Howard & Barbara Gard
Howard and Barbara Gard are missionaries with Church Triumphant. Married
since 1969, they have spent most of those years ministering to the needs of Believers in
Eastern Europe. From 1972 to 1988 they were involved in raising money to send Bibles
behind the Iron Curtain. During that time they were responsible for more than 5 million
Bibles being sent to the suffering church. In 1988 they established Church Triumphant as a
tool to more effectively minister to those in need.
When the Berlin Wall fell and Eastern Europe opened up to the West at the end of 1989,
Howard and Barbara Gard made a series of trips into Romania, bringing Bibles, food,
clothing, and medical supplies, and helping to get the Christian school movement
established in Eastern Europe. Church Triumphant also helped finance the building of
churches, Christian schools, a Christian orphanage, and a Christian medical
clinic in that nation.
In 1992, the Gards sold their home in California and moved to Romania, living
first in Brasov and later in Orsova. In 1995 they moved to the city of
Timisoara where they were involved in establishing Logos Christian Center, which
includes a Christian high school, preschool, college of nursing, college of
computer science, church, and Bible school. They have also been involved
in training pastors and planting churches in areas where there were no
evangelical churches. They have turned over the ministry in Timisoara to
Romanian leadership and are currently involved in establishing Bible training
institutes worldwide to disciple Believers and train workers for the great end
time harvest. They are presently involved in setting up a tribal Bible
institute in Tagum City to train workers to plant churches among the mountain
tribes of southern Mindanao in the Philippines.
