Joshua & Elizabeth Opena
Asia - U.S. Based Partner
Joshua and Ellizabeth are joining the FMWM Asia team as U.S. Based Partners providing support and development in Asia under the leadership of Area Director Eric and International Missionary Alan Bacus.
Joshua and Elizabeth served as church planters in the Philippines for more than 10 years prior to immigrating to the United States. They now reside in Sacramento, California. Joshua is the former lead pastor of God’s Family Christian Fellowship, a Filipino church affiliated with the Network of Undeniable Blessings (formerly the Sierra Pacific Conference) of the Free Methodist Church. He served as a bi-vocational pastor, hospice chaplain and medical social worker. Elizabeth is a certified Math teacher but actively served the church playing the piano, overseeing church events and performing administrative duties.