Dean and Ada  Overholt

Mission Agency: EFCAIM (Evangelical Free Churches of America International Missions)
Country: Thailand
Focus of Ministry: Church planting, and Thailand Country leaders for the EFCAIM

Ada & Dean are the Thailand Country leaders for the EFCAIM. Dean travels two weeks per month while Ada stays in Chiang Mai with their three children in an MK school called Grace Intl. school. Dean is church planting and teaching in a Seminary called Mekong Bible Seminary on the Laotian border in Ubon Province. Jon is a Junior and 17 years old, Vivian is 10 and in 5th grade and Ben is 8 and in 3rd grade. Dean and Ada  have a church planting movement that is expanding into new areas and this year Dean has been in Southern Thailand almost fulltime doing Tsunami relief and church planting. He has been the project director for hundreds of foreign and Thai volunteers building 93 homes for two villages who lost everything in the Asian tsunami last Dec 26th. They also have helped build 50 fishing boats and are putting in a huge playground at a public beach park that was destroyed.