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About EveryEthne

Crossing cultures without crossing borders
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At EveryEthne, we mobilize the church to:

Multiply Disciples, Leaders, & Churches

Get resources, tools, and materials to help your congregation become a multiplying church.

Reach Ethnic Groups

Equip your church to reach different people groups right in your own communities.

Send Missionaries

Effectively commission those who are going out to spread the Gospel around the world.

Vision

To see people from every ethnic group in a life-changing relationship with Jesus Christ.

Mission

To mobilize the church to reach every ethnic group in North America through disciple-making that multiplies leaders and churches.

Values

  • Cards – A Culture of Transparency: We believe open communication is essential for effective communication.
  • Shoes – A Culture of Service: We walk alongside pastors and churches to help them fulfill their God-given mission.
  • Elevators – A Culture of Movement: We seek to elevate your ministry in ways that will mobilize the church.
  • Knees – A Culture of Dependency: We believe that apart from God we can do nothing but with His enablement all things are possible.

make disciples

You don’t have to cross borders to cross cultures with the gospel.

As globalization continues to spread in our world, people from areas where missionaries are typically sent are now coming to North America, creating a unique opportunity for them to be reached with the gospel.

EveryEthne helps churches take this opportunity to reach these ethnic groups with the Good News of Jesus Christ, discipling and commissioning them to take the gospel back home to share with others.

Email our team today, and let’s talk about your church’s unique goals and opportunities for effective evangelism to every ethnic group.

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History

EveryEthne was officially launched in 2016 as a ministry of ABWE International focused on the United States and Canada. It was birthed out of a desire to help plant 1,000 churches in North America over the next 20 years. That vision continues to drive us.

In 2022, we clarified our mission to mobilize the church to reach every ethnic group in North America through disciple making that multiplies leaders and churches. We believe evangelism and disciple making will result in establishing new churches.

In 2022, we also established three ministry channels to help us more effectively mobilize the church. The MULTIPLY channel focuses on evangelism, disciple making, leadership development, and church planting. The REACH channel targets more than 500 people groups now living in North America. The SEND channel is designed to work with churches to send healthy, godly, and equipped missionaries to the global mission field.

Since our foundation, God has blessed us with a growing and diversified team of experienced ministry leaders.

building relationships

Beliefs

EveryEthne is a part of ABWE, and we align our beliefs with their statement of Faith.
View ABWE Statement of Faith

Leadership

Executive Director

Dr. Thad Bergmeier

Thad and his wife Monique met at a church while they were in college. Since then, the local church has been their life, as they have served in three different states in the Midwest for over 18 years in pastoral ministry. He attended Moody Bible Institute and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and finished a Doctor of Ministries at Baptist Bible Seminary in Clarks Summit in 2010.

At the end of 2016, Thad joined EveryEthne, ABWE's North American team, because of its commitment to the local church. His desire with EveryEthne is to come alongside local churches to help them embrace the Great Commission. He currently serves as Lead Executive Director with EveryEthne.
Thad and Monique currently live east of Cleveland, OH.

Executive Director

Dr. Clare Jewell

Clare has been married to Donna for 44 years. They have 4 daughters and 13 grandchildren and reside in Salem, Oregon. Clare has been with EveryEthne since 2014 and focuses on mobilizing the church to reach every one of the 600+ people groups in North America. He also serves as the National Rep for the GARBC.

Before serving with EveryEthne, Clare was the Senior Pastor of Lakewood Park Baptist Church in Auburn, IN, for 21 years and taught Missional Living at Corban University for 7 years.

Clare has a Bachelor of Science in Pastoral Ministries from Baptist Bible College in Clarks Summit, PA, a Master of Arts in Social Sciences from Eastern Michigan University, and a Doctor of Ministry degree from Corban University in Salem, OR.

Clare’s passion is “to fuel a movement of evangelism, disciple-making, and leadership development among the hundreds of people groups now living in the United States and Canada.”

