Elena Yin

Elena serves with Every Child Ministries in Uganda as the African field director. As field director, she oversees 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

Tim & Judy Sattler

Training National Leaders, US-based

Tim serves as the founding partner at Fellowship of the Word Global. He mentors pastors to proclaim God's Word for the transformation Christ gives, and to nurture and lead a movement of his Word in their context and beyond. Tim and Judy desire to see pastors around the world gain confidence in teaching God's Word, providing them with tools that help them discover and understand the author's intention of each book and teaching it with God's heart.

Disciplers

Two workers serve unreached, unengaged people groups throughout the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia regions. They train local ministry and community leaders in best practices for trauma-informed care and support and theologically equip house church networks. Previously, they were living in the Middle East for over a year, learning the language, but were denied resident visas. Currently on home assignment in the U.S., they are in the process of joining a prospective team and anticipate moving towards the end of the year. God is still working out all the details of that, but they are excited about the potential team.

Melissa W.

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 work with East Mountain South Africa to disciple young Christian leaders in theology, identity and mission. They long to see leaders transformed by the gospel and living in authentic community who impact churches and organizations to join God in his mission.

Two workers

Training National Leaders, US-based

Two workers serve together through Global Training Network in the online work of training, equipping and encouraging pastors and church leaders in East Asia. They prioritize small group and one-on-one discipleship online and oversee and train small group leaders in their local church.

Dick Albright

Training National Leaders, US-based

Dick serves with Training Leaders International as an international trainer. Dick leads and mentors teams of trainers, pastors and seminary students to bring theological education and training in biblical interpretation and expository preaching to pastors and church leaders around the world, most of whom lack the means to attend Bible school or seminary.

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.

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 leads SIL's Global Security Risk Management Services and serves as an advisor, consultant and trainer. He assists SIL leaders in areas of risk assessment, contingency planning, training, crisis resolution and mitigating accepted risks. Through SIL's Child Safety Response Team, Norm also works to provide a coordinated, timely, thorough and compassionate response to child abuse reports, as well as workplace inquiries.

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. After a year of intense training in Western Asia, they returned to Colombia in July better equipped to train Colombians to be missionaries to the unreached.

Matt & Lisa Befus

Member Care and Christian Education, Latin America

Matt and Lisa advance the Kingdom of God through Christian education in Costa Rica and mission leadership in the Central America-Caribbean region. For the past 27 years, they have worked to mature La Palabra de Vida, a national Christian school serving Latin American families. A year ago, they became Mesa Global regional leaders for Central America and the Caribbean, serving with national ministry partner development and missionary equipping.

Brian & Warrie Blackburn

Organizational Leadership and Christian Education, US-based

Brian and Warrie serve in medical missions with Mercy Ships. Mercy Ships goal is to follow Jesus’ model of bringing hope and healing to the world’s forgotten poor by using hospital ships to transform lives and serve nations. Warrie serves in the chaplaincy department and Brian with the Mercy Ships Academy, an accredited international Christian K-12 school for children of volunteer crew members.

Judy Blumhofer

Community Development, Latin America

Judy works with vulnerable children and families to share the love, hope and healing found in Jesus Christ. Her primary avenues of ministry are through providing pediatric care in a community clinic, partnering with a local bilingual school and working within the foster care community. She serves through Christian Health Service Corps. Judy has lived in Honduras for 13 years.

Karen Bradley

English Language Training, US-based

Karen serves on the Summer Institute of Linguistics English team with Wycliffe Bible Translators. This team comes alongside international staff, helping them reach competency in English needed for their tasks in Bible translation.

Kyle & Dariana Bradley

Sports Ministry, Latin America

Kyle is the lead director of GO Sports in the Dominican Republic for GO Ministries. GO’s mission is to empower local leaders to make disciples through sports. It is Kyle’s responsibility to guide the health, vision and culture of the sports ministry. Dariana oversees the girls’ basketball academy.

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

Charis continues to lead the OMF U.S. Personnel Department to support OMF U.S. missionaries and U.S.-based staff through onboarding and member care. Daniel continues to mobilize, disciple and train those who are led to Northeast Asia, and healthcare workers.

