Mission workers
Joyel Allen
Joyel serves in college ministry, in partnership with Every Nation Campus. She is leading Bible studies and small groups at Mary Baldwin University, Staunton, Va., and focuses on identifying and mentoring leaders for campus ministry.
Destiny Alston
Destiny serves in college ministry at James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia, in partnership with Every Nation Campus. She leads Bible studies and small groups, and mentors leaders for campus ministry.
Alfonso Alvarado
Alfonso serves as a pastor and church planter of Iglesia Menonita Monte Moriah, Timberville, Virginia, serving in partnership with the Northern District of Virginia Mennonite Conference.
Marcello Arrostuto and Marianna Vaglica
Marcello and Marianna serve in an internship with the Shalom Church in Palermo, and are mentored and discipled by pastoral leaders. Marcello is working toward long-term bi-vocational work in pastoral ministry.
Peter Brown
Peter (name changed) serves on the Central Asia Launch Team. His primary focus for the first year will be language and cultural learning, and he is exploring long-term work in the eastern part of the country in the fall of 2025.
Nathan Carr
Nathan works with recovery groups and individuals as the founder of Resurrected Ministries, a nonprofit organization which seeks to help those struggling with addiction find deliverance and healing, with a long-term vision for local recovery homes.
Seth Crissman
Seth works alongside a creative team to create resources for families and households to become stronger Christ-forming centers through memorization and reflection on scripture through music.
Priska DiGennaro
Priska serves as an intern with Viva Youth in Bogotá, Colombia, a ministry that partners with local churches in children’s ministry and builds faith community for young adults exiting the foster care system.
Jorge and Ginny Enciso
Jorge and Ginny serve in Bogotá, Colombia, as founders and leaders of Viva Youth, a ministry primarily directed around creating community for young adults exiting the Colombian foster care system. They serve with South American Mission.
Aaron Evans
Aaron (name changed) serves as an intern, using his skills as a computer programmer on a team of bi-vocational ministry workers in Central Asia. This team uses business as a way of sharing the good news of Jesus.
Bradley Goodman
Bradley (name changed) joins the Launch Team in Central Asia as a tranSend intern. He has prior internship experience in the region and is considering a longer-term assignment. His primary focus for the first year is language and cultural learning.
Shawn and Laura Green
Shawn and Laura and family serve with a church-planting team in Termoli, assisting with worship and discipleship, reaching out through home Bible studies, and developing relationships to expand the work into new areas.
Michael and Ruth H.
Michael serves with Immerse International, an intensive English program. Ruth works as a Registered Nurse at the Hershey Medical Center and regularly participates in the prayer rhythms and community life activities at Immerse.
Andrea Hamsher
Andrea works alongside volunteers and participants at Die Villa, participates in the life of the Emmaus community under the leadership of Dave and Rebekka Stutzman, and provides occasional child care for the Stutzman family.
Steve Horst and Bethany Tobin
Steve and Bethany support evangelism and discipleship by coaching new workers, prayer, art, worship ministry, and resourcing the Life Enrichment Church. They also help launch new workers into the Isaan region.
Clay Kauffman
Clay serves as an intern with Highland Retreat, exploring various jobs and responsibilities that advance the mission of the camp, and he serves half-time with a local congregation and in community service.
Carlin and Chass Kreider
Carlin and Chass are studying language and receiving ministry training in Panama with Every Nation Campus’ church planting team. They will transition to Cusco, Peru, to focus on campus ministry and church planting.
Juan José Lagos
Juan José is the church planter and pastor of Iglesia Cristiana Renuevo, a Spanish-speaking congregation in Winston-Salem, N.C., that partners with the TCK District of Virginia Mennonite Conference.
Katie Liskey
Katie will serve as an intern with Viva Youth in Bogotá, Colombia, a ministry primarily directed at building faith community for young adults called primos y primas who are aging out of the foster care system.
Joy M.
Joy (name changed) is a teacher at a local school, where she is enhancing her language skills and building connections with members of a gospel unreached people group as she serves on the Central Asia Launch Team.
Mike and Risha Metzler
Mike and Risha are co-pastors and church planters of Mosaic of Grace Church, a congregation focused on worship, personal transformation through discipleship, and neighborhood outreach in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
Alia Muhammad
Alia serves with Every Nation Campus as a campus minister at James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Va., inviting others into Christian community and walking with them as they grow as disciples of Jesus.
Raleigh and Opal
Raleigh and Opal (names changed) serve with their four children among an indigenous people group and are making connections for future ministry through business for transformation. They serve in partnership with Rosedale International.
David and Marta
David and Marta (names changed) serve as interns on a multicultural business for transformation team and are in language and culture study. David is also employed half-time as a software developer at a local company.
Yosiah and Anita Rahma
Yosiah and Anita (names changed) run a preschool and after school program for neighborhood kids called House of Hope in a slum community in a large Southeast Asia city, serving with Servants to Asia’s Urban Poor.
Yacoub Rasul
Yacoub (name changed) is an Egyptian church planter serving among Harrisonburg’s Arabic-speaking community. He is serving in a partnership ministry between VMMissions and Faith Community Church called Love 4 All Nations.
Elliot Rhodes
Elliot will serve with Viva Youth in Bogotá, Colombia. He will attend discipleship training and language and cultural immersion for three months in Costa Rica with Vida 220 prior to his outreach in Colombia.
Baker Rigg
Baker serves as the chaplain of the Rockingham Harrisonburg Regional Jail, where he nurtures inmates in Christian faith, resources and develops ministries within the jail and cultivates church and community partners.
Ruth Rivera
Ruth will join the VMMissions/EMM worker team in Thailand, serving among the Isaan people group in support the work of Life Enrichment Church. She serves with UB Global, in partnership with VMMissions.
Lewis and Ashley Roberts
Lewis and Ashley’s tranSend internship gives them an opportunity to grow in leadership as local recovery mission workers. God has met them, changed them and through them is changing other men and women.
Armando and Veronica Sanchez
Armando and Veronica are church planters and pastors of Iglesia Shalom-Nuevo Comienzo, Waynesboro, Va., partnering with the Southern District of Virginia Mennonite Conference.
Michael Santana
Michael (name changed) serves on a ministry team living incarnationally and demonstrating the love of Jesus in a slum in Southeast Asia. He serves with Servants to Asia’s Urban Poor, in partnership with VMMissions.
Adam and Elise Sauder
Adam and Elise (names changed) served with YWAM (Youth With A Mission) at the Myrtle Beach, S.C., base and led a team in a mission experience in South Asia. They are currently pursuing a long-term assignment.
Randall Schlabach
Randall is a pastor and recovery worker who serves Wayne and Holmes counties in Ohio. His expanding men’s ministry is called Eleftheria, and focuses mainly on recovery from pornography addiction and restoration.
Mark and Sarah Schoenhals
Mark and Sarah serve in the rural northeastern Thailand among the Isaan people, where they support the Life Enrichment Church and engage in Bible teaching and leadership development. They serve in partnership with Eastern Mennonite Missions.
Caleb and Stephanie Schrock-Hurst
Caleb and Stephanie will serve in ministry roles in a local congregation. Stephanie will work at a large Mennonite hospital to reintroduce spiritual practices and work toward the establishment of a nursing exchange program.
Lydia Showalter
Lydia participated in Vida220’s three-month discipleship training school in Central America, and is now serving in ministry outreach as an intern with Viva Youth in Bogotá, Colombia.
Hannah Shultz
Hannah teaches English as a second language with Eastern Mennonite University’s Intensive English Program. Hannah reflects the love of Jesus as she teaches and builds relationships with folks from around the world.
Paulo and Ana Silva
Paulo and Ana (names changed) serve in a Central Asian country and focus on mentoring new workers. They spent 17 years in the region prior to this assignment, serving as team leaders of multinational teams.
Nathan and Anya Stan
Nathan and Anya (names changed) are sent by their home congregations in Eastern Europe to the Launch Team in Central Asia as business for transformation (B4T) workers, spending their first year in language learning and relationship building.
Carl Strite
Carl is the owner of Strites Donuts, and uses his business as a ministry. In this Marketplace assignment, he is devoting more time for itinerant evangelism and discipleship, and taking his donut trailer to areas of great gospel need.
David and Rebekka Stutzman
David and Rebekka are church planters in Mannheim who partner with the South German Mennonite Conference to create missional communities and reach spiritual seekers through networking events and spaces.
James and Anne T.
James and Anne (names changed) T. serve with Pioneers in a dense South Asian city, where James works as a graphic designer. Together they are discipling youth, developing leaders, and working for church multiplication.
Rafael and Solange Tartari
Rafael and Solange partner with Albanian leaders in the city of Shkodër to model family life in Christ and to multiply disciples, leaders, and faith communities. They serve in partnership with the Evangelical Mennonite Alliance of Brazil.
Norma Teles and the Joshua Center ministry
Norma is director of the Joshua Center, an early childhood learning center for Roma children. She also leads after-school programs, a women’s group, and a girls club, and is a worship leader.
Elaine U.
Elaine U. (name changed) serves on the Central Asia Launch Team and teaches at an international school. She spends half-time in language learning and connecting with the team, and half-time teaching.
Jay and Em
Jay and Em (names changed) serve in locations in Central and Western Asia in business for transformation, engaging with a ministry team and bringing expertise and experience to current and future transformational businesses.
Ken Wettig
Ken serves as the founding director of SLAQ (Servant Leader Quest). SLAQ combines real life outdoor adventure with faith formation to raise up servant leaders for the next generation church from diverse backgrounds.
Malakai Wettig
Malakai serves as an intern with Viva Youth in Bogotá, Colombia, a ministry that partners with local churches in children’s ministry and builds faith community for young adults aging out of the foster care system.
Ben and Risa Yutzy
Ben and Risa are ‘making disciples who make disciples’ among the Spanish-speaking farm workers with whom they work as they bear witness to Christ and nurture expressions of simple church.