Paul and Mary Adams

Training National Leaders, Worldwide

WordPartners serves to to elevate God’s lifegiving Word in the hearts, lives and ministries of pastors and their people.

Paul coordinates the effort to communicate what God is doing to transform the lives and ministries of pastors all around the world and occasionally gets to be part of workshops where pastors learn to discover the riches of God’s Word.

Mary translates written training materials into her native language for use in East Asia.

They have a son named Isaac and live in South Carolina.

Dick and Roslyn Albright

Training National Leaders, Worldwide

Dick is an international trainer with Training Leaders International (TLI), organizing and leading teams of other theological trainers to places where TLI has been invited.

National pastors gather for a week or two of training and then develop their own strategies for teaching what they have learned to other pastors.  The Bible study curriculum emphasizes hermeneutics, expository preaching and church leadership along with practical application of each lesson. The Albrights live in Carol Stream, IL.

Jim and Michelle Albright (MT)

Mid-Term, Administration, Asia

Jim and Michelle are mid-term missionaries serving in Papua New Guinea (PNG) with Wycliffe Bible Translators. Jim’s parents are Dick and Roslyn Albright, missionaries with College Church since 1979. Jim and Michelle have been supported by College Church since October 2017 and are currently set to be supported through March of 2022.

Their ministry is focused on software development and support for Wycliffe in order to improve the efficiency of everyday tasks of translators. Michelle homeschools their five children and seeks to care for those in their community through hospitality.

Phil and Ann Baur

Organizational Leadership, Worldwide

Phil and Ann have been actively involved in support of the proclamation of the gospel, development, and refugee services for over 35 years.

Phil and Ann work alongside the president of Pioneers International in Florida, assisting with international collaboration gatherings, board meetings, advancement events, crisis management, and providing executive support wherever needed.  Pioneers' mission is the relentless pursuit of God’s glory among the unreached through church planting.

Ann also serves on the board of directors of CAMP-of-the-WOODS in upstate New York.

Norm and Cathy Beasley

Organizational Leadership, Worldwide

Norm is the Director of Global Crisis Management Services for Wycliffe Bible Translators.  He trains missionaries to assess and avoid risk, planning for contingencies and ensuring 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.

Norm and Cathy currently live in North Carolina. Previously, they served for three years in Peru and eighteen years in Papua New Guinea with their seven children.

Nathan and Vera Beck

Evangelism, Europe

Nathan and Vera serve with Greater Europe Mission in Opava, Czech Republic.   They are involved in various teaching, training and preaching ministries.

Their passion and focus is making disciples, and Nathan regularly coaches missionaries across the continent in the discipleship multiplication process. Together with local Christians, they use Discovery Bible Studies to reach non-believers in their community and around the country.

They are both passionate about equipping missionaries, pastors and lay believers around Europe to be disciples of Jesus.

Robbie and Lauren Becker

Christian Education, Latin America

El Camino Academy (ECA) is an international Christian school in Bogotá, Colombia, which is part of the Association of Christian Schools International. Now in their 9th year at ECA, Robbie teaches high school Bible classes and oversees the Bible department.

Lauren takes care of their four children at home, seeks to build relationships with their neighbors and leads a young mom’s Bible study. Robbie and Lauren also co-coach high school girls volleyball.

Matt and Lisa Befus

Christian Education, Latin America

La Palabra de Vida (LPDV) or Word of Life is a Christian bilingual school in Costa Rica, serving approximately 300 national students, preschool through high school. LPDV seeks to advance the kingdom through Christian education.

Matt teaches high school science, trains teachers, oversees construction and serves as consultant to the school board and administration. Lisa serves in administration and supports the English program and library.

Brian and Warrie Blackburn

Organizational Leadership and Christian Education, Africa

Brian and Warrie have served with Mercy Ships since 1994, both onboard and at the mission headquarters in Texas. They are currently serving along with their twin 14-year-old daughters, Addison and Alyssa, at the Mercy Ships headquarters. Warrie is working part-time in their chaplaincy department, and Brian works on the administrative board at the Academy school, serving children of their staff all over the world.

Mercy Ships seeks to partner with local churches and relief organizations to bring spiritual help and physical healing to the forgotten poor of West Africa.

Judy Blumhofer

Evangelism, Latin America

Judy is the director of Casa Santuario, a long-term residential care center for more than 30 children in the Honduran foster system. As Judy puts it, there is never a shortage of kids to play with or activities to undertake and children’s laughter rings out regularly. She has begun working with the broader foster care community through collaboration with various NGOs to bring medical and trauma-informed care techniques to foster children and families. Judy is also a long-term foster parent to two children.

Karen Bradley

English Language Training, Worldwide

Karen serves with Wycliffe Bible Translators on a strategic team that offers professional development of English language skills. Having a better grasp of English allows international colleagues access to more translation resources and opportunities to attend seminary, training programs, meetings and conferences, as well as the ability to fill leadership and administrative roles.

Karen is thankful she can help equip and encourage colleagues in this way as the work of Bible translation continues around the world.

Kyle and 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. They seek to provide positive role models and individual mentorship.

GO focuses on the holistic growth of every player as they participate in discipleship classes, daily devotionals and the teaching of healthy life skills. The Bradley’s mentorship of local leaders serves as the fuel for coaches to have a Christ-centered impact on more than 300 athletes that participate in daily sports academies.

Janet

Christian Education, Worldwide

Janet serves with Asia Education Resource Consortium as an education consultant for families living overseas and assisting with transitional care for third-culture kids. Janet was instrumental in developing AERC in 2001 and then served as its interim executive director for four years at which time she transitioned to serving as a board member to the present.

Philip

Training National Leaders, Asia

Philip is serving in Thailand. His vision is to make disciples and to equip communities of faith to join God’s work. But, in many places, there is a lack of people who are able to teach others.

Philip’s focus is on Bible teaching and mentoring in the local language and on church-based education and seminars that equip leaders and lay believers to interpret, teach and apply God’s Word.

J and B

Evangelism and Discipleship, Undisclosed

J & B are on a team that uses digital tools to distribute God’s Word among a least-reached people group in one of the most inaccessible places in the world.

After doing face-to-face ministry overseas for nearly a decade, J and B left their host country when the door closed for effective ministry two years ago.

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.

Joan (MA)

Evangelism, Asia (Ministry Associate)

Due to the sensitive location in which these missionaries serve, names and photos will not be disclosed.

One worker in Asia disciples and shares Christ through the vehicle of English Bible studies and language learning.

Libbie Casey (MT)

Mid-Term, Discipleship, South America

Libbie serves in the Dominican Republic with GO Ministries coaching volleyball and discipling Dominican coaches and women.

GO Ministries focuses on the holistic growth of every player as they participate in discipleship classes, daily devotionals and the teaching of healthy life skills.

Libbie has been supported by College Church since January 2020 and is currently being supported through 2022.

Kevin Cox (MT)

Mid-Term, Evangelism, South America

Kevin lives in Brazil and serves at the Word of Life Seminary with his parents, College Church missionaries Steve and Mirian Cox. He is doing camp ministry leadership and student development.

He has been supported since February 2020 and will be supported through March of 2023.

Curt and Karen Cole

Organizational Leadership, Worldwide

Curt serves as the International Personnel Director for Avant, overseeing the ministry health of 500+ global missionaries. His primary task is to build church planting teams that are deployed to least-reached areas. He does this through actively engaging, mentoring and coaching people who are pursuing missionary service with Avant. Karen is an encourager and coach as well, especially with young missionary mothers. Curt and Karen are based in Kansas City, Missouri.

Steve and Mirian Cox

Training National Leaders, Latin America

Steve and Mirian are at Word of Life Bible Seminary in Brazil. Steve heads up the discipleship program and works closely with the staff to keep them encouraged and walking close to the Lord in order to grow and help develop the students. He also assists with student life, which includes discipleship, dormitories, physical education, student relationships and discipline.

Mirian works alongside Steve and loves discipling women and being involved in their lives. Together they are involved in a local church, where they serve as spiritual leaders.

Giles and Debbie Davis

Evangelism, Europe

Giles and Debbie serve with SEND International in Spain. Debbie is the national youth coordinator for a federation of national evangelical churches, as well as the director of Misión Posible, a national youth conference that is held every two years.  Giles has published two books in Spanish and is preparing a youth ministry course for a seminary in Barcelona.

Together they travel around Spain to encourage and train youth leaders and those who oversee them as well as run a discipleship house where up to four youth at a time come for several months for discipleship, ministry and life training.

Giles and Debbie serve their local church by supporting the youth group leaders, Giles participates on the worship team and leads an English club that meets in the church.

Stan and Faith De La Cour

Organizational Leadership, Worldwide

Stan and Faith serve with SIM in Charlotte, North Carolina. Stan develops partnerships between SIM and churches in the greater Charlotte area and serves in member care, supporting and caring for missionaries.

Faith serves as Vice President and Chief People Officer, overseeing the group that provides personnel, member care and child safety for SIM missionaries from the U.S.—more than 750 serving in nearly 70 countries.

Stan and Faith have been supported by College Church since 1983, and previously served in Japan for over 30 years doing pastoral work, teaching and missionary care. They enjoy connecting God's people to God's work in the world.

Anita Deyneka

Orphan Care, Worldwide

Anita works with Mission Eurasia, serving primarily with A Family for Every Orphan, but also with World Without Orphans (WWO). They seek to place orphans in caring Christian families within their home countries through building 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’s ministry focuses on assisting young leaders in areas of strategic planning, communications and fund-raising. She also travels often to countries where the WWO movement has spread since it originated in Ukraine.

Steve and Lois Dresselhaus

Evangelism, Latin America

Steve and Lois serve with TEAM in Mexico. They are the founders of Reconciliamar, a Mexican non-profit that “uses adventures at sea to transform lives.” They seek to proclaim the biblical teaching of reconciliation as the solution to the world’s environmental crisis and the basis of hope and salvation for every person.

As COVID restrictions are further lifted, Steve and Lois anticipate starting a house church in their neighborhood, together with several other couples from current groups. Their desire is to keep the new church as simple as possible so that it can be easily reproduced.

Joshua and Kara Dunckel

Evangelism, Europe

Joshua and Kara live in Budapest, Hungary. Joshua works on the strategic partnering team of ReachGlobal’s Europe division. His team works in the “white spaces” of Europe where the organization doesn’t have teams on the ground, but where opportunities exist for them to support and work alongside European ministry leaders.

The three main areas of focus are ministry to Muslims, 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, homeschooling three of their four children, helping Joshua and serving their community.

Jeff and Margreet Dusek

Evangelism, North America

Jeff and Margreet work with Missionary Athletes International (MAI) and its Midwest ministry, the Chicago Eagles. The Eagles strive to communicate the message of Jesus Christ through the environment of soccer.

Jeff focuses on the Summer Academy, a leadership training program for college students to use soccer as a platform to share Christ’s love. He promotes summer camps, going to church partners to talk to Sunday school classes and youth groups as well as to schools. Jeff is also responsible for the Eagles’ spring golf fundraiser. Margreet helps with registration and camp administration, in addition to working at Twice as Nice in Wheaton.

Rod and Kathy Duttweiler

Leadership Development, Africa

Rod and Kathy co-founded the East Mountain Leadership Development (EM) initiative in South Africa. They seek to develop Christian leaders who are strong, competent, theologically sound and spiritually discerning for churches, Christian schools and organizations.

Since 2014, they have seen hundreds impacted through temporary learning communities, weekend workshops and theological training cohorts. In 2019, East Mountain Global launched communities in Edinburgh (Scotland), Bangkok (Thailand) and Greenville (South Carolina).

Rodney continues to give oversight to the overall vision and direction of the EM global network. Both Rodney and Kathy also disciple and mentor interns.

Caleb and Marisa Duttweiler (MT)

Mid-Term, Education, Africa

Caleb and Marisa serve in South Africa. They mentor participants in East Mountain’s residency and internship programs as well as help with the ministry’s communication.

East Mountain seeks to develop Christian leaders through discipleship, training, theological education and spiritual transformation.

They were sent in August 2018 and hope to be in South Africa through 2021.

Bob and Becky Faber

Evangelism and Leadership Development, Europe

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

They run a Filling Station group, a UK-based movement for those who are seeking and curious but not yet interested in church. They are also developing programs for youth to gain career-oriented opportunities.

Jake and Honah Finn

Member Care, Asia

Jake and Honah serve fellow missionaries and their families throughout Asia at Cornerstone Counseling Foundation, located in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Jake is the Director of Clinical Services. Cornerstone Counseling provides confidential and professional counseling, consultation and training from a Christian perspective for individuals, couples, families, teams and organizations.

Jake and Honah both grew up in missionary families and have a heart for serving the international community overseas. They have six-year-old twin boys and a two-year-old daughter.

Jim and Julianna Gieser (MT)

Mid-Term, Administration, Africa

Jim and Julianna work with the Student YMCA campus ministry in South Africa. Julianna is the daughter of College Church career missionaries Scott and Jenny Hawkins.

Jim serves as the Chief Operations Officer, providing operational oversight, developing organizational structures for current and future programming and offering relational support and mentoring to the ministry staff. Julianna is caring for their children as well as serving in hospitality as they host students in their home and build relationships.

We have been supporting Jim and Julianna since September 2019 and plan to continue through July 2022.

Joe and Holly Greeson

Member Care, North America

Joe and Holly work in Member Care with SEND International in Alaska and Northwest Canada. Based in Anchorage, Joe and Holly travel by road and plane to 21 different villages in the Far North. They encourage SEND workers and their families who are called by Jesus to live and make disciples in this region.

They also 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 and Kathy Haley

Leadership Development and Mobilization, Europe

Jon and Kathy have been serving in Spain with WorldVenture since 1996. They serve the Spanish church in the areas of leadership development and mobilization. They have had the privilege of serving alongside the Spanish church through promoting church health, coordinating an online Bible school and translating theology and books on church health.

They also developed an online resource to mentor bi-vocational, non-seminary-trained pastors in the preparation of expository sermons. They are deeply burdened for the authority of the Scriptures and purity of the gospel message in Spanish congregations. As a result, they seek to provide training and resources to promote dynamic expositional preaching and encourage pastors.

Jim and Kathy Hansen

Mobilization, Worldwide

Jim and Kathy serve with SIM at Ethnos360 Bible Institute (EBI) in Waukesha, Wisconsin, preparing prospective missionaries for service overseas. EBI provides Bible training with an emphasis on application in overseas ministry.

Jim also teaches Perspectives courses in the Midwest and serves as a theological education consultant for SIM Bolivia. Kathy serves in their local church and is a special needs aide. They previously served in Bolivia for 25 years.

Jonathan and Amy Harris

Mobilization, Europe

Jonathan and Amy have worked for nearly 40 years with Operation Mobilization (OM). They first served with the OM ship ministry, but for the last 27 years, have been based in Wales, UK, focusing on evangelistic outreach alongside local churches. This has involved outreach activities such as widespread school, sports and special needs ministry.

Currently, a major focus is helping a new church plant in Grangetown, a multicultural area in the city of Cardiff. Other ongoing aspects of the work include regular street evangelism and mentoring young local evangelists.

Jim and Lynette Hatcher

Organizational Leadership and Member Care, Europe

Jim and Lynette live and serve in Vienna, Austria. Jim serves as a regional leader, overseeing Greater Europe Mission (GEM) work in Romania, Hungary, Czech Republic, Switzerland and Germany. Lynette serves on a member care team, encouraging GEM women Europe-wide and co-leading a local international women’s Bible study.

