Trevor and Miriam Clowers Commissioned as IPHC Missionaries
- World Missions Ministries Communications’ Office
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — On Tuesday, April 23, 2024, the World Missions Ministries (WMM) Council unanimously approved Trevor and Miriam Clowers as WMM missionaries.
The Clowers are part of a strong missionary legacy with the WMM family both as individuals and as a couple. Trevor’s parents, Darrel and Bonnie Clowers, served as WMM missionaries for 25 years. Miriam’s parents, Harold and Kathleen Presley, have served as WMM missionaries for 35 years and are still active on the field with Harold as the current Northwest Europe Regional Director.
“We come from a rich heritage of missionaries. For both of us, our whole lives have been missions,” Trevor told the WMM council. “We’re honored God has called us as well. For us, it just so happens to be the family business. But it’s way more than that to us.”
Having both received the call of God on their lives in their singleness, Miriam was approved as a Short-Term Missionary (STM) in 2018 and Trevor in 2019. After their marriage in 2020, their accounts merged, and they have faithfully served WMM together since.
“Our heart really is for families with additional needs worldwide. They’re a lost people group,” Trevor said.
With that heart in mind and a vision to facilitate Godly community, the Clowers spent 2022 and 2023 in Wales with the Eli Project, founded and directed by Todd and Stephanie Presley, working to see those with additional needs experience the love of Christ. During their time there, they worked to start various outreaches aimed at building community amongst families with children with special needs, helped in the beginning stages of a new church plant, and were active in ministry outside of Wales.
Through this form of ministry and providing opportunities for families to come together to support one another, “we’re able to share the Gospel with them, and it sticks,” Miriam said.
Now, in 2024, in the witness of the WMM Council, Directors, Regional Directors, and family and friends gathered online via Zoom, Bishop J. Talmadge Gardner appointed and commissioned the Clowers as the newest IPHC missionaries.
“We celebrate you, we thank the Lord for you, and we do see you as treasured gifts,” Bishop Gardner said.
World Missions honors the Clowers’ obedience and servitude to the Lord as they boldly step into this next season of ministry.
With the Council’s approval, the Clowers are entering an itineration process to raise the necessary funds for life on the field. To partner with them, visit give.iphc.org/missionary.
