Missionaries
Dean Bye
Dean Bye, founder and executive director of Return Ministries, is passionate in his calling to awaken the Christian community to the Father’s heart for Israel - the land and the people. For over twenty years, he has been a catalyst in mobilizing others to be active in the re-gathering of the Jewish people back to Israel as was prophesied long ago in the prophetic Scriptures. He is a bridge-builder between the Jewish and Christian communities, teaching and demonstrating Yeshua’s uncompromising living out of His Father’s sovereign plan with a mercy that reflects unconditional love. Dean excels in leading people to experience what God is doing in Israel today, making the Scriptures come alive and relevant. Married to Patricia, they live near Toronto Canada and have five grown children.
Dean Bye, founder and executive director of Return Ministries, is passionate in his calling to awaken the Christian community to the Father’s heart for Israel - the land and the people. For over twenty years, he has been a catalyst in mobilizing others to be active in the re-gathering of the Jewish people back to Israel as was prophesied long ago in the prophetic Scriptures. He is a bridge-builder between the Jewish and Christian communities, teaching and demonstrating Yeshua’s uncompromising living out of His Father’s sovereign plan with a mercy that reflects unconditional love. Dean excels in leading people to experience what God is doing in Israel today, making the Scriptures come alive and relevant. Married to Patricia, they live near Toronto Canada and have five grown children.
Ed Dickson
Ed is the leader of "Loads of Love." Loads of Love is new movement of caring people who have been commissioned to help abandoned children and forgotten seniors throughout the world. Right now Loads of Love are active in Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Russia, Afganistan and China. They are currently focused on three targets: helping orphans, reaching out of forgotten seniors, and sending messengers of light into dark places.
Ed is the leader of "Loads of Love." Loads of Love is new movement of caring people who have been commissioned to help abandoned children and forgotten seniors throughout the world. Right now Loads of Love are active in Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Russia, Afganistan and China. They are currently focused on three targets: helping orphans, reaching out of forgotten seniors, and sending messengers of light into dark places.
Jeffery & Akiko Sonneburg
Jeffery & Akiko are a Canadian and Japanese missionary couple with tremendous missions experience. Jeffery went to Japan twice with Asian Access as a short-termer. Upon completion of his seminary studies, he returned to spend 3 years heading up the English Ministries of Soka Evangelical Free Church in Saitama. During this time, he met Akiko, a fourth generation Japanese Christian (which is a rarity). Akiko was a university student actively involved in campus ministry as well as a member of the English Board at Soka Church. They worked together at the church in English and Japanese. They were married in Canada in 1998. They spent a year doing post-graduate studies at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in preparation for further missionwork in Japan. Ministry Assignment: Church Planting Associates since 2000:
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