CBC Missionaries
Missionaries sent out from Cleveland Baptist Church
Larry Clayton SEA
Larry Clayton has been in evangelism and church planting for sixty-four years! The Lord has allowed them to minister on over seventy mission fields. His relationship with the Cleveland Baptist Church began in 1964. Since that time, CBC has served as their sending church. Brother Clayton founded SEA (Salvation Evangelistic Association) as a Bible college student in 1956. Even though Brother Clayton is now eighty-one years old, he continues to have strength to travel and to minister.
Bob & Becky Mach Missionaries to Ivory Coast
Bob and Becky Mach have served in Cote d’Ivoire, West Africa, since 1995. Their four children, Bob, Marylyn, Morganne, and Lucien have grown up working in their parents’ ministries. They have established three churches in the cities of Bingerville and Man as well as in the village of Zanapledougou. Other ministries include a Bible college and seminary, medical, sports and literacy programs. In the future, they are planning to start a Christian school and open a medical clinic. Bob is a graduate of Heritage Christian School. He received a B.A. in Missions and M.A. in Biblical Exposition from Pensacola Christian College and Pensacola Theological Seminary where he is currently in a D.Min program. He has received the Commercial/Instrument Flight Certificate as well as the Airframe/Powerplant Mechanics license. Becky is a very accomplished musician, proficient in violin, mandolin, piano, singing and music arrangement, as well as video and audio production.
Robert & Wendy Mickey Missionaries to Kenya
Lawrence Evans Missionary to ROMA Ministry
We were called of God when He laid a desire upon our hearts to reach our people with the Gospel. In 1995, Bro. Walter Stevens and I went on our first missions trip to reach the Roma of Romania. God blessed the work and still continues to bless with Roma being saved and baptized, churches being planted among their own peoples, and feeding centers started in those villages where the churches were planted. I pastored the GO Ministry at Cleveland Baptist Church under the leadership of Pastor Kevin Folger. My wife and I were called to the mission field in 1998, the time Missionary Walter and Dolly Stevens were leaving to Romania. My Timothy in the ministry, Nick Evanovich, took over the work in Cleveland, Ohio.
Sally and I were lead of the Lord to start a work in South Florida, West Palm Beach area. On May 16, 2016, the Lord took my wife Home after battling cancer for 14 years. I have been able to establish a feeding center among the Roma children in one of the villages in Romania. This was always Sally’s desire so we have named it Sally’s Kitchen. A new building for the center was built, and now we are building a bigger sanctuary adjacent to the feeding center.
Jim & Lori Males Church Planters
The Males have been church planters out of the Cleveland Baptist Church for over twenty-five years. They have seen two churches started in Scotland, one in Nova Scotia and one in West Virginia. They have four children, James, Isaiah, Holly, and Heather. Both Jim and Lori graduated from Massillon Baptist College.
Walter and Simone Stevens Missionaries to Roma
Drew & Alyssa Jonke Majesty Baptist Church
Drew Jonke grew up in a suburb of Cleveland, OH. He was raised Lutheran but was invited to a gospel preaching Independent Baptist church for the first time in 2003, and was saved at age 20 in 2004. Two years later he was baptized and began serving the Lord. He was called to preach in 2007 and enrolled in Heritage Baptist Institute to be trained for the ministry.
Church is where Drew met Alyssa, and they married in 2012.
Drew served on the pastoral staff of Cleveland Baptist Church and in its Christian school for two years until the Lord called them to Vancouver, WA, where they went in 2014 to assist in the ministry of Majesty Baptist. The Jonkes were privileged to be closely involved with the growth of the young church, which called Bro. Drew as its second pastor in 2019.
Carol & Ever Sandres Michigan
When the door opened at Heritage Christian School, the school I had attended, to teach health and science; I had peace that the Lord was leading me toward the next step in my life. He has given me a love for teaching that I never imagined I’d have. He led to Pensacola Christian College to join their nursing faculty in 2012. To have the opportunity to marry my two passions, nursing and teaching, was both amazing and humbling.
Throughout my working years, I was able to take several medical missions trips to Peru, where God continued to work on my heart about missions. In November of 2014, God used a former roommate to introduce the field of Honduras to me, where I felt a call unlike any burden for missions that I’ve had before.
The Sandres family served faithfully in Honduras for several years before returning to their home church in Cleveland, Ohio. During their time there, Carol taught science for a school year at Heritage Christian School. They have since relocated to Michigan, where they are now serving and assisting with the Spanish ministry.
