Charles & Tressa Rouch

Missionaries to Zambia

Missionaries in Zambia since 1993
Currently in Zambia

The Lord uses the Rouch family in Zambia for soul-winning, discipleship, church planting, pastor and Christian leader training in the heart of the south-central part of the continent of Africa. Our sending church is Glenville Bible Baptist Church in Wichita, Kansas.

The ministry in Zambia is over 15 years old. There are nine Provinces with a total population of 13 million people. The Lord gave us a goal of "Sending the Gospel Light into Every Province". With our own Bible Baptist Institute at Lighthouse Bible Baptist Outreach in the city of Ndola where we live, the Lord has blessed and we have seen trained men return to their own tribe and Province, win souls, establish Bible believing Baptist churches, who are now training more men for ministry in their "satellite" Bible Institutes. If all Pastors and men in training actually go to the Province as planned right now, every Province in Zambia is targeted by at least one Pastor or pastoral student.

Presently, we currently have 21 churches. We are committed to one-on-one discipleship of new Christians, just as we are winning souls. Addition is great, but multiplication by our people to their own people is the way we believe this country can truly be won to Christ and taught to serve Him with their whole heart. If the works cannot or will not eventually stand without the missionary’s presence, we have failed to do our job. Our goal is to see the day when the missionary will no longer be needed in Zambia. Investing our lives for a nation of 13 million eternal souls is a privilege.