Wendell and Melanie and their family serve in Costa Rica, mentoring and making disciples as directors of VidaNet. They are regional representatives for Central America, overseeing all of EMM’s programs and personnel in the region.
Peter and Christy serve in French-speaking Central Africa, jointly appointed with Mennonite Mission Network. Peter is joining the work of a seminary and an interfaith relations office of the local churches. Christy works in a hospital as a nurse/midwife. The children are in the local French school. Peter is also a member at large of the Christian-Muslim Relations Team, encouraging churches and individuals through teaching, preaching, writing, and example, to build meaningful relationships with Muslims. Peter and Christy previously served in East Africa with their children for five years.
Bob and Miriam have been involved in evangelism and church planting in the Netherlands since 1993. They have served with Crossroads International Church for many years. Bob and Miriam also serve with Serge, and are currently working in leadership development, evangelism training, and arts outreach with Serge’s international teams.
Vojta serves as a volunteer prison chaplain, where he leads Bible studies based on the book of Philippians, as well as meeting with inmates one-on-one. In addition, he holds various teaching and equipping roles in multiple contexts. Stacy teaches English lessons and is intentional about building relationships within the community, particularly in their daughter’s preschool. Together, Vojta and Stacy serve as Discipleship Coordinators in their local church, as well as mentoring and discipling believers and creating a welcoming space for people to gather in their home. They are also moving forward with planting a house church with the vision of seeing multiplication of house churches. Vojta and Stacy also serve as the Regional Representatives for Eastern and Central Europe for EMM.
John and Jeanette are engaging in language and cultural study and prioritizing learning about community needs in their first term. Their long-term goal is to focus on discipleship, church planting, and community development.
Carissa serves as a mission intern in Guatemala. She also serves with Hope for Home, which is a Christian organization that focuses on caring for children with special needs and their families, as well as addressing the systemic issues that cause special needs in children in Guatemala. Carissa helps to provide direct care to the children in one of the children’s homes, and also uses her nursing skills to assist with Hope for Home’s multiple outreach ministries, which include a child sponsorship program, rural village ministry, nutrition programs, and women’s health clinics.
Mark and Sarah serve as the primary EMM link with the Life Enrichment Church, walking with them to deepen their biblical/theological understandings, encourage the vision for multiplication, provide pastoral care for the church leaders, and facilitate opportunities for deeper relationships with the broader Anabaptist world.
Marty and Glenna are associated workers, primarily with Wycliffe Bible Translators at the International Linguistics Center in Dallas, Texas. Marty works in information technology, including computer repair. Glenna is a library cataloger at the Dallas International University (formerly Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics). She is also involved in ethnomusicology and world arts.
Nate and Krystle serve in The Gambia. They model healthy Christian family life to the community, connect with the existing Mennonite Church for ongoing discipleship and training while they also learn and receive from them. They also focus energy into being a witness to the surrounding unreached people groups where they live.
Fernando will be learning language and culture, while engaging in evangelism and discipleship among Isaan people of Thailand, many of whom are hearing the Gospel for the first time.
Fernando aprenderá el idioma y la cultura, mientras participa en la evangelización y el discipulado entre la gente de Isaan en Tailandia, muchos de los cuales están escuchando el Evangelio por primera vez.
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"I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too will listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd." (John 10:16, NIV)