Supporters have eagerly funded massive supplies of relief.

Rwanda The team trains eye doctors, helping to restore sight to thousands of people each year. The goal is to mobilize ophthalmologists into underserved communities to bring healing and hope.

Guatemala The two teams here work through healthcare, lactation consultation, counseling services, as well as after-school programming, and job creation among the urban and rural poor.

Burundi Peru The team works in different spaces to bring renewal to Christians and to reach adolescents and young adults with the Gospel. And they support local ministries and churches to reach their communities through healthcare ministry.

* Not all locations are listed.

A cohort of 12–20 Austrian pastors meets many times a year for personal and professional training. Throughout the year, oneto-one mentoring focuses on leadership, spiritual formation, and resilience in ministry. And a training program helps prepare future aspiring leaders for the church.

The Republic of Ireland is served with church planting teams in Dublin and Cork, and multiple relationships with pastors, church planters, and ministry leaders.

In Northern Ireland, a team in Belfast is working to love the city through church planting, serving national pastors, and providing skilled trauma counseling in a province scarred by the horrible history of The Troubles, sectarian violence, and discrimination.

The work has expanded with new team members, growing churches, and active evangelism.

USA

Austria

Movements of grace reaching all people, renewing all believers, and restoring all things for the world’s good and God’s glory.

The dream of changing the face of healthcare in one of the world’s poorest countries is happening. Local people are being trained, and a facility for the whole region is growing. And patients experience the love of Jesus through the care provided by Burundian and missionary staff.

The team serves among the marginalized Roma population. They enter into the lives of young children and teenagers through creative workshops and Bible studies.

Japan The team in Nagoya continued to build trust in relationships with Japanese church leaders, celebrated a wedding, and said goodbye to dear friends this year. Other teams partnering with Serge missionaries minister with Japanese churches in Nagoya, Tokyo, and Chiba.

Uganda

Thailand

At Christ School Bundibugyo, every day over 300 students receive a quality education and encounter the gospel through the teaching and lives of the staff. Through Bundinutrition, 597 malnourished children received supplements and treatments from January to June. And their mothers received health education and heard the gospel.

Long-term life skills training and discipleship happen through Women of the Proverbs.

The growing work here continues to empower Thai leaders to lead and own the work of the church. The team helps with tentmaking and church planting training.

Kenya The six Kenyan teams have created an oral and pictorial approach to sharing Bible stories with marginalized groups.

They disciple leaders by grace through church and sport networks. They serve the suffering through four faithbased hospital and clinic networks.

And they invest in education — from preschoolers to PhDs.

Malawi Serge missionaries at Nkhoma Hospital train and disciple surgical and family medicine residents.

As well, they care for patients holistically.

Singapore Singapore acts as a central hub for the church in Asia. Serge team leaders live there and also teach at Singapore Bible College, training students from over 25 countries.

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You Are Building

Gospel Communities

■ Taiwan was approved as a new field, and an experienced church planting couple was approved. They will broaden their current work in Taiwan and strengthen the local church.

The base of their work is a coffee shop that serves as an evangelistic and discipling hub.

■ Apprenticeships last 18–24 months and provide essential help to teams. They also give the apprentice more experience to make informed, long-term decisions about being a missionary. It’s a challenging time for apprentices as many of their life foundations are disrupted. One recent apprentice, who seemed ready to leave a year into their apprenticeship, turned a huge corner and then asked to extend their designated term. This year, every active apprenticeship site yielded long-term workers.

■ New Area Director for Renewal announced! After a thorough search, Team Leader in Japan, Jeremy Sink, agreed to return to the US to lead the Renewal team. He and his wife, Gina, have been instrumental in building relationships with Japanese pastors and church planters that have facilitated gospel-centered church planting.

Jeremy began his new role on August 1st, 2025.

■ Significant progress has been made in refreshing the Sonship course. The updates focus on strengthening core gospel themes — identity, mission, and Spirit-led transformation. They also include new speakers, stories, and an engaging online format.

…through Church Planting and Pastoral Ministry ■ A seasoned UK missionary reported, “In 20 years of working in the European church-planting movement, I’ve never seen anything like Hounslow Town Church’s rapid growth and impact. The church has baptized over 20 converts, and we have another 20 who want to be baptized. And further south in London, the newly formed Kingston team is ready to launch. In the past three years, 140 Reformed University Fellowship students and leaders from the US have come to pray and share the gospel with hundreds of South Asians living in London.”

…through Renewal and Discipleship

“Sonship helped my wife and me to talk about sin, to consider, confront, own, confess, and seek forgiveness. To see Jesus, and to seek Him to repent, forgive, and love one another.”

–Pastor on completion of Mentored Sonship ■ Serge teams in Kenya continue to see amazing fruit from Chronological Bible Storying. They train pastors to teach biblical stories to primary oral cultures.

The 42 lessons cover creation to Christ’s ascension.

Work has begun on the book of Acts. And Sonship by Story includes 30 stories to help oral learners live out the gospel in their own context and culture.

■ Church planting in Spain is tough work. But one church in Southern Spain recently celebrated its 16th anniversary with nine new people becoming members. Longevity, creative evangelism, gospel boldness, and proven relationships over time are the key.

■ The strategy to expand church planting around the world has grown significantly.

■ Seminary students in Malawi needed “in-service training,” and a team in Kenya came to teach Bible Storying during their week off from their studies. Almost all of the 20 pastors trained were thrilled. “This method is really wonderful, interesting, and easy to understand for the learners… and lively!” The Serge field collaboration was especially encouraging for the missionaries.

“I came into this weekend with deep-seated insecurities, especially my struggle to understand the extent of God’s love for me.

I expected a nice, tidy answer to my questions and doubts. But instead, Jesus. And He sends me out even as I’m still coming to grips with the gospel.” – Gospel-Centered Life Weekend attendee, Columbia, SC ■ Grace at the Fray podcast is now in season six. Last year, over 20,511 downloads occurred from around the world.

■ Two renewal weekends have been held in Lima, Peru, in cooperation with City to City church planting network, Union Church Lima, and local Peruvian believers. The dream is to see Latin America transformed through gospel renewal.

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ecause of the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the team works in a war displacement camp while they themselves are also displaced. In the team’s words, “We are waiting for a time of no more war, no more hunger, no more fleeing for our lives, no more malnutrition, no more deadly malaria, tuberculosis or HIV, no more burning of villages or brutal killing of villagers.”

As they face the brokenness, they pray daily, “Your Kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Your Kingdom in which light blasts into the darkness, and declares that one day there will be no more pain and suffering.

Each person who is loved, cared for, and healed through your work in Congo bears witness in a small way to the reality that the darkness is being rolled back! You care about your children TODAY. You are with them TODAY in their suffering, and you hear their cries for help.”

The supporters of these missionaries generously give over $15,000 a month to provide for over 14,000 displaced people in this camp. They see hope breaking into this world and proclaim with confidence that suffering and death do not have the final say.

Beneficiaries of their work say, “I feel like God sent this work just for me! I’ve been crippled by polio, but now I have a cane. My daughter died in childbirth, but you all have supplied a lifesaving formula for my grandson.

Thank you.” Another woman in the camp whose daughter had recently died said, “I know that you loved my daughter, but God loved her more!”

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he world keeps changing. Young people in Generation Z have grown up in a postmodern and post-Christian world. Forty-nine percent of Gen Z say they are non-religious. And of the religious Gen Z, only 35% identify as Christian.

We’re seeing the result — fewer mission recruits, fewer missionaries, and a struggling church. This emerging generation thinks differently, connects differently, and makes decisions differently.

The church and the world need to be empowered

by God’s grace.

Recruiting the next generation requires creative new methods. The Serge emphasis on our own need for the gospel is the key to recruiting new missionaries.

Because renewal leads to mission. What does that mean? When the Spirit of God renews your heart, you want His Kingdom to come on earth — in your own home and around the world.

Serge is casting a wide net for renewal, calling people to engage in God’s mission. And sending people to places of need in our world.

And we’re preparing for a changing world — poised for strategic impact in this endeavor to recruit, train, and send the next generation of leaders.

Your special gift will bring the gospel to a person in need. And you’ll help support all the work of Serge.

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SERGE LEADERSHIP

To transfer noncash assets to Serge, call 215-885-1811 or email finance@serge.org.

Thank you for playing a vital role in this Kingdom work.

Thank you for helping transform lives and build gospel communities around the world.

