Missionary Profile
Reverend David and Debbie Nunemaker, missionaries serving in France.

Members of EBM (Evangelical Baptist Mission), since July, 1969; originally assigned to Niger Republic, W. Africa (7-year assignment); 2-year leave of absence serving in sending church (1st Baptist, Hallstead, PA), Reassignment to France 1982; reassignment to Mobile Modular Ministry Southeast Asia, 1998.

Rev. David Nunemaker is the son of EBM missionary pioneers to West Africa, and has traveled in 41 different countries. Multi-lingual, Dave has ministered on 4 continents. Dave is a published author of magazine and periodical articles, and a wealth of unpublished theological materials, courses, and syllabi in several languages. He is an accredited French/ English translator. As Bible and English teacher, and professor of theology, Dave has organized and administered a French-language correspondence Bible institute in West Africa (serving 7 nations), a program of cell-group Bible study in France, and, since assignment with EBM's Mobile Modular Ministry, he has written course materials which he has taught in modular segments in Viet Nam, Mongolia and Burma, and which have been taken by local church leaders and used in Viet Nam, Laos, Thailand, Burma, Mongolia, and southern China. As English teacher, Dave has taught in a private professional English training institute in Paris, been a member of the faculty of the University of Paris, and opened his own language-training and translation services facility. Since joining the Mobile Modular Ministry team, of which he is Southeast Asian coordinator, Dave has spent full-time developing and teaching Biblical and theological courses for use in the Tri-M's Asian outreach.

Rev. DAVE'S TESTIMONY
I was born in North Africa to missionary parents, and spent my childhood in West Africa. I accepted Jesus Christ as my Savior on September 16, 1954. After graduating from a missionary boarding high school in North Carolina, I started my college education at Practical Bible College in NY, Later adding to my training at the AFEB Centre Missionnaire in France, and Trinity Theological Seminary in Indiana. Evangelical Baptist Mission accepted Debbie and me in July 1969, with a first assignment to Niger Republic, West Africa, where we arrived in 1971 after French language training. We were assigned the ministries of radio
evangelism and Bible correspondence school operation, as well as field office management and house parents of the EBM orphanage. We remained assigned to Niger until May 1978.

Following a furlough and a two-year home assignment in our home church in PA, we were reassigned by EBM to a church planting and a youth evangelism ministry in France. We arrived in 1982, and began our work in the southeast sector of the greater Paris suburbs. Successfully planting the Evangelical Baptist Church of Montereau, we remained in this ministry until 1998, when we "graduated" the church to fully autonomous self-supporting status. We moved into an Asian community east of Paris, where we make our home base and minister substantially in several Franco-Asian evangelical Baptist churches, teaching, counseling, preaching, and guiding their ongoing church planting process. In addition, we travel to Asia several times a year, providing Tri-M Bible training modules to local pastors, Bible teachers, and other church leaders. Our present "fields of ministry" include Mongolia, Viet Nam, Burma, with-outreach by extension in China and Laos. An exciting new possibility of training Chinese local pastors is in the development stage.

Mrs. Nunemaker (Debbie) was born and raised in southern New York and northeastern Pennsylvania. Her God-fearing parents were extremely active in their local church, as well as supporting numerous missionaries and hosting missionaries and Bible conference speakers in their home. Debbie early on received Christ as her Savior, and developed an ardent desire to serve the Lord as a missionary herself. She is multi-lingual, and has ministered on 4 continents. In their role as church-planters, Debbie and Dave have been instrumental in the implantation of churches in western New York, northeastern Pennsylvania, and metropolitan France.

Debbie is an unpublished author of theological materials, courses, and syllabi in several languages. She has, since her assignment with EBM's Mobile Modular Ministry, written course materials which she has taught in modular segments in Viet Nam, Mongolia, Burma, and France, and which have been taken by local church
leaders and used in Viet Nam.'Laos, Thailand, Burma, and southern China. Since joining the Mobile Modular Ministry team for Southeast Asia, Debbie has spent full-time developing and teaching Biblical and theological courses for use in the Tri-M's Asian outreach.

DEBBIE'S TESTIMONY

I was born into a Christ-honoring, missions-supporting home, where at the age of 4,1 received Jesus Christ as my Savior. Due to the ongoing contact we had with missionaries and missions, I quickly dedicated my life to serving the Lord as a missionary.

After high school, I began my college studies at Moody Bible Institute, later transferring to Practical Bible College (where I met Dave. who was to become my husband). Subsequently, we both studied at the AFEB Centre Missionnaire in France, and with Trinity Theological Seminary in Indiana.

My ministry has been varied, productive, and fascinating; ministry in music and children's evangelism comprised my beginning missionary years, later to be added to by my responsibilities as orphanage "mother", teacher in a Christian day school, and hospitality evangelism, both in Africa and France. Since we have been assigned to the Mobile Modular Ministry in Southeast Asia, I spend a great deal of my time preparing and presenting course modules, both theological and practical ministry-oriented, particularly to the women leadership of the churches.

U.S. Address:
Mobile Modular Ministry SE Asia (Evangelical Baptist Mission),
PO Box 2225,
Kokomo, IN 46904-2225 USA

Personal address:
4, allee des Charmilles,
77420 CHAMPS SUR MARNE (FRANCE)
phone: [33] 16-473-5842
fax: [33] 16-461-0140
E-mail: 100413.660@compuserve.com