Ruth VeltKamp (Nigeria)

Ruth Veltkamp has worked in Nigeria as a missionary teacher for 41 years.  She is now teaching missions courses at West Africa Theological Seminary in Lagos, Nigeria.  She is training prospective missionaries and missions partners for reaching the Muslim nations.  She is also a consultant for a church-planting movement among Muslims.

We will tell the next generation about the glorious deeds of the Lord, about his power and his mighty wonders….So each generation should set its hope anew on God, not forgetting his glorious miracles and obeying his commands. (Psalm 78:4, 7)

Ruth is now back at West Africa Theological Seminary in Lagos, Nigeria.  She is teaching courses in missions on both the graduate and undergraduate level. For more news of the Seminary go to  www.watsonline.org

Please feel free to email Ruth at RVeltkampA@aol.com to set a time to get together, or for more details for prayer and partnership.

About Ruth VeltKamp

Born in Grand Rapids, MI, USA – May 13, 1947

Ruth’s father, Martin Veltkamp, a Reformed Bible Institute graduate, was involved in starting seven different churches in the USA and Canada. Ruth herself started teaching Sunday School and Daily Vacation Bible School at 12 years of age.

When she was to graduate from Calvin College in 1968, she knew she should ask God what he wanted her to do, but she feared she might not like what he told her. But then she found the answer to her fear in Philippians 2:13: “For God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases him” (NLT). So she prayed for God to make this verse come true in her life. When she saw an ad for a missionary English teacher needed in Nigeria, suddenly from head to foot she wanted to go, even though she knew no one else going. And God was faithful to continue to give her the desire and power to work with him, especially among Muslims, and later at the seminary. 

Ruth wrote the final version of Taking the Good News to Muslims published by Evangel Press, Nairobi, Kenya, 1987.  She has also written Discipling Muslim Background Believers, an unpublished manuscript used for courses in West Africa Theological Seminary.

Photos from Nigeria

Ruth with Pastor John Mbokwang, who upon his graduation from WATS introduced missions into his denomination in the Cameroons

Ruth with her discipleship class at WATS