North America
Keila Aleman
Global Grace Fellowship
Reynosa, Mexico
Keila joined Isaiah 55 ministries in March 2019. She has a degree in social work and serves in a critical support role at the deaf school in Reynosa. She leads a Daily Life and Values Workshop, teaching students how to live well according to the gospel. In addition to her role at the Institute, Keila serves at the community center, helping with art projects, games, tutoring, Bible lessons, and prayer for the neighborhood youth.
Kate and NoNo Beale
Global Grace Fellowship
Reynosa, Mexico
NoNo and Kate are from Montgomery, Alabama, and are members of Trinity Presbyterian Church. They have been serving in Mexico since 1999, where NoNo is the director of Isaiah 55 Ministries. This ministry works among the deaf and marginalized to make disciples, promote justice and reconciliation, and encourage the worship of Jesus. Isaiah 55 has the privilege of hosting work teams from all over the United States, providing them with an opportunity to participate in short-term mission projects such as construction, mercy ministries, VBS, ESL, sports clinics, and medical missions.
Birmingham Theological Seminary
Birmingham, Alabama
Birmingham Theological Seminary (BTS) was founded in 1972 to equip students to teach, preach, and witness for the Lord Jesus Christ. Thousands of students have taken courses, and many have been awarded masters-level degrees. BTS offers courses in various locations around the state of Alabama and in foreign countries such as Uganda, Korea, China, Ukraine, New Zealand, and Australia. In addition, Birmingham Theological Seminary’s Bibb County Correctional Facility Learning Center brings full seminary training to inmates of the Alabama Department of Corrections. Their partner ministry, Jumpstart Alabama, disciples current and former prisoners and assists with re-entry into society.
Ann Price Bishop
Onward Campus Ministries
Auburn, Alabama
Onward is a campus ministry with the mission of engaging students by being a faithful presence through gospel-focused relationships. The ministry philosophy within Onward is precision, purpose, presence, and persistence. By being present in their life, Onward helps students understand the gospel, how to apply it to their lives, and how to lead others. Onward values the simplicity of being with people and spending the largest percentage of time building relationships and getting to know students face-to-face. Persistence is the goal for friendships.
Ann Price disciples students, leads small groups, and plans weekly meetings. She will be hosting a Greek president’s dinner, organizing a fall retreat, leading a team on spring break, leading a Greek classic retreat, and planning summer Onward programs.
Tom Bridges
Let God Arise Ministries
Montgomery, Alabama
Let God Arise Ministries has been serving in the Montgomery County, City, and Federal jails since 1992. It originally started with the help of men from Trinity Church and other Montgomery churches. Tom Bridges is the prison chaplain and serves many inmates who hunger for God’s purpose and direction in their lives. This ministry is fulfilling part of the Great Commission from Jesus Christ, that “whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for Me.” (Matthew 25:40).
Capitol Commission
National
Capitol Commission’s objective is to reach the capitol community for Christ, one person at a time, to disciple them, and to prepare them for a lifetime of ministry, wherever God chooses to place them. Capitol Commission is currently operating in twenty-four capitol communities. TPC is partnering with Capitol Commission to establish a ministry in the Montgomery community.
Child Evangelism Fellowship
International
Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF) was founded in 1937. The purpose of this Bible-centered organization is to evangelize and disciple boys and girls with the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. CEF has many different ministries for children, but the primary ones are the Good News Club and the 5-Day Club. CEF also has a fair, camping, open-air, and internet ministries for children. Millions of children worldwide have heard the Good News through the combined ministries of CEF.
Common Ground
Montgomery, Alabama
Started in 2006 by Bryan Kelly, Common Ground Montgomery (CGM) is a non-denominational Christian ministry that serves in the Washington Park Community. This ministry focuses on youth development and building strong, godly leaders from urban youth with after-school programs and long-term mentorship. Their mission is to revitalize the Washington Park community to become an incubator for gospel-created, cross-cultural relationships that transform Montgomery and beyond to the glory of God.