Both Jim and Lynette disciple believers in their Austrian church and lead Bible studies. Jim also serves on the preaching team. In addition, Jim is involved in leadership with the program he originally went to serve in 1986, which focuses on church-based theological education and training, as well as through an extensive research project (doctoral dissertation) about the history and impact of this program with the goal of helping them plan for the next generation.

Scott and Jenny Hawkins

Evangelism, International Students

Scott and Jenny serve with International Students, Inc., in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina. Scott remains engaged as one of six campus staff. Their team interacts with students primarily at Duke University and NC State University, where there are more than 8,800 international students, representing over 100 nations. They envision every international student encountering Christ, bringing glory to the living God and the transformation of nations.

Scott and Jenny enjoy mentoring individual students, sharing a meal or hiking a trail, as well as facilitating Discovery Bible Studies—with those familiar or unfamiliar with Scripture and the reality of walking with the living God.

Jeff and Tamara Hershberger

Church Planting, Asia

Jeff and Tamara have been with SEND International in Tokyo, Japan since 2012. Four years ago they partnered with a Japanese-led church planting effort, and until recently, they served as cooperating missionaries with a church planting team in a city with no other existing churches.

In April 2020, they were asked by the parent church to support a new church plant in a neighboring city. Jeff is part of the preaching team. Together, they use English clubs as a means to serve the community and introduce the community to the church plant and, ultimately, to Jesus. Tamara, in addition to church planting support, teaches part-time at the Christian Academy in Japan. They have two sons.

Greg and Faith Hurst

Church Planting, 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 churches in La Paz 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 2022. Faith is receiving specialized training to better equip and encourage the wives of these Bolivian church planters.

James and Patricia

Evangelism to Hindus, North America

James and Patricia joined a new team in the Chicagoland area, which has a Hindu and Muslim focus. In the summer of 2020, they moved to a diverse community which includes a large Indian population.

They are seeking ways to make connections and recognize the coronavirus pandemic has slowed down this process.

James and Patricia mentor future missionaries and are available as a resource for College Church people who would like to learn more about how to share the love of Christ with Hindus.

David and Georgina Johnson

Christian Education, Latin America

David has served since 2016 as a missionary with Kids Alive (KA) in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. His ministry is to elementary-age children attending KA’s school. He teaches English to kindergarten through sixth grade.

David also is an architect, designing facility improvements at each of the 10 ministry sites in the DR. David assisted in the construction development of the newest campus in Santo Domingo East, which is adding classrooms and office space. Also, he helps to host and care for U.S. short-term teams that visit throughout the year.

Brad and Christy Keating

Translation, Worldwide

Brad and Christy live in Texas. Brad works with the ethnomusicology/arts department at the Wycliffe International Linguistic Center in Dallas.

He teaches classes that prepare missionaries for Bible translation and develops new art courses for the bachelor's and the master's world arts degrees. He also creates and edits videos that explain how art consultants can aid in and benefit the Bible translation process. Brad is available as a consultant to Wycliffe's overseas arts workers for their audio and visual equipment needs and questions.

Christy primarily cares for their children, Karis (17), who has a serious seizure disorder and is completely dependent, and Brendan (12).

Todd and Sue Kelly

Training National Leaders, Worldwide

Todd and Sue work for WordPartners to train pastors to read and wisely interpret the Bible so they can lead their congregations and encourage God’s work among the nations.

Todd is the global ministries director and has been working with LRI since 2002. He works with graduates of WordPartners’ programs across the globe and establishes new training movements. Todd and Sue live in Wheaton.

Sara and Manu Klopfenstein

Community Development, Europe

Sara ministers in Nancy, France, with Youth For Christ, predominantly in the musical realm. She directs gospel choirs that are open to anyone wanting to sing that repertoire, including the unchurched, and also puts on inter-church musical projects.

She also helps in an inner-city ministry which is beginning a tutoring program. Sara’s husband, Manu, manages a government-funded group home for mothers and their small infants. They have three children.

Steve and Lois Krogh

Training National Leaders, Worldwide

Steve and Lois serve with Training Leaders International, whose mission is to equip pastors around the world to be faithful expositors of God's Word in their culture. Steve is an international trainer, serving pastors and church leaders by leading teaching teams.

Whether gathering in a living room behind shuttered windows with a handful of pastors in a closed country high in the Himalayas or meeting under a mango tree with church leaders in Ethiopia, Steve and Lois count it a privilege to serve Christ's shepherds, who are on the front lines of kingdom work.

Daniel Lanz

Training National Leaders, Middle East

Daniel works at Forman Christian College in Lahore, Pakistan, where he teaches theology and Hebrew language. The college’s Christian studies faculty serve a Christian minority in Pakistan, and the master’s program is especially well-equipped for training in biblical studies.

Daniel feels privileged to have students in his courses who are eager to study the Bible carefully while constantly considering its significance for the church. It is his hope and vision that the next generation of Pakistani Bible teachers will teach exegesis and biblical theology with humility, maturity and academic thoroughness. Daniel and his colleagues are seeing more and more gifted Pakistani theologians replace the expats who trained them, and he is excited and grateful to be a part of that story.

