Carl Cady is the US Director of International Friends of Compassion (IFC). Carl came to faith is Christ at age 18 in Centralia, Washington. He then attended Northwest Nazarene College in Nampa, Idaho. There he met his wife, Cathy, and married in 1975. They have two children, Christina who was born 1977 and Caleb was born in 1989. After graduation he attended Western Evangelical Seminary in Portland, Oregon.

In 1981 they began 20 years of full time ministry. In the 20 years he planted a church in Alaska, pastored a growing church in Idaho, and joined a pastoral team that started a Community-style Church in Fairbanks, Alaska. Carl set his heart to be a man of prayer in 1995. That led him into a season of seriously seeking the Lord. It was in these years that he led mission teams into The Republic of China, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, and Indonesia. These teams saw awesome miraculous encounters, souls saved, and Bibles brought to saints in the underground church in China and North Korea.

It was on one of those mission trips that Carl went to Indonesia. God did something very special in his heart while there. It was on that trip he learned about the great persecution on Christians in Indonesia. A month later, Carl and a team of engineers came to Manado, North Sulawesi. There were 42,000 refugees in Manado who had fled attacks by radical Islamic terrorists. After inspecting the conditions in the eight refugee camps, the team found that all the water the refugees were drinking was contaminated. The team had wells drilled to provide safe water for these refugees.

After seeing the conditions and listening to the stories of these suffering saints Carl could not just leave and go back to the routines of life back home. He sensed that God wanted him to help heal the wounds of the refugees. Dr. Jeff Hammond, International Friends of Compassion founder, asked Carl to be the US Director of International Friends of Compassion.

IFC has been in Indonesia since 1974. He accepted after the Lord gave him assurance he was to be a spokesman for the afflicted saints in Indonesia. After a season of prayer and seeking the Lord’s leadership, he was given Proverbs 31:8 and 9. That has become the vision and heart of his ministry--to be a voice for the voiceless.

Carl has traveled extensively telling the true stories of the persecuted saints of Indonesia. He has been there and tells the stories of Christians he has personally met and interviewed. The stories he shares are not just nameless Christians.