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 an educational consultant coach with Avant, whose goal is to see parents prepared and equipped for the unique challenges of their children’s education in whatever country they are serving.

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 lead programs for married students, working closely with couples through discipleship and administrative work. 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) and Second Mothers. Both organizations work to place orphans and vulnerable children into caring Christian families within their birth countries. AFFEO helps to further alliances between churches and many global organizations. She also travels to countries where the movement for A World Without Orphans 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. Their two main ministries are Reconciliamar, which uses adventures at sea to transform lives, and leading the Patio Church, an informal house church which meets on their patio. As they take locals kayaking and scuba diving, Steve and Lois make opportunities to share the gospel with them; and many are now a part of the Patio. They long to see more patio churches established around La Paz before their expected retirement in two years.

Joshua & Kara Dunckel

Discipleship & Mobilization, Europe

Joshua and Kara live in Budapest, Hungary. Joshua leads the strategic collaboration team of ReachGlobal’s Europe division, working in areas of Europe where opportunities exist for them to support and work alongside European ministry leaders. Their three focus areas are: supporting church planters, missions mobilization and building unity between churches and organizations. Kara also provides administrative support for leaders in their organization.

Rod & Kathy Duttweiler

Administration & Organizational Leadership, US-based

Rod and Kathy encourage, mentor, train and disciple Christian leaders in Africa. East Mountain trains workers in theology, Christian identity and mission in South Africa. Rod works to establish church-based discipleship in French speaking West African countries.

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 Asia and Africa workers of SV. The Fabers are involved in teaching, church planting, evangelism, leadership development and community service. The Pink Foundation, their ministry to children at risk, launched Innovaid, a first-of-its-kind hospital volunteer program for Bulgarian youth with the goal of yielding community, medical and spiritual fruit in Bulgarian society.

Jake & Honah Finn

Member Care, Asia

Jake and Honah work with Cornerstone Counseling Foundation in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Jake serves as the director of partnerships and provides professional counseling from a Christ-based perspective for missionaries and their families throughout Asia. He provides confidential and professional counseling, consultation and training from a Christian perspective for individuals, couples, families, teams and organizations.

Jim & Julianna Gieser

Evangelism & Discipleship, Africa

Jim and Julianna serve at the YMCA Christian Study Center at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Jim oversees the spiritual training and care of students and staff, directs the residence life program, develops partnerships with faculty and churches in the area and assists the executive director with fundraising tasks. Jim and Julianna's deepest joy is in discipling students toward a deepening commitment to follow Jesus.

Jon & Kathy Haley

Training National Leaders, US-based

Jon and Kathy resource Spanish-speaking church leaders in support of expository preaching through their exegetica.net website and the translation of theological works into Spanish. Currently, they are translating the twenty-volume Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament. Jon also teaches online courses with the Escuela Evangélica de Teología.

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

Jim focuses on local ministry as senior teaching elder in the Evangelikale Gemeinde Kagran (an Austrian church). He preaches, leads Bible studies along with Lynette, disciples young believers and trains and mentors emerging leaders.

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 North Carolina. As a senior campus minister, Scott supports ISI’s seven local staff member’s aim in blessing all international students by personally reconnecting selected returning alumni, facilitating discovery Bible discussions and assisting in outreaches, e.g. supper clubs, Conversations of Consequence or study break activities.

Jeff & Tamara Hershberger

Church Planting & Church Leadership, Asia

Jeff is part of the preaching team in a church established by SEND International in Tokyo, Japan and serves in various leadership roles within SEND. Tamara serves in Christian missionary education in addition to offering church planting support.

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 as a founding partner of Fellowship of the Word Global, discipling pastors to clearly and compellingly exposit the Bible for the transformation God intends and to nurture movements of God’s Word in their countries and beyond.