Dan and Beth Long

Member Care, Worldwide

Dan and Beth served in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for 20 years. In January 2020, they moved to Fort Mill, South Carolina, to work from SIM's international office and care for Beth's parents, retired missionaries Don and Muriel Stilwell.

Dan is serving as a global chaplain, ministering to missionaries around the world, helping keep them on the field and working effectively. Dan and Beth also have three adult children.

Mihai and Tamara Lundell

Member Care and Sports Ministry, Europe

Mihai and Tamara live in Italy and are part of the Europe Area Leadership team with One Challenge International. Their primary ministry responsibilities are member care, coordinating sports ministry and guiding a new generation of leaders in spiritual formation.

Mihai serves on the executive committee of the European Member Care (EMC) board, debriefing mission workers who live throughout Europe and the Middle East. The EMC also hosts training opportunities and events for workers around the world. During the COVID-19 lockdowns they offered an online training course that had 4,000 registrants.

Tamara offers one-on-one spiritual direction to 20 European leaders and produces biblically-centered spiritual exercises that are available online. They are also active in their local church.

Ed and Joy

Evangelism, North America

"Ed and Joy" work to reach Muslim international students, refugees and immigrants in Canada. They disciple new believers and help them get established in churches and fellowships. Ed and Joy use their skills to open doors to friendship with Muslims.

For Ed, this includes being friendly, meeting men for coffee and helping people in practical ways. Joy practices hospitality, friendliness, does home visits and offers prayer. Joy also has been blessed with a gift of writing, which she uses to equip and mentor Christians for Muslim ministry.

Together, they praise God for the growing number of Christians who are praying for and befriending Muslims in North America.

Jeff and Irene

Translation, Asia

Jeff and Irene serve in Thailand with their two children. Jeff has completed training for Bible translation work. This preparation has included study of the national language as well as applied linguistics for a Southeast Asian context.

Beginning their next term, they will be working toward translating the Bible for an unreached, Bible-less language group, starting with study of the target language. This people group is predominantly Buddhist in name, though spiritism is prevalent. They are resistant to the gospel, but a small church is slowly growing despite persecution.

John and Elsa Maust

Administration, Worldwide (MA)

John & 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 excellent Christian content in the heart language of the intended reader, thereby nurturing the church and influencing society for Christ.

John is the president of MAI, and Elsa does part-time Spanish interpretation for the local school district. Since MAI’s founding 35 years ago, some 10,000 men and women from 85 countries have been helped to create life-transforming Christian content for their readers.

Thad and Joy McAuley

Organizational Leadership, Europe

Thad and Joy serve with Greater Europe Mission (GEM). Thad is responsible for GEM's field ministries across Europe, overseeing over 350 missionaries involved in one-on-one and small group discipleship, church planting, evangelism, refugee camp work, connections through the arts and youth and family camps.

Joy leads GEM’s spiritual life team, helping missionaries to strengthen their relationships with Jesus so their ministry flows out from an ever-deepening relationship with him.

Rick and Janice McKinley

Sports Ministry, Worldwide

Rick and Janice began serving with Missionary Athletes International (MAI) in 1987. In 1997, they founded MAI’s Chicago Eagles ministry. A recent relocation to North Carolina and MAI’s headquarters enables them to assist with training and discipleship in each of the MAI locations as well as internationally.

MAI’s mission is to glorify God and see lives transformed by communicating the message of Jesus Christ through the global environment of soccer. Through the medium of sports ministry they train athletes, coaches and churches that are sent out to love God and serve others.

Cory and Kristiana Miller (MT)

Mid-Term, Member Care, Europe

Kristiana serves missionary kids across Europe with Greater Europe Mission (GEM). This is a ministry she understands the need for, having grown up in Austria as the daughter of College Church missionaries Jim and Lynette Hatcher.

Children growing up in ministry-focused homes face unique challenges as they are often lonely and find that they don’t fit in either their host or their passport countries. The Millers seek to care for the mental and emotional health of these kids and their families.

The church began supporting them in February 2018 and will continue through January 2022.

Terri Miller

Member Care, Worldwide

Terri is part of the Europe leadership team of ReachGlobal, with specific oversight of the resource team that provides events, training, communications, business services and new staff support for nearly 150 households serving across Europe in the work of church multiplication.

She also serves as the global church representative for the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE), representing NAE at events and meetings related to the global church as well as representing the global church to NAE and its members for mutual learning, encouragement and support.

Greg and Debby Nichols

Evangelism and Leadership Development, Europe

Greg and Debby serve in Czech Republic with Greater Europe Mission (GEM). Debby and Greg are working with Dignity, a Czech-based Christian NGO, that was formed to provide resources and share the gospel with refugees, who are generally not welcome. Dignity provides food and clothing for refugees in detention centers, housing for at-risk refugees who have been removed from the detention centers and settles refugee families who are permitted to stay.

Greg also works with GEM’s new leader development department, training and coaching leaders in and outside GEM. Additionally, he volunteers as a coach with the Prague Lions, a semi-pro American football team, which provides an excellent opportunity to be involved in the lives of his players.

