Speaker
SPEAKER
David Brackemyre
David is the Director of Voice Ministries, a division of VOM that maintains direct contact with the American church in several ways. Voice Ministries includes the Voice Volunteer Network (200 volunteer speakers across the nation), Mission Representatives, B.A.S.I.C. Fellowship, Prisoner Alert, summer interns, long-term volunteers, and the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC).
David and his wife Cheryl came to Christ as adults in 1970. They spent the next three decades raising their four children and participating in the work of their congregation in Ft. Wayne, Indiana.
In October 1998, David and Cheryl attended a Steve Green concert. There, David was given a copy of the VOM Special Issue, and he began reading about the persecuted church. In a short period of time, he began to pray for persecuted Christians on a regular basis. In late 1999, he visited the VOM office in Bartlesville, and signed up to be an area representative. Thus began a five-year volunteer ministry of speaking at churches regarding the persecuted church, displaying VOM resources at conferences and conventions, and later supervising other volunteers in a six-state area in the Midwest. David also served on the VOM Board of Directors for two-and-a-half years.
In February 2005, Burton Swartz, the VOM staff member who oversaw David’s work, was tragically killed in an automobile accident. David was asked to fill Burton’s position, and after prayer, accepted the offer. He has been on the VOM staff since April 18, 2005.
David has traveled on several VOM trips overseas, visiting such countries as Vietnam, Laos, Burma/Myanmar, China, Sudan, and Bangladesh. He also went to Cambodia in January 2002, 2003, and 2004, teaching in house churches around the country. These trips were inspired by his first trip into Vietnam with VOM in 2000.
David’s passion remains the persecuted church. His main responsibility is with his new position in Bartlesville, but he still appreciates the opportunity to speak to interested groups about our precious brothers and sisters who persevere in the face of pressure to deny their faith.
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