Pastor Dick joined the Living Stones staff as Associate Pastor and Team Leader of Mission & Evangelism in the spring of 2006. In January 2009, he and his wife, Susie, accepted the position of Executive Pastors of Living Stones Church. Pastor Dick also oversees the larger mission ministry of GlobalROAR, which includes our sending organization, Living Stones Global Network (LSGN) and Adopt-A-People Clearinghouse (AAPC). AAPC mobilizes churches worldwide to adopt the remaining 6600 Unreached People Groups for church planting. He is the Academic Dean and a faculty member of Living Stones College.

Pastor Susie helps with the planning and administration of short-term trips. She is registrar for Living Stones College and part of the faculty, as well. Pastors Dick and Susie have been happily and strategically married for 32 years; they have five children who are all involved in mission, music and ministry.

In the late '70s, the Bashta’s initial mission experience was serving with Operation Mobilization’s ship, the Doulos, and leading an international outreach team to Muslims in southern Spain. They later moved to New Orleans, La., to direct the 700 Club Counseling Center for the Gulf Coast region of the United States.

For 21 years, Pastors Dick and Susie served in pastoral ministry at Reserve Christian Fellowship, a radical church in Reserve, La., pastored by Rod Aguillard. Their church was also the base for the Gulf States Pastor’s Fellowship, a network of 150 pastors in the Gulf States area. While there, they helped birth and direct Global Strategy Mission Association (GSMA) – the mission arm of the Gulf States Pastor’s Fellowship. In the early 1990s, their family lived in Russia, directing a church planting initiative of 25 churches in the largest cities east of the Volga River. These churches have now multiplied to an association of 75 churches, and the harvest field has become a harvest force, as the churches send their own missionaries to the nations! In the mid-90’s, the Bashta’s focus turned to China, where they placed families and led many short-term teams.

Sensing a life-time call to Unreached Peoples, in 1999,  Pastors Dick and Susie moved their family to Colorado Springs, Colo., where they began directing the ministry of Adopt-A-People Clearinghouse and worked closely with the AD2000 and Beyond mission movement. Later AAPC re-located to the campus of the Bible League in Crete, Ill.

The Bashta's have traveled extensively and taught in almost 50 countries of the world. They have a passion to win the lost, make disciples, and see heaven planted in the dark and unreached areas of earth!

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Matt & Christy Inama

Matt Inama is the Director of Mission and Evangelism for Living Stones Church. He and his wife, Christy, moved to Indiana in 2000, shortly after graduating from Oral Roberts University in Oklahoma, where Matt earned his degree in Business Administration and Christy in Drama/Television/Film Performance. They moved up to the Chicagoland area with a calling and passion for the nations, specifically the unreached. When they arrived, they were still just Matt and Christy . . . but in the last nine years they became Matt, Christy, Caleb, Micah, Elijah, Samuel, Jubilee and Levi!

Since their teenage years, Matt and Christy have been receiving hands-on training in missions, through internships and employment with Teen Mania Ministries and Fuel International. Together, Matt and Christy have ministered in more than 30 nations and in many different facets, including drama, construction, medical, pastor’s conferences, church planting, church strengthening, children’s ministry, and more.

Matt’s current responsibilities involve directing Servant Evangelism projects for the church, administrating LSGN (the church’s missions sending organization), directing and administrating most of the day-to-day mission planning and facilitation, and working closely with Pastors Dick and Susie Bashta. Matt is the Networking Director for Global Adopt-A-People Network (GAAPnet) and its database, which has some of the most vital information on Unreached Peoples in the world. Christy assists when she can, but devotes most of her precious time to raising their six world-changing children!

“It is our calling and passion to fulfill God’s mission in our Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and ends of the earth (Acts 1:8),  and to develop and nurture the gifting that He has placed in the members of this body in order to use it effectively in reaching these areas to which He has called us!”

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