Robert and Laurie Nordstrom

Evangelism, Asia

Robert and Laurie serve with OMF in campus ministry with international students (with a focus on Chinese and East Asian students). They work in partnership with local churches and campus ministry organizations to reach and disciple these students. This involves evangelism, discipleship, development training and preparing those returning to their home countries.

The U.S. hosts over a million international students each year, one-third of whom come from China. Though 10% of students profess faith, it’s estimated that 80% do not continue in faith after returning home. Returnee-focused discipleship helps these young believers' faith thrive after leaving the U.S.

Stanley and Marjorie Okoro

Evangelism, Europe

Stanley and Marjorie live in Lille, France, where Stanley has served for more than nine years with Greater Europe Mission. They serve as leaders of a small church planting team with a vision to see a movement of 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 with large populations of Muslims as well as North and West Africans. Many have gone through harrowing experiences and often have questions about God. 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 Discovery Bible Studies.

Jeremy and Christy Otten

Leadership Development, Europe

Jeremy and Christy serve with WorldVenture to provide theological education and counseling in Europe. They are in their third year serving in Leuven, Belgium.

Jeremy teaches full-time in the New Testament department at the Evangelische Theologische Faculteit (ETF). He enjoys the opportunity to work with students from across Europe and all over the world as they prepare for lives of ministry and discipleship. He has also enjoyed formal and informal opportunities for mentorship.

Christy continues her language study and will begin pursuing more opportunities to use her counseling expertise with the students at ETF and through WorldVenture.

Daniel and Heather Owens

Leadership Development, Asia

Daniel and Heather serve in Vietnam, where Daniel teaches at Hanoi Bible College. The school trains young men and women for ministry. Many of the students come from ethnic minority churches in the mountains of northern Vietnam where they are in a unique position to minister to people groups who are least-reached by the gospel.

Daniel also helps to run Seed Christian Literature, which produces Vietnamese books to serve theological students, pastors and laypeople.

Heather is now teaching an English intensive at the Bible college in place of teachers who couldn’t return from overseas due to the pandemic. She also continues to work on writing projects and to teach their two boys at home, one in grade nine and the other in grade seven.

Steve and 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 creates textbooks for Asian Christians and provides leadership for TeachBeyond seminary professors in the Philippines.

Teri runs a preschool for local and missionary families, providing a safe and stimulating environment for young learners. In connection with the preschool, she also partners with a local Bible college to train and equip students preparing for teaching vocations. She completed master’s degree in early childhood education, which will allow her to expand her involvement in equipping future teachers.

Ben and Mandy Pehrson

Translation, Asia

Ben and Mandy Pehrson live in Papua New Guinea (PNG), training Papua New Guineans in the joint ministry of Bible translation, literacy and Scripture engagement. Ben and Mandy are the team leaders for the Aitape West Translation Program, which includes 14 missionaries and about 65 PNG volunteers.

As of 2020, their team has translated about 50% of the New Testament and some Old Testament portions as well. Their team serves 11 different language groups from four language families in the most linguistically diverse area of the world. They are also beginning to train local people in the art of oral Bible storytelling.

Ben regularly teaches introductory linguistics classes for PNG translators, and has begun a PhD in linguistics. Mandy assists at their children's international school and is homeschooling their fifth-grade twins.

Jeff and Jane Pelz

Evangelism, North America

Jeff and Jane Pelz work with InterVarsity. Jeff is the staff worker at College of DuPage (COD), population 26,000, where he reaches out to international students. His role as Bible study leader, mentor and evangelist includes training up the next generation of students to love Jesus and share him winsomely.

Jane is a project manager for InterVarsity's international student ministry national office, helping ministry flourish across America. The Pelz's host activities in their home for internationals and encourage Christian students to join them in outreach.

They have served university students since 1984 (Jane) and 1985 (Jeff), including 19 years overseas.

Susan Perlman

Evangelism, North America

Susan Perlman is a first-generation Jewish believer from Brooklyn, New York, and has served with Jews for Jesus since 1973.

Susan is the Chief Partnership Officer, developing relationships with other missions, churches and theological institutions who share a commitment to evangelism and recognize that more kingdom work can happen when everyone works together.

Susan is also a member of the executive leadership team, having helped found Jews for Jesus. She serves the global Christian community through her roles with the Lausanne Movement, MissioNexus and Dallas Theological Seminary, among others. Her greatest passion is to share the gospel with Jewish people one-on-one or with anyone who needs to know Jesus.

John and Pam

Member Care, Africa

John and Pam live in North-Central Africa. They host The Retreat, a place for rest and renewal for global workers.

The Retreat opened in 2018 and has ten fully equipped apartments and a prayer chapel. They will soon add to that a swimming pool and splash pad. Teams come for times away to seek God together and to discover the next steps forward in their ministries.

One guest said, “Finding The Retreat was a game changer for me. I now feel that I can stay on the field long-term”.

John also does 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 and Karis Rigby

Mobilization, Africa

Stephen & Karis Rigby serve in Nairobi, Kenya, as team leaders with Serge and seek to help their team navigate cross-cultural living while engaging in meaningful gospel ministry. In addition, Karis is the Apprenticeship and Internship Director for Serge, a one-year or 15-month program, built on the pillars of prayer, curriculum, mentoring and ministry placement.

