Ministry Focus
Bob Lehman serves as Executive Director of Leadership Development for Missions Door and is a member of its Strategy and Leadership Team (S.A.L.T.). His ministry focuses on developing leadership pipelines that ensure healthy succession and long-term ministry effectiveness among missionaries, pastors, and ministry leaders worldwide. Bob and his wife, Janet, also founded Mission Recharge, a coaching and care ministry serving pastors, missionaries, and ministry leaders. Bob has planted two churches, pastored Anthem’s first church, and served as chaplain for the Phoenix Police Department, the Arizona Rattlers, and a Milwaukee Brewers minor league team. They have four children and fourteen grandchildren.
Bob and Janet were initially appointed as Campus Ambassadors in 1975. For almost nine years, they dedicated themselves to campus ministry at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. In 1984, the Lehmans transitioned from campus ministry to church planting, still under the Mission’s umbrella. They relocated to Phoenix, Arizona, to establish a new church. After successfully bringing the church to self-sufficiency, Bob resigned from the Mission in 1988 and continued to serve as the church’s pastor. Six years later, in 1994, Bob was once again appointed by the Mission to serve as New Church Specialist for the Southwest. In 2001, his territory expanded to encompass national oversight of the new church ministry category, now known as Harvest America. Bob held this Ministry Director role until 2011 and subsequently served as a new-church consultant until leaving the Mission in 2013. Once again, Bob returned to pastor the new church he had founded under the Mission’s guidance. In October 2018, Bob and Janet were once again appointed by Missions Door to launch a new ministry called Missionary Care. With over four decades of ministry experience, including effective leadership in Campus Ambassadors, Leadership Development, and Harvest America Church-Planting, Bob brings a wealth of ministry and leadership expertise to his new role on the Strategic and Leadership Team (S.A.L.T.).
Faith Story
Bob and Janet met at Northern Arizona University as students. Janet found Christ as her Lord and Savior at a young age, while Bob found Christ in college. Both became significantly involved in Campus Ambassadors, growing in their relationship with Christ and within their community. They married while in college and, upon graduation, moved to Denver, Colorado. They have four children and 14 grandchildren.
WAYS TO SUPPORT
Bob and Janet by making a financial donation using a Credit Card or by Direct Debit (ACH).
Learn more about where this ministry happens
In colorful communities and along scenic highways, diverse people and landscapes span coast to coast
Iconic American traditions include Thanksgiving dinner, jazz music and the Super Bowl. They meld with eclectic examples of multicultural heritage: numerous local Chinatowns, family-owned taquerias and even cowboy boots, which originated among the nomadic Huns of eastern Europe.
The nation's landscape shows just as many contrasts — sandy beaches and rocky coastlines, open plains and vast deserts, rugged mountains and winding canyons, and abundant rivers and lakes.
The ideals of life and liberty that founded the United States have made the country one of the world's most prosperous, though not without dark chapters and present troubles. Crime, discrimination and ethics violations make regular headlines, and many people live below the national poverty level.
Families view education as essential to the pursuit of happiness, if not also a path to wealth and power for the most ambitious. Yet Americans also demonstrate a charitable spirit of generosity toward neighbors and nations in need.
Freedom of religion grants opportunity for all faiths, but Christianity holds particular influence in country's history and daily life.
Your participation with Missions Door supports ministry in the United States among college students, including many international students, in collaboration local churches. It also enables social outreach, church planting and leadership development in a wide variety of communities — among Native Americans and other cultural groups, and in urban and suburban settings where growing and changing demographics create new opportunities for the Gospel.
Cultural Snapshot
Aside from the Native American, Native Hawaiian and Native Alaskan populations, nearly all Americans and their ancestors immigrated to the United States.
Faith Fact
In a 2013 survey, 56% of Americans said that religion played a "very important role in their lives” — a larger number than any other wealthy nation.
Country Profile
Population: 320 million
Major Religions: 47% Protestant, 23% unaffiliated, 21% Catholic, 6% other
Languages: 82% English, 11% Spanish, various others
Literacy: 99%
Poverty: 16%
Ministry service area:
International
Ministry location:
Arizona, United States