Merle and Cheree Shenk live in Lititz, PA with their five children. They have over 20 years in cross cultural ministry experience and a passion for evangelism, training and discipleship work. Merle has co-authored a book with Larry Kreider and Kevin Kazemi called “Encountering the Supernatural” which was released in 2018.

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Merle loves the woods, hunting, fishing, and barbecuing. Cheree enjoys reading and times with friends and family. The Shenks serve on the DOVE International Apostolic team. Together they lead the apostolic team for DOVE South Africa where they lived for over 11 years and planted an inner city, multi-ethnic church. They also lead the apostolic team for DOVE Zambia. Cheree is ordained through DOVE International and loves spending time with her children and developing new ministry initiatives. She has recently served as the Children’s Ministry Director in Newport Church.