Stephen serves with Ambassadors Football as the Kenya director, and as part of the Africa Leadership Team. Ambassadors is a ministry which uses soccer to connect people to Jesus and his story. The Rigbys are passionate about gospel renewal, discipleship and cross-cultural ministry.

Marcos and Mariana Romero

Evangelism, Latin America

Marcos and Mariana Romero have been radio broadcasters since 1981 and serve with Reach Beyond. For 24 years, they have been in charge of KNOG Manantial, an FM radio station in Nogales, Arizona, bordering Mexico. The station’s signal extends 40 miles into Sonora, Mexico, and reaches the metro areas of Tucson and Phoenix. KNOG’s potential Hispanic audience is about 900,000.

Their ordinary tasks relate to broadcasting, engineering, administration and counseling. They seek to encourage listeners with songs, commentary and Bible teaching so they can know about God’s love and forgiveness and place their faith in him. Besides Marcos and Mariana, KNOG’s team consists of two part-time employees and a few volunteers.

José Pablo and Jane Sánchez

Mobilization, 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 the Director of Decisión Evangelistic Association, and Jane also works with the ministry.

Decisión has one of the best databases about the needs of the unreached towns of Spain and created a web page to promote prayer and missions mobilization for Spain. It’s estimated that 92% of towns in Spain have no born-again Christians. Every Sunday, they preach the gospel on national public TV and radio. Last year five million people watched Good News TV programs in Spain, and 182,000 listened to the “Stories of Faith” radio program.

Tim and Judy Sattler

Training National Leaders, Worldwide

Tim and Judy Sattler serve with WordPartners seeking to launch pastoral training movements worldwide. The vision of WordPartners is to see God’s Word flowing powerfully through every church to every nation.

Tim is the global ministries training director and provides strategic direction and oversight for worldwide training, as well as development of workshop materials. The Sattlers live locally in Winfield, IL.

Jonaton and Teresa Simons

Jon and Teresa serve at the Colombia Bible Seminary in the training and discipleship of the next generation of theologians, pastors and leaders of South America, specifically in Colombia. Jon teaches residential and practicum classes for the Bachelors and Masters program as well as intensive courses at conferences each year. Jon and Teresa together mentor single seminary students through bible study and one-to-one opportunities. The Simons family resides in Medallín, Colombia.

Phil and Jessica Smith

Organizational Leadership, Worldwide

Phil serves as the director of global partnerships with Accessible Hope International (AHI). Phil longs to see local churches around the world equipped to love the most vulnerable by giving them access to the gospel and a church family. Phil and Jessica have four children, one of whom has Down Syndrome, and live in the Wheaton area.

Tim and Deanna Smith (MA)

Member Care, Europe (Ministry Associate)

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

Tim and Deanna Smith serve the Lord with Greater Europe Mission (GEM). Tim works in human resources with GEM, a change from his previous ministry in missionary care. In 2007, God called them to Austria to use their skills to counsel and care for missionaries in Eastern Europe.

In 2010, they moved back to Colorado to serve at GEM’s U.S. headquarters and continue their counseling ministry with missionaries. They assess missionary candidates, visit missionaries, participate in retreats, respond to crisis situations and help with training.

Bill and Laurie Stough

Community Development, Africa

Bill and Laurie Stough serve with Africa Inland Mission (AIM). They returned to the U.S. from Uganda and continue working with AIM and Farming God’s Way from the States.

Farming God’s Way is a tool that integrates discipleship and sustainable farming to equip the impoverished. It provides vision for people across the country and develops relationships in order to share the gospel, teach farming techniques and practice resource management. In turn, these farmers become light in their communities, passing on to others what God is showing them.

Isaac and Jennifer Stough

Evangelism, Europe

Isaac and Jennifer Stough work with Youth for Christ (YFC) in Barcelona, Spain.

Isaac teaches English and assists in running the English Academy at the YFC center. Jennifer coordinates the English academy and a theater program for young people. They both actively disciple those who attend the weekly YFC outreach events, which include youth groups, retreats and camps.

Emmanuel and Adugna Tahear

Evangelism, Worldwide

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.

Vic and 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 ten Kids Alive schools and orphanages. 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. Kids Alive serves more than 2,200 children and youth, and the staff has grown to 290 nationals, including more than 50 former at-risk youth in professional roles such as classroom teachers.

Jeff and Ann VanDerMolen

Christian Education, Latin America

Jeff and Ann VanDerMolen serve in the Dominican Republic. They minister through residential care and Christian schools to children who are orphaned, abandoned or abused. Their desire is that these children would have a relationship with Jesus and grow to be witnesses for Christ.

Ann serves with Kids Alive as the Director of their ANIJA school in Jarabacoa, with 360 students and more than 35 staff, doing teacher training, staff development and curriculum development for the other schools run by Kids Alive in the DR.

Jeff serves on the board of two local organizations in the DR and helping with construction projects.

Jamie and Kim Viands

Training National Leaders, Africa

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

Jamie is a lecturer in the biblical studies department at Nairobi Evangelical Graduate School of Theology (a school of Africa International University). He trains African pastors, missionaries and theological educators. Jamie primarily teaches courses in biblical theology, Old Testament and Hebrew, enabling Africans to be more faithful teachers and preachers of Scripture. He also engages in writing, supervising doctoral students, preaching locally and is currently the theological education consultant for AIM.

