Both of Calvin and Shelly were born to missionary parents who worked in different continents. Calvin’s parents worked first in Angola and then in Zambia. Shelly’s parents worked in northern Brazil among Amazonian Indian tribes.

Calvin and Shelly met in South Carolina while Shelly was in Bible College and Calvin was in seminary. After graduating there were married in July, 1991. They spent two years working and raising support and then served with Africa Evangelical Fellowship (AEF) in Namibia and Angola. Eventually AEF merged with SIM and they became SIM missionaries.

Calvin and Shelly worked in Namibia for a year and a half and in Angola for almost eleven years in the area of leadership development and in the production of books in various Angolan languages like Luchazi and Chokwe. They have been able to print copies of nearly 60 books in these languages and seek to provide them at cost to pastors and people in ministry in Angola, Zambia, Namibia and South Africa where these language groups are found and have functioning churches.

Calvin and Shelly left Angola in 2005 with the intent of working in a similar capacity in Namibia but were unable to obtain work visas to live and work there. Two years into this prolonged waiting, they began to design and put together a SIM related project called the Pastor’s Book Set. This project goal is to supply books and resources to Christian workers in English, the national language of Namibia, along with Bible teaching and conferences in these various cities.

As time has elapsed and contacts made, the Pastor’s Book Set has frequently helped various ministries net-work in these ten different cities. So far 38 books have been supplied to these 1400 pastors in two different phases and a third is planned. For the past few years, we have been living and working here in the US helping to care for our aging parents and in caring on the printing of these multiple language books and the Pastor’s book Set in Namibia.

During their time in Namibia and Angola God blessed them with two daughters, Charity and Charissa who were both born in Namibia. Charity, their first-born daughter, is now working as a Vet in an emergency room of an animal hospital in south east Phoenix. Charissa, their second born daughter is married, living in southern Maryland and works as a social worker in the public school system.

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