Two workers

Two workers provide member care support to Chinese global workers and their families in the Middle East. They will also partner with local churches to share God’s love for Muslims and support Muslim-background believers, who are often persecuted.

Elena Yin

Elena serves with Every Child Ministries in Uganda as the African Field Director. As field director, she will oversee the design and implementation of all children and families’ programs, making sure there is good gospel integration in each program.

Evangelist

Church Planters

Community-Based Business

Phil & Jessica Smith

Organizational Leadership, US-based

Phil and Jessica live locally and serve with First Love International (FLI) where Phil serves as president/CEO. FLI seeks to mobilize local churches to holistically love vulnerable populations around the world, such as orphans, trafficked people and individuals with disabilities. Currently, FLI missionaries serve in more than a dozen countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America. Phil and Jessica have four children.

Tim & Judy Sattler

Training National Leaders, US-based

Tim serves as the founding partner at Fellowship of the Word (FoW), a ministry that equips pastors to preach God's Word for the change that Christ's gospel brings and to nurture movements of his Word throughout the world. FoW is currently working with partners in the Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil and the United States.

Disciplers

Two workers serve in the Middle East in an area of more than two million people, the majority of which have no access to the gospel. However, there are incredible movements taking place among refugees and displaced persons in the country. It is these groups of individuals they hope to serve during their two years of language learning. They will work closely with local leaders, pastors and volunteers to meet the needs of national and immigrant populations in the country.

Member Care

Member Care, US-based

One worker serves as Christar's regional member care person for the South and Central Asia region, serving in collaboration with regional leadership to support those who work internationally.

Melissa Warner

Counseling, Asia

Melissa works as a child counselor at Cornerstone Counseling Foundation in Chiang Mai, Thailand. She serves missionary families and partners with Thai Christian counselors so they can share the good news of Jesus Christ in all its fullness with East Asia's peoples to the glory of God.

Caleb & Marisa Duttweiler

Evangelism & Discipleship, Africa

Caleb and Marisa help lead East Mountain, a Christian leadership development program in Cape Town, South Africa, that provides holistic training for young believers in theology, identity and mission, preparing them to be light in their communities. It does this through inviting people to participate in a variety of relationally driven, community-centric, multicultural learning environments and connecting and supporting existing ministry partnerships. Caleb also leads a few discipleship programs for young boys.

One worker

Training National Leaders, US-based

One worker serves with Global Training Network. He and his wife train pastors and church leaders in East Asia. He also leads training and discipleship opportunities in other places. They love to see people discover the message of God’s Word and come to know who he is through it. With the gifts God has given them, they are eager to help pastors and church leaders help their congregations do the same as they discover how to study and teach God's life-changing Word.

Dick Albright

Training National Leaders, US-based

Dick serves with Training Leaders International (TLI) as an international trainer. Dick mentors and leads teams of theological trainers to bring training in expository preaching to pastors and church leaders around the world. Pastors gather for a series of week-long workshops and then develop their own strategies for teaching what they have learned to other pastors. TLI’s curriculum emphasizes hermeneutics and expository preaching along with practical application of each lesson.

Tim & Carol Avery

Evangelism & Discipleship, Africa

Tim and Carol work with Pioneers International in Nairobi, Kenya. Tim serves as publishing director for Ekklesia Afrika, a local ministry that exists to supply the African church with sound theological resources. As part of that role, Tim helps African pastors write books to distribute in East Africa and beyond. In addition, Tim teaches part-time in a local seminary. Tim and Carol are part of a local church, along with their three young daughters.

Phil & Ann Baur

Organizational Leadership, US-based

Phil and Ann serve on the executive team of Pioneers International (PI) USA, whose vision is to see churches planted among unreached people groups around the globe. While most of their time is spent at the home office in Orlando, Florida, their work takes them around the U.S. and the world to provide logistical and administrative support for PI workers.

Norm & Cathy Beasley

Organizational Leadership, US-based

Norm and Cathy work with Wycliffe Bible Translators in Waxhaw, NC.  Norm serves as the director of global security risk management services. He trains missionaries to assess and avoid risk, plan for contingencies and ensure that members are cared for during and after a crisis.  He is also an investigator on the team that works to protect missionary children.

Norm networks with many missions organizations and interacts with multiple government agencies, building relationships to partner with them in the event of a crisis for global missionaries.

