Rev. Ghassan Y. Audish
The founder and Senior Pastor of the Ankawa Assemblies of God Church in Erbil. Ghassan is fluent in four languages and hold a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering. The Council was formed to represent the work of the Evangelical Churches that have been at the forefront in caring for displaced people fleeing ISIS. The Council works to unify and coordinate efforts within the churches, and to represent its membership to governmental institutions and the wider public. Later he was appointed to be the president of the council. He is married to Dunia Marcos Putros, they have three children. Delphia 24, Yonathan 20 and Elinoor 12 years old.
July 2016 with his wife and Elders from the Church they started the first Bible Institute called (Holy Bible Institute) in Iraq where local leaders are teaching the Bible to local believers.
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Botrus Mansour
Born in Nazareth, Botrus Mansour graduated from Nazareth Baptist School, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (Law), Haifa University (MBA) and the Open University (teaching certificate of Civics in high school). He was admitted to the bar in 1993. He is a lawyer and operational director of Nazareth Baptist school.
He is an ordained elder in the Baptist Church and for 35 years, Botrus has been active in ministry in the Local Baptist church in Nazareth, Nazareth Village, the Association of Baptist Churches in Israel, Advocates International, The Lausanne initiative for reconciliation in Israel /Palestine, Musalaha and the Secretariat of Christian Schools in Israel.
He serves as the chairman of both the Convention of Evangelical Churches in Israel and the Alliance of Evangelical Conventions of churches in Jordan and the Holy Land. Botrus writes on matters of faith, Israel and the Middle East Church in different languages and has published few books.
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Rev. Abdallah
Rev. Abdallah is a Pastor in North Africa. Born and raised in the south of France. Responding to the call of the Lord, he decided to leave his job as a manager in the banking sector to settle in North Africa. He has a Master’s degree in Management and Business Strategy and a degree in Theology and Mission. He has served for several years as a youth leader in the largest church in North Africa and as a project manager at the Bible Society.
He also collaborated with Youth for Christ in France as a project manager to impact and reach out to the youth and unreached people for the Move Your City event and was also a member of the steering committee of the PULSE meetings to bring together young people from different denominations to encourage them to prayer and church unity.
He is an appreciated leader in North Africa and passionate about the gospel. Rev. Abdallah serves the Lord with his wife in the region. They are parents of two young children.
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Sabu George
Sabu is a praise & lead worshiper for over 20 years from Bangalore, India and in the Middle East. A resident of Dubai for the last 2 decades, has a double bachelor’s in arts and Theology from LCU (Tampa Florida USA) Sabu handles all operational aspects of VOICE Ministries including its extensive networking with over 250+ churches in UAE and been an active part to unite the body of Christ in this nation and plays a key role as a member of the WEA MENA National Church Alliance .
Voice has pioneered many initiatives collaborating with many organizations to bringing unity in the body through conference, Seminars, Worship Concerts.
Sabu’s technical expertise and sales & marketing background is well used by the Lord to gain valuable input into VOICE’s operations. He worships at a local church in Dubai and is a guitarist and vocalist.
A former national cricket player, he is married to Soldy with 3 boys – Joshua and Jeremiah and Judah.
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Rev. Ara Badalian
Rev. Ara Badalian is the senior pastor of the National Evangelical Baptist Church in Baghdad (Iraq). He was also serving as a visiting instructor in Arab Baptist Theological Seminary (ABTS) in Beirut, where he taught several courses; NT Backgrounds, NT Survey, and NT Theology, from 2012 until 2019.
Ara got his BA from the College of Administration and Economics (Baghdad University) in 1992, and MDiv from ABTS in 2012. Now he is a PhD candidate at the Asia Graduate School of Theology (AGST) in Malaysia. His specialty is Comparative Theology.
He lives in Baghdad, with his family; his wife Nora, and his daughter; Aylin, and serving as the pastor of the church since July 2012 until now.
He was elected as the new president of the Association of the Iraqi National Evangelical Churches on July 10, 2023.
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Emad Maayah
Brother Emad was born in Madaba in Jordan on May 3rd, 1946. He is married to Heyam Mazahreh and has two daughters. He is the Vice President for the Middle East for the Association of the Military Christian Followship (AMC) and President of the Alliance of Evangelical conventions of Jordan and Holyland.
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Bassem holds a Bachelor’s degree in architectural engineering and has worked in that field since 1982.
Bassem Fekri
Sabu is a praise & lead worshiper for over 20 years from Bangalore, India and in the Middle East. A resident of Dubai for the last 2 decades, has a double bachelor’s in arts and Theology from LCU (Tampa Florida USA) Sabu handles all operational aspects of VOICE Ministries including its extensive networking with over 250+ churches in UAE and been an active part to unite the body of Christ in this nation and plays a key role as a member of the WEA MENA National Church Alliance .
