Carol Feistel  -  BBFI Missionary to Taiwan

Biographical Sketch

I grew up in Jacksonville, Florida, the 5th of nine children. I accepted Christ as my Savior at the age of 10 and later as a young teen felt the call of God on my life for missions. The example of my parents, Bill and Doris Askew, and exposure to missionaries had a great influence on me. The way in which God allowed that early desire to finally come to fruition is truly a work of God’s grace.

After graduating from high school, I attended Baptist Bible College in Springfield, Missouri majoring in music. In 1972 I graduated and took a job teaching music and working as staff pianist at the South Dade Baptist Church in Homestead, Florida. It was through that church’s ministry that Malcom Feistel came to know Christ and we met. We spent the first year of our married life in Taiwan courtesy of the US Air Force. God used that year to show us our future ministry.

Several years later after completing our degrees at BBC and our family increased to 4 children, we were approved as Baptist Bible Fellowship missionaries and sent out through the Noble Hill Baptist Church, Springfield, Missouri. Our youngest son was born during deputation. We arrived on the field of Taiwan in 1981.

I spent the last 25 years raising our children and working along side of my husband planting churches, training musicians, evangelizing women and children, winning the Taiwanese for Christ. In 2005 Malcom was diagnosed with a rare form of colon cancer and less than a year later on June 22, 2006 he went home to be with the Lord. I am returning to Taiwan to continue serving the Lord, working in team with other missionary families, for as long as the Lord wills.