Nathan & Vera Beck

Evangelism & Discipleship, Europe

Nathan and Vera serve with Greater Europe Mission in Opava, Czech Republic.   They are involved in a ministry of God's Word through small group Bible studies, teaching, training, ministry coaching and preaching. They love to help people fall in love with Jesus through his Word as they learn to carefully respond to him in obedience. It is their great joy to see disciples equipped and released to ministry. God has given them open doors for ministry both nearby and across Europe.

Robbie & Lauren Becker

Christian Education, Latin America

Robbie and Lauren dream to see Colombia transformed from a mission field to a missions force. They want to see Colombians raised up, trained and sent out to the unreached peoples of the world. They have been working at a Christian school in Bogota, teaching Bible and discipling high school students for over a decade. They will be taking a year off for some intense training in Western Asia and plan to return to Colombia better equipped to train Colombians to be missionaries to the unreached.

Matt & Lisa Befus

Member Care and Christian Education, Latin America

Matt and Lisa serve through Christian education in Costa Rica at La Palabra de Vida, a Christian school serving 330 national students from daycare through high school. Lisa and Matt also serve with Mesa Global (formerly United World Mission) as regional leaders for Central America and the Caribbean.

Brian & Warrie Blackburn

Organizational Leadership and Christian Education, US-based

Brian and Warrie are celebrating 30 years of service with Mercy Ships. Mercy Ships aspires to follow the model of Jesus to bring hope and healing to the world’s forgotten poor, specifically through the provision of medical care to the people of Africa. Brian and Warrie have served onboard the Anastasis, Africa Mercy and at headquarters. Warrie serves in the chaplaincy department and Brian with the Mercy Ships Academy, a school for children of volunteer crew members.

Judy Blumhofer

Community Development, Latin America

Judy provides medical care, training and administrative support for the families served through Give Hope 2 Kids in Honduras, a ministry focused on family-based foster care. She works with vulnerable children and families to share the love, healing and hope of Jesus. Currently she spreads the love of Christ by offering pediatric medical care for the local community, partnering with the local school to provide care for special needs students and foster care. She is a licensed foster parent and collaborates with foster care ministries to provide logistical care and support.

Karen Bradley

English Language Training, US-based

Karen, with Wycliffe Bible Translators, serves on the Summer Institute of Linguistics English team. This team comes alongside international colleagues to help them reach the level of English they need for their tasks in Bible translation.

Kyle & Dariana Bradley

Sports Ministry, Latin America

Kyle and Dariana serve with GO Ministries in the Dominican Republic. Their focus is sports outreach, where they help develop full-time Dominican and Haitian coaches. Go Sports' mission is to empower local leaders to make disciples through sports. It seeks to provide positive role models and individual mentorships that create opportunities for discipleship. Kyle is the lead director of GO Sports, where he helps to guide the culture, vision and mission for the ministry. Dariana overseas the girls' basketball academy.

The Bradleys’ mentorship of local leaders serves as the fuel for coaches to have a Christ-centered impact on more than 1,100 athletes that participate in daily sports academies.

Janet

Christian Education, US-based

Janet works with Services in Asia for Family Education (SAFE) as an education consultant for families living overseas. Janet assists these families with educational and transitional challenges they face, allowing them to remain where God has called them to serve.

J and B

Evangelism and Discipleship, US-based

J & B are on a team that uses digital tools to distribute God’s Word among one of the least-reached people groups in one of the most inaccessible places in the world. After doing face-to-face ministry overseas for nearly a decade, they left their host country when the door closed for effective ministry. Their team formed shortly after they returned to the States. Since that time, the team has been able to share the Scriptures with thousands of individuals who lack access to the Word of God and Christian witness.

Daniel & Charis

Administration and Organizational Leadership, US-based

Daniel and Charis serve with the leadership team of their organization. They help to make crucial decisions as they care for the missionaries and teams of people serving in the areas of member care, human resources, retirees, onboarding and supporting.

Bible Study Teacher (Missions Associate)

Bible Study Teacher, Asia, Missions Associate

Missions Associates are supported by prayer, but not financially, by College Church.

One worker serves in Southeast Asia teaching English using Bible stories to high school students, ages 15-18, and to seminary students who are music majors. She also teaches English to high school graduates who are training in a Compassion International hotel hospitality internship. There are also several young women that she meets with regularly to counsel, encourage and mentor.

Curt & Karen Cole

Member Care, US-based

Curt is the chief operating officer/vice president of personnel for Avant Ministries. His passion is the health of Avant’s 450 global missionaries. He also serves on the international leadership team which strategically places church planting teams in unreached places. Karen serves as part of the missionary kid (MK) care team. She helps care for MKs during training events and coaches new missionary families on educational options for their children.