Covenant College
Presbyterian Church in America (PCA)
Lookout Mountain, Georgia
The mission of Covenant College is to explore and express the preeminence of Jesus Christ in all things. Covenant College educates Christians to engage culture and cultures, to examine and unfold creation, and to pursue biblical justice and mercy in the community. Their Christ-centered community seeks to help students mature in their identity in Christ, biblical frame of reference, and Christ-like service. Covenant offers the world biblically grounded men and women equipped to live out extraordinary callings in ordinary places.
Covenant Theological Seminary
Presbyterian Church in America (PCA)
St. Louis, Missouri
Founded in 1956, Covenant Theological Seminary is a ministry of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA). Located in St. Louis, Missouri, they are the largest supplier of pastors for the PCA. The school’s unique whole-person training produces capable pastors and ministry leaders.
Frank and Joan Ellis
RPF of Watertown, New York
Watertown, NY
Frank was baptized as an infant at Trinity and grew up there under Dr. Robert Strong. He has been a Ruling Elder (1997-2006) at Trinity PCA in Montgomery and served as a deacon before that. He served as solo Pastor of Ozark Presbyterian Church for 9 years and pastor of New Life Vicenza for 2 years.
Frank has been called to pastor a gathering of Christians in Watertown, NY who desire to become a PCA church. Currently, the church has a stable weekly attendance of about 28 adults, with 5 core families. Evangelism will be an essential part of the work, as well as the administration of getting the church ready to become a particular church. There are no PCA or other Reformed churches in Jefferson County, New York; it is one of the target areas for the Plant Upstate subcommittee of NYS Presbytery.
Faith Radio
WLBF Faith Radio
Alabama and Haiti
Faith Radio began transmitting at 89.1 FM in 1984. The call letters WLBF were chosen, standing for, “we live by faith.” Today, they broadcast in Alexander City, Brewton, Dothan, Eufaula, Sylacauga, Thorsby/Jemison, Haiti, in Baptist Health Hospitals, and by the Faith Radio app. Faith Radio’s mission is to serve the Christian community and strengthen the local Church and family unit. They provide spiritual encouragement through biblical teaching, relevant information, and uplifting music to the glory of God.
Family Promise of Montgomery
Montgomery, Alabama
Family Promise of Montgomery works with local congregations to offer homeless families safe shelter, nutritious meals, warm hospitality, transportation, and weekly case management while they work to become self-sufficient. In 2021, Family Promise secured a small apartment building with four separate units that will be used to host the families while they look for something more permanent. During the day, guests go to work while their children go to school. If the adult guests do not have jobs, they spend the day at the Day Center where they receive help with locating a job, clearing up credit issues, and other case management matters.
Fellowship of Christian Athletes (Alabama)
Montgomery, Alabama
Since 1954, the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) has challenged coaches and athletes to impact the world for Jesus Christ. The playing field is where many young people acquire their values. FCA presents the challenge and adventure of receiving Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord to coaches and athletes. Serving Him in their relationships and in the fellowship of the Church is the ultimate goal. FCA uses the method of engaging, equipping, and empowering coaches and athletes to know and grow in Christ, and to lead others to do the same. Trinity Church has been instrumental in starting and sustaining FCA in Montgomery and across Alabama for many years.
First Choice Women’s Medical Center
Montgomery, Alabama
First Choice Women’s Medical Center is a pro-life ministry that seeks to meet the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of women facing unplanned pregnancies in the Montgomery community. First Choice provides free pregnancy testing, ultrasounds, parenting education, baby supplies, fatherhood programs, and an abortion recovery ministry. Through all of this, lives are being saved from abortion, the gospel is being proclaimed, and people are finding abundant life in Jesus Christ.
Meg Randall Flores
Global Grace Fellowship
Reynosa, Mexico
Meg joined Isaiah 55 full-time in 2019 as cultural liaison, serving as the connection between the mission and other like-minded organizations in the Reynosa area. She also serves in administration, working with government offices and attorneys in Mexico, and as director of vocational programs. Meg loves being involved in community outreach programs with kids and youth in the Aquiles neighborhood! In July 2022, Meg married Rafa Flores and they live in Reynosa, where Rafa teaches at a private school.
