““So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.”
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Jonathan Hatt at RUF Rowan University
After serving Hope Church as an intern and assistant pastor for six years, Jonathan has recently been called into college ministry for Reformed University Fellowship. He is particularly excited to serve young Christians and non-believers during their period of transition.
Jonathan is a native of Southwest Florida, but he has comfortably adaptive to the Mid-Atlantic and now considers it home. In his free time, he enjoys reading, hanging out with friends, and losing online at chess.
For more information about RUF Rowan, you can follow this link, or ask about being included on his monthly update.
Chris Battin with Kensington Avenue
In our backyard, Kensington Avenue is one of the epicenters of the opioid crisis. For the past six years, Chris Battin has served the streets of Kensington, emphasizing the importance of building long-term relationships through water, bananas, prayer, and conversations. Along with this, the group hands out “Christian Song Sheets” (Example on his website here) to bring encouragement to people. For ways you can serve either directly or indirectly, please contact Jonathan Hatt for more information.
Loaves of Love Food Pantry
Loaves of Love Food Pantry has existed for several years. This is an all-volunteer, community-supported, interfaith food pantry that provides 4-6 bags of fresh and shelf-stable groceries and toiletry items once a month to help supplement the needs of 25+ families (over 75 people) from our immediate area. If you, or someone you know, is in need, please reach out to LOL here.
Rev. Shibu Ooomen with Reformed Evangelistic Fellowship
Shibu and Mary Oommen are natives of Kerala in South India where the Apostle Thomas brought the gospel in AD 52. They were brought up in the Mar Thoma Church which is part of the Eastern Reformed Church tradition. After working and living in Saudi Arabia for several years, Shibu became a committed Christian through an underground church there. Sensing, a call to full time gospel ministry, Shibu left his marketing career and returned with Mary to India in 2003 to attend seminary. While in seminary, Shibu founded India Village Mission, a holistic ministry for the underprivileged in Northern India. In 2007, Shibu graduated from the Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Dehradun with an Master’s of.Divinity..They relocated to the United States in 2008 and God miraculously opened the doors for full time gospel ministry and ordination in the Presbyterian Church in America.
Since 2009, they have worked as missionaries with Reformed Evangelistic Fellowship (REF), serving among the ethnic and South Asian communities living in Upper Darby and the Greater Philadelphia area. Shibu has been actively involved with Mary in street and home proclamation of the gospel and discipleship of believers. Shibu started S4(Seek, Share, Serve & Sustain) a weekly evangelistic outreach in Upper Darby with likeminded evangelists working across denominational and ethnic lines. Now this ministry has extended to Lancaster and Kutztown university. In January 2020 Shibu began working with EE which has been described as "perhaps the best known and most widely used evangelistic training curriculum in church history.” As the EE Tristate Coordinator for Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, Shibu is focusing on training churches and groups in evangelism to aid them in carrying out the Great Commission. Shibu and Mary are living in Lancaster Pa.
Rev. Daryl Wattley with RUF at DSU
Rev. Daryl Wattley Jr. is a native of Atlanta. He became a believer in Jesus while in College at Georgia Southern University. After graduating, he attended Reformed Theological Seminary Atlanta where he was the first African-American to graduate with a Masters in Divinity. He moved to Delaware in 2014 to start a chapter of Reformed University Fellowship at Delaware State University, a Historically Black College, with the goal of building a multi-cultural ministry to nurture new and young believers, raise disciples and develop future church leaders through God's Word and Spirit. Soon after, he became the first African-American to be ordained in the Heritage Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church in America. Daryl loves Jesus, his lovely wife Laria, his daughter Leia and son little Daryl. In his spare time, he enjoys technology, Atlanta sports, nature, sci-fi movies, music and photography. If you wish to know more about RUF at DSU, their ministry page may be found here; for way to support the ministry, you can follow this link here.