Curt and Karen are based in Kansas City, Missouri.

Steve & Mirian Cox

Discipleship and Training, Latin America

Steve and Mirian serve at Word of Life Bible Seminary in Brazil. They head up the program for married students, working closely with 30 families through discipleship, teaching, hosting and administrative work. Their goal is to show couples how they can involve their whole family in ministries without hurting the family relationships. Together they are involved in a local church, where they serve as spiritual leaders.

Giles & Debbie Davis

Evangelism, Europe

Giles and Debbie serve with SEND International in Spain and partner with the Spanish church to reach youth, disciple them and train their leaders. Debbie is the National Youth Coordinator for the FIEIDE (Evangelical Free Church in Spain). She oversees regional leaders and plans regional and national events for the youth and their leaders that belong to the 100+ churches of FIEIDE. Giles is a published author, a discipler of ten young men, a youth leader trainer and a conference speaker invited to speak with youth all over the nation.

Anita Deyneka (Missions Associate)

Community Development, US-based, Missions Associate

Missions Associates are supported by prayer, but not financially, by College Church.

Anita works with Mission Eurasia, serving primarily with A Family for Every Orphan (AFFEO). AFFEO helps to place orphans and vulnerable children in Christian families, rather than institutional care, whenever possible, by finding caring homes within their birth countries. AFFEO helps to further alliances between churches and organizations.

The church is the center of this ministry; however, for children to receive the best care possible, it is essential to connect with government, social and judicial workers. Anita also travels to countries where the movement for a World Without Orphans (WWO) has spread since it originated in Ukraine.

Steve & Lois Dresselhaus

Church Planting & Church Leadership, Latin America

Steve and Lois serve with TEAM in La Paz, Mexico. They desire to see Mexicans come to Christ and be gathered into reproducing communities of faith through Bible studies and a network of neighborhood house churches.

Steve directs a Mexican non-profit called Reconciliamar, which “uses adventures at sea to transform lives.” Creation care, kayaking and diving experiences provide them with numerous opportunities to share their faith.

Joshua & Kara Dunckel

Discipleship & Mobilization, Europe

Joshua and Kara live in Budapest, Hungary. Joshua leads the strategic collaboration team of ReachGlobal’s Europe division. His team works in areas of Europe where the organization does not have teams, but where opportunities exist for them to support and work alongside European ministry leaders. His three main focus areas are supporting church planters, missions mobilization and building unity between churches and organizations. The goal is always to see healthy churches multiplying across Europe and beyond.

While Joshua serves across Europe, Kara works at home assisting Joshua, teaching and serving their community and family.

Rod & Kathy Duttweiler

Administration & Organizational Leadership, US-based

Rod and Kathy co-founded the East Mountain leadership development (EM) initiative in South Africa but have moved their home base to Tennessee. Thirty years of experience in preaching, teaching, evangelism, church leadership and discipleship enables them to serve and encourage God's servants around the world.  They work with training and equipping ministries to encourage church-based discipleship across Africa.  They work with East Mountain to see emerging and existing leaders trained in theology, identity and mission. They serve to disciple and mentor leaders in many parts of Africa and the United States via zoom and regular visits.

Bob & Becky Faber

Organizational Leadership & Member Care, Europe

Bob and Becky serve with Salt Ventures in Sofia, Bulgaria. Bob is the president of Salt Ventures NFP, and Becky leads member care for the mission worldwide. The Fabers are involved in teaching, church planting, evangelism, leadership development and community service.

Last year, the Pink Foundation, their ministry to children at risk, launched Innovaid, a first-of-its-kind hospital volunteering program for Bulgarian youth. The Fabers are hopeful that this will yield community, medical and spiritual fruit in Bulgarian society.

Jake & Honah Finn

Member Care, Asia

Jake and Honah serve missionaries throughout Asia, and increasingly Thai nationals, at Cornerstone Counseling Foundation, located in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Jake serves as the director of partnerships and provides/supervises confidential and professional counseling, consultation and training from a Christian perspective for individuals, marriages, families, teams and organizations. Honah also serves at home to support the family.

