Our Missionaries

Mitchell & Jessica Spence

Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

As the pastor and church planter of Living Hope Church, Mitch’s primary responsibility is to continue feeding God’s sheep through the faithful preaching and teaching of Scripture. In addition, being a relatively young church plant situated over the road from a large University campus, they have an emphasis on discipling and training young men and […]

Bongolomzi & Sibulele Mkiva

Cape Town, South Africa

Bongo is the Church Planting Resident at Union Chapel (Formally known as Hope City Presbyterian) in Cape Town, South Africa. This is his second year of the residency program. As a soon-to-be church planter, he has had the opportunity to go through a course on the Westminster Standards along with two more courses on Covenant Theology […]

Sihle & Lethabo Xulu

Johannesburg, South Africa

Sihle is a lead church planter for Renewal Fellowship. Renewal Fellowship is a 2 year old church plant in the East of Johannesburg, South Africa. His wife, Lethabo, leads their women’s ministry. “Johannesburg is one of the most influential cities in the continent of Africa. East of Johannesburg is a growing metropolitan area with an […]

André & Larissa Meyer

Leipzig, Germany

In 2018, André and Larissa started meeting with a small group of people to start Leipzigprojekt Church in Leipzig, East Germany. They are located in one of the most secular cities of the world and are trying to find ways to engage secular people with the gospel of grace. “Leipzig is the most influential city […]

Andy & Davinia Young

Oxford, UK

Andy and Davinia are planting Oxford Evangelical Presbyterian Church in Oxford, England. Andy preaches twice every Sunday and organizes and leads the worship services. He also runs midweek Bible studies and prayer meetings and seeks to pastor the church through regular visitation and hospitality. He also meets regularly with young Christians to disciple them and also […]

Craig & Sandy Day

Charlotte, NC, USA

Craig and Sandy are the founders of Caleb Ministries, an organization that ministers to women and families who have lost a baby through miscarriage, stillbirth, early-infant death, or women who struggle with infertility or who are post-abortive. The mission of Caleb Ministries is to reach people with the gospel of Jesus Christ and to establish them […]

Ben & Melanie Kappers

St. George, Utah, USA

Ben is the pastor and church planter of All Saints Reformed Church. His wife, Melanie, plays the organ weekly and regularly hosts both large and small group meetings in their home. “Our region has roughly 200,000 people. Only 2% of those people identify as evangelical Christians. 70% identify as Mormon while 22% identify as having […]

Charles & Charlotte McKnight

Charles leads African American Ministries in vision casting and development and directs the Center for African American Church Planting. Charlotte serves as the facilitator of the PCA Unity Fund. “Of the 4000+ pastors and 2500 churches in the PCA, only 62 are Black, and only 19 are black lead pastors. It is past time for […]

Emily & Damon Harris

Boone, NC, USA

Emily and Damon are working in campus ministry with CRU at Appalachian State University. They spend most of their time in the following ways: one-on-one discipleship with students, leading small groups of 8-12 students, leading weekly large group sessions, and taking students to conferences, retreats, and missions trips over Spring Break (Guatemala) and in the […]

José & Anna Portillo

North Sharon Amity Road, Charlotte, NC, USA

José and Anna are church planting Vive Charlotte Church in Charlotte, NC. They are building a church core-group that represents the community they are serving; this means they are multilingual, multiethnic, and multigenerational.

Erik & Hara Petrou

Athens, Greece

Erik and Hara are planting Breath of Life Church (Pnoi Zois) in the “Neos Kosmos” neighborhood of Athens Greece. They are creating relationships within the neighborhood and serving families with an emphasis to children, youth, and mercy ministry. They are also focusing on evangelism and discipleship within the community, preaching, and leading public worship. “In […]

Ben & Kim Church

Kampala, Uganda

Ben serves as the church planter/organizing pastor for Christ Our Refuge Church, located in a southern suburb of Kampala, Uganda. He is also helping to establish the Uganda Presbytery of the Reformation Church in East Africa, a new Reformed and Presbyterian denomination which launched in 2019, serving as the chair of the church planting committee. […]

Kelsey Cawthorn

London, UK

Kelsey serves as the Hospitality Coordinator for The London Project. The London Project seeks to create a gospel movement through church collaboration in the city of London. As hospitality coordinator, Kelsey manages the logistics for the London Project’s events and organizes team building activities for the London Project’s leadership team. London is the most culturally diverse […]

Richard & Susan Bae

Tokyo, Japan

Richard and Susan are currently in the language and culture acquisition phase of their missionary journey in Japan. As they interact with locals and expats there, they are seeking God’s voice in what ministry they should pursue. Their other ministry is also to their children and to their classmates and their families. They are also supporting […]

Ralph & Lisa Johnston

Sanford, NC, USA

Ralph & Lisa Johnston are serving as PCA church planters in Sanford, NC. They are currently gathering, growing, and establishing this new church. As of the end of 2022, God has raised up 20 families to join them on this journey. They are praying for 20 more families to join by the end of 2023. “Sanford […]

