Internship
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.