Jon and Shirley Fischer are coming to our district for deputation tour. Jon and Shirley will be here from September 13th through September 20th. You will want to schedule them for your church. To do that, contact Joni Trees at 317-908-3616 or [email protected]. You will want to share the experiences of Jon and Shirley and their ministry in Ecuador.
After graduating from Mid-America Nazarene College, Jon and Shirley found themselves settling into normal suburban life – Jon working as an accountant at a dry wall company and Shirley teaching school. Then Jon went on a Work and Witness trip and God started talking to him about missions. Through this trip God showed Jon that he not only wanted his money for missions from him but he also wanted his time and family to be involved. So they “stepped out on faith”.
They volunteered as Missionaries in Volunteer Service for what they thought would be one year, but God had other plans. God had a much bigger plan. They volunteered in Venezuela for 8 years.
In 2001 they were appointed Global Missionaries to Venezuela. In December 2007 they moved from Venezuela where they were Work and Witness Coordinators and administrators of the Nazarene Campground, to Ecuador. Now they serve as the Work and Witness Coordinators for the Andean Field (Venezuela, Ecuador and Columbia).
They have two daughters who were an active part of their ministry. Michelle, who is 23 and is married to Josiah Gould. They both graduated from MNU and Michelle is working for Nazarene Publishing House. Josiah is pursuing a job in police work for the JO CO parks. They live in Olathe where the Fischers lived before going to Venezuela. Krista is 21 and is in her third year at MNU. She feels that God is calling her into nursing. Both the girls still have hearts for missions and have taken mission trips every year through the University.
Some of the happiest times of their lives were during those eight years of volunteering. There were tough times, but they were times full of learning and growing in faith. They didn’t know where the money to live on was going to come from or when it was going to come, but it always came. They could truly see the hand of God at work, and they still see His protecting hand over them.