Business
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Max and Melissa Z.
Max (name changed) works in a management role with an agricultural business for transformation (B4T) in Central Asia. They are initially engaging in language and culture learning as they transition to professional roles.