Hello, we are Jeremy and Shamberly Coleman, Independent Baptist missionaries serving with Go Deaf Missions under Baptist International Outreach. Our greatest desire is to glorify God by loving and serving others. God has given us a heart to strengthen churches, encourage missionaries, and help carry the burdens of those faithfully serving on the mission field so that more people—both Deaf and hearing—can hear the life-changing Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Shamberly and I came from different backgrounds, but God was writing the same story of redemption in both of our lives. Through seasons of hardship, brokenness, and uncertainty, the Lord faithfully pursued us, transforming our hearts and preparing them for a life devoted to serving Him and serving others.
I (Jeremy) grew up attending church and knew many of the truths of Scripture, but later realized that knowing about God was not the same as having a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. As a young man, I chose my own path and eventually joined the United States Army. Military life took me around the world and presented many opportunities, but it also revealed that success, achievement, and self-reliance could never satisfy the deepest needs of the heart. When our marriage reached a breaking point, I came to the end of myself. At Central Baptist Church in Lawton, Oklahoma, I repented of my sin and placed my faith in Jesus Christ. God immediately began transforming my life, restoring our marriage, changing my mindset and priorities, giving me a passion to know God’s Word and invest in the lives of others.
Shamberly was raised in a loving home, but not in a Christian home, and she began attending church as a young teenager after a friend invited her. Through the faithful influence of godly teachers, youth leaders, and believers who consistently invested in her life, she came to understand the Gospel. While serving on a mission trip to Italy, she trusted Jesus Christ as her Savior and surrendered her life completely to Him. The Lord replaced hopelessness with hope, gave her a deep love for His Word, and planted within her a lifelong desire to encourage others with the same grace and compassion she had received. In the years that followed, she also witnessed both of her parents trust Christ as Savior, further reminding her that no one is beyond the reach of God’s redeeming grace.
After marrying, I continued serving in the military. Every assignment, every move, and every deployment became another opportunity for God to shape us. Throughout the United States, the Middle East, and Europe, He faithfully placed pastors, missionaries, and church families in our lives who discipled us, challenged us, and encouraged us to grow spiritually. Those faithful servants became living examples of Christ’s love, and their investment continues to influence our ministry today.
From the beginning of our marriage, we have shared a desire to help others. We have never viewed ministry as simply standing stagnant. Instead, we believe ministry often looks like opening your home to those in need, preparing meals for families, mentoring young believers, teaching children, leading Bible studies, visiting the lonely, helping someone move, repairing a building, running sound equipment, setting up chairs, cleaning a church, or quietly praying with someone carrying a heavy burden. We have learned that no act of service is too small when it is done for the glory of Christ.
Throughout my years of military service, we faithfully served wherever God placed us. discipling young soldiers, leading Bible studies, volunteering in community outreach, and sharing the Gospel whenever opportunities arise. We have had the opportunity to serve in children’s ministries, Sunday School, Awana, music ministries, hospitality, discipleship, church maintenance, outreach events, and countless behind-the-scenes ministries. Whether the need was visible or unnoticed, we simply wanted to be available wherever God could use us.
Being stationed in Germany from 2019 to 2025 became a defining season of preparation. Serving in missionary churches allowed them to witness firsthand the incredible joys and equally heavy burdens carried by missionaries. We watched faithful pastors preach, disciple, counsel, plant churches, organize ministries, maintain buildings, lead music, operate technology, and care for their congregations while often doing the work of many people. God burdened Shamberly and my hearts as we saw these servants faithfully pouring themselves into others while often having few people available to encourage or assist them.
During this season, I began formal ministry training under the mentorship of Dr. John Hallman at Heritage Baptist Church in Mehlingen, Germany. Through biblical instruction, seminary-level studies, discipleship, preaching opportunities, and faithful pastoral guidance, God continued preparing us for ministry. I was later ordained through Heritage Baptist Church as the church affirmed God’s calling upon my life.
As Shamberly and I prayed about the future, the Lord independently placed the same burden upon each of our hearts. Without discussing it with one another, both of us became convinced that God was not calling us to build a ministry centered around ourselves, but to come alongside those already serving. When I finally shared what the Lord had been leading me, Shamberly realized God had been directing her heart to the very same ministry. Together we recognized God’s unmistakable confirmation that He was calling us to become full-time “helps missionaries”—servants who strengthen, encourage, and support those faithfully laboring in the harvest.
Today, we serve with Go Deaf Missions with a twofold burden. First, we desire to help reach one of the world’s largest unreached people groups—the Deaf—with the saving Gospel of Jesus Christ. We are committed to learning American Sign Language and serving alongside those already reaching the Deaf community so that more people can know Christ as Savior. Second, we desire to strengthen missionaries, churches, and church planters by providing practical help, encouragement, discipleship, administration, hospitality, and whatever support is needed so that those on the front lines of ministry can continue faithfully fulfilling God’s calling.
Our ministry philosophy is simple: every believer has a place in the work of God. Some preach, some teach, some disciple, some encourage, some build, some organize, and some quietly serve behind the scenes. Every act of faithful service matters because every act can help advance the Gospel. We believe one of the greatest privileges God gives His people is the opportunity to bear one another’s burdens and strengthen one another in the work of Christ.
Our prayer is that every church we enter, every missionary we serve beside, every community we visit, and every person we meet would be strengthened because Christ allowed us to be there. Our desire is to leave churches healthier, missionaries encouraged, believers equipped, and lost souls pointed to the Savior. Above all else, we want our lives to reflect the words of Christ:
“For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.” — Mark 10:45 (KJV)
Following the Lord’s example, we simply desire to spend our lives serving others so that Christ alone receives the glory.