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FRED AND PEGGY COLVIN
Jennifer, Joshua, Hans Peter, Stefan, Anna Christin, Sarah, Susanna, and Daniel
Salzburg, Austria

Fred Colvin was raised in a Southern Baptist family in Arkansas. Although he knew the Gospel as he was growing up, it was not until 1971, when he was in Germany with the U.S. Army, that he came to trust Christ and commit his life to Him. His wife, Peggy, was saved as a child attending the North Oakland Gospel Chapel. Shortly after Fred's salvation, Peggy spent the summer working on an evangelistic team in Ireland and afterwards visited the family in Germany that had led Fred to the Lord-- and, eight kids later, the rest is history.

In the fall of 1973, Fred came to Fairhaven for the first-ever Discipleship Intern Training Program (DITP) class. After the program, he spent three years in Columbus, Ohio, and then two years here at Fairhaven before being sent out to the mission field of Austria. His ministry there is primarily one of church planting, with all that entails: evangelism, discipling, and leadership training.

Fred is now concentrating more on working with the leadership of the churches that have been planted: 16 in Austria, 5 in Germany, and 1 each in Italy, Croatia, and Bulgaria. In particular, he and three other former Fairhaven interns started a new Discipleship Intern program in Salzburg in the fall of 1995. He also regularly visits Zagreb, Croatia, to oversee a church planting effort there.

The Colvins have eight children : Jennifer (10/18/74), Joshua (2/9/77), Hans Peter (10/31/80), Stefan (5/17/82), Anna Christin (10/9/84), Sarah (2/12/87), Susanna (9/10/89), and Daniel (11/1/91).

 

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