Ripe For Harvest Blog

Meet the Founder and President Dr. Tim Smith

The first 25 years of my ‘full time Christian service’ allowed me to serve with some wonderful parachurch organizations: Youth for Christ, the Billy Graham organization, Sports World Ministries, and the Campus Crusade Jesus Film Project. I then spent 20 years serving two churches in the Phoenix, AZ area. While each of these ministerial experiences  Continue Reading »

South America Regional Field Director: Joe Holman, Cochabamba, Bolivia

Joe is a pastor and teaches seminary at various conferences and in local pastoral schools. Both Joe and Denise teach and mentor marriage and parenting classes. If you would like to view Joe’s blog, please click here. If you would like to view Denise’s blog, please click here.

RFH Staff: Toby and Tannia Travis, Quito, Equador

Toby serves as middle and high school principal at The Alliance Academy International (AAI) in Quito, Ecuador (see www.alliance.k12.ec). The AAI is a fully accredited Christian preK-12 school providing an all English learning environment. Toby also serves as a guest speaker and performer at conventions, conferences, and community outreach events around the world (see www.tobytravis.com).  Continue Reading »

RFH STAFF: Jose and Maria Basoco, El Fuerte, Mexico

Jose and Maria serve as a Church Facilitator and training and are starting an orphanage in Mexico.

RFH STAFF: Matt and Stephanie Kramm, Chiang Mia, Thailand

Working with the local church in Thailand, Matt and Stephanie plan to reach and minister to the street children in the Isaan area of East Thailand. “Our main focus is providing a family for abandoned children that will cultivate the freedom of the gospel in their hearts, inspiring them to be mature adults and bring  Continue Reading »

Welcome, A Message from our Field Director

Gregg and Kim have been in full-time ministry for close to 24 years serving in New York City through the Executive Ministries with Campus Crusade for Christ, then living in Budapest, Hungary, as the Eastern European “Jesus” Film Coordinator with Campus Crusade for Christ, then moved back to the States where he served as the  Continue Reading »

Asia Regional Field Director: Steve and Brenda Hines, India

Steve & Brenda help in an orphanage with 55 children and are working on plans to expand this orphanage. They also teach Bible classes and work with the local Indian church and Indian partners to dig wells, build churches, help widows and the needy, and share the Good News with the lost.

RFH Staff: Pat and Donna Noonan, Concord, California

RFH Staff: Kai and Melissa Soltau, Vienna, Austria

Kai, a native German and Old Testament prof., is teaching part-time at the Evangelical Academy in Vienna, as well as teaching block and online courses in German-speaking Europe (Austria, Switzerland, Germany) and America. He also preaches regularly in churches in and around Vienna as well as different conferences, etc. throughout German- speaking Europe. Missy is  Continue Reading »

RFH STAFF: John D’Andrea, Asia

John mainly provides church-planting training and support services to non-literate peoples in Asia.  He also provides logistics services to long-term missionaries overseas and re-entry support services to them on their return.