Jake and Erin are serving with CMF’s church-planting team in Ethiopia, East Africa, primarily among the Gumuz people. Jake’s responsibilities are in evangelism and leadership development. Erin ministers to Gumuz women through friendship and Bible studies.
The Gumuz—numbering about 170,000—are isolated from every form of development; no road for vehicles reaches them. This people group remains isolated because of the Nile to the west and the Blue Nile River to the north with hundreds of hidden villages untouched by the Gospel. CMF missionaries now live among the Gumuz at Yasow to plant churches and train evangelists, as well as to provide other leadership training, medical ministry, and community development projects.
Erin received a bachelor’s degree from Milligan College in Bible and sociology. Jake received his bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Oklahoma, and received his master’s degree from Emmanuel School of Religion in 2005. The have one son, Aidan (2003) and one daughter, Gwyneth (2005).