Friendship Mission
Montgomery, Alabama
Friendship Mission is a set of homeless shelters and a public soup kitchen for those experiencing homelessness and extreme poverty in Montgomery, Alabama. The program began by Presbyterian Pastor Vince Rosato and Mary Rosato in 1996. Along with shelter and food, Friendship Mission provides its residents with intense case management to help each navigate their personal obstacles, connect to necessary social service and government resources, and become self-sufficient. While at Friendship Mission, guests participate in life skills classes. A resident has up to twelve months to live at Friendship Mission while working to clear debts, save money, and build a personal plan for a home and independent living.
Chris and Mary Granberry
Sacred Road Ministries
Harrah, Washington
In 1855, the Yakama people, along with thirteen other tribes and bands, signed a treaty with the United States government which established the Yakama Reservation at the foot of Mt. Adams in south central Washington state. The culture, families, and dreams of the Yakama people have steadily disintegrated over time. The goal of Sacred Road Ministries is to be a unified and growing community of believers who are prepared and equipped to serve the Lord by ministering in the community of Native America. The Sacred Road team reaches out to the community through church services, children’s ministry, youth ministry, after-school programs, service teams, and a variety of acts of service and mercy.
Abigail Gonzalez
Isaiah 55
Reynosa, Mexico
Abigail Gonzalez was born and raised in Mexico City. After being home-schooled, Abby went to college to study theology. God put a desire in her heart to learn more about incorporating the Christian way of thinking into the daily life of the believer.
After college, she moved to Reynosa to work with Isaiah 55. She is working to help develop a curriculum for the Isaiah 55 Institute, teach Biblical worldview classes to teachers, and teach Bible classes to children and youth. Additionally, she helps parents learn how to discover Biblical principles of education for their children.
Kelley Herring
Child Evangelism Fellowship
Alabama
Kelley Herring, State Director of Child Evangelism Fellowship® (CEF). CEF is a Bible-centered, worldwide organization composed of born-again believers whose purpose is to evangelize boys and girls with the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ and to establish (disciple) them in the Word of God and in a local church for Christian living.
The purpose of CEF is accomplished through the primary ministries of Good News Clubs® which meet in places such as elementary-schools, community centers, neighborhoods, etc. and the summer ministry of 5-Day Clubs® which can be compared to an on the road VBS. The third primary ministry is Christian Youth in Action® where CEF trains teenagers to share the gospel with children within the 5-Day Club summer program.
Isaiah 55
Reynosa, Mexico
Founded in 2005 by Trinity members Kate and NoNo Beale, Isaiah 55 Ministries works among the deaf and marginalized in Reynosa, Mexico, to make disciples, encourage the worship of Jesus, and promote justice and reconciliation. The deaf education programs are targeted to students in kindergarten through high school with follow-up vocational programs providing opportunities for manufacturing jobs. The outreach programs involve special projects in the neighborhood, providing economically and spiritually for those in the community. The work teams provide an opportunity to assist the missions staff to encourage, help, and participate in missions activities.
Life on Wheels
Alabama
Life on Wheels provides free, mobile ultrasound imaging to abortion-minded women. They use the power of ultrasound to serve women, save babies, and share Jesus. Life on Wheels serves hundreds of clients each year by administering pregnancy tests and ultrasounds. In 2021, they served 876 clients and since they began in December of 2016 in Montgomery, they have served 5,346 clients. This ministry has seen many women choose not to abort after seeing their baby on ultrasound. Life on Wheels has also seen many clients make professions of faith in Jesus Christ.
Mercy House
Montgomery, Alabama
Mercy House is a “day house” providing a safe place for people in need. This ministry provides a safe haven for the homeless, allowing them to get a hot meal, take showers, and wash their clothes. Mercy House is a safe place for children to stop in and receive an after-school snack and play in a godly environment. The facility has two full bathrooms with showers, washers and dryers, a food pantry, a clothes closet, and supervised internet access for schoolwork and job searches.
