Jeff R. Bys is a Christian, husband, father to many and missionary. Jeff’s wife, Stephanie, serves alongside loving, caring for, and serving the children, staff and local peoples of Mercy Home. Including these roles, Jeff is also the Director of Mercy Ministries – AFM Africa, AFM Board Vice Chairman and is the pastor of Mercy Baptist Church. Before going to Africa, Jeff worked in the corporate world in Texas.
Jeff says, “I feel like if the Apostle Paul and John Bunyan were with us today, I would want to debate them over who the chief of sinners really is. I am such a poor servant of Christ that I do not even know the day in which salvation came to me. But I do know that in the mercy of God, it has surely come. God is everything, and I am nothing. It is with a great awareness that I sing of the Rock of Ages along with Toplady, “Nothing in my hands I bring, simply to Thy cross I cling.” It is with this truth in mind that I live each day. I deserve death and wrath, but God allows me to live in Kaya village and be a father to over 100 children. I deserve hell, but God has given me 17 years and counting with my beautiful bride Stephanie. I deserve condemnation, but God allows me to preach His glorious Gospel to His church, His school, and His children’s home in the village of Kaya in western Kenya. Soli Deo Gloria!”
Jeremy B. Strang | During May of 2001 Jeremy’s life was drastically changed. The many years of darkness and bondage that he experienced was brought headlong into the light of Jesus Christ. Painting a picture of his life before Christ, he says, “I was living in a hellish deep dark depression, one very hidden, and controlling of my life. As a result, this helped to fuel my pride, empower my anger and enslave me in lust. I was a liar, a thief, an adulterer, a drunk, a malicious gossip and a flat-out God hater. I used profanity as communication, anger as a lifestyle, all while deceitfully justifying myself. I lived with thoughts so dark and so wicked, it was as if hell itself lived inside my mind. Nearly every day suicide swirled about my head. This was my reality.”334
Jeremy is a Christian, a husband, and a father. Recently he started studying Theology and Pastoral Studies through the London Reformed Baptist Seminary (Metropolitan Tabernacle) and continues to work full-time in the Radiology field. He also serves on the board of directors for AFM Ministry and has volunteered with various ministries over the past two decades.