Jim & Julianna Gieser

Evangelism & Discipleship, Africa

Jim and Julianna

Joe & Holly Greeson

Member Care, North America

Joe and Holly worked in member care with SEND International in Alaska and northwest Canada for over 30 years. Based in Anchorage, Joe and Holly traveled frequently by road and plane to 21 different villages in the Far North to encourage, connect, equip and pray for SEND workers and their families who are called by Jesus to live and make disciples in this region. They have a special heart for missionary kids isolated in remote villages, who face many of the same issues as third-culture kids around the world.

Jon & Kathy Haley

Training National Leaders, US-based

Jon and Kathy

Jim & Kathy Hansen

Mobilization, US-based

Jim teaches Bible at the Ethnos360 Bible Institute in Waukesha, WI, preparing prospective missionaries for service overseas and mobilizing for missionary service in churches in the U.S. He also travels to South America and Africa to teach and disciple church leaders and promote missions mobilization. Kathy is a special needs aide in a local school.

Jonathan & Amy Harris

Evangelism, Europe

Jonathan and Amy have worked with Operation Mobilization (OM) for 40 years. They are based in Wales in the UK, and their main ministry is evangelism. For the last six years, a major focus of their work has been gospel outreach in a very multicultural district in the city of Cardiff. Other ongoing work includes regular street evangelism and encouraging young local evangelists.

Jim & Lynette Hatcher

Discipleship and Member Care, Europe

After over 30 years in various leadership positions in Greater Europe Mission (field and regional), Jim has stepped back to focus on what he loves—teaching, shepherding and discipling in the local church and community. Jim and Lynette are both involved with a local Viennese church, the Evangelikale Gemeinde Kagran, where Jim recently rejoined the team of elders. In addition, Jim is also helping transition the church-based theological education ministry, Biblische Ausbildung am Ort (BAO), or Biblical Training on Location, to provide resources online.

Scott & Jenny Hawkins (Missions Associates)

Evangelism, US-based (Missions Associate)

Missions Associates are supported by prayer, but not financially, by College Church.

Scott and Jenny serve with International Students, Inc. (ISI) in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina. As one of nine ISI campus staff, Scott invests energy among nearly 4,000 international students and visiting scholars at Duke University. The team's vision is that each student shall encounter Christ, bringing glory to the living God and transformation to the nations. In addition to personal mentoring and discipleship, facilitating group activities/events and supporting an "International Crossroads" fellowship, Scott works to integrate local volunteers in meaningful outreach.

Jeff & Tamara Hershberger

Church Planting & Church Leadership, Asia

Jeff and Tamara have been with SEND International in Tokyo, Japan, since 2012. After serving in church planting for the last six years, they were asked to serve in a church established by SEND. Jeff is part of the preaching team and serves in various leadership roles within SEND. Tamara, in addition to church-planting support, teaches seventh grade part-time at the Christian Academy in Japan.

Greg & Faith Hurst

Church Planting & Church Leadership, Latin America

Greg and Faith work with SIM in Bolivia, focusing on discipleship through family ministry and church planting. In the church they helped to plant, Greg serves as an elder and helps train the ministry team while Faith shepherds the leaders of the women’s and children’s ministries.

The Hursts’ vision is to mobilize their congregation and other Bolivian churches to plant gospel-focused, disciple-making, missional churches that glorify God in their city, country and world. (Acts 1:8) To this end, Greg is training a group of potential church planters with a goal to send out teams in the coming year. Faith is receiving specialized training to better equip and encourage the wives of these Bolivian church planters.

Todd & Sue Kelly

Training National Leaders, US-based

Todd serves globally with Training Leaders International, training, mentoring and nurturing pastors who clearly and compellingly proclaim God’s Word in Christ to transform the heart of the listener and grow a movement of those who see the beauty of Christ and follow him.

Sara Klopfenstein (Manu)

Community Development, Europe

Sara serves as a choir director with Youth For Christ in Nancy, France. She welcomes those willing to sing gospel music, including the unchurched, to sing in her gospel choirs. She also directs inter-church musical projects and helps with an inner-city ministry which offers a tutoring program. Sara’s husband, Manu, manages a government-funded program for underage non-accompanied refugees.

Steve & Lois Krogh

Training National Leaders, US-based

Steve and Lois serve with Training Leaders International. Steve serves Christ’s global church by providing theological training, primarily in formal school settings, for pastors who have little or no access to such training and focusing on training them to be faithful expositors of God’s Word. He also mentors volunteer teachers as they prepare to teach alongside him.