Kim homeschools their five young children, participates in two homeschool groups in Nairobi and ministers to women in the area.

Charley and Cheryl Warner

Training National Leaders, Europe

Charley and Cheryl Warner live in Ukraine. They train and care for new cross-cultural missionaries from Ukraine, where young people are increasingly excited about missions and are breaking new ground on the field. They also teach missions and spiritual life classes at seminaries in Ukraine and Armenia and stay in touch with former students.

Charley serves on the missions committee of the Baptist Union of Ukraine and is on the board of Odessa Theological Seminary, where he was a professor from 1991-1999.

Cheryl mentors and provides soul care for global workers as well as leads an evangelistic Bible study for local women. She also edits English translations of publications for church leaders. Together they mentor leaders in missionary care.

John and Vivi Wickberg (MA)

Translation, Worldwide (Ministry Associate)

John and Vivi Wickberg serve with Wycliffe at the JAARS center near Waxhaw, North Carolina. John is a full-time computer programmer and works mainly on Paratext, a program for Bible translation that is used by many organizations. They estimate there are 6,000 active users.

Vivi continues to serve in English as a Second Language (ESL) classes, teaching twice a week. Each class includes fifteen minutes of Bible time. Vivi also disciples a couple of women whose husbands are not believers and meets with women who recently arrived in the U.S.

Chad and 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.

Bruce and Becky Wilson

Mobilization, Worldwide

Bruce and Becky Wilson live in Orlando, Florida, and serve with Pioneers.  Bruce is developing PROpel, a new missions initiative which creates short-term opportunities (virtual and on-site) for Christians to use their professional skills to serve the global church and the common good. PROpel creates opportunities to leverage people’s gifts and skills for the good of the global church. Volunteers serve in a variety of ways as consultants, trainers, service providers or speakers.

Becky serves on the Pioneers advancement team. She supports the president of Pioneers in relational fund raising and works closely with major donors. In her role, she has the joy of partnering financial resources with the needs of the unreached.

Church Leaders

Due to the sensitive location in which these missionaries serve, names and photos will not be disclosed. Two workers live in a large city in Eurasia where the gospel is not welcome. One of them serves as the pastor of an international church.

Church Planters

Due to the sensitive location in which these missionaries serve, names and photos will not be disclosed. Two workers are involved in church planting among Buddhists in Asia. They use Bible stories to share the good news with the community around them.

Church Planters (MT)

Mid-Term, Church Planting, Middle East

Due to the sensitive location in which these missionaries serve, names and photos will not be disclosed.

This couple serves in church planting and refugee ministry in the Middle East. They have been supported since 2018.

Education Consultants

Education, Asia

Two workers provide regional leadership and support to projects across Asia for TeachBeyond. This includes support related to staffing as well as placing believing teachers at national schools and coming alongside schools who are supporting ministry families serving in the region. In addition, they resource informal education projects such as language centers and English camps as a way to develop relationships with those who attend.

Educators

Due to the sensitive location in which these missionaries serve, names and photos will not be disclosed. Two workers live in Southeast Asia and serve at a Christian school. One teaches, spearheads the English curriculum department at the school and coaches the basketball team. The other coaches the swimming and cross-country teams, and maintains the home, occasionally substitute teaching at the school. They both have had opportunities to help several families with work and ministry opportunities.

Evangelist

Undisclosed Ministry and Location

Due to the sensitive location in which this missionary serves, photo and details of their ministry will not be disclosed.

Healthcare Workers

Healthcare, Asia

Due to the sensitive location in which these missionaries serve, names and photos will not be disclosed.

Two workers live in South Asia and bring the light of Jesus to their community through healthcare.

International Student Leaders

Two workers in Colorado serve in international student ministry with a focus on evangelism and discipleship. One is in a regional role that focuses on leading different teams in nearby states. Both have a strong desire to equip international believers to live on mission wherever God takes them and provide believers with leadership opportunities throughout the year to help them practice this. This year, several international student leaders will lead Bible studies and share their faith across different cultures.

Language Consultant

One worker is in the Middle East, starting a new role in language learning consultancy. She seeks to develop relationships with local women and families in order to introduce them to and deepen their relationships with Jesus.

Member Care Worker

Member Care, Middle East

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

Pastoral Counselors

Due to the sensitive location in which these missionaries serve, names and photos will not be disclosed. Two workers serve in Asia. 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

Due to the sensitive location in which these missionaries serve, names and photos will not be disclosed. Kristen serves in a country in the Middle East. She is on a team that exists to create a system of holistic ministries to bring life to oppressed migrants and refugees. 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

Due to the sensitive location in which these missionaries serve, names and photos will not be disclosed. 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.

Translation Managers

Education and Organizational Leadership, Asia

Due to the sensitive location in which these missionaries serve, names and photos will not be disclosed.

Two workers in Asia develop Scripture-based materials, which are used for children and adults. They also encourage new team members, support project work, and serve as field liaison for seven translation projects resourced through their organization.

University Professor

Due to the sensitive location in which these missionaries serve, names and photos will not be disclosed. One worker is a professor at a university. She interacts with Muslims, Buddhists and atheists in a 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.