Discipleship Ministries
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.
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 is serving in partnership with the Advance program of EMM. Elliot will spend three months in discipleship training and service in Lancaster, PA before joining a team for a five month outreach overseas with long-term experienced mission leaders.
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.
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.
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.