Rev. and Mrs. Robert Frake assumed the pastorate of the then "Apostolic Church" of Defiance, OH, in May of 1995.

He is a native of Glenview, IL (on Chicago's North Shore), a graduate of Apostolic Bible Institute, St. Paul, MN, Class of '85, and a graduate of the Defiance College, Defiance, OH, Class of '02.

Ann Frake is a native New Yorker.  She is a musician, author and graduate of Northern Illinois University, Class of '82.

After bible school the Frakes spent ten years in Princeton, IL under the ministry of Rev. and Mrs. Clifford Gustafson, (Ann's parents), until moving to Defiance.

Pastor Frake serves as pastor to the First Apostolic Church Defiance, as well as The Apostolic Church, Van Wert, Ohio.  Ann is a substitute teacher in the public school system.  They have two daughters, Jacqueline and Gabrielle, and one very, very spoiled dog named Charlie.
 

Pastor & Sister Frake
on a family trip to celebrate their
twenty-fifth anniversary.

Ann, Gabby, and Jacqueline Frake, with Ann's mother, Sister Lorene Gustafson.