howFar International Leadership Announcement

For Immediate Release - June 2026

As many of you know, I retired from Leadership Ministries a year ago in April.  Since that time, Renée and I have settled my mother's and brother's estates, and dedicated much of our time to strengthening our leadership team and structure to enable strategic growth. Recently, I was asked to lead our church as Interim Pastor while we seek God’s leading for our future.

Some of our senior leadership team met to discuss plans for the future of howFar Africa. January 2026 - Kigali, Rwanda.

Currently, there are fifty-seven howFar Ministries churches, one Pastor's Training Center - with two more to launch in the next 18 months, two orphanages, and other projects to include conferences, associated schools, feeding programs during food scarcity seasons, agricultural training and assistance, maze mills and micro loan projects. 

Mark & Renée Maynard with Diane and Carl Moffi at their home at Oak Island, NC,

In addition, board member Diane Moffi leads howFar Haiti. Our primary emphases in Haiti include orphan care, financial support for education, and microloan programs.

I am pleased to announce that we are launching Men who goFar Africa this quarter. Our plan is to establish a men’s leadership development team at each of our current 56 churches. We will utilize the development and training materials that my team created while I served as President of Leadership Ministries and Friday Morning Men’s Fellowship. www.leadmin.org

Here are several leadership changes that we have made. 

1. Jim Kelly, who has served us well as President of howFar Ministries and The How Far Foundation, has accepted the role of Chaiman of our Board of Directors. In this role he will guide our humanitarian activities and lead the Board of Directors.

2. Reuben Tiges, pastor of the first church howFar Ministries planted and built in sub-Saharan, Africa, has been elevated to Bishop of howFar Churches of Africa and Counselor to the Founders of howFar Ministries Worldwide. He will oversee the eight howFar churches in Kenya, all howFar projects in Kenya, the forthcoming Pastors Training Center at Lake Jipe, Kenya, and Men who goFar of Kenya.
   
   

   

   Emmanuel Lazier (l), Mark Maynard, and Reuben Tiges (r) present a bicycle to a new pastor at the howFar Pastors Training Center, Tanzania.

3. Emmanuel Lazier, Bishop of howFar Churches of Tanzania, has been elevated to Associate Bishop of howFar Churches of Africa.  In his new role, he will continue to lead the 27 howFar Churches of Tanzania and act as a Chief Operating Officer with day-to-day leadership responsibility for all howFar Ministries projects in Africa.
   
   

   

   Bishop Mundola of DR Congo (l) and Associate Bishop Lazier of howFar Africa (r) at the January 2026 planning meeting in Kigali, Rwanda.

4. John Mundola has been elevated to Bishop of howFar Churches of DR Congo,  John will oversee the fourteen howFar Churches of DR Congo, the forthcoming Pastors Training Center of Goma, the two howFar Orphanages in Goma, and Men who goFar of Congo.

5. Renovat Barutwanay will continue to oversee the three howFar Churches of Burundi.

Please join us in congratulating our leaders on their new roles and for committing to pray for each of them.

A Rough Year in Haiti

Haiti 2025 - Diane Moffi, howFar Haiti Director

 

It's been another rough year for the people of Haiti.  Gangs control 90% of the capital, Port au Prince and are expanding their territory outside the capital at an alarming rate!

 

With all that going on, howFar Haiti created a program in 2025 for at-risk children called:  “I am Worthy”. The program is designed to take children who might tend to fall into gang-related activity and teach them about God and his love and his plan for each of us.  They are taught about self-esteem and how to conduct themselves in society, they learn about sports and the importance of being in school.  Our onsite director, Alince Joseph said this about the program:  “Our priority for them is to create a strong new generation who loves God, has the ability to develop themselves into productive adults and stay in school.”  There are ten children in the program right now and they meet once a month on a Saturday.

 

Please pray that God will continue to bless this program and that we can expand to include even more children in 2026.

They Beat Us With Rods