We are missionaries to the White Earth Reservation in northwest Minnesota. This is an Ojibwe tribe and the largest reservation in Minnesota out of 11 tribes. I will be the missionary pastor of Hope Baptist Church beginning September 2023, in the town of White Earth.

Marty: I grew up in Martinsville, Indiana. When I was 10 years old, I received Jesus Christ as my Savior at Hoosier Hills Baptist Camp. When I was a teenager, I surrendered to go into the ministry. Though I got away from the Lord for a time, He has worked in my life significantly over the last few years. At Martinsville Baptist Tabernacle, the Lord grew me into a Sunday morning bus captain and youth leader in Reformers Unanimous. When my wife and I were married in 2016, the Lord moved us to Crossroads Baptist Church in Indianapolis, Indiana. Immediately, we were plugged into the bus ministry and I became the youth pastor underneath the leadership of Pastor Guy Solarek. In February 2017, the Lord called me into church planting. He used First Chronicles 28:10 to show me His will for my life, “Take heed now; for the Lord hath chosen thee to build an house for the sanctuary: be strong, and do it.” Over the next few months of prayer and seeking the Lord, He placed a burden on my heart to reach the original unreached people groups of America, the Native Americans. As we have been working with our pastor and continuing to seek counsel from veteran missionaries, the Lord has been placing things together. Now a graduate from Indiana Baptist College, the Lord has directed us to grow under the leadership of Pastor Matthew Weber in Shawano, Wisconsin. Shawano Baptist Church is seven miles south of the Menominee Indian Reservation, where we will begin our first work with the Natives. We are expecting God to do a mighty work amongst the Menominee Indians.

Logan Michelle: I grew up in a Christian home in the small town of Clay City, Indiana. I made a profession of salvation at the age of six; however, I do not believe I made this profession based on faith. By the time I was ten years old, I had learned many verses in my church’s Bible Club, and the Lord began to use these verses to show me my sinful, lost condition. At age ten, after a night of thunderstorms at Hoosier Hills Baptist Camp, I asked Jesus Christ to save me from my sin and became sure I would spend eternity with Him. A few years later, my church started a bus ministry, and this ministry grew my heart dramatically for the Lord’s work. At fourteen, I surrendered to do whatever the Lord had for me. As soon as I graduated high school, I headed to Indiana Baptist College, where I eventually met my husband. One year after I graduated Bible college, Marty and I were married. It is an honor to spend one day at a time with the Lord for the rest of our life together, and I am thrilled that this includes following the Lord to reach Native Americans.