Montgomery Christian School
Montgomery, Alabama
In 2005, a like-minded group of people who had been tutoring at Patterson Court developed an idea for a school that would offer a Christian school choice for families who could not afford a traditional private school. To study this possibility, a larger committee was formed which met, prayed, and researched monthly for two years. Montgomery Christian School offers an academically excellent education that is affordable for almost every family as every child receives a scholarship. Affordable tuition and parent involvement are two core principles that set MCS apart from every other school in the River Region.
Montgomery S.T.E.P. Foundation
Montgomery, Alabama
The Montgomery S.T.E.P. Foundation is a thirty-three-year-old, faith-centered nonprofit organization whose mission is to present the gospel in at-risk communities by mobilizing churches, volunteers, and other agencies who are helping to elevate people to a better life. From public schools to public housing communities, S.T.E.P. is on the front lines of inner-city mission work that aims to change lives “one heart at a time.” To date, hundreds of souls have been won to Christ through the efforts of S.T.E.P.
PCA Administrative Committee
Presbyterian Church in America (PCA)
Lawrenceville, Georgia
The PCA Administrative Committee promotes the unity, purity, and progress of the PCA. They provide churches, presbyteries, and the Assembly with the expertise and action needed to keep its ministries moving forward. The PCA Administrative Committee doesn’t set the agenda for the PCA. They just make sure its agenda is accomplished.
PCA Committee on Discipleship Ministries
Presbyterian Church in America (PCA)
Lawrenceville, Georgia
The mission of PCA Discipleship Ministries is to glorify God by serving the members and churches of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) as they seek to make disciples of all nations. When the PCA began in 1973, the First General Assembly formed this committee to “assist … local churches in the task of learning and proclaiming the truth to the end that God’s people will be adequately equipped to do the work of ministry.”
PCA Mission to North America
Presbyterian Church in America (PCA)
Lawrenceville, Georgia
Mission to North America (MNA) coordinates church planting, church renewal, and missional partnerships to serve PCA churches and presbyteries in North America in their mission to grow and multiply biblically healthy churches. The vision is that God, by His grace and for His own glory, will transform the PCA into a grassroots church planting culture.
The hope is to see all PCA churches become houses of prayer for all the nations, to see people coming to Christ from many diverse communities, to impact the centers of influence in North America, and to see churches planted in all regions of North America.
PCA Mission to the World
Presbyterian Church in America (PCA)
Lawrenceville, Georgia
Mission to the World (MTW) sends hundreds of Christian workers to countries all over the world who are committed to the establishment, growth, and maturity of the church. MTW exists to reach and equip future leaders and build connections in the community. Flowing out of a healthy, growing church will be ministries that transform the community and continue to draw others to the gospel message, such as teaching English, caring for orphans, art and music outreach, or serving refugees.
Carolyn Phillips
Mission to the World
Montgomery, Alabama
Raised in Montgomery, Carolyn attended Trinity Church with her parents, Gay and Bubba Phillips. She served as a short-term missionary in Italy, then with Briarwood Presbyterian Church’s revitalization ministry “Embers to a Flame.” Carolyn then served with Mission to the World (MTW) in Uganda for seven years. After returning home, she joined MTW’s Member Care and Development Team where she provides member care for missionaries while working in the areas of training and development. She is also involved in local ministry in Birmingham, helping to create mission awareness.
Heather and Marcus Rudd
Mission to the World
Reynosa, Mexico
Marcus and Heather joined the Isaiah 55 staff in 2016. Marcus uses his background in construction to oversee the work teams. He also uses small-scale manufacturing projects to teach work skills to members of the local neighborhood community. Heather uses her background as a church administrator and professional organizer in the Isaiah 55 office and is involved with a girls’ Bible study.
