Paul and Mary Adams

Training National Leaders, Worldwide

WordPartners works to develop a team of global partners who encourage and equip pastors to teach God’s Word with God’s heart.

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.

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), mentoring and leading teams of other theological trainers, pastors and seminary students to places where TLI has been invited.

These groups 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. The Albrights live in Carol Stream, IL.

Tim & Carol Avery

Mid-Term, Administration, Asia

Tim and Carol work with Pioneers International in Nairobi, Kenya. Tim serves as publishing director for Ekklesia Afrika, a local publishing organization that exists to supply the African church with sound theological resources. He also helps African pastors write books to distribute throughout Africa, with the hope of one day seeing the organization grow toward being a fully independent publisher. Tim and Carol are part of a local church, along with their three young daughters.

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 Orlando, 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 10th 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.

Lisa and Matt continue to serve the LPDV school ministry through leadership of the LPDV Foundation, but have transitioned much of their ministry efforts to help establish the first Christian school in the beach town of Jacó, on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica.

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 works at Loma de Luz, a Christian missionary hospital in Honduras that serves 25,000 patients per year. She serves in medical (pediatrician, attending pediatric patients) and administrative roles within the ministry. She is also a long-term foster parents and works within the broader foster-care community through collaboration with various NGOs to bring medical and trauma-informed care techniques to foster children and families.

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. Kyle is the lead director of GO Sports, where he helps to guide the culture, vision and mission for the ministry.

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 Services in Asia for Family Education (SAFE) as an education consultant for families living overseas and assisting with transitional care for third-culture kids. Janet assists these families with educational and transition challenges they face as a family, allowing them to remain where God has called them to serve.

Philip

Training National Leaders, Asia

Philip is serving in Thailand, a country where approximately 1% of the population knows Jesus as Lord. 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 three 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.

Daniel & Charis

Education, Asia

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

Bible Study Teacher

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 400+ 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 and Mirian head up the married program and work closely with the 30 families involved through discipleship, teaching, hosting and administrative work. Their goal is to show these couples how they can involve their whole family in their ministry without hurting the family relationship.

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 three books in Spanish and teaches a youth ministry course for a seminary in Barcelona.

Together they travel around Spain to help Spanish churches reach youth, disciple them and train their leaders. They also 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 at their local church on the youth, worship and missions teams as well as with the English club.

Anita Deyneka (MA)

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.”

Steve and Lois have also started several “walk-to” house churches throughout the city of La Paz. 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 two 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 providing high quality soccer camps in a fun, positive, Christian environment. This includes set-up, communication with partner churches, training coaches and following up with campers. Jeff is also responsible for the Eagles’ spring golf fundraiser. Margreet helps with registration and camp administration, in addition to working at Twice is 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 but have moved their home base to Tennessee. They come alongside pastors, missionaries and Christian leaders to serve them in areas of consulting, discipleship, encouragement and bringing resources to those in need.

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. In 2021, they provided over 5,000 hours of mental health services to 500 clients. Jake and Honah both grew up in missionary families and have a heart for serving the international community overseas.

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. They are in the midst of a 12-year project to translate a New Testament commentary into Spanish, as well as aiding in other ongoing translation projects. They also serve as field leaders for WorldVenture’s missionaries in Spain.

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. 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 28 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 recently completing an extensive research project (doctoral dissertation) about the history and impact of this program that will assist them in planning for the next generation.

Scott and Jenny Hawkins (MA)

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. Jeff is part of the preaching team at a church planted six years ago. He also preaches periodically at other Japanese churches in the area as the needs arise.

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 seventh grade 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 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 and Sue Kelly

Training National Leaders, Worldwide

Todd and Sue work for Training Leaders International (TLI). Todd is the director of strategic advancement and serves Christ globally by nurturing pastors, leaders and the organizations that train them to communicate God’s Word and spread a movement of his life through them more clearly and compellingly.

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

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 serves as a global chaplain with SIM, ministering to missionaries and teams around the world, helping keep them on the field and working effectively. Beth cares for her parents, retired missionaries Don and Muriel Stilwell, and oftentimes provides hospitality to missionaries Dan meets with in the States. 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.

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 (MA)

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 both the ministry and local school district. Since MAI’s founding 37 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 are based in Nashville with Greater Europe Mission (GEM). Thad is responsible for GEM's field ministries across Europe, overseeing 700 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, where they have served for over 20 years. They are now located by MAI’s headquarters in North Carolina, assisting with training and discipleship in each of the MAI locations.

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.

Kristiana (& Cory) Miller

Member Care, Evangelism & Discipleship, Europe

Kristiana serves missionary kids across Europe with Greater Europe Mission (GEM). Kristiana is a missionary kid from Austria where her parents, College Church missionaries Jim and Lynette Hatcher, have served for over 35 years. Her family (husband Cory and daughters Rylynn and Melody) was most recently based out of Ireland, but after two years of waiting stateside for the Lord's direction, relocated back to Austria, the place of Kristiana's growing up years, The Lord has given Kristiana (and Cory), a very clear burden and call for missionary kids. Cory and Kristiana believe the Lord has gifted them through GEM to connect with the young people to whom they will minister. They see the Lord's hand in placing them in Austria, located in central Europe.

