Ministry Focus
Vision
To ignite a network of multiplying, healthy house churches led by Native Americans.
Allen and his wife, Mirjam, serve in Wyoming among the Shoshoni and Arapaho tribes on the Wind River Indian Reservation. Multiple small Native American communities are located along an approximately 35-mile long corridor on the reservation.
Allen and Mirjam are working to build a network of house churches and to raise up and train indigenous leaders who can lead, reach, and serve their own people.
Through life and ministry, Allen and Mirjam have been building on existing relationships with both Shoshoni and Arapaho families to start forming house-churches. Additionally, they have several avenues to build relationships with people who might otherwise slip through the cracks through ministries such as bible studies in homes, treatment centers, jail letter writing and outreach to the homeless community through a weekly street-church gathering.
Currently three house-churches have been started and the focus is on establishing these young groups. Over time, the goal is to transition from church planting to training pastors in biblical theology, shepherding/counseling, discipleship, and church multiplication.
Allen is now also serving as a regional team leader for Missions Door, helping to network and support the various missionaries serving in Utah and Wyoming.
Faith Story
Allen was born and grew up in Wyoming. He was raised in a family that attended a good bible-teaching church and helped him to understand the Gospel at an early age. He remembers the day when, at 5 years old, he accepted Jesus into his heart. At age 17, Allen acted on this decision in obedience and was baptized. Later, he rededicated his life to Jesus Christ and began serving in local churches.
Mirjam also grew up in a Christian home in Switzerland. At a very young age, she received Jesus into her heart and being so certain of her faith, was baptized by age 9. From that day on, she never looked back. At age 13, she attended a youth event where she heard from a missionary serving on the Wind River Indian Reservation. From that day on, she knew her calling was in this area.
Family
If you want an interesting story, ask Allen and Mirjam how they first met. The short version of it is that they first saw each other at the very event that Mirjam decided to serve Native Americans. Many years later, they met in the USA-while Mirjam was visiting on the Reservation and in Riverton. After a 3 year-long…long…distance relationship, Allen and Mirjam were married in Switzerland and lived there for 2 more years.
After they moved back to Riverton, Wyoming they had a beautiful daughter in 2014 and another precious girl in 2025.
Education
Allen graduated from Colorado Christian University in Lakewood, CO with a degree in music, and emphases on Sound Recording Technology and Biblical Studies. He has complete approximately 69 hours' worth of course work from Antioch School-BILD International.
WAYS TO SUPPORT
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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:
Wyoming, United States