Sara Klopfenstein (Manu)

Community Development, Europe

Sara has enjoyed sharing the gospel through music for the past three decades in France. It’s challenging to remain relevant in an ever-changing youth culture, but investing in the lives of young people never goes out of style. She is thankful to be able to minister in many different venues, including an inner-city complex, a school for kids with disabilities, a private elementary school and local churches. 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. Steve focuses on training pastors to be faithful expositors of God’s Word and 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. Because theological education is underdeveloped in Pakistan, the college puts a special emphasis on exegesis and biblical theology. University 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 Long

Member Care, US-based

Dan serves with SIM International as a global chaplain, providing a ministry of presence and confidentiality for SIM workers worldwide and helping to help keep missionaries on the field serving effectively. Beth’s primary role is caretaker to her 95-year-old mother, Muriel Stilwell, who is a retired SIM and College Church missionary.

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 served in Southeast Asia on a Bible translation team. They are now transitioning to the U.S. as they seek the Lord’s will for next steps in Bible translation ministry.

Thad & Joy McAuley

Organizational Leadership, US-based

Thad and Joy are focused on sharing Jesus with the peoples of Europe, enabling them to grow in relationship with Jesus, so they can then in turn help others know Christ–making disciples who make disciples and growing the church across Europe. Thad serves as chief operating officer for Greater Europe Mission, whose staff are working on diverse projects that contribute toward discipleship and church planting in 23 countries across Europe. Joy serves with the spiritual formation team and teaches French at a local Christian school, which allows her to connect students with the mission in Europe.

Rick & Janice McKinley

Sports Ministry, US-based

Missionary Athletes International (MAI) is a gospel-centered ministry that uses the global platform of soccer to introduce people to Jesus Christ, disciple them in their faith and develop them as leaders. Since 1987, Rick and Janice have faithfully served MAI in a variety of leadership roles. Today, they focus on mentoring coaches and directing international tours. They are also committed to equipping players to use the game of soccer as a powerful tool to share their faith and impact lives for Christ.

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. Her calling is to support and encourage missionary kid teenagers and their families in Europe through long term relational ministry. By knowing them, listening to them and creating spaces for them to face their struggles in community, Kristiana hopes to show them Christ's love and point them toward Jesus.

Terri Miller (Matt)

Member Care, Worldwide

Terri is a member of ReachGlobal's Europe Leadership Team which helps provide vision, strategy, oversight and training for 120+ staff working on multiplying transformational churches in the cities of Europe. She spends significant time coaching team leaders and architecting events and training for staff and partners. Terri also serves as the global church representative of the National Association of Evangelicals.

Greg & Debby Nichols

Evangelism and Leadership Development, Europe

Greg and Debby serve in Czech Republic with Greater Europe Mission. Greg mentors others through his ministries of coaching leaders and integrating new workers. Debby focuses her gifts of hospitality, the arts and mentoring toward those who express an interest in growing in their faith both in Czech Republic and Austria. Together, they are closely involved with a Ukrainian-speaking church plant in Prague.

Rob & Laurie

Evangelism, US-based

Rob serves 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 or seen a Bible before. Rob leads evangelistic Bible studies and disciples 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 provide theological education and counseling serving with WorldVenture in Europe. Jeremy teaches New Testament at Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven (ETF) in Belgium. In addition to a full course load and various research projects, he enjoys mentoring students and helping prepare them for diverse ministries. Christy provides counseling support for missionaries throughout Europe and the Middle East, as well as students and others in their network.

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 are team leaders for a multi-language Bible translation program in Papua New Guinea doing holistic Bible translation ministry in 13 language groups. Ben teaches and mentors in a Greek, exegesis, linguistics or translation course each year, and meets with translation teams for linguistics consulting. He trains translators and checks accuracy and use of these translations. Mandy co-leads with Ben, conducts performance appraisals, teaches high school cooking and does crisis debriefing and mentoring with other missionaries.

Jeff & Jane Pelz

Evangelism and Organizational Leadership, US-based

Jeff and Jane work with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. Jane serves as Link staff coordinator to Asia. She mobilizes, trains and provides member care to U.S. staff who serve their sister movements in Asia. Jeff is the staff worker of a multinational chapter at College of DuPage (COD). His role as Bible study leader, mentor and evangelist includes training up the next generation of students to love Jesus and share him winsomely. Jeff and Jane partner with Christian students in outreach to host activities in their home for internationals.