Kevin & Denise Folger Asian Bible Project
Kevin Folger was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1957, and began attending Cleveland Baptist Church with his family in 1958, the year the church was founded. He accepted Christ as his personal Savior at the age of five and surrendered to God’s call to preach in March 1974, during his junior year of high school.
Kevin graduated from Baptist Bible College in Springfield, Missouri, in 1978. While in college, he met and married Denise, and together they have three sons and twelve grandchildren.
Following graduation, Kevin joined the staff of Cleveland Baptist Church, serving in various ministries before becoming co-pastor in 1990 and Senior Pastor in 1995. He faithfully served as pastor until 2019.
Kevin has traveled extensively, preaching and ministering in churches and conferences throughout the United States and around the world, with a particular burden to encourage churches to remain faithful to the Scriptures and biblical Baptist distinctives.
Today, Kevin serves with the Asian Bible Project, working with Ministry Asia to distribute Bibles throughout the Asian 10/40 Window.
Brad & Brooke Borke Vision Baptist Church
We are the Borke family - Brad, Brooke, Madeline and Jack. We spent 19 years in the U.S. Air Force and are now serving the Lord by planting Vision Baptist Church.
Both of us, Brad and Brooke, were raised in a religious home, in a loving family, and attended church, but we were never confronted to accept Jesus Christ as our personal savior. In 2004, while stationed at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas, Nevada, we attended Liberty Baptist Church and were confronted with the love of the Gospel. Although we had everything the world had to offer, we did not have the peace and contentment that only Jesus Christ can provide. In the summer of 2004, we accepted Jesus Christ as our Lord and savior and our lives have never been the same.
Madeline and Jack have always known a Christian home. They were saved and then baptized in 2012 at South Haven Baptist Church, Hephzibah, Georgia, when we were stationed at Fort Gordon Army Installation. Both are currently involved in their local church serving in the inner city bus ministry, Sunday school teaching, and choir. 3 John 4 says, "I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth." Amen!
Frank & Rebecca Suglio Heritage Baptist Church Planting
Our burden is to participate and organize local churches in the cooperative efforts of strengthening local churches and together establishing new churches in areas where there is a need.
In short, working in the Power of the Holy Spirit by methods practiced and published in the New Testament to the end that there would be no one outside the reach of a true New Testament Church.
It is not the skill and efforts of a select few that will accomplish this. It is the primary directive to identify clearly the needs and to organize the efforts for success by identifying those with certain skill sets within the family of God that would lend their efforts, expertise, gifts, and grace to assist local churches in accomplishing a variety of very needed projects and ministry ventures.
Kristina & Remi Casalis Ivory Coast - Teaching English as a second language
From a young age, Kristina recognized God’s leading in her life. She trusted Christ as her Savior as a child and, in fourth grade, surrendered to whatever purpose God had for her, believing He was calling her to missions.
As she grew, God continued to guide her path. After studying secondary education with an emphasis in English at Bible college, Kristina spent ten years teaching middle school English. Though she had always desired to serve on the mission field, God used those years of teaching to prepare her with practical skills and experience for the ministry He had planned.
In time, God opened the door for Kristina to pursue foreign missions. After taking a survey trip to the Ivory Coast, she became increasingly certain that this was where God was leading her. Looking back, she can see how God had faithfully prepared her throughout every step of her journey.
In 2026, Kristina married Remi Casalis, and together they are serving as missionaries in the Ivory Coast, where they are helping teach English and ministering to those around them.
James & Rebecca Mileti River Westlake Baptist Church
James Mileti graduated Arizona State University with a B.A. in Communications and a History Minor. He became a believer in 2008 while reading a Bible that he bought from a dollar bin at a local bookstore.
He is a four year graduate of Heritage Baptist Institute in Brooklyn, Ohio, earning a Bachelor of Religious Theology Diploma. He was ordained by Cleveland Baptist Church.
James taught the Bible to a bus load of men from Cleveland’s City Mission each week at Cleveland Baptist Church for over three years and led the Summer Soul Winning outreaches at Cleveland Baptist Church for two years as well. James also taught a church-wide ‘Summer Electives’ series at Cleveland Baptist Church, and has also taught at Heritage Baptist Institute.
If there is an opportunity to share the Gospel message, with the Holy Spirit’s help, James will most likely take it.