Reformed University Fellowship (RUF)
Presbyterian Church in America (PCA)
International
Reformed University Fellowship (RUF) was established in 1971 at the University of Southern Mississippi by Mark Lowery. Eventually, RUF expanded nationally and today is available on over one-hundred campuses. RUF has also expanded internationally, with campuses in Colombia, Mexico, Ukraine, and the Czech Republic. RUF seeks to create a fellowship of students where every person, regardless of background, personal history, or conviction, can examine the true claims of Reformed Christianity in a non-threatening atmosphere. Their fellowship on campus is not limited to those who have a prior commitment to being Reformed, Presbyterian, or even Christian.
Reformed Youth Ministries (RYM)
National
Reformed Youth Ministries (RYM) exists to serve the Church in reaching and equipping youth for Christ. For decades, RYM has labored to fulfill that mission with a growing burden for the youth of our nation to be transformed by the gospel of Jesus Christ. By God’s grace and power, RYM will press on in its mission through youth conferences, networks of youth ministers, written resources, and consulting services.
Southeast Alabama Presbytery
Alabama
The Southeast Alabama Presbytery includes churches from the Georgia state line in the east to Chilton County in the west, and from the Florida state line in the south to Tallapoosa County in the north. It is one of five PCA Presbyteries in Alabama, and one of eighty-five Presbyteries in the entire PCA. In addition to overseeing the churches within its bounds, the Southeast Alabama Presbytery operates and supervises the Ministry to the Military and Internationals (MMI) – an international ministry that plants PCA churches in foreign countries to serve members of our Armed Forces and other English-speaking foreign citizens.
Jim and Linda Sims
Ethnos360
Tennessee
Jim and Linda Sims are members of Ethnos360, which formed as New Tribes Mission (NTM) in 1942. Jim was chairman and chief pilot for the Papua New Guinea flight program and flew airplanes and helicopters in Papua New Guinea for eleven years. Linda flight-followed Jim, monitoring the radio and reporting the weather. In McNeal, Arizona, he served as chairman of the global NTM Aviation flight program. His current responsibility is member relations for Ethnos360 Aviation. Linda assists Jim with correspondence and administration.
Ed and Teree Solomon
Next Generation IMPACT
National
Ed Solomon comes to Next Generation IMPACT (NGI) with over thirty years of ministry experience. He served with Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF) for twenty-three years, with seven of those as the USA Director of Military Children’s Ministry (MCM). In addition, Ed retired after twenty-five years in the Alabama National Guard, with the last ten years as an Army National Guard Chaplain. He received his M.Div. in Chaplaincy from Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary.
William and Dorothy Stabler
Reformed University Fellowship (RUF)
Jackson, Mississippi
William was raised in Montgomery and began attending Trinity Church when he was in high school. While he was in college, he became interested in telling other college students about Jesus. After graduating from the University of Alabama, he went to a country in Asia for two years so he could learn their language and tell other college students about Jesus. William is working with Reformed University Fellowship (RUF) to help connect the work of RUF to Mission to the World (MTW) and connect RUF students to short-term opportunities with MTW. The goal is for these short-term opportunities to lead to long-term missionary work in the field.
Third Millennium Ministries
Multi-national
Thirdmill was envisioned by Janie Pillow as she came to realize that Christian leaders around the world needed to be trained in their own lands. With the help of Dr. Richard Pratt and several others who shared her vision, Thirdmill was launched in 1997 to create free, high-quality multimedia curriculum for Christian leaders around the world. Today, Thirdmill employs a team of over fifty employees, as well as translators all over the world. Their curriculum is produced in over twenty languages. Partner ministries around the world create additional curriculum by translating Third Millennium’s productions. In these languages and others, their curriculum reaches millions of church leaders.
Kim and Tim Tormey
Officers' Christian Fellowship
Tim and Kim were first introduced to Officers’ Christian Fellowship (OCF) at the Naval Academy and have been participating in the ministry ever since. They lead Bible study in their home and serve on the OCF Council and Field Staff for Maxwell-Gunter Airforce Base. Their desire is to teach, train, equip, encourage, and charge the officers, families, and leaders who come through Air University.