Kristiana also serves alongside Bund Evangelikaler Gemeinden (BEG) to develop a member care initiative particularly for the youth of Austrian pastors and Christian leaders.

Terri (& Matt) 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). They are working with Dignity, a Czech-based Christian NGO, that was formed to provide resources and share the gospel with refugees, specifically now Ukrainians. Debby helps the Dignity team to provide 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

Evangelism, Asia

Robert and Laurie serve with OMF in campus ministry with international 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 ten years with Greater Europe Mission (GEM). 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 fourth 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 and mentor some students from across Europe and all over the world as they prepare for lives of ministry and discipleship. He is also serving as an elder at their local church.

Christy is a licensed counselor and works with the students at ETF and with missionaries throughout Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.

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. In 2022, Hanoi graduated 31 students. Daniel also helps to run Seed Christian Literature, which produces Vietnamese books to serve theological students, pastors and laypeople. 

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

Heather teaches an English intensive at the Bible college in place of teachers who couldn’t return from overseas due to the pandemic.

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.

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. Their goal is to see Papua New Guineans knowing and living God’s Word, leading to changed lives and transformed communities. Ben and Mandy are the team leaders for the Aitape West Translation Program, which includes 14 missionaries and about 65 PNG volunteers.

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 sixth-grade twins.

Jeff and Jane Pelz

Evangelism, North America

Jeff and Jane Pelz work with InterVarsity. Jeff is the staff worker of a multinational chapter at College of DuPage (COD), where he reaches out to domestic and international students, refugees and immigrants.  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 Link Staff Coordinator for Asia, which will entail assisting, resourcing, mobilizing and supervising U.S. InterVarsity staff sent to Asia. Jeff and Jane host activities in their home for internationals and encourage Christian students to join them in outreach.

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.

David and Majka

Due to the sensitive location in which these missionaries serve, names and photos will not be disclosed. Two workers recently transitioned to service in Vienna, Austria. They assist with the development of an international student ministry and work alongside a community development ministry in Bratslava, Slovakia, to provide spiritual leadership to the young believers in the ministry.

John and Pam

Member Care, Africa

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

The retreat opened four years ago and has ten fully equipped apartments and a prayer chapel. Teams come for times away to seek God together and to discover the next steps forward in their ministries.

They also provide logistical support for Africa Inland Mission’s local unit. This includes remodeling houses for new workers, setting up solar systems on houses and helping keep vehicles on the road.

Stephen 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 26 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.

They seek to use all radio and digital means to share the gospel in a relevant way to Hispanics, ensuring that the listener receives biblically-based media.

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.

Every Sunday, he preaches the gospel on national public TV and radio. 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 evangelical churches. Jane, now retired, supports her husband in his work and spends time with their seven grandchildren.

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.

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. Jonatan teaches classes at the local seminary, as well as teaching occasional intensive courses at conferences throughout the year for pastors of different denominations. Additionally, Jonatan and Teresa are providing a weekly Bible study for single students that Jonatan teaches. The Simons family resides in Medallín, Colombia.

Phil and Jessica Smith

Organizational Leadership, Worldwide

Phil and Jessica live locally and serve with Accessible Hope International (AHI). AHI’s goal is to provide gospel-centered transformation to people with disabilities around the world through an equipped global church. Phil serves as the director of global partnerships, coming alongside churches and ministries in Africa and Asia to strengthen their outreach to those affected by disabilities. Phil and Jessica have four children.

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.

Daniel and Julie

Evangelism and Discipleship, Undisclosed

Daniel and Julie support the work of Bible translation through administration, supporting a team of over 200 Bible translation and language development team members. They oversee this team of translators and literacy workers, with the goal of the Word of God being available in every person’s heart language. The team currently has 77 active projects. They have two sons.

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 2,000 children and youth, and the staff has grown to over 300 nationals, including 75 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 380 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 and Ann are also involved in foster care, largely for young people who have grown up in their program.

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.

Michael Walker (MT)

Training National Leaders, Africa

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, as well as recruiting and mentoring members of TCCL to do the same.

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

Charley and Cheryl Warner

Training National Leaders, Europe

Charley and Cheryl Warner live in Ukraine and serve with Barnabas International. 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 doing church planting with Buddhist peoples in Asia. They live and work among these significant communities while learning the language. They are currently exploring new ministry opportunities with existing churches and engaging with local communities.

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. 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.

Web Developers

Undisclosed Ministry and Location

Due to the sensitive location in which this missionary serves, photo and details of their ministry will not be disclosed. Two workers serve in Asia, developing web apps that give opportunities for people to access the gospel in restricted areas. Their mission is to see gospel content customized in apps for further evangelism among the unreached, so that everyone has the chance to hear the good news.

Healthcare Workers

Healthcare, Asia

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

Professors

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

Language Consultant

Due to the sensitive location in which these missionaries serve, names and photos will not be disclosed. One worker is in the Middle East, working 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

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

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, where they’ve 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

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

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.