Ed and Jane Skowron

National Children's Missionary Conference Speakers

• ADDRESS:
  1336 Leslie Ct.
  Glendale Heights, IL 60139
• PHONE:
  630-469-7961
• FAX: none
• E-MAIL: ed_skowron@ntm.org
• WEB SITE:
  edskowron.com

It takes a special gift to effectively educate and motivate children about missions. We have that gift, and since 1996 we have challenged thousands of children for missions. We share from the wealth of our experience – more than 25 years in missions, with 10 years spent in Panama.

Our single event presentations are designed for children's clubs, Sunday Schools (grades K through 5), vacation Bible school, children's church, and Christian schools. We also do complete missionary conferences for children for Christian camps and churches. Find out more >>

For more 25 years we have been serving with New Tribes Mission. We worked in Panama for 10 years planting tribal churches and challenging Latin American Christians to get involved with missions. Due to the health needs of one of our sons, we came back to the USA with the vision of helping churches raise up the next generation of missionaries.

We have three sons, one daughter-in-law and two foster sons.

James Gleaves

Regional Representative

• ADDRESS:
  2803 Park Valley Dr., Saint Peters, MO 63376-7141
• PHONE:
  636-922-4831
• E-MAIL: james_gleaves@ntm.org
• WEB SITE:
  Not available

The son of missionary parents, James Gleaves spent many years in Colombia , SA, where his experiences among a nomadic tribe in the deep jungle gave him the desire to work with unreached people groups as an adult. After finishing missionary training in the US , James married and returned with his wife, Diane , to Colombia . They had been serving there for 10 years, when an attack by rebel soldiers changed the face of what US citizens could do in Colombia .

Holding the missionary team at gunpoint, the rebels told James and another missionary that they would be taken hostage. Upon seeing that Diane was pregnant, the rebels released James and took another co-worker in his place. (The rebels later killed both kidnapped missionaries, Tim VanDyke and Steve Welsh.) The Gleaves moved to the city of Bogotá and continued to serve for two more years, until the majority of US NTM missionaries were pulled out of Colombia due to security concerns.

Changing ministries, the Gleaves worked with counseling and helping college-aged missionary children who are in the U.S. without their parents. Now they serve in the St Louis, Missouri, area as missionary representatives for New Tribes Mission. Speaking in churches and colleges, they seek to inform Christians in the Midwest about the needs and opportunities in missions. Their focus is mobilizing Christians to get involved in reaching unreached people groups with the Gospel. They have been members of New Tribes Mission since 1984.