Bio

Don and Karen Winch both grew up in a church that taught baptismal regeneration and salvation by good works. After serving time with the military in Ethiopia, East Africa, they returned to the U.S. By God’s grace they began attending a gospel-peaching church they saw advertised in the newspaper. Karen was saved during one of their revival meetings, and Don was saved a year later during different evangelistic service.

In 1978, after surrendering to full-time ministry and graduating from Bible college, Don and Karen with their three small children left for Africa again, this time as missionaries. They have now been in ministry for over 45 years, which includes 30 years as church planting missionaries in the French-speaking countries of Cote d’Ivoire, Benin and Cameroon, Africa, and three years in Moldova, Eastern Europe. Wherever they were as missionaries, Don conducted a Bible Institute to train national leadership in ministry. In 2015, they returned to the USA for medical reasons.

Since then, they have served as an interim pastor in churches and then joined GFA, where they have served several more churches as a pastor in the interim. 

The Winches have three children who grew up in Africa, love the Lord, and are active in their local church. Don and Karen have 11 grandchildren.