MISSIONARY PROFILE
Takis
& April
Korianitis
Missionary Information
Name:
Takis Korianitis
Age: 53
Spouse:
April Korianitis
Age: 55
Child: Zoe Korianitis
Age: 31
Child: Fotinos Korianitis
Age: 26
Child: Kyriakos Korianitis
Age: 18
Child: Anestis Korianitis
Age: 17
Mission Field: Greece
Years of Service: 27
Home Church: Faith Baptist Church
Somis, California
Missions Agency: Baptist Missions to Forgotten People
Jacksonville, Florida
Our Missionary for 11 years
Missionary Update 10/16/2023
Dear co laborers in Christ, FAMILY NEWS: Glory to God!!!! Our son Anestis Daniel came to accept the Lord Jesus as his savior!! Thank you, thank you for praying with us for him. These have been a couple of tough years dealing with all the attacks on him and us. He was baptized on October 1st, and he already got to serve the Lord by playing the mandolin in worship along with Kyriakos and Zoe as I lead. What a blessing!!! We feel complete as a family now!! Kyriakos got his 1st job at a local grocery store in the produce department. He is taking this year to work and save some money for college. He is feeling called by the Lord to preach. He said “dad, when you are gone someone else needs to continue your work. I feel that God is calling me to preach…” Please pray for him as he is seeking the Lord’s will. Our daughter Zoe also is thinking about being a missionary here. She will need to seek partial support from churches while she will be working part time with children to keep that door open for evangelism. Pray for God’s leading in her life. I also had the opportunity to visit 3 churches in a couple of weeks’ time. Very short trip to the Eastern and Southern States, but it was needed. CHURCH NEWS: Summer day camp was a success!!!! We had up to 35 children. Last year we had up to 17. Next year we expect more. It has been one of the talks of the island amongst young parents. 30 families were evangelized through the children for 2 months. What a blessing that was. Needless to say, we were exhausted at the end. Please pray for next year’s Camp as to workers that we will need, wisdom, safety, salvations. Parents also asked us to extend the days to the end of August. Pray that we will be able to do that. Our Music school is still going strong even with the opposition we face from the local priest. He knows that it is a way for us to connect with the community and he hates it. Please continue to pray for this ministry also. The church building is going on but short of about $25,000 to finish. We are pleased with the Internet Bible Radio as well with Facebook and YouTube media. The Lord is using it for His Glory! We have started a Facebook closed group called “The Korianitis in Greece” If you use Facebook and you wish to connect to this group that we post pictures and videos on things that happen and be informed regularly about our ministry, please sent us a request to join the group. Maria Korianitis is a daughter of one of my second cousins. While I was talking to her last week, she told me that she accepted the Lord this past year. She has been attending church faithfully. She also helped at the Camp. She wants to play her flute at church, but she has not been baptized yet. While talking with her she teared up when I explained that she should get baptized first. The problem is that her father hates our church because we have changed the ways of their Greek lives, thus he will not allow her to be baptized. She wants to get baptized secretly, but I advised to wait till March when it will be her 18th birthday and that she will be able to make her own discissions. Her mother does not object, but the parents are divorced. Praise the Lord for her salvation, and please pray for Maria as she wants to honor her father but also follow the Lord. · We request that you do not post this letter on public media or web sites because of sensitive information on our ministry. Please Pray for: Anestis Daniel our 16year old new life with the Lord. Maria Korianitis, our niece. Kyriakos James our 18year old decision making. Salvation of Greeks from Greek religious traditions and sin. Summer Day Care. Safety, wisdom, salvations, finances. More workers for the harvest in Greece. The new Church building Finances. We need 25.000 euro to finish. Outreach through Music. Outreach via social Internet Bible Radio. Follow the link bellow to view photos. https://photos.app.goo.gl/mohZTH6zWnrLvr759
Missionary Update 03/22/2022
We were surprised to see that we have not communicated with you for so long!!!!! Life has been very busy here for us! Harvesting the olives, collecting the wood for our heating for the winter and many opportunities to witness through music were some of the activities that kept us busy. Personal counseling, Bible Studies, Preaching, Youth Club and Prayer Meetings were ministries that filled our days, weeks and months. Αlong with the ongoing New Building Project, working on the camp grounds for fencing, and my (Takis) mother’s care. Despite all the covid regulations and restrictions we were able to conduct our services freely without any interruptions from the civil protection group. We greatly appreciate all of you that are praying and giving towards our new building project. The war in Ukraine has raised the price of everything in the market. So, at the end of February, we took a break from building until things and prices are stabilized and lowered. For now, we are directing some financial help to missionaries we know up in Hungry and Romania to help with refugees. We have a need for this building, but other believers have a greater need at this time. We do not forward the funds that you have sent for the building, instead, we utilize our missions account and special