Voice has pioneered many initiatives collaborating with many organizations to bringing unity in the body through conference, Seminars, Worship Concerts.
Sabu’s technical expertise and sales & marketing background is well used by the Lord to gain valuable input into VOICE’s operations. He worships at a local church in Dubai and is a guitarist and vocalist.
A former national cricket player, he is married to Soldy with 3 boys – Joshua and Jeremiah and Judah.
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Rev. Elia Daoud
Born on 30th of October 1961 within a nominal Christian family. He is married to Rosa and they have four children, one deceased. He was found and saved by the Lord Jesus Christ in Kirkuk/Iraq in 1991 and became born again believer. Since then he decided to follow and serve the Lord.
In 1998, He worked with the Bible Society mission in Northern Iraq and he was active in planting new churches and participated in services. Initially, he served in the first ever established evangelical church in the city of Erbil until the day he migrated to Germany at the end of the year 2000.
He started to participate in different theological studies, attended conferences, and in 2002 he became a minister and served as a pastor in a Arabic local church in Köln/Germany. Few years later, in 2005, he served another Church in Bonn/Germany.
In 2007 he and his family were naturalized and became German citizens.
In 2008 he was ordained as a pastor for Arabic free evangelical Church in Bonn and founded new church in Germany and Europe.
He presides on the “Evangelical Alliance of Arabic Speakers in Europe”.
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Dr. Munir Salim Kakish
Born in Jordan in 1947. At age 10, he dedicated his life to Christ. Even as a young boy, Dr. Kakish felt called into the ministry.
After finishing high school, he went to America where he finished a BRE in Christian Education from Canadian Bible College, a B.A. in communications from Evangel College, and a master’s degree from Wheaton graduate school. In addition, he has earned a Doctor of Ministry Degree. In America he met his wife, Sharon.
Dr. Kakish and his wife have served in the Holy Land for 44 years. He is President of the Council of Local Evangelical Churches in the Holy Land and has served since 2007.
One of the greatest things he has been able to accomplish is formal recognition of the Council of Evangelical Churches in the Holy Land as a religious entity in Palestine. Now they can issue marriage licenses, buy property in the name of the church and they have their civil rights.
He is pastor of two active churches, one in Ramallah in the West Bank and another church in Ramla, Israel. He is also founder of RCO Ministries in the Holy Land, and he established a home for needy children in Ramallah in 1978.
Pastor Kakish very much loves the people and the work that God has given him.
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Bishop. Beda Robles
Beda is chairman of Evangelical Churches Alliance Qatar [ECAQ], founded in Feb. 2005, a multi ethnics, multinational, multi-cultural Christian groups with 160 Evangelical member churches with a growing 20,000 members. Overseer of Tribes Nation Outreach Mission Academy- Qatar and chairman of the New Covenant Church— Asia Church Planting Mission Outreach. Through his leadership, ECAQ has been an official New Alliance of World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) in November 19,2019. Co-founding pastor and senior pastor of Qatar Evangelical Churches [QEC] in Doha. In 1997, undergone Korea Biblical Education by Extension. A tent maker while serving the Lord, he is an Interior Designer at AL Muftah Group of Companies in Qatar. In 2017, the Lord placed a burden to his heart-concerned of seeking lost souls and future work of the Lord’s kingdom and committed his life to full time ministry. Assists Filipino NGO’s, cares for displaced people, the needy in labor camps, deportation areas and shelter camps for runaways.
Involves at Doha DICID on Interfaith Dialogue. His passion, is building ‘relationship’ among Muslims and Christians — ‘focused on God’s love.
Studied bachelor’s degree in architecture, Major in Interior & Design in the Philippines. Representing Evangelical church, in the leadership roles of the 8 Christian Churches Steering Committee [CCSC] of the State of Qatar.
Evangelical churches hold regular Friday Worship services and other activities in various villas/houses temporary.
Beda’s deepest thank, to His Highness the Father Emir Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani, former Emir of the State of Qatar, who donated “Christian Religious Complex” to build churches for worship. His heart desire is to see the building of the Evangelical Worship Center with its regional office for the MENA Region. ‘Pilot project’ by WEA postering message of ‘Unity’ among WEA family [John 17:20,21]. He and his wife, Gloria, with 2 children & 4 grandchildren, live happily in Doha, Qatar where they have been serving the Lord since 1987.
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Pastor of the Good Shepherd Church
Creator and chair of the national network Tunisia Partnership