Jeff Diehl

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Jeff Diehl is originally from the Albany, New York area where he grew up at the First Baptist Church of Westerlo. He has served as a missionary in Kosovo with CrossWorld since 2005, returning stateside in 2016. Jeff started Short Term Missions trips with Touch the World Ministries from the age of 13 and felt God’s call to it full time at the age of 19. Losing all his possessions in a fire on a mission trip, he was faced with his own selfish intentions and desires for life and was there called into full-time ministry. Transferring out of a Mech Engineering major, he later graduated from Lancaster Bible College with a BS both in Bible and Inter-Cultural Studies.

After dating for 5 years, Jeff married Deb Bartley, his childhood sweetheart (they literally met in the nursery!) after college in 2002. Knowing they were called into Missions they focussed their effort to pay off school and get to the field as they learned how to have a healthy marriage and ministry “post grad” in the local church. God lead them into a close relationship with CrossWorld and God lead them into church planting amongst Muslims in the war-torn country of Kosovo in Eastern Europe. There he helped develop a youth community center, run summer English camps, and love people practically by the living power of Christ. This love soon developed into creating a home building business to provide jobs, coach skills and grow disciples. God has called him back to his home sending church now to help lead younger generations to pursue God at all costs and functioning together as an integral part of the family of God. He has now enjoyed 6 years of fruitful ministry here Stateside.

Jeff and Deb have four children, Emma, Benjamin, Hannah & Mia. They have a home and live in Greenville, NY.

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