The Sargents

Ben and Karen Sargent met during Ben’s initial enlistment in the Navy and married two years later. They have raised five children and delight in a growing number of grandchildren.

Ben has been teaching the Word of God for over thirty-five years, serving in local churches as a preacher, teacher, youth pastor, deacon, choir director, and street preacher — during his military service and a subsequent career as a consultant in defense contracting. Karen has honored the Lord by serving alongside Ben in his public ministry, homeschooling their five children, and now as a business owner raising funds for mission projects around the world. She is an avid hiker, writes and edits for a Christian magazine, and raises cattle in her spare time. Together their children have carried the Gospel to twelve countries.

Ben first joined ETO’s Carpathian Mountain Outreach in 2015 and returned in the years that followed. More recently he has taken part in both of ETO’s Ukraine Gospel Outreach projects in the de-occupied south. Stateside, he leads Onward for Christ, training itinerant street evangelists in personal evangelism, street ministry, and discipleship, and he serves on ETO’s board of directors. Karen and Ben live in Virginia, where they minister in their local church as youth-ministry leaders and mentors to young families.