Russell & Latoya McCutcheon

Knightdale, NC, USA

Russell & Latoya are church planters with Reconciliation Church in Knightdale, NC. “The area in which we worship is a very diverse area. Historically, it has been primarily an African American community (along with other sub-dominant cultures). But now, with gentrification, the community is changing and minorities are being pushed out of those communities because […]

Vaughn & Joni Volius

Columbia, South Carolina, USA

Vaughn & Joni Volius are serving as Directors for Campus Outreach in Columbia, South Carolina. They lead, train, and shepherd 11 staff across 2 campuses to grow and develop the regional footprint in breadth, depth, and spiritual vitality. They are also evangelizing, establishing and equipping students with the gospel that we may see them come […]

Jonathan & Sheona de Groot

Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Jonathan was an ordained minister in the Church of Scotland for ten years and is now minister in the Free Church of Scotland. Jonathan planted Christ Church Glasgow in the north west of the city. He is also the chaplain to a professional soccer team in Glasgow. “Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and […]

Cliff & Rose Chin

Charlotte, North Carolina, USA

Clifford serves as the English Ministry pastor of Charlotte Chinese Baptist Church.

Tom & Sharlene Muir

Midlothian, UK

Tom and Sharlene are church planting Esk Valley Church near Edinburgh, Scotland. Tom oversees the development of the growing church, preaches, and leads the discipleship ministries. Sharly is fully involved in the life of the church with the women’s ministry, hospitality, and she also heads up the children’s ministry. “As the fastest growing area of […]

Wesley & Nicole Marshall

Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa

Wesley and Nicole are growing a new church community in Observatory, Cape Town, through leading and developing others to lead in the following areas (but not restricted to): Administration of Word and Sacrament Discipleship Evangelism Prayer Organizational Administration Nicole is a high school teacher. She teaches 10th, 11th and 12th grade English. “Observatory is becoming […]

Jason & Jill Piteo

Cleveland, OH, USA

Jason and Jill are planting Resurrection Presbyterian Church, situated in a suburb of Cleveland, OH.

Daniel & Rebecca Gregoire

Slovakia

Dan and Rebecca are working on a church revitalization project. They are serving the church to facilitate its growth and strengthen it to plant another church in the coming years. They also focus on a ministry of the church to a local Roma community where the number of believers is growing. “Slovakia is filled with […]

Justin & Amy Grimm

Westerville, Ohio, USA

Justin is the church planter of Story Presbyterian Church in Westerville, Ohio. Story Presbyterian is the only conservative reformed church in Westerville.

Brandi & Jay Rawls

Newport News, VA, USA

Brandi works with the Campus Outreach East Coast Network Development team as the Women’s Development Director. She helps staff in all of the East Coast Regions (from DC to Central Florida) to be equipped and positioned to serve well in their roles. She does this through mentoring, training, staff assessments, curriculum development and leadership coaching. Her […]

Bud & Barbara Speck

Burbach, Germany

Bud serves as a Communications Consultant on the Wycliffe Global Alliance Communication Team with a focus on the Wycliffe organizations. There are 19 organizations in the Europe Area and he works to help facilitate their communication teams in how they communicate with their audience and engaging them to involve people in the Bible translation movement. Barbara […]

David & Estelle Abernathy

Waxhaw, North Carolina

David does exegetical research for use by Bible translators to help them understand biblical texts they are translating. He also edits the work of nine other researchers. Estelle works in the accounting office at JAARS, in Waxhaw. JAARS provides logistical support for the work of Bible translation. “There are thousands of languages that do not […]

Andy & Brooke Cheely

Birmingham, AL

Andy is the director of operations of Campus Outreach International Networks, serving from the Global Resource Center in Birmingham, AL to CO locations on every continent. He provides leadership for CO to mobilize, screen, train, place, and support university campus ministries in a dozen countries and counting from the 23 US CO regions, including CO […]

Jonathan & Vanessa Saunders

Detroit, MI, USA

Jonathan and Vanessa are planting Redeemer Detroit. Redeemer is located in downtown Detroit and the church’s desire is to keep planting. They are currently involved with an initiative called “The Detroit Project” that is planting 5 more PCA churches around metro Detroit. “10 years ago there was only one PCA church for all of metro […]

Cynthia Ruble

Nagoya, Japan

Cynthia is the Founder and Director of a Crisis Pregnancy/Post-abortion ministry called Life Hope Network. As part of that ministry pregnant women who need a place to stay often live with Cynthia and her son, Micah. Cynthia also runs a cafe in her neighborhood as a place for the women who live in the area […]

Mark & Raylene Casson

Chattanooga, TN, USA

Mark is the Executive Director of Metanoia Prison Ministries which seeks to engage, educate and equip the church for the discipleship, mentoring, and reintegration of prisoners. Prisoners are one of the most underserved people groups in the world. There are approximately 150,000 evangelical Christians in prisons in the U.S. Metanoia seeks to disciple and mentor […]

Jan King

Waxhaw, North Carolina

In 1973, the King family arrived in the Philippines where they were privileged to serve in support of Bible translation. They worked there for 16 years, Dave as a pilot and Jan as an RN, training primary healthcare workers. Jan become a widow in 1991 and since then has plugged in at JAARS as a […]

Dot Driver

Tahlequah, Oklahoma

Dot lives at Go Ye Village in Oklahoma. She is a retired missionary with JAARS, a division of Wycliffe Bible Translators.

