Discipleship Ministries
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.
Adam and Elise Sauder
Adam and Elise (names changed) serve with YWAM (Youth With A Mission) at the YWAM Myrtle Beach base at the Discipleship Training School and lead teams in global mission experiences in South Asia.
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 will participate in Vida220’s three-month discipleship training school in Central America followed by five months of 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.
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 in the Muslim-background believer church.
Rafael and Solange Tartari
Rafael and Solange work in partnership 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 in the local congregation.
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 exiting 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.
Max and Melissa Z.
Max (name changed) will work in a management role with an agricultural business for transformation (B4T) in Central Asia. Arriving in late summer 2024, the couple will initially engage in language learning as they transition to professional roles.