Edmund Spieker is the founder of Champions Arise. He is a veteran in missions and personally experienced Christ’s redeeming power in the chaos of WWII. He has been in leadership positions since 1996 in Brazil, Germany and North America. His present focus is leader and pastor care mainly in Brazil. His commitment is Acts 20:24 “But I do not consider my life of any account as dear to myself, so that I may finish my course and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify solemnly of the Gospel of the grace of God.”