offerings. In our music school we have a small choir of mostly girls from the age of 5 to 9. Some parents have asked if we would host a summer camp this year. We are not able to commit to having a camp this year again because of the uncertainty of covid and now of the war. April and I thought to acquire more information on what the need is. The parents communicated to us they would rather leave their children to our care during their work season of the summer than at any other place in Zakynthos, including the grandparents. They would need this care from June 15 to September 15. Our camps usually run for 1 or 2 weeks, but this will be for 3 months. There are about 10 children that are interested, so we are going to give it a try. April and I along with our 2 boys. This will be a tremendous opportunity to witness to these children for 3 months!!! This is a “pilot test” of a vision that I have had for years: to conduct a day care through the summer months when many parents need a place for their children while they work. Please Pray for: Salvation and freedom of Greeks from Greek religious traditions and sin. More workers for the harvest in Greece. The future Church building Finances. The Summer Day Care. Mother’s needs and salvation (her name is Zoe) Our radio to keep reaching Greeks in Greece and around the world Outreach through Music. Outreach via social media. Wisdom for April and I as we deal with the needs of people.
Missionary Update 12/09/2021
“Heretic…” it has been a while that I heard that word, but it sure sounds good when you know they called your Lord the same… Our main objective has been to infiltrate more into the community by participating in various events. It has been very hard with all the Covid restrictions we are facing here to have any public events. Never the less, we keep working towards that goal. Music is the one way that we have been able to achieve that. The more we get involved with people the more we are able to hear their opinion about everything, including us. That is where a first cousin referred to me as “the heretic”. Despite that, the Lord has been working on several people’s hearts that we have met. There are 3 families that have asked for our help with their families’ and lives’ problems. Satan’s darts try to find their target, but faith is a greatest shield that the Lord has provided for us. Through Biblical counsel we have been able to save a marriage, encourage disappointed children, uplift a desperate mother and all this by sharing the Lord’s love through the cross. The more we are in community the more we hear the hearts of the people and the more we can share the gospel. Covid is meant to be a curse but we have seen God work through it to reach people. People get more desperate as time goes on. The government just passed a law to charge 100 euro those over 60years old who have not taken the vaccine by January 16 2022. We are in a partial lock down. The unvaccinated are not allowed indoors anywhere even with a rapid test. The funny thing is that even though unvaccinated people cannot go in a theatre, the people on stage can perform without being vaccinated…. It reminds me of segregation… “you cannot watch, but you can perform for us”. Nuts!! Unvaccinated police officers are forbiting unvaccinated people to enter the church without rapid testing… The government demands 2 tests per week. Our children are not to go to school without testing twice a week. All this craziness is leading people to a state of confusion, desperation and hopelessness…, and that is when the Lord works. Our views on Facebook are over 2100 per month. More likes on the Church’s page, more followers and likes on the YouTube page and Internet radio. These are incredible numbers for Greece when you know that there are people that strongly believe that you are a heretic and you are trying to destroy the Greek ways by your western and foreign teaching. BUT they cannot get over the Word of God!! We stand strongly on the infallibility of the Word of God and we totally trust in it for everything. I have to constantly fight not to get into aimless philosophical conversation and fables that are for old women….Staying focused on the word of God gives us the Faith we need to have to be able to stand in this adverse and opposing society. We were able to do some work on the building but is going very slow because of the confinements. Please take time to view the videos and the chart below. Please Pray for: Salvation and freedom of Greeks from Greek religious traditions and sin. More workers for the harvest in Greece. The future Church building Finances. The Summer Day Care. Mother’s needs and salvation (her name is Zoe) Our radio to keep reaching Greeks in Greece and around the world Outreach through Music. Outreach via social media. Wisdom for April and I as we deal with the needs of people. As of December 1st 2021 Have raised: $60,894 of $98,750. Remaining ammount to be raised $37,856 Follow link to view pictures and video. Building Project. https://photos.app.goo.gl/gPozbFVvrabMy2YT7
Missionary Update 05/12/2017
