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Ending Bible Poverty Now

Our journey

From Chile to Canada

Four homes. One calling. Follow how we engaged Scripture, ended Bible poverty, and walked family milestones from Chile through Thailand and Kona to Canada.

  1. 01 · 2006 – 2007ChileLearning and teaching inductive Scripture study became the DNA for every School of Biblical Studies we would later plant.
  2. 02 · 2008 – 2017ThailandSchool of Biblical Studies launched; discipleship lived on base; Thai SourceView and Share Bibles turned house-to-house distribution into a measurable movement.
  3. 03 · 2017 – 2021KonaShare Bibles and SourceView moved from Thai experiments to public tools; major print outreaches and family Bible reading modeled engagement at scale.
  4. 04 · 2021 – presentCanadaFirst Dunham SBS completed; Walk of Discovery opens inductive discovery to anyone online; Rob becomes Dean of BLE—pathways for front-liners in every language.
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2006 – 2007

Chile — called together

Engagement in Santiago, inductive Bible teaching while we prepared, marriage in Venezuela, and release toward Thailand—still rooted in our Chile season.

Bible poverty fruit: Learning and teaching inductive Scripture study became the DNA for every School of Biblical Studies we would later plant.

  1. FamilyLocalSantiago

    Engaged in Santiago

    At Plaza de Armas, Rob proposes; Cy says yes. Two lifelong missionaries begin a shared call—wedding plans take shape while God draws their futures together.

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  2. MinistryLocalPichilemu

    Mission: Thailand announced

    God is leading them to Thailand. The call to end Bible poverty overseas moves from prayer into public commitment—one website, one clear direction.

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  3. MinistryLocalPichilemu

    Released with blessing from Chile

    After praying to leave the Pichilemu base well, doors open. Leadership and friends release them toward Thailand with favor.

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  4. MinistryLocalSantiago

    Inductive Bible teaching while raising support

    Cell groups and classes learn to study Scripture so it comes alive—practice that will shape SBS classrooms from Chiang Rai to Quebec.

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  5. FamilyInternationalVenezuela

    Married in Venezuela

    Wedding date moves up so they can spend months with Cy’s family and church as a married couple. God provides a beautiful wedding and a peaceful start—then Canada, then Asia.

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2008 – 2017

Thailand — planting & fruit

From first SBS seminars in Chiang Rai to ~20,000 Thai SourceView Bibles in homes—long-term residence, family formation, and Outreaches that carried Scripture across borders.

Bible poverty fruit: School of Biblical Studies launched; discipleship lived on base; Thai SourceView and Share Bibles turned house-to-house distribution into a measurable movement.

  1. MinistryLocalChiang Rai

    First SBS seminar for base staff

    Two intense weeks of inductive study through Titus and Galatians—staff learning to engage the Bible deeply before students ever arrive.

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  2. MinistryInternationalHerrnhut

    YWAM DNA in Germany & global SBS gathering

    Herrnhut renews the call to all nations; Hurlach gathers SBS leaders worldwide. Bible poverty ends when the Word and workers go everywhere.

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  3. MinistryInternationalVietnam

    Underground DTS in Vietnam

    Rob teaches Bible study in a persecuted context—Scripture forming disciples where open ministry is costly.

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  4. MinistryLocalChiang Rai

    School of Biblical Studies begins

    Students from Australia, USA, Canada, Thailand, and Bhutan launch the SBS they came to plant—nations learning Scripture together in Chiang Rai.

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  5. MinistryLocalChiang Rai

    Called to live on the base

    God speaks clearly: move onto the base so discipleship happens by daily example—Bible engagement that students can see lived out.

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  6. FamilyLocalChiang Rai

    Expecting Elias

    Pregnancy announced—new family life taking root while SBS and DTS continue. Due around October 1.

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  7. FamilyLocalChiang Rai

    Elias is born — first Christmas together

    Their son arrives. Ministry continues with a newborn—family and calling woven into the same Chiang Rai home.

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  8. MinistryInternationalMalaysia

    Malaysia: DTS teams & jungle ministry

    Passport dramas, visiting teams, and jungle ministry—Scripture and discipleship carried beyond the base walls.

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  9. MinistryLocalChiang Rai

    DTS graduates — house foundation begins

    Twelve students graduate into next steps. After years of waiting, family housing construction starts—rooted life for long-term Bible ministry.

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  10. FamilyLocalChiang Rai

    Family life on the Chiang Rai base

    Raising Elias where staff and students live—ministry together as a family, not only classroom hours.

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  11. MinistryLocalChiang Rai

    Five years of planting an SBS

    Looking back on staff formation, students from the nations, and a base shaped around serious engagement with Scripture.

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  12. MinistryInternationalVietnam

    SBS outreach to Vietnam

    Students take inductive Bible study on outreach—fruit of the school crossing borders.

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  13. MinistryInternationalChiang Rai

    Sent toward the unreached

    Clear commissioning toward peoples without access to Scripture—Bible poverty as a geographic and spiritual reality.

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  14. MinistryInternationalKona, Hawaiʻi

    Project season in Kona — then back to Chiang Rai

    A focused Hawaii assignment, then return for the base’s 20th anniversary. Innovation seeds later grow into Share Bibles tools.

