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4000-606-Worker Name Withheld

4000-606-Worker Name Withheld

In a few months, I have the privilege of joining a long-term team in Southeast Asia that ministers to Muslims in unreached and unengaged areas. The team I am joining currently serves in a province with 21 unreached people groups. The goal is to go into remote and unengaged villages, and find the people that God is drawing to Himself, to share with them and disciple them. I am so honored and blessed by this opportunity to go and be the hands and feet of Jesus across the world. I cannot wait to be a part of this team and…
August 21, 2026
4000-603-Luke

4000-603-Luke

Luke has a passion for seeing the Gospel take root and grow in Albania through business coaching and youth discipleship. In Albania, he will serve alongside a business-as-missions organization that provides values-based coaching to local entrepreneurs. This work strengthens Albania’s economic foundation, and creates meaningful opportunities to share the message of Christ in the marketplace. In addition, Luke will partner with a local church to support and grow youth ministry efforts. This includes helping disciple young believers and developing outreach initiatives to engage unchurched youth. He first sensed a call to missions at a young age, but over time pursued…
May 5, 2026
4000-605-Worker Name Withheld

4000-605-Worker Name Withheld

“After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb… And they cried out in a loud voice: 'Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb.'” - Revelation 7:9-10 How beautiful that sound will be when that day comes! In preparation and longing for that day, my family and I are joining a team in Southeast Asia to work among the unreached people groups. The more we’ve learned about those who have…
May 5, 2026
4000-604-Worker Name Withheld

4000-604-Worker Name Withheld

Our Story: We got married in 2021 and the Lord started to draw us to missions. We had friends that were missionaries for 15 years that encouraged us to look into more training and tell stories of how God is moving in Southeast Asia. We started training and looking into missions in 2023, and we started learning that God's heart for the nations is shown in every book of the Bible. We learned that God has been bringing His people back to Him, and His desire is for every nation, tribe, and tongue to know Jesus. We originally thought the…
May 5, 2026
4000-610-Worker Name Withheld

4000-610-Worker Name Withheld

In 2023, having learned about God's heart for all nations to know Him, I began praying about my role in obedience to Jesus' command to "Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you," (Matthew 28:19-20). It quickly became apparent that my current career trajectory was not the field into which God willed for my life; instead, the Lord showed me that my gifts and passions are best used in full-time missions. Since then, I…
May 4, 2026
4000-599-Smiddy, Nathan and Tina

4000-599-Smiddy, Nathan and Tina

We are Nathan and Tina Smiddy, and we are preparing to move our family from Arizona to Kenya to be teachers and dorm parents at Rift Valley Academy. We are called to walk alongside missionary kids, offering guidance, encouragement, and practical support as they navigate the transition between cultures and life stages. Through discipleship, community, and mentorship, we desire to help the next generation grow in faith and identity in Christ. Our mission is to create a place where they feel understood, equipped, and strengthened for the unique calling God has placed on their lives. More information: - Follow us…
March 14, 2026
4000-596-Amanda K

4000-596-Amanda K

Isaiah 6:8 “And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, ‘Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?’ Then I said ‘Here I am! Send me.’” Since I was in high school, the Lord has been calling me in a still small voice “whom shall I send?” And through His grace, I am given the chance to say “Here I am! Send me!” Throughout the last five years, my eyes have been open to see the world’s dire need for Jesus. The Lord promises that every tribe, nation, and tongue will be standing before the throne at…
January 23, 2026
4000-574-Worker Name Withheld

4000-574-Worker Name Withheld

The Maranatha cry—“Come, Lord Jesus”—believing that as the Gospel goes forth to the ends of the earth, we draw nearer to His return. That's why I'm thrilled to be joining a team serving among unreached people groups—bringing the hope of the Gospel to some of the most difficult-to-reach areas in Southeast Asia. My prayer and passion is to see local believers raised up and churches planted where none yet exist. As I look to the promises in Revelation, I’m inspired by the vision of people from Southeast Asia joining every nation, tribe, people, and language in worshiping our God. I…
January 23, 2026
4000-590-GSG

4000-590-GSG

“May the Lamb receive the reward for His suffering!” - Moravians G and S felt called to move overseas independently and now, together, as a married couple. G grew up in the church and was a part of a missions-minded church that enabled him to go on several short-term trips. Through this, he came to believe and follow Jesus as he was headed to India. Since then, G has followed Christ. He studied Christian Ministry in college before becoming a firefighter. After college, G took a class at his church that taught him about the unreached. Once hearing this, he…
November 21, 2025
4000-237-Samuel and Krystyna Pike

4000-237-Samuel and Krystyna Pike

The Pikes minister to people from all over the world. Most of them are in their late 20s to late 40s and are college-educated. The country in which they work is predominantly non-Protestant, with many people practicing a type of nominal Christianity. The Protestant population is only 3%. Capitalism has now been here for 36 years, meaning that the current generation never grew up under socialism. Instead, the country has been heavily hit by consumerism and religious scandals, with the result that people are just not interested in Christianity and the organized church. About us: Samuel committed his life to…
October 24, 2025
4000-580-Persson, Peter and Celeste

4000-580-Persson, Peter and Celeste

After having served in Austria (primarily in the area of church development, field leadership, as well as in regional leadership in Eastern Europe for almost 36 years), Peter and Celeste returned to the States in 2019. Peter became Director of Global Prayer Initiatives in January 2020 and Celeste became a volunteer Alumni Liaison, providing member care for former WorldVenture global workers. Peter’s prayer journey gained a focused dimension in the early 1990s when a colleague and he were having a discussion about finishing their ministries well. They both had been reading the same book on leadership. The book inspired his…
December 17, 2024
4000-245-Roth, Emily

4000-245-Roth, Emily

Emily Roth serves in media ministry throughout Greater Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. WorldVenture has over 150 global workers serving God throughout the region of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. Each of these workers has witnessed amazing stories of answered prayers, the transformational power of the Holy Spirit, God's great grace, and more. Unfortunately, many of these stories never reach the North American Church. Emily Roth's passion and calling is to use multimedia to share powerful God-stories that encourage believers serving at home and strengthen their connection with God's global work. Emily has specialized as a…
July 23, 2023
4000-146-Marin, Soraya

4000-146-Marin, Soraya

Once considered a Catholic country, Spain is stretched between the tyranny of tradition and the seduction of secularism. According to the World Factbook of the CIA, 70.2% of the Spanish are Roman Catholic. The majority of these were born and raised as Catholics, yet few know a personal relationship with Christ. The Spanish Church has a desperate need for leaders who will spread the gospel and the love of Christ. Soraya Marin has a passion for women's ministry and Christian leadership development. She serves as chaplain and assistant dean of IBSTE, a Bible institute and seminary based in Barcelona. While…
July 23, 2023
4000-650-Scofield, Tammy

4000-650-Scofield, Tammy

My Primary Ministry Focus is working with missionary families in Europe with the education needs of their children. Pray for wisdom in advising missionary families in their major decisions regarding their children! About me: “This is why I came to Europe,” said Tammy Scofield during the annual SHARE Education Services Family Retreat in Budapest, Hungary. Hanging out with missionary children, (MKs), teaching a speech unit and meeting their parents was an incredible gift for Tammy. It has been a time of learning and meeting missionaries for Tammy. The question of “How can I best help the missionaries stay on the…
July 23, 2023
4000-169-Kay

4000-169-Kay

J and K will be doing the work set before them through training in medicine, both in the urban and rural setting of their Asian context. Please join them as they seek to meet the 360 degree needs of those their hearts have bonded with.
February 17, 2022
4000-465-Stark, Brian and Melanie

4000-465-Stark, Brian and Melanie

We are passionate about seeing workers thrive, not merely survive on the field. As Head of Global Mentoring, we not only mentor and coach global workers across Asia for long-term Gospel impact, but we also oversee a team to provide mentoring and coaching for global workers from the time of their appointment through their career with WorldVenture. While we both began following Jesus at a young age, our journeys were quite different. Brian’s strong supportive home and input from mentors in his teens gave him a strong footing. After leading a child to Jesus one summer in high school, he…
November 2, 2021
4000-466-Pietrantonio, Adam and Sabrina

4000-466-Pietrantonio, Adam and Sabrina

Sabrina grew up in the Greater Los Angeles area. The first time she visited Japan she was eight years old and visited family friends who were missionaries serving there. She felt called to Japan as a career missionary herself when she was a university student. She served there from 2016 to 2020: the first half of her term was spent in Japanese language school in Tokyo, and the second half was spent serving in Japanese churches in Kumamoto and Ibaraki Prefectures. Adam was born and raised in Toronto, Canada. He decided to follow Christ in 2011 during his third year…
November 2, 2021
4000-411-Paul & Lizzie Reed

4000-411-Paul & Lizzie Reed

Over the past 10 years, we have been blessed to work with youth and college students around the world, but primarily in Eastern Europe, the USA, and the UK. Our vision is to bring glory to God by teaching and discipling youth in Central and Eastern Europe. We are passionate about seeing people experience transformed lives in Christ and watching them glorify God as they impact the lives of those around them. We are serving in Budapest, Hungary as chaplains at International Christian School Budapest (ICSB). It is a K-12 school taught in English with almost 300 students and 21…
November 30, 2020
4000-212-Worker Name Withheld

4000-212-Worker Name Withheld

Teaching English through a language center and working with street children will allow me to build relationships where I can share the hope and love of Jesus with those whom the Father calls. Through these relationships, we seek to begin Discovery Bible Studies, which in turn have the potential to begin a Disciple-Making Movement among the unreached and unengaged people groups in the area. There are at least ten tribes that we are targeting to see a gospel movement. The major challenge is overcoming the false teachings of the dominant religion, which is mixed with animistic beliefs.
November 30, 2020
4000-269-The Benaissa Family

4000-269-The Benaissa Family

The Benaissa family is a couple with a very diverse background including origins in both the United States, Asia and North Africa. Our paths crossed nearly ten years ago while we were both serving North Africans living in Spain. Currently based in the United States, we serve Arabic speaking immigrants and refugees from North Africa and the Middle East. Articles and Blogs on WorldVenture: - On Fasting and Ramadan
November 30, 2020
4000-942-Worker Name Withheld

4000-942-Worker Name Withheld

Articles and Blogs on WorldVenture: - A Taxing Thought - God's Timeline To Freedom - Afghanistan: Being Certain Of The Things We Cannot See - Plans Made, Plans Change, Molding Into God's Plan - Afghanistan: The Wait Becomes Weighty - Fuzzy Evacuation - The Long Wait Begins - A Women's Rights Activist Endangered and Left Behind
November 30, 2020
4000-555-Pardue, Frank & Rosa

4000-555-Pardue, Frank & Rosa

Serving in leadership training in the Philippines - Located on the edge of the 10/40 Window, the Philippines is a strategic hub for leadership development and church planting throughout Asia. The need for more Asian leaders is unprecedented and the Philippines is poised to help. It has a strong evangelical church, a growing missionary vision, and the privilege of open theological training. We feel God has uniquely prepared us to help groom these men and women for the task. For most of our time in the Philippines, our primary ministry was church planting, helping start two churches in Davao City,…
November 30, 2020
4000-127-Worker Name Withheld

4000-127-Worker Name Withheld

We prayerfully desire to plant a Hindi-speaking church in Asia with a focus on evangelism, discipleship, and solid biblical teaching. Although there are relatively quite a few ministries operating in the city, very few are focused on the masses of people moving from where Hindi is primarily spoken. As a means of entrance to the community, we will start a Christian school offering quality education based on Christian principles. This school will serve as a transformational presence in the community, aiding in establishing relationships with families through which the Gospel can be shared in a meaningful and relevant manner. We…
November 30, 2020
4000-235-Gleason, Randy and Cathy

