About CUPbearers...
Founder, Robert J. Bingham
Robert J. Bingham
was born in Beloit, Wisconsin and was assured of his salvation at 17 years
of age. Bob attended the University of Colorado, then volunteered for
the US Army, serving two years and returning to the University of Colorado
where he studied aeronautical engineering. He then received a B.A. in
Applied Religion from Rockmont College in 1962, and was ordained that
same year in the Evangelical Free Church of America.
Bob's first ministry
experience was serving as an assistant for three years (1957-1960) to
Paul Eiselstein, missionary with The American Sunday School Union (now
American Missionary Fellowship). He assisted in supervising and encouraging
64 Sunday Schools and affiliated churches and with various aspects of
a related camp (ID-RA-HA-JE), including children's and high school ministries.
In 1962 Bob and his
wife Dorothy were appointed as missionaries with the Overseas Christian
Servicemen's Centers (now Cadence International), and served with them
for 21 years, 17 of those years serving at three different military bases in the
Philippines. Hospitality and discipleship training became the focus of
those years with hundreds of lives being touched for eternity.
A change of ministry
came in September of 1982 when he joined Scope Ministries (a biblical
counseling ministry headquartered in Oklahoma City). This led to Bob's
present ministry,
CUPbearers, a discipleship
ministry centered on the Lord Jesus Christ located in Englewood, Colorado.
For more than 25 years
Bob has pastored the Rocky Mountain Evangelical Free Church in Black Hawk,
Colorado, in tandem with his discipling ministry.
Bob has ministered
in the Philippines (1962-1979, 1995, 1998) and a number of other countries
in Asia and Europe with OCSC (1962-82), Panama (1996) and in Trinidad
(1998). His additional ministry opportunities have been to Singapore, Thailand, and Hong Kong (2001), and Nepal (2001), China (2006).
Bob and Dorothy parented
three (now grown) daughters and four granddaughters. His wife Dorothy
went to be with the Lord in 1989. Bob was widowed for four years until
the Lord brought together in marriage Dottie Connor, also a widow, in
1993. They minister together in their joint discipling ministries:
CUPbearers/Gracestoration.
Together their blended families are composed of seven children and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren.