Converge Worldwide International Ministries
David is a global worker with Converge, presently located in Minnesota with his wife Carol. He is focusing efforts in engagement with Chinese and India students that temporarily reside in the Twin Cities area as well as training volunteers who work with these students. Hospitality Center (www.hospitalitycenter.org) will be one of several agencies of cooperative work. Access to these students is challenging. Students here in America are the next generational, multicultural future returnees to their hometowns. We talk with them in English and encourage them to know God in their native language.

Partners With Ethiopia

Ingrid Olson serves locally as the Executive Director for Partners With Ethiopia. Partners With Ethiopia supports indigenous ministries in Ethiopia that are focused on sharing the gospel and empowering the poor. Ingrid's passion for poverty-focused ministry began in 1991 as a volunteer for a local organization impacting children in lower income areas of her hometown. A desire to be more effective led her to pursue a B.A. degree in cross-cultural ministries from Moody Bible Institute. She graduated in 1997. In 2010, the story of an Ethiopian widow inspired her to travel to Ethiopia to learn more, and she has been serving Ethiopia ever since.  

Canmore, Alberta, Canada

Steve and Deb serve in full time evangelism and discipleship of Canadian and International Olympic athletes. Their purpose is to reach athletes for Christ, mentoring them and sending them to reach the world utilizing their platforms as athletic heroes.

Serving with EFCA ReachGlobal

Southern Brazil Team Leader / GlobalFingerprints Latin America Division Leader

Steve and Liz currently live in the city of Piçarras where they serve in leadership over church plants and church planters in Southern Brasil. Part of Steve’s role comes in helping to develop lead, mentor and coach church planters and church plants. In addition, Steve is giving leadership to ReachGlobal’s child sponsorship Sites throughout Latin America (Haiti, Panama, Cuba and Brasil). Owing to Liz’s medical condition, Steve is ministering much more locally and traveling much less internationally.

ReachGlobal
Jennifer serves in the Latin America-Caribbean Division of ReachGlobal. After living and serving in Haiti for almost 9 years, she is now based in the U.S. due to the horrible insecurity in Haiti. But, praise God, the ministry of GlobalFingerprints (child sponsorship program of ReachGlobal) continues in Haiti! Jennifer is thrilled to continue serving (albeit remotely) as the Site Coordinator for the four GlobalFingerprints sites in Haiti which help support more than 600 vulnerable children. She also helps out on the ServeLAC team doing some other jobs to support the missionaries throughout the division. Jennifer lives in West Palm Beach, FL with her step-kids, Kendall (22 y.o. young man) and Kourtney (20 y.o. young woman), and she's seeking the Lord for where He may lead me in the coming years. 

United World Mission

After 21 years of serving with Avance Mexico, Paul and Nydia are moving into a new leadership role with United World Mission in the area of Spiritual Formation. Paul is serving as Director of Spiritual Formation globally, Nydia teaches at Oaxaca Christian School (a school for missionary kids) and she also supports formation ministry in Latin America.

They train and resource leaders in UWM’s regions of service in spirituality formative practices and rhythms. They encourage others, both UWM missionaries and national leaders in their walks with Christ through retreats, training, and spaces for reflection and rest.

Their desire in UWM is that their ministry flows out of who they are in Christ. UWM describes this process of spiritual formation as “the process of developing relational connectedness to Christ while learning the themes and disciplines of Biblical spirituality, so we can discern, experience, and respond to God’s presence, work, and Word."

Go and Tell Ministries

Mary Yarbrough serves as Director of Missions for Go and Tell Ministries operating along the border areas of Mexico. Go and Tell's mission statement has two very distinct components from which they have developed their ministry branches: 

The first part of their mission statement, "reaching the unreachable with the grace and mercy of the gospel" is the foundation for the Compassionate Ministries which strives to serve all those they encounter as they struggle to provide the day to day necessities of life for their families. 

The second branch of their ministry, Facilitation Ministries, strives to fulfill the latter part of their mission statement to "facilitate others to do the same" by providing the necessary resources of the local church to complete the Great Commission.

Serving with ReachGlobal (EFCA)

Leadership Training Globally

Mike and Linda serve with ReachGlobal on two different teams. Mike trains under-resourced pastors and church leaders overseas how to study, teach, and preach the Bible . He also leads a team of trainers who mainly focus in Latin America/Caribbean, although his training takes him to other continents. Linda comes alongside missionaries as a spiritual director, supporting, listening, and caring for them as they answer God’s call to serve overseas. She also helps train missionaries as they head to the field and debrief them when they are on home assignment.