4000-235-Gleason, Randy and Cathy

Randall and Cathy Gleason's mission is to glorify God through making disciples with a Biblical worldview guided by Scripture, empowered by the Spirit and passionate to promote the supremacy of Christ among all peoples. They have sought to achieve this mission for the past 20 years by encouraging pastors, missionaries and church planters through theological training in godly character, academic excellence and ministry skills. Randall and Cathy's new Vision for South Asia! With their task completed in the Philippines, the Gleason's vision has now shifted to South Asia (or "Indian subcontinent”), which has the largest concentration of the least-reached people…
October 6, 2020
4000-396-Love, David and Catherine

4000-396-Love, David and Catherine

We are passionate about mobilizing people for the harvest through short-term trips, internships, coaching and mentoring. I (Catherine) grew up in Cottage Grove, Oregon, where my father pastored a small church. I came to believe in Christ at age 4. My interest in people of other cultures was sparked both by the missionaries who passed through my church, and by my paternal grandparents, God-fearing immigrants from Armenia. Born the last of five sons, my (David) faith took root while attending church with my family during my formative years. But when I was 12, my father, a good natured and hard-working…
October 6, 2020
4000-046-Larson, Brian and Cassie

4000-046-Larson, Brian and Cassie

Serving in missionary member care as a pastoral counselor. We seek to prepare missionaries to live and serve cross-culturally, sustain and support them during their life and ministry rhythms, and restore when difficulty or crisis hits. On The Website: * Prayer and Care * Building Your Self-Care Toolbox WorldVenture Publications: * Christmas Perseverance and Determination, Day 3
October 6, 2020
4000-704-Thorp, Jim and Corinne

4000-704-Thorp, Jim and Corinne

Global Specialists Preparing WorldVenture missionaries to make the transition to their next ministry phase (sometimes called retirement) and encouraging mission organizations to better honor the workers who served the cause of Christ in their organizations. Pray that God would give them the ability to plan the Emeritus event with WorldVenture workers each July to provide resources to prepare them for retirement. Pray for their role to facilitate the work of the Alliance for Missionary Seniors which has a vision to better honor the workers who served under the various mission organizations. About us: Jim and Corinne served as missionaries in…
September 24, 2020
4000-243-Lacey, Shereen

4000-243-Lacey, Shereen

Hello! We are from the USA where we have raised our four children. He worked as a registered pharmacist and she taught and homeschooled our children through high school. God led our family to serve in a cross-cultural ministry for 11 years in the USA. Then in 2014 through trips to Africa, Europe, and Asia, the Lord showed us that He has called us to Asia to be a light in the darkness. God has showed us how our experiences, our gifting, passion, and education, could be used for His glory in another context. We want to think those that…
September 11, 2020
4000-232-Gill, Sam and Connie

4000-232-Gill, Sam and Connie

After retiring from WorldVenture Sam intends to focus primarily on coaching and mentoring new and emerging leaders, both locally and via the internet overseas. He is open to mentor new mission candidates headed overseas. After living in Brasil for 43 years Sam and Connie Gill realize that they learned as much from the culture as they taught. The three foundational principles learned were: Ministry is primarily relational; Ministry grows out of on-going relationships; and Ministry flows best when it is interdependent (not dependent or independent). From 1971 until 1997 Sam and Connie served under BBFI. For the first dozen years…
September 2, 2020
4000-711-Thompson, Ralph and Sandra

4000-711-Thompson, Ralph and Sandra

What They Do: Ralph and Sandra Thompson serve as the Global Directors for Africa and are part of WorldVenture’s Global Initiatives Leadership Team. In this strategic role, they oversee all of WorldVenture’s global workers and ministries across sub-Saharan Africa; encouraging innovation and collaboration, to see Gospel impact across the continent. They are passionate about caring for, developing, and empowering each worker and family to thrive in life and ministry. Through vision casting, mobilization, strategic planning, and leadership development, they seek to broaden WorldVenture’s impact among the least-reached in partnership with the African church. Why Africa? Africa is at a transformative…
September 2, 2020
4000-371-Swanson, Laura

