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Left to Right:

(Back row) Don Batz (Treasurer), Don Schmidt (Secretary), Bill Yoast (President), John Brush, Ken Ratzlaff (Vice-president), Linden Unruh

(Front row) Jim Hiebert, El Roy Ratzlaff, Paul Unruh, Bob Ratzlaff. 

(Back Row)

• Don Batz (Treasurer) - has been a board member since 1997 and lives in Pleasant Hill, CA.  Don has also been a board member of Berean Christian High School, Walnut Creek, CA, for 25 years; and is a former deacon.
   
• Don Schmidt (Secretary) -  has been a board member since 1985 and lives in Morro Bay, CA.  Don has many years of involvement with Hispanic ministry in central California, most of that time as a pastor.  He has been working within American Missionary Fellowship churches on the Central coast of California.  Don is an Elder at Baywood Park Community Church, Los Osos, CA
  
  
• Bill Yoast (President) has been a board member since 1974. He lives in Lawton, OK   Over the years he has had various positions at Faith Bible Church, Lawton, OK He is currently adult Sunday school teacher, and serves on  the executive board and the benevolent committee.
  
  
• John Brush - - has been serving at EMM since 2008 and lives in Fennville, MI.  John has served as church elder, deacon and other church offices; Currently he is a deacon at Bethel Baptist Church, South Haven, MI.
   
• Ken Ratzlaff (Vice-president) - has been a board member since 1997. He lives in Bangor, MI Ken is an elder of Hope Reformed Church, South Haven, MI
   
• Linden Unruh - Was the first missionary appointed by EMM upon its incorporation in 1954.  He started serving together with Walter Gomez approximately a year before the official formation of the mission - Read more about his life and history under :Current Missionaries or in a short history downloadable in an E-book format covering the history of EMM.

(Front Row)

• Jim Hiebert - has been serving as an EMM board member since 2008. His father was a board member for 47 years until his death in 2008. Jim lives in Winter Haven, FL and is a former deacon and Master Plan Committee member at Faith Baptist Church in Winter Haven, FL, where he has been a member for 15 years; Senior Adult director there for 4 years.
   
• El Roy Ratzlaff (director emeritus) - began serving as a board member in 1989. He came to mission headquarters in 1991 to be office manager after retiring from 34 years in Christian school administration. After Walter Gomez passed away in 1999, El Roy became the executive director and held that position until March 2009.  He and his wife are living their second retirement years in Reedley, CA..
   
• Paul Unruh -  Son of Linden Unruh, EMM's first missionary, Paul grew up in Mexico and returned to serve the Lord there as well.  He has been serving as a missionary since 1986 and an EMM board member since 2007.  He was a Professor and registrar at the seminary in Monclova prior to it's move to Pachuca.  Paul has served as former president and now Academic Dean of CETyM seminary in Pachuca and serves on it's administrative board.
   
• Bob Ratzlaff - has been serving as an EMM board member since 2009 and lives in Grove, OK.
  He has spent four years as volunteer presenter (along with his wife) of "Be Transformed" seminars in our seminary and churches in Mexico; With thirteen years of volunteer work in a Biblical Counseling Ministry, Bob is active in church leadership and administration in two different churches as an elder.