our staff and directors

Don and Linda Tingle The Tingles live in Prishtina, Kosovo, most of the year. He is the author of several books and a number of articles in the field of religious studies. He has worked in various parts of the Muslim world since 1985. He has experience teaching in both high schools and universities. Linda is a certified teacher of high-school English. She also has many years experience teaching business executives and students who wish to master English as a second-language. Don can be reached at don@comenserv.org

Wes & Vjollca Dingman The Dingmans live in Prizren, Kosovo, where Wes is completing his studies in Albanian language and literature at the university. (Vjollca completed her degree in English in the Spring of 2005.) He translates
books and articles into both the English and Albanian languages. Currently he is completing the translation of the authorized biography of Mother Teresa into Albanian. (She was Albanian by birth.) Wes is American by birth and Vjollca is Kosovar. They oversee many of the comeNserv activities in the Prizren region.
Wes and Vjollca can be reached at wdingman@hotmail.com

Helti Guraziu Helti graduated from the Conservatory of Music in Tirana, Albania. Currently he teaches at the music high school in Prizren, Kosovo, and he often plays the contra-bass for the Symphonic Orchestra of Kosova. He also writes music and teaches private lessons for comeNserv. Feel free to write him at helti_g&yahoo.com

Marty Egelston is a graduate of Cincinnati Christian University, Summitt Theological Seminary, Clayton University, and Trinity Theological Seminary. Marty has been involved with ministry to Muslims since 1989 serving with Christian Arabic Services and Muslim Hope, both forerunners of comeNserv. He has served since 1994 as Senior Minister of the West Side Church of Christ in Lebanon, Ohio. Marty's e-mail is megelston@hotmail.com

Mike & Enise Grooms both graduated from Cincinnati Christian University. In August of 2007, Mike & Enise will be moving to Kosovo to teach and help strengthen the church. Mike and Enise have been overseas several times. Mike has represented Comenserv at colleges, conventions, and congregations. He also facilitates interested parties in short-term trips to Kosovo. While Mike has preached and taught overseas, Enise has used her counseling expertise to help victims of war. Mike handles a lot of the stateside activities of Comenserv, and he can be reached at mike@comenserv.org

Chuck and Karen Phillips have been in ministry since 1988 when they agreed to work with the Church of Christ at Delhi in Cincinnati. During that time Chuck was studying at Cincinnati Bible Seminary, where he earned a Master of Arts and a Master of Divinity in Theology. In 1992 Chuck and Karen took a short term trip to Crimea to study the feasibility of doing ministry there among the Crimean Tatar people. They both fell in love with the people of Crimea and decided to move there with their children in January 1993.
In 1994, the Phillips had to return to the US due to problems with their living link church. For the next 7 years, Karen worked to support the family and the ministry while Chuck made trips to Crimea. During this time, Karen was able to earn a BA and MBA from Xavier University. In 2001, Chuck and Karen were able to move back to Crimea, and are living there on a full time basis. Their focus is on church planting and Bible studies among the people in Crimea, where they have started three churches and numerous studies along with a strong ministry in humanitarian help. They can be contacted at chuckaren@home.cris.net

Jim and Linda Young live in Sierra Vista, Arizona, and they are members of the Pantano Christian Church in Tucson where they are active in the church’s missions ministries. Jim is a retired Air Force chaplain, and in 1993 - 1994 he served with the United Nations (U.N.) Protection Force in Zagreb, Croatia, where he was Senior Chaplain at a U.N. field hospital and supervised humanitarian outreach to Muslim refugees. He is also a former staff member of CMF International. Linda has had a career as a music teacher and public school teacher. Jim is a graduate of Milligan College and the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and Linda graduated from Tusculum College. Jim's address is youngjl@cox.net

Rick and Betty Lee have been married since 1973. Rick graduated from Youngstown State University with a degree in music education in 1975. In 1976 he was the professor of music at Bluefield College of Evangelism. In 1977, Rick & Betty moved to Cincinnati where Rick attended Cincinnati Christian Seminary. In 1979 Rick began working for the Cincinnati Police Department, where he’s currently a police dispatcher. They have two wonderful daughters, and they’re active with White Oak Christian Church where they both minister with the choir and worship teams. Rick can be reached at rblee@fuse.net

Tom McRoberts. Our dear friend passed away recently. Tom was a graduate of Minnesota Bible College, and he started preaching when he was seventeen. He served congregations in Ohio, Minnesota, Illinois, and Iowa. He faithfully served Comenserv for many years, and we miss him very much..

Kathy Redmond is a new Director and our Treasurer too. She has been married to her husband Ernie for over thirty years. They have two grown children. She lives in Independence, KY and works for Smart Document Solutions in hospital medical record departments. In her spare time she operates a home business called Church Mouse Administrators. In this capacity she serves as a Bookkeeper/Gal Friday for several small businesses and non profit groups. She loves to organize. She serves as the bookkeeper for ComeNserv and tries to keep all the funds accurately accounted for. Her hobbies are singing, reading and finding new ways to make the computer assist her in her business. Her address is eredmond13@fuse.net

Alan Weber has been the Associate Minister at the Fairfield Church of Christ, Fairfield Ohio, since 1986. He has also held ministries in Iowa and Nebraska. Prior to coming to Fairfield, he served as Professor of Christian Education at Cincinnati Christian University and Midwest Christian College in Oklahoma City. Alan also serves as forwarding agent for Crimea for Christ (Chuck and Karen Phillips, missionaries). Alan's e-mail is aljweber@juno.com.

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