Dony & Sharon St. Germain

Jeremie, Haiti

Dony and Sharon serve as ethnic church movement leaders with Mission to North America (MNA). Dony is the head of El Shaddai Ministries and oversees a seminary in Jeremie, Haiti, that is training future pastors. He trains Haitian leaders in Haiti, DR, USA and Canada. Sharon works with Children Ministry and team management. “The people in […]

Jonty & Georgina Rhodes

Leeds, England, UK

Jonty and Georgina are planting Christ Church Central in the center of the UK’s third largest city — Leeds, England. Jonty also chairs the church planting committee for the denomination and helps oversee church planting across the country. Georgina homeschools their five children. “Only 0.7% of the population of Yorkshire (the largest county / state […]

Rohan & Rebecca Crown

Lethbridge, AB, Canada

Rohan and Rebecca Crown are church planters in Lethbridge, Alberta Canada. Rohan is Pastor of Amazing Grace church and Executive Director of URAmazing Ministries, a Christian Faith Base NPO or 501c3. Rebecca is Program Director of Amazing Kids, a ministry of URAmazing Ministries that reaches at risk kids and families in Lethbridge. Amazing Grace is […]

James & Kelly Broadaway

Cape Town, South Africa

James and Kelly are Campus Outreach Cape Town Team Leaders. Their goal is to evangelize and disciple university students preparing them to multiply their lives and walk with Christ for a lifetime. “Cape Town is home to 250,000 University Students. 1 in every 16 people in the city is a university student. Cape Town is […]

Zach & Amy Fulginiti

Charlotte, North Carolina

Zach is the executive director for CO Charlotte and is responsible for overseeing the CO ministry in the state of North Carolina. He provides shepherding, direction, teaching and coaching for the 35 staff who are ministering on university campuses. “Tomorrow’s leaders – doctors, lawyers, politicians, etc. – are on our campuses today. We get to […]

Milas & Ashley Shepherd

Fairfield, Connecticut

Milas is the Pastor of Christ Presbyterian Church in Fairfield, a newly particularized church in the PCA in Fairfield, CT. “As a young church in New England we are pastoring many new Christians and ministering to many other-than-Christian neighbors on a regular basis. It’s a mess, but it’s a joy.”

Peter & Katie Eck

Atlantic City, New Jersey

Peter is a church planter in Atlantic City pastoring New City Fellowship church. “By the grace of God, it is our hearts desire to be: A gospel-focused, cross-cultural, Christ-centered community of faith with an outward face toward Atlantic City. My job as the church planter/solo pastor is to help this goal to become a reality […]

Missionaries in Restricted Areas

To preserve the safety of our missionaries working in certain locations, we will not be posting their identities on the website. However, we do encourage your prayers for these missionaries and we have some specific prayer requests that you can use.

Samuel & Carol Foucachon

Paris, France

Samuel and Carol have been called to plant a church in the center of Paris. Their ministry focuses on Sunday morning worship and special celebrations like Reformation Sunday, Nativity, and Holy Week. Their ministry is to bring, establish and pursue a vision that constantly needs to be renewed due to high turnover. After recently celebrating the […]

Michael & Linda-Lee Wadhams

Bellingham, Washington, United States

Michael & Linda-Lee coordinate native ministry in the Pacific North West. This includes developing mentorship and discipleship to indigenous people, assisting in reservation church development, and helping local churches initiate sustainable ministry partnerships with indigenous people groups in an urban and reservation context. “The North American indigenous ministry field is a complex ministry that is […]

Scott & Ruth Hill

Cherokee, North Carolina

Scott and Ruth are involved in a ministry of Church Planting among the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. Scott serves as the pastor for Grace Community Church of Cherokee. He preaches each week for the Sunday morning worship service and he leads the Wednesday evening Bible study. Ruth is involved in encouragement to women who […]

Imbumi & Martha Makuku

Kibera, Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya

Imbumi serves as the pastor for the Kibera Reformed Presbyterian Church. He is involved in teaching, equipping, outreach, administrative tasks, and organizing camps and conferences. Martha teaches the Wednesday Bible study, does administration and finance, and helps in communication. The Makukus are also the directors for Mamlaka Christian School. Additionally, Martha gives oversight for the […]

Emily & Timothy Bantola

Abington, PA, USA

As the internal audit lead, Emily leads a small team of international finance staff with CRU International. They review the use of funds and assess the financial health of each country’s ministry around the world. They empower local leaders to lead with information and make wise financial decisions that move the ministry forward! Emily’s role […]

Jeff & Kris Viljoen

Johannesburg, South Africa

Jeff is the regional director for Campus Outreach Johannesburg. They are a church-based university ministry seeking to glorify God by building laborers on the campus for the lost world. They minister on the 3 major Universities that are producing and sending out Key African leaders who shape South Africa and the continent of Africa: Wits […]

Al & Renee Barth

Florida, USA

Al serves as a vice president of Redeemer City to City and works as a Global City Catalyst in the cities of Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and North America.