Daniel

Training National Leaders, South Asia

Daniel teaches Bible and theology at Forman Christian College, a Christian university in Lahore, Pakistan. The college puts a special emphasis on exegesis and biblical theology, because this is underdeveloped in theological education in Pakistan. Its graduates serve as pastors, teachers, writers and scholars in various churches, schools and parachurch organizations. The vision is that the church might be strengthened through people trained to teach God’s Word and equip others to do so.

Dan & Beth

Member Care, US-based

Dan and Beth serve with SIM. Dan is global chaplain, traveling to support missionaries and teams around the world. Chaplaincy is a ministry of presence and confidentiality with the purpose of helping keep workers on the field and serving effectively. Beth cares for her mother, retired missionary Muriel Stilwell, and provides hospitality to missionaries visiting SIM's home office in Charlotte, NC.

Mihai & Tamara Lundell

Member Care and Sports Ministry, Europe

Mihai and Tamara are part of One Challenge International (OCI) serving in Genoa, Italy, as leaders in Europe developing new strategies for discipleship, leadership development, care and spiritual formation. Mihai uses sport and member care with a specialty in trauma counseling. He also serves on the pastoral team of their local church. Tammy serves as the OCI Europe area director and as a spiritual director/retreat facilitator for ministry leaders around the world.

Jeff & Irene

Translation, Asia

Jeff and Irene

John & Elsa Maust

Organizational Leadership, US-based

John and Elsa Maust are based in Wheaton and serve with Media Associates International (MAI), a global ministry that equips and encourages Christian publishing staff and writers to create locally authored content that extends the gospel and nurtures the church in hard places of the world.

John is the president of MAI, and Elsa provides part-time Spanish interpretation and translation for both the ministry and a local school district. Since MAI’s founding 39 years ago, some 10,000 men and women from 90 countries have been helped to create life-transforming Christian content for their readers.

Thad & Joy McAuley

Organizational Leadership, US-based

Thad and Joy are focused on enabling the peoples of Europe to grow in relationship with Jesus. They help people become disciples, who will in turn help others become Christ-followers, while growing Christ's church across Europe. Greater Europe Mission staff serve in 23 countries across Europe, working on diverse projects that contribute toward discipleship and church planting. Thad serves as chief operating officer for the mission, and Joy serves with the spiritual formation team.

Rick & Janice McKinley

Sports Ministry, US-based

Rick and Janice began serving with Missionary Athletes International (MAI) in 1987. MAI is a gospel-centered ministry that introduces people to Jesus Christ, teaches them to follow him and empowers them as leaders through the global environment of soccer. As a gospel ministry that operates in sport, MAI exists to see people come to know Jesus, grow up in him and become leaders, both within and outside of sport. Along with international training of coaches and working with collegiate coaches here in the US, as director of international tours, Rick oversees MAI’s tour leaders and leads three or four sports ministry mission trips each year.

Kristiana Miller (Cory)

Member Care, Evangelism & Discipleship, Europe

Kristiana works with the teenage children of Greater Europe Mission's missionaries (GEM-Ks), offering care, resources and special MK events for missionary kid teens and their families in Europe. The heart of this ministry is a pursuit of holistic wellness for children in ministry contexts, offering special care for their spiritual, emotional, mental and social needs.

Terri Miller (Matt)

Member Care, Worldwide

Terri serves on ReachGlobal’s Europe leadership team, engaging in strategy, oversight and care for staff serving in more than 20 urban locations. She also serves as the global church representative of the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE), representing the NAE at events and meetings related to the global church, as well as advocating for the global church to the NAE and its members with a desire for mutual learning, encouragement and support.

Greg & Debby Nichols

Evangelism and Leadership Development, Europe

Greg and Debby serve in Czech Republic with Greater Europe Mission (GEM). Since the war began in Ukraine, they have focused specifically on housing and care for displaced Ukrainian women and children. They developed a multi-cultural team to facilitate Jesus's healing to the bodies, minds and souls of Ukrainians living in Prague and the Czech Republic. Greg also trains and coaches leaders as a member of GEM’s leader development team.

Rob & Laurie

Evangelism, US-based

Rob and Laurie serve in campus ministry to international students in Chicago, home to 20,000 international students. Most of these students come from countries in Asia, and most of the students have never heard the gospel before, many having never seen a Bible. Rob and Laurie lead evangelistic Bible studies and disciple believers with a vision that as these new believers move on from Chicago and likely return to their home country, they will be fruitful disciples who lead others to Christ.