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  15. MinistryLocalChiang Rai

    Thai SourceView & house-to-house distribution

    A Thai Bible format for people who never knew Scripture—distributed house to house, school to school, temple to temple.

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  16. MinistryLocalChiang Rai

    Share Bibles vision takes shape

    Tools so no home is missed on the map—technology serving the ancient work of putting Bibles in people’s hands.

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  17. FamilyLocalChiang Rai

    Elias learns to read the Bible

    Kindergarten graduation, sixth birthday—and reading Scripture for himself. Family discipleship meeting Bible poverty at home.

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  18. MinistryLocalChiang Rai

    ~20,000 Bibles distributed in Thailand

    Two years of Thai SourceView fruit—and a mobile app so house-to-house progress is tracked accurately.

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2017 – 2021

Kona — tools for the nations

Invited to multiply Thai SourceView and Share Bibles globally with Innovations for Transformation—then pressing tools outward even when COVID closed travel.

Bible poverty fruit: Share Bibles and SourceView moved from Thai experiments to public tools; major print outreaches and family Bible reading modeled engagement at scale.

  1. MinistryInternationalKona, Hawaiʻi

    Move to YWAM Kona for Bible innovation

    The family leaves Thailand on October 16 to serve nations and languages—multiplying what God had proven in Chiang Rai.

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  2. MinistryLocalKona, Hawaiʻi

    Innovations for Transformation

    Research, development, and innovation aimed at Ending Bible Poverty Now—tools and strategies for the whole YWAM movement.

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  3. FamilyLocalKona, Hawaiʻi

    A home of their own in Kona

    Off-campus housing—roots for a longer season of family life alongside innovation work.

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  4. MinistryInternationalPattaya

    Pattaya: 100,000 Gospels of Luke

    God provides for a major print and distribution effort around a gathering of the body of Christ—tens of thousands of Gospels in people’s hands.

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  5. MinistryLocalKona, Hawaiʻi

    Share Bibles & SourceView in the open

    A year of Ending Bible Poverty work shared publicly—inviting partners into the app and the reader.

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  6. FamilyInternationalChiang Rai

    Rob & Elias return to Asia together

    Father and son travel to Chiang Rai for leadership transition and partnership—ministry done as a family across the ocean.

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  7. MinistryLocalKona, Hawaiʻi

    Share Bibles ready — ministry from home

    COVID closes travel; breakthroughs continue. Share Bibles reaches launch readiness while the family works from Kauaʻi/Kona rhythms.

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  8. FamilyLocalKona, Hawaiʻi

    Reading Scripture together with SourceView

    The family reads through the Bible using the SourceView reader they helped create—tools proved first in their own living room.

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2021 – present

Canada — SBS & the College

A Macedonian call to pioneer French/English SBS in Quebec, then multiplying Bible engagement worldwide through Walk of Discovery and the College of Bible Engagement.

Bible poverty fruit: First Dunham SBS completed; Walk of Discovery opens inductive discovery to anyone online; Rob becomes Dean of BLE—pathways for front-liners in every language.

  1. MinistryLocalDunham, Quebec

    Move to YWAM Dunham, Quebec

    Called to help pioneer a French/English School of Biblical Studies—Scripture engagement for a bilingual nation and the French-speaking world.

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  2. MinistryLocalDunham, Quebec

    French study — and SBS begins

    Months of French classes, then the pioneering School of Biblical Studies starts with students hungry for inductive study.

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  3. MinistryInternationalMedellín

    Teaching in Medellín, Colombia

    Invited to teach in a Bible school—Scripture training that stretches from Quebec classrooms back to Latin America.

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  4. MinistryLocalDunham, Quebec

    First Dunham SBS graduates

    The Macedonian call is fulfilled—the pioneering French/English SBS finishes. An impossible mountain moved by God.

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  5. MinistryLocalDunham, Quebec

    Walk of Discovery online course

    A free course walking people from frustration with Scripture into joyful discovery—highlighting, observation, and personal application.

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  6. MinistryLocalDunham, Quebec

    Cy’s Masters & another SBS season

    Cy graduates with a Masters in Global Pioneering Leadership; another School of Biblical Studies kicks off locally in Dunham.

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  7. MinistryInternationalLausanne

    Teaching across continents — then Kona LTS

    Genesis in Switzerland and South Africa, Masters intensives in Madrid, Elias teaching on baptism, then staffing Darlene Cunningham’s LTS with 250+ missionaries from 50+ nations.

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  8. MinistryInternationalRéunion Island

    First Scripture in a mother tongue — Réunion

    Clélie records Scripture; Samuel hears the Bible in his mother tongue for the first time—Bible poverty ending one conversation, one people, at a time.

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  9. FamilyInternationalMedellín

    Ministry together across the Americas

    Cy teaches Acts in Kona SBS; Rob teaches in El Salvador and South Africa; the family speaks at YWAM Caribbean conference in Medellín—and celebrates 19 years of marriage.

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  10. MinistryLocalDunham, Quebec

    Dean of the College of Bible Engagement

    Rob becomes Dean of BLE at the University of the Nations—multiplying front-liners through global pathways. Cy serves on the College Builders Team.

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  11. FamilyInternationalPanama

    Elias speaks on Ending Bible Poverty — Panama

    Dunham SBS finishes the Old Testament; teaching spans the Americas and Europe; Elias addresses Ending Bible Poverty at the YWAM Americas gathering.

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