Trinity Presbyterian School
Montgomery, Alabama
Trinity is an accredited PreK-4 through 12th grade Christian day school. As one of Montgomery’s foremost and finest educational institutions, Trinity focuses on academic excellence within a nurturing family environment.
The unique dimension of Trinity is the desire to integrate the Christian faith into each and every element of its school program, reflecting the school’s mission, “To glorify God by providing for students the highest quality college-preparatory education, training them in the biblical world and life view, thus enabling them to serve God in spirit, mind, and body.” Trinity Presbyterian School was started by Trinity Presbyterian Church in 1970.
Wilson and Grace Van Hooser
Reformed University Fellowship (RUF)
Stillwater, Oklahoma
In 2014, while playing football with the New England Patriots and the Boston Brawlers, Wilson sensed the call to ministry. In 2015, he married Grace, and they moved to the Boston area to attend Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Following a transfer to Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi, Wilson graduated in December 2020. For over four years, Wilson was the director of youth ministry at Pear Orchard Presbyterian Church in the Jackson area. He currently serves as the campus minister with Reformed University Fellowship (RUF) at Oklahoma State University.
Hous and Tami Waring
Officers' Christian Fellowship
Hous and Tami joined Officers’ Christian Fellowship while cadets at the US Air Force Academy. Both served on active duty, then Tami transitioned to mother and teacher of nine children while Hous served as an F-15E Strike Eagle pilot. In 2013, they moved the family to Montgomery where they now serve as Director of Field Engagement (Hous) and Women’s Ministry (Tami). These staff roles require them to travel to wherever Army, Navy, Marine, Coast Guard, Space Force, and Air Force military members live in order to encourage, equip, and support Christians who wear the uniform and who seek to live faithfully before the face of God.
James Williams
Mission to North AmericaMontgomery, Alabama
James Williams has served as an ordained PCA teaching elder for over thirty years. In 2020, he was called jointly by the PCA Mission to North America and the Southeast Alabama Presbytery to the role of evangelist. He founded the Center for Urban Renewal and Evangelism (CURE). They seek to develop biblical and evangelical leaders to impact our world. James mentors younger pastors and conducts training for individuals and churches.
Mario and Keila Xoca
Mission to the WordReynosa, Mexico
In 2012, Mario and Keila planted a church in Reynosa, Mexico called Camino de Fe. Mario is the pastor of the church and the spiritual oversight for Isaiah 55. Keila organizes community outreach, ministers to young women, and leads a tutoring program in the Aquiles Serdán neighborhood which surrounds the mission. Additionally, they hold weekly neighborhood Bible Studies, manage two boys soccer teams, lead a vocational program, and plan to plant a church in the Aquiles Serdán area soon.
South America
Cathy and John Rug
Mission to the World
Chile
John and Cathy Rug serve with Mission to the World (MTW) in Concón, Chile. They are part of a church planting team and lead discipleship and growth groups. John established MTW Chile’s Presbyterian Ministry Center for the Disabled (CEMIPRE). CEMIPRE seeks to reduce the impact of disability by addressing the spiritual, emotional, and physical consequences of blindness. The ministry promotes a growing interaction with sound local churches to reach out to those with visual disabilities.
Africa
Sherri and Steve Letchford
SIM International
Kijabe, Kenya
Steve and Sherri Letchford left US private practices in 1998 to serve with SIM International at a mission hospital in remote Zambia. In 2006, they relocated to Kenya to serve in Kijabe Hospital, a ministry of the Africa Inland Church. Steve is a physician specializing in internal medicine and pediatrics and Sherri is a physical therapist. They disciple, mentor, and train Christian African healthcare professionals to show Christ’s love through compassionate healthcare. Steve now leads SIM’s Banda Health ministry, using technology and gospel-shaped relationships to reach and empower small clinics in slums and villages. Sherri facilitated the growth and leadership development of Kijabe Hospital’s physiotherapy team and has taught at local, regional, and university levels. She is transitioning now to a community-based physical therapy and trauma healing ministry for rural families of children with cerebral palsy.
