Ryan and Amy Jacobs

The Jacobs serve as educators at the Malawi Assemblies of God Institute of Theology. Ryan teaches theology and biblical languages courses and Amy teaches health, pastoral counseling, and teacher certification courses. They also facilitate a BaseCamp where new Southern Africa missionaries are onboarded in language, culture, and national church parternship. 

 

Ryan serves as the Malawi Team Leader and the Zambezi Zone Leader (Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe).

 

The Jacobs partner closely with the Malawi Assemblies of God in the process of creating a nation-wide extension school program for church planters and pastoral students, a continuing education program for rural pastors who need refreshing and encouragement, and compassion ministry focused on agriculture, nutrition, and women's empowerment.

 

Ryan and Amy both felt a call to missions as teenagers while on separate AIM missions trips; Ryan in Belarus in 1989 and Amy in Ecuador in 1994. They met at Central Bible College in Music Theory Class and were married in 1995. Over the next 24 years, the couple dedicated themselves to pastoral ministry, church planting, and life-long learning.

 

In 2016, Ryan attended a Speed-the-Light Summit to raise funds for Africa's Hope, the AGWM ministry that overseas training on the African continent. When presented with the need for biblically trained pastors in Africa, the Jacobs overwhelmingly sensed the Holy Spirit's prompting to transition into their foreign missions calling that they received as youth. With over 2 decades of pastoral and church planting experience, they were better prepared to train others to do the same. In October 2018, Ryan and Amy were commissioned as career missionaries to Malawi.

 

Ryan and Amy have 2 adult sons, Nicklas and Benjamin (daughter-in-love, Madelynn).