Appointed as career missionaries in January 2008, Dick and Sheila started full-time ministry in Belgium in April 2009. Their focus includes leadership development, church planting and children's ministry training. Currently, more than half of the administrative districts in Belgium have no evangelical presence. Dick and Sheila's vision is for a vibrant movement to spread across Belgium planting healthy, self-supporting churches in every district that lacks a viable witness for Christ. Dick and Sheila served the Layhill Free Methodist Church, Silver Spring, MD, for seven years before their appointment as missionaries. Sheila has also been a teacher in several public schools with a focus on special education.