Caroline Kurtz

Presbyterian Frontier Fellowship

caroline kurtz Caroline Kurtz Associate Director
Address:  2925 Oak Knoll Rd.
Salem, OR 97304
(503) 566-5860
www.pff.net

Presbyterian Frontier Fellowship (PFF) is a "Validated Mission Support Group" of PCUSA, dedicated to advancing faith in Jesus among the unreached or sparsely reached peoples of the world. Caroline devotes much of her effort toward growth in Christian spiritual development among the peoples of south western Ethiopia. Caroline and PFF also work with Light of Hope Ministries to deliver Christ's saving message among the Arssi Oromo people (a regional tribe of about ten million) in Ethiopia.  Click here to read the latest news.

Click here to see pictures and learn more about her work in Ethiopia. Caroline is knowledgeable about Presbyterian frontier mission work also in Hungary, India, and Turkey.

Ethiopa Mission 

PFF leads Presbyterians to partner with what God is doing around the world where the love of God, shown through Jesus, is being introduced into new populations. In Southeastern Ethiopia, PFF partners with Light of Hope Ministries among the Arssi Oromo  peoples. PFF and Light of Hope use literacy training to establish a Christian presence in Arssi Oromo villages, where they have established over 20 village schools or literacy centers. PFF and Light of Hope train young Ethiopian Christians as “tentmaker” teachers who become self-supporting local missionaries in the Arssi Oromo communities. In the last three years, Light of Hope has trained over 200 young Christians in local Training Colleges.

Light of Hope Ministry is lead by Dr. Urgessa Biru, an Arssi Oromo himself, who attended a Swedish Mission school, followed by college and seminary education in Ethiopia, Sweden, and Canada.

Caroline Kurtz, the daughter of Rev. Harold Kurtz, former missionary to Ethiopia and former Executive Director of PFF, was raised in Ethiopia and graduated from the Good Shepherd School there, where she met her husband, Mark Rasmussen (another missionary kid). After her college education in the U.S., Caroline returned to Ethiopia in 1989 with Mark and their three children, and served about eleven years in Ethiopia and Sudan in teaching and missions. Caroline is now Associate Director of PFF and lives in Salem, OR. See the following links for more on the PFF Ethiopia missions: