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Rod & Jan Dormer
Missionaries to Kenya

Missions Focus:

  • Serving as the principal for Kima International School of Theology (Rod)
  • Responsible for fund development for KIST.
  • Teaching English as well as other education courses (Jan)

Birthdays
Rod July 29
Jan October 5

Anniversary
September 20, 1986 

Printable Biography

 In July 2008, Rod began doctoral studies at Anderson University School of Theology, while Jan taught at Anderson University, assisting in the development of a program to train students for English ministries at home and abroad. With the new empty-nest phase of their lives, Rod and Jan wondered whether God had a new mission for them as well. Rod became increasingly interested in studying the global church and in investigating how the Church of God could become more globally connected through its training facilities and churches. His search ultimately led to his appointment as principal of the Kima International School of Theology in Kenya.

Education:

Rod: B. Th., M.Div, D.Min. (ABD)
Jan: B.Sc., M.A. TESOL, Ed.D.

Missions experience:

(1) In 1995, the Dormers felt the call to missions and moved to Indonesia to work in a school. Jan developed an ESL program for the school, and they were dorm parents to sixteen teenage boys.
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(2) In 1998, the Dormer family returned to the United States, intending to once again pastor a church. Instead, God called them to Brazil. From 1999 to 2004, Rod taught at a seminary in Brazil and was instrumental in designing an effective board structure. During the same time, Jan developed a Christian English language institute, which grew to 150 students in four years.

(3) The denial of their Brazilian visas led them to return once more to Indonesia, where they worked with a seminary. Jan developed a Master of Education program for Indonesian teachers.

Background:

Rod grew up in Manitoba in the Church of God, and Jan grew up in Brazil as the daughter of missionaries. They married in 1986 and pastored Valley Community Church of God in Ontario until going to the mission field in 1995. Their two daughters, Danna Jo and Jenna, were born in Ontario. 

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