Regional Director for USA-West

Elias Garcia

Elias and Arelis, originally from Venezuela, are parents of three grown children and have lived in Yakima, WA for the last 25 years. They have almost 30 years of experience in Church Planting, pastoral ministry, leadership development, and leading short-term mission trips. With a passion for the local church, they want to invest in the next generation of disciple-makers.

They serve as regional director for the western US, mobilizing and equipping local churches to reach their communities with the message of hope in Jesus Christ by multiplying disciples, churches, and mission efforts.

As churches in America are in decline there is an urgent need for reigniting the passion for reaching the lost with the gospel in obedience to the mandate to make disciples

Regional Director for South Central and Team Leader for Heart, Mind, & Soul Hindu Workshop

Velu Kadirvel

The Kadirvels are with EveryEthne serving from Austin, Texas. As Regional Director, Velu seeks to build relationships and partner with churches to elevate them, helping them fulfill the Great Commission in the South-Central USA Region. As Coordinators of the Heart Mind Soul Seminar for Hindus, they partner with local churches to take the gospel cross-culturally without crossing borders, assisting believers in developing grace and truth relationships with their neighbors.
Church Planting Director for North America and Regional Director for USA–Midwest

Ray Brandon

Ray graduated from Grand Rapids Theological Seminary with a degree in Historical Theology focused on Missions Movements in India. He gained practical experience planting a Korean church in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, while completing his undergraduate degree. He daily serves on the front lines of ministry as a Licensed Professional Counselor. Ray has 30 years of church planting and pastoral experience. Ray mobilized the church he served to plant a church where he has served for 18 years as the Preaching Pastor. He loves the local church and will continue to serve the local church by helping mobilize churches to make disciples and partner in church planting to reach every people group in North America. Ray will continue to draw on skills he acquired as a church planting coach and planter assessor to help Lead Pastors to create a planting movement to multiply churches.
Regional Director for USA - Southeast

Glenn Clodgo

It is our privilege and joy to equip Hispanic churches with the resources and training they might need in order to empower them to do an even more effective job at reaching the lost, edifying the saints and glorifying God. Along with that, we also mobilize English speaking churches by equipping and empowering them to reach the Hispanic community that God has sovereignly brought to its doorstep.
Director of Heart, Mind, & Soul Ministries

Julie Redmer

Julie, previously an ABWE board member, joined the EveryEthne team in late 2019 after having early-day involvement with the Heart, Mind & Soul LGBTQ seminar. Julie and Randy are serial entrepreneurs with a “Business as Mission” philosophy. Julie’s heart to help believers understand and be motivated to build relationships with people different from themselves deeply resonates with the mission of EveryEthne’s HMS seminars.
Canada Team Leader

Tim Vermilyea

God led Tim and his wife Barb into vocational ministry following their studies at Baptist Bible College. Tim and Barb have been serving among the French Canadians in Quebec since 1986. Tim was the first Regional Director for EveryEthne—he joined the team in 2011 and gave oversight to Canada and the Great Lakes States region. As the EveryEthne team has grown, his regional responsibilities have narrowed to the Canadian provinces of Ontario, Quebec, and the northeastern United States. Tim also oversees missionary development for the entire EveryEthne team.
Directors of ESL Ministries

Michael & Monica Pasquale

Michael and Monica Pasquale are passionate about the local church! From helping the church identify quality resources to equipping teachers, the Pasquales desire to come alongside local churches to help them utilize teaching English as a Second Language as a means to meet needs and build bridges with individuals among their ethnically diverse communities. They have a combined thirty years of experience teaching English, training teachers, and serving as consultants for churches and parachurch organizations in more than twenty countries around the world.

Michael is a Professor of Linguistics and the Director of the Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) program at Cornerstone University (Grand Rapids, MI). He earned his Ph D. in Linguistics from Michigan State University. He is also the author of "An ESL Ministry Handbook: Contexts and Principles. Grand Rapids, MI: Credo House Publishers, 2011."

Monica earned her B.A. from Cedarville University in English Education and her MA in TESOL at Cornerstone University. She is currently teaching ESL in ministry based and in business/organizational contexts.

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