August

August 15th - Rev. Tony Cooke

Gifted as a teacher, Tony Cooke has been serving the Body of Christ in various capacities since 1980. For eighteen-and-a-half years, Tony was on staff at Kenneth Hagin Ministries, where he served as dean and instructor at RHEMA Bible Training Center, Senior Associate Pastor at RHEMA Bible Church, Director of RHEMA Ministerial Association International, and Director of RHEMA Alumni Association.

Currently, Tony teaches worldwide with an emphasis on strengthening churches and leaders. Tony's ministry travels have taken him to more than twenty foreign countries and to more than forty states. He enjoys helping believers reach their potential in Christ, helping leaders maximize their skills and effectiveness, and helping churches become healthy, vibrant, and strong.

A 1981 graduate of RHEMA Bible Training Center, Tony studied Religion at Butler University and received a Bachelor of Science degree in Church Ministries from North Central University.

Tony and his wife Lisa reside in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, and are the parents of two adult children, Laura and Andrew.

August 29th - Rev. Bob Croucher

For 34 years, Rev. Bob Croucher has been in full time ministry. He has served as pastor, a teacher, youth and children's minister, and missionary. He has a God-given ability to minister God's Word with clarity and simplicity.

Bob has ministered throughout the U.S., as well as in the Czech Republic, Albania, Greece, Romania, Jamaica, Mexico, Canada, and Guyana.

With 26 years of pastoral experience, he and his wife Elaine, travel throughout the U.S., encouraging pastors and their families, the local church, and strengthening the Christian home. Together, he and his wife host HOMEBUILDERS Together Forever Seminars.

As a graduate of RHEMA Bible Training Center, he has been instructed by great men and women of FAITH, who have impacted his life with "the spirit of faith" to reach the unbelievers and teach the believers, the message of FAITH. Bob continues to serve as Regional Director of the State of Oklahoma, for RHEMA Ministerial Association International (RMAI).

He and Elaine has one daughter, Lynette, and son-n-law, Tyler McKee. They are members and travel out of Cornerstone Church in Midwest City, Oklahoma, Pastors Ron and Carol McKey.

October

October 6th - John Romick

John and his wife Alba have been full time missionaries in Latin America since September of 1984. John Romick is the Senior Pastor of Iglesia de Colombia (Church of Colombia). They are also directors of RHEMA Colombia and RHEMA/CEBCO, an interdenominational Bible School with over 2,400 students currently enrolled throughout Colombia. In addition to this they oversee a ministerial association (IGLECAM), and a book publishing house (PCI).

Mission Colombia desires to touch people throughout Latin America with the glorious Gospel of the Lord Jesus. Pastor John's passion is to encourage and exhort the Body of Christ to reach out to a lost and dying world. They have three children, John David, Daniel, and Samuel.