Rev. Claude and Rhoda Houge are based in Kenya, but work throughout East Africa, including Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Sudan.

Claude serves as the area facilitator for East Africa and works with national church partners in supervising regional Mission Training Centers (MTCs) in the various countries. The MTC model has proven to be particularly effective in Africa, where the church is expanding more quickly than leaders can be trained. MTCs help equip national church leaders to serve as church planters among their own people and as missionaries to neighboring people groups.

Rhoda is the business manager for the East Africa field, as well as the volunteer coordinator, assisting with mission visitors to East Africa.

From 1998 to 2003 the Houges worked with LCMS World Mission in Ghana. Claude previously served in the LCMS as a teacher, lay minister, and pastor in Nebraska, Ohio, and California. Both Claude and Rhoda are graduates of Concordia University in Seward, Nebraska, where Rhoda also earned a master's degree. They were missionaries with Lutheran Bible Translators for 10 years.

The Houges invite you to be partners with them in reaching the lost in East Africa with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Pray that the Holy Spirit blesses the training of new leaders and the extension of the Lord's Kingdom!