Lena Kauffman served as a participant in the 2023–24 Advance cohort. She is currently serving as an Advance staff intern for the 2024–25 Advance team. EMM Digital Communications Coordinator Julia Tsai interviewed Lena about her experience stepping up to take on a staff role.
EMM’s strategic focus is to identify, equip, and send missional leaders to serve on multi-generational and multi-ethnic teams who invite people to follow Jesus as maturing, multiplying disciples and nurture transforming communities of worship.
“That would be the worst job in the world!” I thought when I first heard of “recruiting full-time intercessors to join overseas church-planting teams.”
Meet Biak, a 41-year-old, single man from Det Udom, Thailand. Years ago, his aunt (Mae Banchong) became a Christian. Through her and others, he heard the gospel over the years.
If you pass by 450 North Prince Street in Lancaster, you might think it’s just another office building with a coffee shop on the first floor. You might even think that Lancaster doesn’t need another building like this one, even if the coffee and tea are excellent. But that would be an incorrect assumption … because of other activities that you might not notice.
In the past few years, we refined our vision to focus on what we consider to be God’s call for us in this season: to catalyze Jesus movements among the least-reached; in places where there are very few Christians. We’ve specified some particular areas of the world that we want to focus on: Central Asia, Southeast Asia, Central Europe, and West Africa.