Thank you for making sure the least of these know the love of Jesus.

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

SENIOR DIRECTOR OF MISSION

Bob Osborne - OUTGOING

Joel Hylton

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

SENIOR DIRECTOR OF PEOPLE DEVELOPMENT

Matt Allison - INCOMING SENIOR DIRECTOR OF ENGAGEMENT

Lindsay Kimball DeBlaay

Michelle Hopping INCOMING

Create a Legacy Serge offers many resources to help you add Serge to your will.

To find out more, call Gordon at 215-885-1811 x272 or email partner@serge.org.

Prayer Requests for 2026

BOARD OF DIRECTORS OFFICERS

Jim Dickenson

Tamara Ehlert, MD

CHAIRMAN

SECRETARY/TREASURER

Mechanical Engineer – Retired Jacksonville, FL

Facial Plastic Surgeon – Retired St. Louis, MO

Craig Wood VICE CHAIRMAN

Attorney - Retired Charlottesville, VA MEMBERS

■ Pray for Leadership transitions at Serge: -

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Matt Allison was appointed executive director by the board. Pray for Matt that he would have the heart of a servant leader.

Michelle Hopping was appointed senior director of engagement.

■ Pray for the power of the gospel to

be at work and for healthy conflict resolution on teams.

■ Pray that we take chances, make

mistakes, and get messy. That we risk and not rust.

■ Serge teams are the driving force for

Thank You!

Executive Leadership Team

expansion around the world. Pray for their creativity and sensitivity to keep in step with the Spirit. Pray for more of the Spirit. “Fill them up, Lord! Give them a vision for the next horizon.”

■ Revival is happening in several places in

the world. Pray for protection for new believers and the churches growing up in these areas. When revival comes, opposition is always present.

Josh Boehr

Pastor, Ministry & Mission Saline, MI

Phyllis Calhoun

Christian Ministry/Counselor Winston-Salem, NC

Vicki Carr

Counselor – Retired Lewisville, NC

Lyn Cook - INCOMING

Erin Karandish, MD

Counselor Gastroenterologist – Retired St. Louis, MO

Robert Kim, DMin Pastor & Professor St. Louis, MO

Horace Lamb - OUTGOING CPA Arlington, VA

Director of Outreach and Mission Atlanta, GA

Kevin McMullen, MD

Loretta Erickson -

Charles Parks - INCOMING

OUTGOING

Business Executive – Retired Fernandina Beach, FL

Irwyn Ince, DMin Pastor & Executive Director – Inactive Washington, DC

Sarah Jones, MD Physician Vacaville, CA

Roger Johnson - INCOMING

Healthcare Consultant/ Lawyer – Retired Richmond, VA

Medical Director Winston Salem, NC Pilot/Captain Cypress, TX

Nancy Ruiz - INCOMING

Development/Major Gifts Officer Vienna, VA

Dave Stadler

Consultant - Retired Annapolis, MD

Michael Tibbetts, MD OUTGOING

Ophthalmologist/ Business Executive Fort Myers, FL

Kip Turnage, MD Orthopedic Surgeon Pensacola, FL

■ Praise God for all the baptisms over the

past year, and pray for more.

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FISCAL YEAR 2025 FINANCIALS June 1, 2024 to May 31, 2025 REVENUE, GAINS, AND OTHER SUPPORT

REVENUE DISCIPLING AND TUITION; INVESTMENT RETURN; OTHER INCOME ...........

4.1%

$ 29,186,797

Contributions CONTRIBUTIONS

95.9%

Discipling and Tuition

99,414

Investment Return

930,049

Other Income

208,396

Total Income

$ 30,424,656

EXPENSES Field Operations

EXPENSES

$ 24,462,664

Home Office

4,917,360

Fundraising

964,259

Total Expenses HOME OFFICE ...............

16.2%

FIELD OPERATIONS

80.6%

FUNDRAISING .................

ASSETS Unrestricted

$ 1,668,599

Board-Designated Missionary and Project Funds

12,671,165

Temporarily Restricted

3.2%

Total Net Assets

101 West Avenue, Suite 305 Jenkintown, PA 19046 215.885.1811 | Serge.org

$ 30,344,283

460,103 $ 14,799,867

Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability Serge is a member of the ECFA, following its strict accounting standards.