Stanley Okoro (Marjorie)

Evangelism, Europe

Stanley and his family live in Lille, France, where they have served for more than ten years with Greater Europe Mission (GEM). As leaders of a small church-planting team, their vision is to see disciples who are continually being transformed by Christ, living out their faith in the church and sharing their faith in their natural environments. Lille is an extremely diverse city where the team spends considerable time cultivating a presence through prayer walking, sharing the gospel with French natives and immigrants alike, giving away coffee and tea and leading Bible studies.

Jeremy & Christy Otten

Leadership Development, Europe

Jeremy and Christy serve with WorldVenture to provide theological education and counseling in Europe. Jeremy teaches full-time in the New Testament department at the Evangelische Theologische Faculteit (ETF) in Belgium. He enjoys the opportunity to work with and mentor students from across Europe and worldwide as they prepare for lives of ministry and discipleship. Christy provides counseling support for WorldVenture missionaries as well as ETF students.

Steve & Teri Pardue

Training National Leaders, Asia

Steve and Teri serve with TeachBeyond in the Philippines. Steve is on the theology faculty at the International Graduate School of Leadership and directs a doctoral program for the Asia Graduate School of Theology. Graduates of these schools serve in more than 20 nations as pastors, church leaders, missionaries and seminary faculty, providing crucial leadership to the rapidly growing Asian church. Steve also partners with a regional publisher to create theological textbooks for Asian Christians.

Teri directs a preschool for local and missionary families and trains and mentors young teachers.

Ben & Mandy Pehrson

Translation, Asia

Ben and Mandy Pehrson are team leaders for the Aitape West Project in Papua New Guinea, in a joint ministry of Bible translation, literacy and Scripture engagement. Their goal is to see people knowing and living God’s Word, leading to changed lives and transformed communities. In addition to checking translations, Ben regularly teaches introductory linguistics classes and has begun a PhD in linguistics. Mandy assists with administration and teaches cooking at the school for missionary kids.

Jeff & Jane Pelz

Evangelism and Organizational Leadership, US-based

Jeff and Jane Pelz

Susan Perlman

Organizational Leadership, US-based

Susan Perlman is a first-generation Jewish believer from Brooklyn, New York. She is one of the founders of Jews for Jesus (JFJ); an organization founded in 1973 with the mission statement of “We relentlessly pursue God’s plan for the salvation of the Jewish people.” As the chief partnership officer and member of the executive leadership team, Susan has developed strategic partnerships with missions agencies, churches and theological institutions resulting in the sending out of more workers to advance the gospel around the globe.

David & Majka

David and Majka serve with Greater Europe Mission in Vienna, Austria. They serve alongside Austrian leaders in an international student ministry and help a community development ministry in nearby Bratislava, Slovakia, to provide spiritual leadership to young believers in the ministry.

John & Pam

Member Care, Africa

John and Pam live in Africa, where they host a place of rest and renewal for global workers. The retreat opened five years ago and has ten fully equipped apartments, a prayer chapel and a newly completed swimming pool and splash pad. Teams come for time away to seek God together and to discover the next steps forward in their ministries. They also provide logistical support for Africa Inland Mission’s local unit. This includes remodeling houses for new workers, setting up solar systems on houses and helping keep vehicles on the road.

Stephen & Karis Rigby

Mobilization, Africa

Stephen and Karis Rigby live in Nairobi with their four children: Abigail, Eoin, Zaks and Julianna. They are team leaders for the Nairobi Serge team, where they help teammates engage in meaningful ministry while navigating cross-cultural living well. Stephen also uses his passion for discipleship and soccer to see a movement of gospel-carrying coaches across Kenya, while Karis’ heart for relational ministry and missions are expressed through her leading the internship and apprenticeship programs.

Marcos & Mariana Romero

Evangelism, US-based

Marcos and Mariana Romero have served as radio broadcasters since 1981 with Reach Beyond. For 26 years, they have been in charge of KNOG Manantial, an FM radio station in Nogales, Arizona, bordering Mexico. The station’s signal reaches into Mexico and the surrounding region.

They seek to use all radio and digital means to share the gospel in a relevant way while ensuring listeners receive biblically based content.

José Pablo & Jane Sánchez

Evangelism, Europe

José Pablo and Jane Sánchez serve the Lord with the goal to see an evangelical church in every unreached town of Spain. José Pablo is focusing on proclaiming the gospel, mentoring, teaching and preparing leadership. He is also the president of the United Platform of Evangelization of Spain of the Federation of Churches (FEREDE). Both Jane and José Pablo serve with the evangelistic association Decision Spain and are developing Decision Academy with courses on evangelism and communication.