Susan Perlman

Organizational Leadership, US-based

Susan 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 the nearby cities of Vienna, Austria and Bratislava, Slovakia. The ministry focus in Vienna is international student outreach and service in their local church, The International Chapel of Vienna. David is an elder and leads the men’s ministry. Majka is on the music team and offers hospitality in their home. In Bratislava, they are in the early stages of church planting. Their main areas of focus during these months are discipleship and community sports ministry.

John & Pam

Member Care, Africa

John and Pam have worked as hosts for a retreat for global workers since 2017. John also helps with logistical needs for any global workers in the country. At the end of June, they left their country for the last time as full-time workers. They will retire in December following six months of home assignment.

Stephen & Karis Rigby

Mobilization, Africa

Stephen and Karis Rigby are regional supervisors with Serge in East Africa, leading a team in Nairobi and supervising a medical missions team in Chogoria. The Rigbys help their teams navigate cross-cultural living while engaging in meaningful gospel work. They seek to see a missionary movement of grace on their mission team and desire to empower coaches and churches to transform lives throughout Kenya and beyond.

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 (FUSBC), an accredited seminary that provides training to church leaders and pastors in South America. FUSBC provides affordable, scripturally grounded theological education to facilitate the growth and maturity of the church of Colombia and be a blessing to the nations.

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 central African countries. Biblical, technology and management principles are interwoven to help lead farmers into a restored relationship with the Creator God. Experiencing God’s all-sufficiency through a 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 support the local church in Barcelona, Spain through discipleship and pastoral care of leaders in various ministry activities such as weekly youth groups, retreats, summer camps and more. Isaac also offers counseling to volunteers and participants in YFC activities and beyond. Jenn cares primarily for their growing family and mentors leaders and leads English camp each summer.

Emmanuel & Adugna Tahear

Evangelism, US-based

Emmanuel and Adugna Tahear serve with SIM CULTURE CONNEXIONS to connect many ethnic cultures with Christ. They minister worldwide and in the U.S. through evangelism, church planting and supporting immigrants and refugee churches. Adugna, as a missionary career dentist, strives to relieve pain, eliminate infections and give people back their smiles through compassion dentistry mission opportunities overseas, serving impoverished communities around the world.

Daniel & Julie

Evangelism and Discipleship, Asia

Daniel and Julie support the work of Bible translation through administration, supporting a team of over 220 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.

Victor & Leslie Trautwein

Community Development, Latin America

Vic and Leslie Trautwein have served and worked with Kids Alive in the Dominican Republic since 2002. Leslie oversees medical services for various projects and Vic serves as the co-country director and director of operations. The Kids Alive ministries have grown to serve and provide life-changing help to over 2,500 vulnerable children and youth through seven schools, three residential ministries and independence programs offering vocational and university scholarships.

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 430 students and more than 75+ staff. Jeff consults with various ministries in areas of facility and ministry development. Jeff and Ann also mentor young adults who have grown up in the ministry as these young adults transition to independence.

Jamie & Kim Viands

Training National Leaders, Africa

Jamie and Kim Viands live in Nairobi, Kenya, and serve with Africa Inland Mission. Jamie provides theological training for pastors and church leaders at Nairobi Evangelical Graduate School of Theology, teaching courses in Bible, Hebrew and biblical theology. He mainly teaches at the master’s and doctoral levels but also oversees the bachelor and diploma in theology programs, which include over 300 students. Kim homeschools their six children and provides leadership for a thriving homeschool group in the area.

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, which has suffered heavy losses in the war and is home to thousands of displaced people. Scores of new believers are being discipled at Irpin Bible Church as Charley and Cheryl lead Bible studies and foster deep connections. They provide soul care for missionaries, teach missions courses, and mentor a team caring for Ukrainian missionaries. Charley coordinates the publication of missions and member care books to the Ukrainian language.

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 serves on faculty at both schools, teaching theology. Esther teaches in IGSL's Partners in Ministry certificate program and tutors students in English composition.

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.