Our Family

We're the Madsens! 

Isaac and Faith met through our church's college ministry in the summer of 2015. We were married in December of 2016. God has blessed us with three children Korinne, Dietrich, and Esther. Korinne was born in November 2017, Dietrich was born October of 2019, and then Esther was born in November of 2021 (autumn is the best time to have babies!)

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I (Faith) was born in Arlington Texas in 1993 and is the second oldest of 7 kids. Thanks to the faithfulness of God and her parents, she has known Christ my whole life. Being homeschooled our family read a lot of books, many of those being missionary biographies. It was through those stories that God first laid on my heart the desire to work in other countries. As a young child my mom remembers me,  “when I grow up I want to be a missionary and live in the house next door to you!”

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That desire to serve internationally first came to fruition in my early teens when I had the privilege of going to Mexico, on two different occasions, with a group from our church to serve orphans and share the gospel to non-believers there.

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In 2011 I Moved to Moscow Idaho to attend New Saint Andrews college. God really grew me in maturity, in my theology, and in my relationship with Him during my time at NSA. It was my first time living away from home and I was forced regularly to get out of my comfort zone. During my sophomore year in 2012 I was blessed with the opportunity to go to Costa Rica with a group from CRU and share the gospel with students at the University of Costa Rica. This trip deepened my desire to serve overseas and when I graduated in May of 2015 I started planning to go to Australia that fall with a missions organization called PAIS Project. I decided to stay in Moscow that summer and that’s when I met Isaac, who messed up all my plans! (But actually, it was God who was really ‘messing up’ my plans, and I couldn’t be more grateful that He did!)  After Isaac asked me out I decided to put my plans with PAIS on hold to see what would come of this relationship. Well, here we are many years later and I still haven’t been to Australia (I regularly remind Isaac that  he owes me a trip there someday.) 

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​Isaac was born in Portland Oregon in 1988. He’s the 3rd oldest of 4 kids. Isaac also grew up in a Christian family and does not remember a time when he did not know the gospel. Growing up in NE Portland in the early 90s Isaac remembers being worried about ‘bad guys’ breaking into the house and being afraid of not knowing what would happen to him after death. Having been taught the scriptures from a young age the words of the Philippian jailer flooded his mind, “What must I do to be saved”. And Paul’s answer in return, “believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved.” 

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During his teen years Isaac was filled with the desire to go and help the poor outside of the United States. This desire was strengthened when his dad gave him a book to read on the history of Bolivia. Through this book his eyes were opened to the real struggles of the poor in that country. This strengthened his desire to go serve with missionaries in developing countries and eventually led to him pursuing an undergraduate and graduate degree in agriculture at Washington State University. Isaac finished and submitted his dissertation the week before our wedding and defended it the week after we got back from our honeymoon. He graduated with his Ph.D in 2017. 

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In 2017 Voddie Baucham was in Moscow speaking at a conference at our church, and it was through him that we first discovered the work at African Christian University (ACU) Right away Isaac was interested in the mission of ACU and felt that God was calling our family to Zambia to help further that mission. Ever since then it has been our earnest desire to join the work of ACU in Zambia.