Jonatán & Teresa Simons

Training National Leaders, Latin America

Jonatán and Teresa teach in Colombia, South America, at the Bible Seminary of Columbia, which is an accredited seminary that provides training to leaders and pastors in Latin America. Its desire is to provide affordable theological education that is founded on the Scriptures that will help the growth and maturity of the church and be a blessing to the nations as Latin America continues to contribute to the spread of the good news of Jesus Christ.

Tim & Deanna Smith (Missions Associates)

Member Care, US-based (Missions Associate)

Missions Associates are supported by prayer, but not financially, by College Church.

Tim and Deanna Smith work out of Greater Europe Mission’s (GEM) U.S. headquarters in Colorado. Tim serves as GEM’s vice president of people and culture, and his mission is to help people create an environment for growth so that they can thrive as they multiply disciples and grow Christ’s church in Europe. Together, Tim and Deanna assess missionary candidates, visit missionaries, participate in retreats, respond to crisis situations and help with training.

Bill & Laurie Stough

Community Development, Africa

Bill and Laurie Stough have a passion for the farming families across Africa to come to life in Jesus and to see their farms flourish. The Stoughs are extending a resource called Farming God’s Way into six countries of central Africa. Biblical, technological and managerial principles are interwoven and help lead some into a right relationship with the Creator God. This journey of faithful stewardship provides a context ripe with outreach and discipleship opportunity.

Isaac & Jennifer Stough

Evangelism, Europe

Isaac and Jennifer Stough work with Youth for Christ (YFC) in Barcelona, Spain. They both train and disciple those who attend weekly YFC outreach events, which include youth groups, retreats and camps.

Isaac is a counselor and teacher at the YFC center and English Academy.  Jennifer directs the YFC middle school group and runs a theater program for young people. They are passionate about helping others grow in joyful confidence in their relationship with Jesus.

Emmanuel & Adugna Tahear

Evangelism, US-based

Emmanuel and Adugna Tahear are missionaries with SIM Culture ConneXions. They are involved in worldwide evangelism, mobilization, church planting and compassion mission opportunities overseas.

Adugna is a career missionary dentist and seeks to relieve pain, eliminate infections and give people back their smiles. Emmanuel networks with and encourages church leaders from different evangelical associations with a focus on reaching Muslims and Muslim-background believers. He also serves actively with local Burmese and Vietnamese churches and coordinates a multi-nations fellowship.

Daniel & Julie

Evangelism and Discipleship, Asia

Daniel and Julie support the work of Bible translation through administration, supporting a team of over 200 Bible translation and language development team members. Their organization's goal is to make the Word available in every person's heart language. The team currently has 77 active projects. They have two sons.

Victor & Leslie Trautwein

Community Development, Latin America

Vic and Leslie Trautwein have lived in the Dominican Republic (DR) working with Kids Alive since 2002. Vic co-directs the operations of the seven Kids Alive schools, three residential programs and an independence program that offers university scholarships. Leslie oversees preventive medical care, emergency care and chronic care as well as the nutrition and dental health programs. The need in the DR is great, and they work hard to break cycles of spiritual and material poverty that have existed in some families for generations.

Jeff & Ann VanDerMolen

Christian Education, Latin America

Jeff and Ann VanDerMolen serve in the Dominican Republic. They minister through Christian education to children who come from vulnerable and impoverished situations.

Ann serves with Kids Alive as the Director of the ANIJA school in Jarabacoa, with 420 students and more than 70+ staff. Jeff is involved in consulting with various ministries, in areas of facility and ministry development.

Jeff and Ann are also involved in mentoring/fostering a number of young adults who have grown up in the Kids Alive ministry, as these young adults transition toward independence.

Jamie & Kim Viands

Training National Leaders, Africa

Jamie and Kim Viands live in Nairobi, Kenya, and serve with Africa Inland Mission.

Michael Walker (MT)

Evangelism and Discipleship, Europe, mid-term

Michael leads the university ministry of Trinity Church Central London (TCCL). This includes evangelistic work on college campuses, mentoring students who are often very new to the faith, and recruiting and mentoring members of TCCL to do the same.

He plays a supporting role in the general pastoral duties of TCCL, prep work for the planned church plant and the growing international outreach.

Charley & Cheryl Warner

Training National Leaders, Europe

Charley and Cheryl Warner live in Irpin, Ukraine, where they help mobilize Ukrainian cross-cultural workers and mentor a missionary care team caring for Ukrainian missionaries. They teach missions and spiritual life classes at seminaries in Ukraine and Armenia and provide soul care for global workers. Charley engages in publishing projects to provide missions and member care resources for the Ukrainian church, and Cheryl edits English-language communications for church and seminary leaders.