Nosizo and Victor Nakah
Mission to the World
Zimbabwe
Dr. Nakah is a Zimbabwean citizen, and an ordained Presbyterian minister. He has served in various capacities in the Church, including Senior Pastor and as a seminary president. His most recent position was with CURE International, where he served as the Senior Vice President for Spiritual Ministry.
His new responsibilities with Mission to the World (MTW) include developing and implementing a vision for MTW Africa, searching out opportunities for new ministries, mentoring and providing accountability for existing ministries, seeking new resources for the field, and building church partnerships both here in the United States and with national partners in Africa.
Nosizo has taught high school and studied for a Master’s degree in Information Science.
Asia
Miguel and Hannah D'Azevedo
Ministry to Military and Internationals
Okinawa, Japan
Miguel D’Azevedo is a dual citizen of the United States and Brazil. Miguel is married to Hannah, who is a U.S. citizen raised on the mission field in West Africa.
In 2020, he was licensed to preach by Calvary Presbytery, and after graduating with his MDiv. in 2021, began a pastoral internship at the Independent Presbyterian Church of Savannah under the mentorship of Pastor Terry Johnson. In addition to the regular duties of preaching, teaching, pastoral visitations, and one-on-one mentoring, Miguel has been responsible for initiating a new international-focused ministry.
Dale and Dan Faber
IXO Global
Asia
Dan Faber is the founder and president of the International Xchange Organization (IXO). He and his wife, Dale, a daughter of Trinity, started IXO in 1996 to address a need for evangelism and pastor training in China. IXO leads seven of its own subsidiary missions and provides care for over a dozen smaller mission agencies. They give national pastors and non-profit Christian leaders support, freedom, trust, counsel, and encouragement for them to bring their unique ministry vision to life.
Rujak Bible Translation
Asia
While Rujak is not their real name, this people group includes over 500,000 men, women and children. We do not identify their real name or location to protect the identity of the work and the safety of those who serve among them. Only .07% of this population is considered Christian while 99.9 % of the population adheres to another major world religion, which is intermingled with animism. Their economy is largely agrarian.
In 2017, Trinity committed to a Bible translation project which should see the most important passages of scripture translated and disseminated through print and digital means.
Caroline and Carter McWhorter
Mission to the WorldBangkok, Thailand
Carter and Caroline are both from Montgomery, Alabama, and started dating while serving in East Asia with Cru. They spent nearly five years learning the language, culture, and sharing the gospel with college students. During the pandemic, the Lord changed their path and led them to join the Mission to the World church-planting team in Bangkok, Thailand, where they work alongside the local church and Thai national pastors. They desire to form deep relationships within their community, allowing them to share the hope of the gospel with those who have never heard it. They are humbled to be called to take the gospel to Bangkok and are eager to see how the Lord will continue to use them in Asia.
Brynden and Halle
GlobalServe InternationalAsia
Brynden and Halle are currently living and working with an unreached people group in Southeast Asia. This people group has no access to Christianity, no known believers, and no translation of Scripture. Their goal is to evangelize, plant a church, and provide a translation of Scripture to this people group.
Vijay Raju
Christ Gospel MinistriesIndia
Pastor Vijay Raju helped start Christ Gospel Ministries, Inc. for the purpose of growing indigenous missions in India by supporting church planting and developing leaders; orphan care; educational and self-employment training for widows and poor girls; and disaster relief. They facilitate pastor training programs with the goal of training 1000+ village pastors each year and planting churches.
Vijay was born into such a poor family that his parents were unable to take care of him. A Hindu family member adopted Vijay when he was 6 months old. Vijay led a life of an Orthodox Hindu, received a good education, and learned many languages.
