Our Team

Terry and Rosie both grew up in Christian homes and in churches where missions was promoted. As a teen Rosie was challenged in her walk with God and was burdened for those around her. As she thought about her future career she knew that she wanted to do something that involved bringing souls to heaven. She went off to Bible school seeking direction in regards to how she could be involved in missions.

Terry was challenged to be involved in tribal missions as a young man when he saw the slideshow, “Each Stick had a Name” and realized that there were still places in the world that had no gospel witness or Bible in their language. He decided to go to Nipawin Bible College which is where he met Rosie!

Terry & Rosie were married in 1990 and began training with Ethnos Canada (founded in 1942 as New Tribes Mission) a few years later. They arrived in Papua New Guinea in January 1997 with their two children, Troy and Kara. Sharla was born and added to the family two years later. The Banmans lived and worked in the Wusuraambya People Group for 11 years along with their team mates and were involved in discipleship of the growing church.

After that they moved to the central area support centre to take care of new missionaries and were mentored into the leadership team. While serving in that capacity they discipled local believers, and took on many other responsibilities needed to support missionaries living in the remote language groups.

Terry & Rosie currently reside in Canada as part of the Ethnos Church Relations team, bringing awareness of the desperate needs of the least-reached people groups of the World and to make His name known among the nations (Ethnos)!

Part-Time Editor and Western Canada Representative for Ethnos Canada

Martin Lamb grew up on the mission field, in Papua New Guinea, with Ethnos. Since that time, God has continued to burn the passion in his heart for reaching unreached people groups.

After meeting his wife Tammy at Ethnos’s Bible school, EBI, in Jackson, Michigan, they were married in January 1993 and settled down in Southern Ontario. They soon started a family as they waited on the Lord’s leading for their future. It was during this time that the Lord led them to serve with another ministry called Gospel for Asia; helping to support national workers in church planting throughout the Indian subcontinent. After 14 years of serving as Development Director with GFA and seeing much growth in the work, the Lord has led them back to serve with Ethnos Canada to help with public relations and development. This life experience, together with his upbringing on the mission field, has given Martin a great sense of responsibility to challenge the Church here in Canada with the urgent cry of the unreached.

“Tammy and I believe it is our great privilege and responsibility to represent hundreds of unreached people groups that have no opportunity to hear the Gospel unless someone is willing to take it to them. It is our great desire to raise up more labourers for the harvest for Jesus himself said, “The harvest is plentiful but the labourers are few.”

Part-Time Editor and Director of Public Relations for Ethnos Canada

Though I trusted in the Lord as a young child, I spent years not trusting His guidance and provision for my life. This led to ungodly decisions and a life outside the fullness of His blessing. Yet He continually drew me, and, in January 2001, He got hold of the whole of me — and there has been no looking back.

I have worked in Christian ministry as an editor and author since 2005, mostly with Everyday Publications (EPI, Port Colborne, ON), though I work remotely from northern Ontario. EPI equips missionaries and full-time workers worldwide with sound, easy-to-read biblical literature for the ongoing growth and maturation of the Church.

In 2020, I felt led through an Ethnos prayer update to offer myself to Ethnos as an editor, and I was soon welcomed onto the Establish team. Though Establish comes “wrapped in a different package” than EPI, its heart is the same, and I am now greatly blessed in having also been granted a share in this life-changing ministry.

I love that our material is established and built on the character of God and His relentless pursuit of mankind, and I love that the goal of our material is discipleship — inviting others into eternal relationship with our great God and Saviour, walking with them as they grow, and equipping them to walk alongside others. Our Lord is glorified as we allow Him to build His Church in His way.

Please pray with our team as we continue to develop this discipleship material. Pray for growing unity, discernment, clarity, and guidance. Please pray for my family — my husband Michael, our three adult children, and their families. The enemy would discourage and destroy, but — praise be to our great God — our Champion is the Victor! Might our lives and our work in Jesus’ name truly exalt and glorify Him who redeemed us to God by His own blood.

Loving God by serving others,

Eunice Free

Writer, Chief Editor, Curriculum Developer and Typesetter

Dave and Judy both grew up in Christian homes and in churches that believed in preaching the gospel to ALL nations, so both were well exposed to missions. But it was an Ethnos missionary with his real-life accounts of reaching the hidden peoples of the world that ignited in Dave a huge passion to reach them for Christ.

Judy’s desire to grow in her relationship with the Lord led her to Bible school. There, God challenged her into missions, and there God brought her and Dave together to pursue God’s passion for the unreached.

They married in 1990 and signed on for Ethnos missions training in 1992. For the next four years, they made every effort to prepare for the field, with Dave in construction and Judy in medical training. Then in 1996 they set out for their first assignment in Papua New Guinea.

They served in a number of support roles before joining a church planting team among the Mengen people. Then came the day when the team had translated sufficient Scripture to share “the gospel of Christ,…the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes” in the heart language of the people and within the context of their culture. A church was born as God gloriously set free a people once enslaved by sin. Though the church experiences growing pains, it continues to mature.

While on furlough in 2015, a Woodland Cree Elder/evangelist pursued Dave, eager to learn how to effectively build a church that would continue to mature. He asked if what had been developed by Ethnos overseas could be shared with his people here. This was the beginning of ‘Establish – A foundational disciple-making series.’ Now, through Establish, God is beginning to bless both aboriginal and non-aboriginal churches right here in Canada.

Team Leader, Writer, Editor, Curriculum Developer, Discipler/Trainer

I grew up in a Christian home under the teaching of my dad who clearly shared the gospel with me and helped me understand that I was lost, separated from God, and that salvation is a gift of God for all who trust in what Christ accomplished through the finished work of the cross. It was at eight years of age when I surrendered my life to Christ and received Him as my personal Lord and Saviour.

During my growing up years, I spent many hours under the discipleship of my Father searching the Scriptures, often late into the evening hours. My passion for God, His Word, and serving Him continued to grow throughout the years. God soon opened doors for me to serve in the local church teaching Sunday School, young adults, and small groups. It wasn't long and God opened up more opportunities for me, resulting in serving on the Board of Valley Christian Academy and numerous Christian ministries.

In the early years of my faith journey with the Lord, He impressed my heart a passion and desire too strong to ignore, that He was calling me to become a pastor. God provide for me to see that come to fruition. Together with my wife Anne as my greatest support, I had the privilege to pastor a few churches, of which the last twenty-five years were at Osler Mission Chapel.

During this time the church had two missionary couples, Dave & Judy Wright and Dan Theresa serving with, at that time New Tribes Missions, now Ethnos Canada in PNG. This is where my connection and relationship with Ethnos Canada grew and became very meaningful. We had the privilege of spending personal time with our missionary couples in PNG, an opportunity we will always cherish!

Later I had the privilege to serve on the Board of Directors for Ethnos Canada for a six-year term. My role with Ethnos has since changed to a volunteer position which I believe is God's leading.

My work with Establish now consists of editing the lessons for theological and doctrinal accuracy. May God bless the work making disciples who disciple others!

Part-Time Editor