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OUR STAFF 

The COI Team are experts in short-term missions. Leading and hosting mission outreaches is our passion. Every COI Base Director has no less than 12 years, full-time, hands on, ministry experience. Most are not only COI missionaries, but licensed, trained and practicing pastors, leaders, or coaches. Everyone who serves in any type of COI staff position, including the ministries we partner with on the field, have been thoroughly vetted, and/or background checked. Safety is our first and foremost concern.

Our passionate hearts are at the core of our service with COI.  We have the same DNA, and burden you do… God, people, nations, missions, outreach. We are all about ministry. We do it, full time, even when teams are not on the field with us. Our purpose to is provide groups, teams, and individuals, a personal and quality outreach experience when partnering in missions with us.

We understand the reason for your mission outreach. We know your heart is to raise yourself, or your group up to learn personal ministry to others and cultivate a life-long love for missions and outreach. We are here to serve you, and minister along side you, helping you do what God is calling you to do during your week of service.

We know, from almost 30 years and literally hundreds of competent, fruitful outreaches, what needs to be done during the trip, and what does not need to be done on your outreach. Our priority is your success. Our focus is you and your team making a difference with your ministry. By touching the heart of God, you will carry away a lifetime of memories from a meaningful week of service!

Click on each team member to read more about them or support them!

MaryAlice Isleib

Exec Director

MaryAlice Isleib’s 1979 short term mission trip as a basketball player changed not only her destiny, but the destiny of her family. Her father, Jack Isleib, was so deeply touched by the results, that he and his wife Rosa, stepped out in faith to start Christian Sports Outreach Int’l in 1984.

During Jack and Rosa’s time, Christian Outreach International had released over 25,000 short-term and full-time missionaries, established mission base properties, English as Second Language Schools, Mission Training Schools, and diverse mission projects world-wide.

In 2004, at Jack’s passing, MaryAlice, a long standing COI Board member and ordained minister, was asked by the Board to take leadership of the organization. She agreed, and combines her itinerant ministry with directing  COI.

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Jack & Rosa Isleib
COI Founders

MaryAlice and the COI Team have continued to mobilize thousands of believers and churches to action. They ignite volunteerism and compassion in participants. They also encourage leadership, full-time service, and passion to advance the Kingdom through local and worldwide outreaches.  SInce 2005, over 5,000 have been mobilized to 30 mission and disaster relief sites. Bringing hope and healing to the nations, COI continues Jack and Rosa Isleib’s legacy of mission and outreach.

In her 30th year of full-time ministry, MaryAlice leads with experience, credibility and a reputation for integrity. She is assisted in decision making by the COI Board, and COI Advisory Council.

MA speaking 2MaryAlice maintains her speaking and teaching ministry that is celebrated in over 50 nations. Educated in evangelistic ministry at Oral Roberts University and Rhema Bible Training Center, she is a certified Crisis/Trauma Response Counselor, and author of best-selling books, Effective Fervent Prayer and Healing Toxic Emotions. She is available to speak in church, mission, and women’s events.

MaryAlice can be reached at leadcoi@yahoo.com

To support the MaryAlice and the efforts of COI: #01

Make a one-time donation by clicking the Donate button on the bottom of the page. To designate, follow the prompts to “add special instruction to COI”.  Type in that box, “gift to #01”.  Please, no missionaries names, only numbers. Thank you.

Phillip Malakar

COI India

Philip Malakar is a COI national missionary in New Delhi, India. He is the Founder and Director of Indian Christian Fellowship.  Since 1976, he has been teaching, preaching and evangelizing. His radio ministry reaches far away villages. Philip has 13 pastors/evangelists under his care with house churches in different regions, including the country of Bhutan. ICF currently consists of 74 house churches in 289 villages, 1286 cell groups.

They have thriving outreaches to youth, children, orphans, woman and girls, a literacy program, sewing program and medical/first aid care. Philip hosts regular video and live Skype training/educational programs for pastors and leaders. They also provide leaders and churches with farming training and seeds to raise self-sustaining farms that provide food and medicinal plants for believers.  Philip and his team share the gospel with signs following in many unevangelized area, many which are havens of persecution against Christians and the gospel. He and his team spread the Gospel with joy in the midst of hardship.

Philip and his wife Sheila have two children.

To support the Phillip and Indian Community Fellowship: #75

You can make a one-time donation by clicking the Donate button on the bottom of the page. To designate to him, follow the prompts to “add special instruction to COI”.  Type in that box, “gift to #75”.  Please, no missionaries names, only numbers. Thank you.

Paul Kamunge

COI Kenya

Paul and his family have been serving as missionaries with COI in their native land of Kenya since 2004. They pastor a thriving village church. Dr. Kamange is also the Dean of Moffatt Bible College where there are up to 70 students from diverse tribes and countries come each semester training for ministry. The also started a ministry for those seriously affected by the AIDs-HIV virus. There are 25 children and their families in the program and doing very well! The Kamange family lives in Kijabe with two of their children. Their oldest son is a college student in the US.

To support the Kamange’s: #287, Sunrise Aids Program #287D, Moffat Bible College #287F, Kenya General 287G

You can make a one-time donation by clicking the Donate button on the bottom of the page. To designate to the Kamange’s, follow the prompts to “add special instruction to COI”.  Type in that box, “gift to #287 (or other # above)”.  Please, no missionaries or project names, only numbers. Thank you.