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Dave Marcum - General Director
General Director TITUS International Institute (1991-Present)
Special Projects Coordinator, TITUS International Institute (1988-1991)
Mission Field director (Far East) and Candidate Secretary, Baptist International Missions, Inc. (BIMI), Chattanooga. (1983-1987)
Mission Field Director (Southeast Asia), BIMI. (1980-1983)
Missionary Pastor in Hawaii, Koolau Baptist Church (1977-1980)
Mission Representative, BIMI (1974-1977)
Missionary to Japan—started three churches and co-founded a Bible Institute in partnership with three other missionaries (1963-1974)
Dave has ministered in missionary conferences and meetings in over 200 churches in America and 15 foreign countries. Dave has also had the great privilege of seeing his missionary service come full circle.
In 1970, Dave and his wife Alice were working as church-planting missionaries in Kakogawa, Japan. Among the first to come to Christ in those early days were some young married couples. Two couples in particular each had children, one family gave birth to a boy named Masato. The second family gave birth to a girl named Miki. Both of these families dedicated their children to the Lord and continued growing in the grace and knowledge of God. As a result the two children came to know the Lord as their Savior at an early age. Many years later, these two children, now adults, became husband and wife. Mr. & Mrs. Masato Funakoshi surrendered to missions and attended a Bible college in Florida following their marriage.
The full cycle of missions began to occur in 1995 when Masato shared with Dave his missionary call to the former Soviet Union. Half of their support was raised in the United States, and the remaining half was raised in Japan. The Kakogawa Baptist Church, which Dave planted 40 years ago, became the young couple's sending church [pictured]. Now Masato and Miki Funakoshi serve in Odessa, Ukraine as TITUS International missionaries. Truly God has blessed Dave Marcum and his family to see the fruits of his missionary labors, now multiplied in the lives of those whose parents he led to the Lord so many years ago.
In 1970, Dave and his wife Alice were working as church-planting missionaries in Kakogawa, Japan. Among the first to come to Christ in those early days were some young married couples. Two couples in particular each had children, one family gave birth to a boy named Masato. The second family gave birth to a girl named Miki. Both of these families dedicated their children to the Lord and continued growing in the grace and knowledge of God. As a result the two children came to know the Lord as their Savior at an early age. Many years later, these two children, now adults, became husband and wife. Mr. & Mrs. Masato Funakoshi surrendered to missions and attended a Bible college in Florida following their marriage.
The full cycle of missions began to occur in 1995 when Masato shared with Dave his missionary call to the former Soviet Union. Half of their support was raised in the United States, and the remaining half was raised in Japan. The Kakogawa Baptist Church, which Dave planted 40 years ago, became the young couple's sending church [pictured]. Now Masato and Miki Funakoshi serve in Odessa, Ukraine as TITUS International missionaries. Truly God has blessed Dave Marcum and his family to see the fruits of his missionary labors, now multiplied in the lives of those whose parents he led to the Lord so many years ago.