Missionaries

North America Indigenous Ministries

NAIM (North America Indigenous Ministries) exists to glorify God through building the church by making disciples among North American indigenous peoples. They desire to see strong, healthy Native American believers. June walks among the Lummi people in an effort to share and live out the Gospel. She has served with NAIM on the Lummi Reservation (near Bellingham) since 1995. She is also involved in friendship evangelism, discipleship, mentoring, Bible study leadership, prayer ministry, jail ministry, informal counseling, visitation, directing a children’s Bible camp, emergency response to unexpected deaths, and a variety of acts of service.

Student Ministry with Cru

The vision and mission of Cru at UC Davis and Napa Valley College is summed up by the words "give," "grow," and "go." We hope to give every student an opportunity to hear the gospel—the good news of Jesus’s gift of salvation for those who trust in Him. We want to help every Christian student grow in their faith. And we want to help our students go with the gospel on campus and to the world beyond. We are the local leaders for Cru at Davis and Napa.

The Navigators  |  Alec's Page

Alec leads the Navigators team in Minneapolis–St. Paul that comes alongside people in their twenties to help them know Christ and make Him known. Alec and his team encourage people in four pursuits—Christ, work, mission, and community. Through one-on-one discipleship, Bible studies, missional communities, and large group gatherings for outreach and training, the team equips young adults to make disciples of Christ in the everyday places where God has led them to live, work, and play. Their team is trusting that generations of people will come to know God, walk with Him, and help others to know Him too.

Discipleship and Outreach with The Navigators

The Navigators is an international network of people, 4,600 of whom are staff. Our passion is to help others "know Christ and make Him known." Through small-group Bible studies and life-on-life discipling relationships, we come alongside people and teach them to follow Christ as they study and apply the Word of God to their lives. We train them to pass what they have learned on to others. Gary serves on the Puget Sound Leadership Team to help give direction to 50 Navigator staff members and their ministries. They serve on college campuses and military bases, in neighborhoods and churches, in the inner city, with international students, and with young professionals.

Wycliffe Bible Translators  |  The Haffords' Page

Wycliffe translates the Bible for communities that do not have Scripture into a language they understand. And Bible translation can serve as a crucial component of Jesus's commission to go and make disciples. James and Lois are Bible translators among the Wuvulu people of Papua New Guinea (PNG). In their years of immersive village living, they translated the New Testament and are now working with Wuvulu translators to finish a draft of the Old Testament. In addition to translation, the Haffords' roles in Wycliffe include consulting and teaching linguistics in PNG and at the Canadian Institute of Linguistics.

Wycliff Bible Translators  |  Bonnie's Page

After years of working in French-speaking Africa and then teaching full-time in a Wycliffe training program, Bonnie is currently working as an instructional design consultant for SIL (Wycliffe’s main implementation partner). She guides instructors and training programs around the world as they seek to transfer their courses from face-to-face to online, in order to better serve colleagues who find that finances, family commitments, and work responsibilities impede travel to training locations. She is also helping to develop new training courses that will better prepare new members for the current paradigms of Bible translation and language development work.

Youth Wise

Youth Wise provides one-on-one adult youth mentors to children and youth ages 8 to 18. Each mentoring match meets once a week for a year, doing activities of their choice in the community. Throughout the mentoring match year, our mentors receive ongoing mentor training and meet monthly with their mentoring coaches. Greg is the founder and executive director of Youth Wise. He is responsible for implementing the organization’s mission and policies, hiring and training personnel, and making provision for its financial health.

The Navigators  |  The Lauckners' Page

Kirk and Amy serve with The Navigators as the Nav20s city directors in Seattle. They have the joy of helping leaders discover their unique callings in life as they follow the ways of Jesus. It is the passion of the Nav20s to see men and women in their 20s thrive in Christ and engage effectively with peers right where God has planted them—where they live, work, and play.

Southeast Asia

Lauren lives and works in Southeast Asia as a linguistic translation worker. She coaches locals through the process of translating the Bible into their own language, and she coordinates the project for efficiency. Their group also produces Bible-based stories, songs, videos, and other products in the local language. Despite millions of speakers, the language is still just one of many related languages in the region that have no Scripture in their own language. This is the local people’s first encounter with the Gospel in their mother tongue.

*Not her real name.

Engineering Ministries International (EMI) exists to provide engineering, architecture, and construction management services to Christian partners serving around the globe. EMI focuses on designing facilities for Christian non-profit organizations that share God's love and spread the gospel. Their mission is to develop people, design structures, and construct facilities which serve communities and the Church. Brett and Angela are working with EMI in Uganda where Brett serves as a Construction Project Manager on school, hospital, and clinic projects in East Africa.

Student Ministry with Cru

The Parletts have been serving with Cru in a variety of positions for 25 years. At present, Duncan is part of the Pacific Southwest Regional Design Team. Kerrie works for an inner-city organization called Lift Up America and for an online discipleship ministry called Global Media Outreach

The Navigators  |  The Pepsnys' Page

Our passion is to help others know God, make Him known, and help others do the same. We love doing this through life-on-life discipleship, exploring the Bible and the great news of Jesus, and interacting with God together in prayer. This often happens in a fraternity or sorority, at the gym, over a cup of coffee, in a small-group Bible study, or at a weekend retreat. In short, we are striving to help people, specifically students at the University of Washington, have simple contagious faith in God through life, Word, and prayer.

Prayer Ministry with Bridges International  |  Reaching Internationals

Bridges International is the international student ministry of Cru. It is a student organization that seeks to help international students through service activities, social networking, and spiritual resources. There are currently 1.3 million international students and scholars in the United States. The nations have indeed come to us. However, an estimated 80 percent never set foot in an American home. We seek to change that percentage. I am the national prayer coordinator and shepherd in prayer the nearly 325 staff members with the help of five regional prayer coordinators. I also write a weekly prayer bulletin that goes out to over 2,700 people.