Europe
Athens Church Plant
Mission to the World
Greece
Led by Pastor Giotis Kantartzis of the First Greek Evangelical Church, this Greek Presbyterian Congregation has established several daughter churches. Their vision is the transformation of their city spiritually, socially, and culturally by the gospel of the grace of God through church planting. To that end, they have an aggressive church planting effort.
Didi and Peter Hegnauer
Child Evangelism Fellowship
Belgium
Peter and Didi have worked with Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF) in Europe since 1986. Peter is the national coordinator for CEF in Belgium. Their primary focus is to disciple and train other adults how to teach children about Jesus. They also lead children’s clubs, VBS, camps, and retreats where they help children trust Jesus for salvation.
George and Phaedra Tolias
Evangelical Church of Glyfada
Greece
George initially studied Electrical Engineering and then taught as a university professor. He graduated from the Greek Bible College in 2010 and married Phaedra, who he met at the college. He completed a Master of Theology at Westminster Seminary in Philadelphia while also pastoring a Greek Evangelical Church in New York. Now, he pastors the Glyfada Church in the southern suburbs of Athens, which is ministering to Greek professionals and refugees.
Dina and Argyris Petrou
Advancing the Ministries of the Gospel
Athens, Greece
Dr. Petrou teaches at the Greek Bible College, is a published author through the Greek publishing house, O LOGOS, and serves the church in Greece through teaching and preaching.
Dina leads a Christian safehouse ministry for victims of trafficking and prostitution.
Mark and Anastasia Petrou
Child Evangelism Fellowship
Greece
Mark and Anastasia serve with Child Evangelism Fellowship in Greece. Their team recently decided that it was time to start creating an online presence. As a team, they are creating video Bible stories with a verse and a craft accompanying every lesson. Starting from Genesis, with a goal to cover the whole Bible, they have made great progress with their video Bible stories.
Deborah and Matt Stanghelle
Ministry to Military and Internationals
Stavanger, Norway
Matt and Deborah are leading a team of Norwegians and internationals to plant the Presbyterian Church in Norway. Norway runs deep in Matt’s family heritage, and he considers it a great privilege to plant a church in the land of his forefathers. Matt is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church in America and is serving his call with the Ministry to the Military and Internationals, a commission of the Southeast Alabama Presbytery.
Oceania
Richard and TC Bailey
Mission to the World
Kardinya, Western Australia
Richard and TC both grew up in Alabama. They moved to Louisiana in 1991, where Richard pastored for twenty-one years. On a visit to Perth, Australia, in 2007, Richard and TC were deeply burdened by the urgent need for trained pastors in the churches of Western Australia. In 2012, they moved to Perth. Richard is a church planter at the Canning Vale Community Church (Presbyterian) in Perth. Indian, Chinese, Malay, Samoan, Sri Lankan, and Anglo-Aussies all join for worship on Sunday mornings at CVCC, and the church is growing in both numbers and maturity. It is truly a fulfilment of the Lord’s promise to bring blessings upon all the nations. Richard is also country director for Mission to the World Australia, and TC works part time as an ER nurse.
Benjamin and Missy Hatton
Ethnos360
Papua New Guinea
Benjamin and Missy are graduates of Ethnos360 Bible Institute and Missionary Training. They began their ministry as part of the training and coaching team that equips missionary candidates for missions. As the Lord worked in their lives, however, the Hattons made a switch to being overseas missionaries themselves. They now live among the Amdu people in Papua New Guinea serving with Ethnos360 as church planters.
Jason and Tami Hughes
Ethnos360Papua New Guinea
Jason grew up in Papua New Guinea with his missionary parents. He did not initially feel called to become a missionary himself. However, after helping several missionaries build housing in Papua New Guinea, he realized that missionaries are just ordinary people following the word of God. He then attended Bible School back in the U.S. and was further challenged by the Great Commission. After serving at their home church for several years, Jason and Tami joined Ethnos360 as tribal church planters in Papua New Guinea. They are involved in evangelizing, discipling, training, teaching literacy, and translating the Bible. The goal is to plant a church that can stand on its own and carry on the work of the Lord.