Dear Friends, After our last video update, we were severely attacked by Satan. The last 4 months have been very hard for me (Takis). Many people have died during these last 4 months. The priest that I grew up with and has persecuted us has gone to eternity without Christ. An aunt of mine followed, then a friend that we grew up together committed suicide at 48. One of my cousins slipped away to eternity lost, at age 61. A best friend’s mother passed away, and a few more people from our village. Since yesterday my oldest brother 62 has been admitted to the hospital with a heart attack. We faced some family problems that ended in a positive way. Yes, we too are human and face difficulties in our lives. Sometimes things get very tough out here and without your prayers we would not have endured the difficulties. In the midst of all this the Lord has been working on hearts of people and especially on our youngest son Anestis. On April 9th on Sunday morning, he told April that he prayed in his room and asked Jesus to forgive him and save him from the fire. Then when he got to the church, he asked to speak to me privately and he told me about his experience that morning. He was reading a chick tract as he said, but he prayed his own prayer. He told his mommy that he could no longer help her with the little ones because from then on, he would be attending the services and listen to daddy. “I am going to be a Bible boy from now on” he said. We praise the Lord for His great blessings to us. Now, all of our family is in the family of God! Of course, we continue to pray for all our extended family, Grandpas, grandmas, uncles, aunties, and cousins. Our church’s newspaper has over 500 readers on our face book page, and we print more than 1000 every month. Also, the Greek Bible Radio has followers from around the world. Some of the listeners are in various parts of USA, Germany, UK, Australia, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, and other parts of Greece and the world. People can listen via our web site: https://zantebiblebaptistchurch.com , via the Tune in site: http://tunein.com/radio/Aletheias-Faros-Greek-Radio-s280359/ By downloading the app from the apple store or from the Google store. Please consider supporting the creator and host of our Greek Bible Radio, Matt Crane, manager of “Final Fight Bible Radio”. https://www.finalfightbibleradio.com/ I will be traveling to the States in May to drive our son Fotinos to a Bible College in North Dakota. It will be a much lower cost for us in this college. The blessing from this is not just financial, but his decision to study missions and to come back to Greece to serve the Lord. We are excited to have a team from the state of WA come to help with summer camp this year. We greatly appreciate your love in finances and prayer! Pray for: • Anestis’ new life in Christ. • The “Faros”, our monthly newspaper, and the new Web Radio Station to reach 18 million Greeks around the world. • The Greeks’ freedom from idolatry and dead works to salvation. • Fotinos’ School year and direction to Bible College. My traveling with him from CA to ND • Summer camp dates are July 10th- 15th.
Newsletter
Missionary Update 04/24/2017
Dear Friends, After our last video update, we were severely attacked by Satan. The last 4 months have been very hard for me (Takis). Many people have died during these last 4 months. The priest that I grew up with and has persecuted us has gone to eternity without Christ. An aunt of mine followed, then a friend that we grew up together committed suicide at 48. One of my cousins slipped away to eternity lost, at age 61. A best friend's mother passed away, and a few more people from our village. Since yesterday my oldest brother 62 has been admitted to the hospital with a heart attack. We faced some family problems that ended in a positive way. Yes, we too are human and face difficulties in our lives. Sometimes things get very tough out here and without your prayers we would not have endured the difficulties. In the midst of all this the Lord has been working on hearts of people and especially on our youngest son Anestis. On April 9th on Sunday morning, he told April that he prayed in his room and asked Jesus to forgive him and save him from the fire. Then when he got to the church, he asked to speak to me privately and he told me about his experience that morning. He was reading a chick tract as he said, but he prayed his own prayer. He told his mommy that he could no longer help her with the little ones because from then on, he would be attending the services and listen to daddy. “I am going to be a Bible boy from now on” he said. We praise the Lord for His great blessings to us. Now, all of our family is in the family of God! Of course, we continue to pray for all our extended family, Grandpas, grandmas, uncles, aunties, and cousins. Our church's newspaper has over 500 readers on our face book page, and we print more than 1000 every month. Also, the Greek Bible Radio has followers from around the world. Some of the listeners are in various parts of USA, Germany, UK, Australia, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, and other parts of Greece and the world. People can listen via our web site: https://zantebiblebaptistchurch.com via the Tune in site: http://tunein.com/radio/Aletheias-Faros-Greek-Radio-s280359/ By downloading the app from the apple store or from the Google store. Please consider supporting the creator and host of our Greek Bible Radio, Matt Crane, manager of “Final Fight Bible Radio”. https://www.finalfightbibleradio.com/ I will be traveling to the States in May to drive our son Fotinos to a Bible College in North Dakota. It will be a much lower cost for us in this college. The blessing from this is not just financial, but his decision to study missions and to come back to Greece to serve the Lord. We are excited to have a team from the state of WA come to help with summer camp this year. We greatly appreciate your love in finances and prayer! Pray for: · Anestis' new life in Christ. · The “Faros”, our monthly newspaper, and the new Web Radio Station to reach 18 million Greeks around the world. · The Greeks' freedom from idolatry and dead works to salvation. · Fotinos' School year and direction to Bible College. My traveling with him from CA to ND · Summer camp dates are July 10th- 15th.