4000-371-Swanson, Laura

About Laurie Laurie Swanson has long ties with WorldVenture. She grew up in Argentina as the daughter of missionaries and then worked with her husband, Bruce, in Portugal for 10 years. Bruce and Laurie's middle daughter Christie Stalcup is a WorldVenture worker in Thailand. Laurie is currently a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner in the Denver area. She plans to use her medical experience to consult and come alongside teams on various WorldVenture fields. Her passion is to support and develop their health outreach, especially focusing on children's health.
February 12, 2020
4000-355-Jennifer Coon

4000-355-Jennifer Coon

Jennifer currently serve in Lebanon with the goal of using her skills as a physical therapist to holistically minister to Syrian refugees as part of a multi-disciplinary church partnership. Right now her main focus is learning Arabic. In her free time, she enjoys running along the Mediterranean and going hiking outside of the city. Connect with Jennifer on Instagram Articles and Blogs: * A Refugee Story: Jackline and Fouad * 2 Ways to Help Beirut * Chicago News Story on Jennifer
February 12, 2020
4000-331-Sandeno, Grace

4000-331-Sandeno, Grace

Anything related to public health. Potential solutions will look different for every issue in every community. My role is to research issues, look for resources and promising solutions, assist in project planning, solve problems during implementation and design project evaluations to measure success. My goal is to mentor communities toward healthier outcomes while helping staff build local relationships and community capacity. About Me: A short term mission trip in West Africa changed the course of my career path from medicine to public health. I have a master’s degree in public health and years of experience in state and local health…
February 12, 2020
4000-316-Brown, Bobby and Brianna

4000-316-Brown, Bobby and Brianna

We were appointed with WorldVenture in 2018 and served first in Taiwan and now serve in diaspora ministry here in the United States, with a focus on displaced people. People from all over the globe, many from least-reached people groups, are being displaced from their homes and transitioning to the U.S. We have the honor of walking alongside these families that are leaving dangerous and traumatic situations and receiving them with the arms of Christ. We are excited to announce that we are starting and leading a new initiative for WorldVenture called The Welcome Movement! The Welcome Movement will launch…
February 12, 2020
4000-211-Jeff and Meredith

4000-211-Jeff and Meredith

Our ministry vision is to see the Gospel flourish in Albania and take root among the Albanians in Macedonia. In order to pursue this vision, we are engaged in two distinct, but related ministries: 1) discipleship and evangelism in and through the local church in Albania, and 2) holistic discipleship in the marketplace in both Albania and Macedonia through a Christian development organization in the region. Our local church ministry We are investing ourselves in a local church in Tirana, the capital of Albania. This church was planted in 2015 and currently has about 25 members. We support the head…
February 12, 2020
6080-809-Livingston Adrienne

6080-809-Livingston Adrienne

Listen to my Justice Hope Freedom Podcast by Clicking Here Follow My Facebook Page by Clicking Here Follow Me on Instagram My goal is to help educate, equip, mobilize and connect churches, global workers, and individuals, (locally and globally) to existing organizations focused on combatting the sex trafficking issue in the following areas: Awareness, Education, Prevention, Rescue, Post care including trauma recovery and job training, Policy, and Ending the Demand. My podcast is an educational component of this ministry. The purpose of the Justice Hope Freedom podcast is to educate people about the issues of sex trafficking and exploitation and…
February 12, 2020
1100-886-Custer, Dougg and LeAnn

1100-886-Custer, Dougg and LeAnn

God used the mandatory missions class at Western Seminary in Portland, OR during Dougg’s last year to change the course of our lives from pastoring stateside to church planting in southern Austria. Although we initially desired to live overseas for only part of our ministry, God had other plans and forty years later, we still serve with WorldVenture. After spending thirty-five of those years in church planting and as the Global Directors for Europe and the Middle East, Dougg became the VP of Mobilization Ministries in 2014. His department handles everything from “first contact” to “wheels up”, which involves developing…
February 12, 2020