Mark Schneider

My name is Mark Schneider, I was born on August 30th 1976. I was born again in May 2000 and have been a follower of Jesus Christ ever since. I was raised in a Christian home and grew up going to Sunday school every week. I knew what the bible taught about having a relationship with God through His son Jesus Christ who died on the cross for every man’s sins. But I never truly surrendered my life to Him. Even though my mother who is a very strong christian taught me about Jesus and always prayed for me (thanks mom).

As I grew older I became very strong willed and only wanted to do things my way. I had been taught about the God of the bible my whole life and I thought that it was time that I start thinking for myself. After I had graduated high school I began moving in a direction far away from God. I began using alcohol and drugs very heavily. I had a strong desire to expand my mind. I began to believe that the God of the bible was not real, after all, I thought, the bible was written by man not God. I began to follow many of the philosophies of eastern religion. I thought that Jesus was not God so maybe God was in everything or maybe God is within me, maybe I am God. The bottom line is that I was lost. I did not know what the truth was and I thought I was on the right path heading for it, but I was only getting in lots of trouble along the way and leading myself deeper and deeper into darkness.

After many years of wondering around my family invited me to go on a vacation with them. They were going to Turkey and Greece to visit some of the ancient cities where the apostle Paul had started churches. I thought it would be a great opportunity for me to see the world , I had no idea that I would be seeing Jesus. We boarded a cruise ship in Venice, Italy and sailed for Turkey where we were to first visit the ancient city Ephesus. There were 450 people aboard the ship and every single one of them were Christian. I thought to myself Oh no, not a bunch of ‘Christians’ I’m surrounded. God had me cornered at this point and it was hard to run. The Lord really began to work on my heart. As we visited these cities I remembered the stories I had learned when I was younger and I began to realize the truth. When I was in Ephesus God spoke to me just as He did in Revelation chapter 2 to the church in Ephesus. He said “Mark, remember your first love.” I realized that I had left it but the time to return was now. It was then that I surrendered my life to God and made Jesus the Lord of my life.

Shortly after I attended the Calvary Chapel Bible College in Murrietta, California. Within 6 months the Lord began to lay a huge burden on my heart. He was calling me to be a missionary. I had desired to travel to India long before I got saved so that I might find some “enlightenment” but now I wanted to go to India and bring the “Light of the world.” I met Danny Williamson not long afterwards and discovered he had the same burden as I. We were able to scout out the land of India in 2002. I also attended the Horizon School of Evangelism in the spring of 2003. I know that I have a definite call upon my life to serve Jesus on the mission field and raise up others to do the same.

The Lord blessed me greatly at the end of 2004 by allowing me to marry the most beautiful Indian woman. Joy is such a wonderful partner, she shares the same burden for the lost as I do. I look forward to spending many years together serving Jesus on the mission field.

I thank and praise the Lord every day for His incredible grace that He has bestowed upon my life. For it is only by His grace that I breathe each breath, and am allowed to share with others the amazing love that He has for each and every one of us.

Joy Schneider

I was born & brought up in a God fearing Christian family where my father and mother served the Lord as missionaries in India. On 4th April 1986 Sunday evening meeting my father was preaching about the love of Jesus and how He came to forgive the people and shed His blood for me and for the world, the Spirit of God started to convict me of my sins and I acknowledge that I was a sinner and gave my heart and asked Jesus to come into my Life as Lord and Savior, it was the most wonderful and joyous day in my life. As I was growing up I was getting lost into the worldly things, I forgot about my first Love, when I was 15yrs I attended a youth meeting where God reminded me that He’s my first Love & it was then that I got my call to serve the Lord as a missionary, since then I’ve surrender my Life completely to Him.

I did my Discipleship Training School with Youth With A Mission (YWAM), India in 1994 where I learnt to Know Him and make Him Known through my daily life, did my first outreach in Pune for two and a half months sharing and preaching the Word to the Lost, those first hand experiences are still fresh in my mind. I continued to work with YWAM. God put a heavy burden in my heart for the young people of this generation, my desire was to share & equip them to serve the Lord, So I did a another school with YWAM called Principles of Child & Youth Ministry (PCYM) in Wales, Great Britain. Then I came back to my country staffed & lead few schools (PCYM).Then God called me to go to Denmark to work there with YWAM, was there for a year, Discipling young people to served and lead.

After many years of praying & waiting for a Godly Missionary Husband, God blessed me with Mark Schneider. I got the opportunity to join him & his outreach team in India for 3 months, where I experienced God’s power move mightily & His amazing love touching many lives. On the 4th of December 2004 I got married to Mark Schneider, I’m so blessed and excited to serve the King and spread the good news along side with him.

Behold Now is the accepted time, Behold now is the day of Salvation!!