John & Vivi Wickberg (Missions Associates)

Administration, US-based (Missions Associate)

Missions Associates are supported by prayer, but not financially, by College Church.

John and Vivi Wickberg serve with Wycliffe Bible Translators. John is a full-time computer programmer and works mainly on Paratext, a program for Bible translation that is used by many organizations. Vivi teaches weekly ESL classes, which includes 15 minutes of Bible time. Vivi also disciples women whose husbands are not believers and meets with women who have recently arrived in the U.S.

Chad & Leanna Wiebe

Mobilization, Europe

Chad and Leanna Wiebe minister in Ukraine with SEND.  Chad is the Director of SEND’s missions mobilization ministry in Ukraine. He coordinates and leads ministry efforts to help Ukrainian churches send missionaries to unreached regions of Eurasia and Central Asia, where there are more than 900 unreached people groups.

Leanna coaches young women who are preparing to leave for service outside of Ukraine and is involved in children’s ministries.

John & Esther Waldrop

Training National Leaders, Asia

John and Esther Waldrop serve with the International Graduate School of Leadership and Asia Graduate School of Theology in Manila, Philippines. Both schools train pastors and Christian leaders from many of the least-reached countries in Asia. John teaches at both schools, and Esther serves in the Partners in Ministry program and is helping to start a writing center for the students.

Church Planters

Two workers are church planting with Buddhist peoples in Asia. They live and work among these significant communities while learning the language. Currently, they are engaging migrants in an urban context alongside local churches.

Church Planters

Two workers serve in church planting, evangelism and discipleship ministry in the MENA. They strengthen, support and equip churches with doctrinally sound publications and provide basic theological training and discipleship for local leaders.

Web Developers

Two workers serve in Southeast Asia, building tech tools to further evangelism in challenging contexts. Their current projects serve church planting efforts in the Himalayas, war-torn Myanmar and multiple refugee communities. Search "Noble Escape Route Myanmar" or "Excellent Stories" on the Play Store or Apple Store to see examples of their ongoing work.

Community-Based Business

Community Development, Asia

Two workers come alongside middle-class families in South Asia, bearing witness to Christ through community. They are dedicated to introducing families to Christ, teaching them what it means follow His path and supporting holistic growth in faith, love, hope and truth. Working together in their maternal/child health community-based business, they support the local and national lactation profession by providing education to a growing number of lactation professionals and support families during this crucial time of life. They are a part of a local fellowship where they mutually participate in the body of Christ.

Educators

Two workers are university professors who seek to develop relationships with students and point them to Christ.

Language Consultant

One worker serves in the Middle East, working in language learning consultancy. Her work helps to equip other kingdom workers to share Christ in the local language. She seeks to develop relationships with local women and families in order to introduce them to and deepen their relationships with Jesus.

Organizational Leadership

Member Care, Middle East

One worker is based in the States and supports global workers in the Middle East.

Pastoral Counselors

Member Care, Asia

Two workers serve in Asia, where they have been for ten years. Their primary ministry is pastoral care for their organization’s regional missionaries. They are additionally involved in biblical counseling, encouragement and support within their local community.

Relief Worker

One worker serves in a Middle Eastern country. She is on a team that exists to create a system of ministries to bring life to oppressed migrants and refugees, walking alongside them to help them develop sustainable solutions to holistically better their lives in all aspects. The team willingly steps into the dark places of the city to bring God’s light. They hold one-on-one and group discipleship circles where they study the Bible and talk about how to carry out what they read in daily life. The team also grows, trains and disciples multiple refugee churches.

Teacher

One worker is a teacher in Central Asia. She seeks to develop relationships with students in order to introduce them to Jesus and deepen their relationships with him.

Scripture Use Promoters

Education and Organizational Leadership, Asia

Two workers in Asia are primarily focused on serving the church in its strategies to help people engage with Scripture and Bible stories, often through audio players or facilitating Scripture-based trauma healing groups, and through coordinating funding for translation projects. Both are building God's kingdom where they are.

University Professor

One worker has been a professor at a university. She interacts with Muslims, Tibetan Buddhists and atheists in an unreached people place that is spiritually and politically oppressive. She builds relationships with students, teachers and neighbors, seeking to be a light for Christ in this dark place.