Missionary Update 11/28/2016
Dear Friends, AUGUST, I had the privilege to lead to the Lord Sam, an English young man that I had the pleasure to perform his wedding with a young lady that her parents befriended us years ago. I also had the privilege to baptize his father in law back then. Sam was visiting for 6 months and he was convicted by the Lord. He walked down to church on Monday the 15th to make peace with his creator. We had to travel to the States for a five-week quick trip. We were able to visit our Zoe in Nevada, tell us all the exciting things that are happening in her life, see her high school classroom where she teaches, and, visit with Pastor Ties and family at Liberty Baptist church. We were also able to have some special time of fellowship with old friends in Nevada. Helping Fotinos to settle in Bible college was one of the main reasons we traveled. We were able to stay there a few days with the Spathes, a dear couple that had adopted Zoe while she was attending Bible college there. Needless to say, that everyone expected Fotinos because Zoe had given strict orders to all…. Our time at our home sending church was special too. We were able to visit and get to know our new pastor Gary and his wife Cindy Jayne. Our family stayed with friends for the time that we were around our sending church. The short time we were there did not allow us to visit many churches, but, we thank the Lord that we had the opportunity to visit a few. We thank all of you that encouraged and loved us while we were there. Good news came also from Greece. Bro. De Luca had led to the Lord a visiting friend of one of our church members from Switcherland and baptized her. SEPTEMBER, April was able to visit her father in Florida with the two little ones. They had a great time. April had many opportunities to witness to her father, his wife, and her little brother with his girlfriend. She was able to clear some of the misconceptions that her dad had about our work in Greece. He is continuing chemo treatments. The doctors say that the cancer has shrunk 30%. He has new hope and he expressed his wish to visit us next June. That is something I did not expect to hear. We returned back to Greece only to be stranded for a couple of days in the mainland due to ferry boat strikes. It was weird that the same thing happened last January upon my return from Australia. We took the opportunity with my cousin Tony and his friend that traveled back to Greece with us to visit ancient Corinth. We had a mini archeological, Biblical, and church history lesson. I also had a welcome call from an Orthodox priest in Zakynthos telling me that what I do is despicable, and that I should be ashamed. After the “cold shower” I was able to put him in his place and I promised to go see him. He did not believe me, but, he had no words when he heard me calling him from outside of his house. OCTOBER, 2nd was the Sunday that Sam chose to be baptized. He waited till we returned to follow the Lord in baptism. This was a very busy month as we were trying to adjust back to church ministry, school life for the little ones, an extra empty room in our home, and tour back to Athens with my cousin Tony and his friend Patty. Getting together the newspaper and sending it out in Greece and around the world was a task. The Web radio station Is going to begin on November 1st. I guess by the time you get this letter it will be running already. For now, people can listen on the following link : http://knight.wavestreamer.com:8356/index.html?sid=1 and through our Greek web site. https://zantebiblebaptistchurch.com The app for smart phones can be downloaded from the Google Play store with the name: “Aletheias Faros”. We will have the Apple store download soon. Please consider supporting the creator and host of our Greek Bible Radio, Matt Crane, manager of “Final Fight Bible Radio”. https://www.finalfightbibleradio.com/ We greatly appreciate your love in finances and prayer! Pray for: • Sam's new life in Christ. • The “Faros”, our monthly newspaper, and the new Web Radio Station to reach 21 million Greeks around the world. • The Greeks' freedom from idolatry and dead works to salvation. • Fotinos' School year and direction to Bible College. Our traveling in August. • We are planning to invite people for Christmas on Dec. 18th and 21st.
