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) is joining 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. He plans to move to the eastern part of the country in the fall of 2025 to fill a long-term role.
Aaron Evans
Aaron (name changed) will serve as an intern, using his skills as a computer programmer to join 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) will join the Launch Team in Central Asia as a tranSend intern. He has prior internship experience in the region and was invited to consider a longer-term assignment. His primary focus for the first year will be language and cultural learning.
Andrea Hamsher
Andrea will work alongside volunteers and participants at Die Villa, participate in the life of the Emmaus community under the leadership of Dave and Rebekka Stutzman, and provide occasional child care for the Stutzman family.
Maegan Knight
Maegan will serve as a tranSend intern with a Panama City church plant, Every Nation Panama, beginning in August 2025. Besides sharing the gospel, they want to create a launching center for workers to other Latin American nations.
Rebeca Ramírez
Rebeca (name changed ) is exploring possible assignments. A dentist by trade, she will initially invest most of her time in language learning. She serves with United Brethren Global, in partnership with VMMissions.
Elliot Rhodes
Elliot will serve with Viva Youth in Bogotá, Colombia, with VMMissions workers Jorge and Ginny Enciso. 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.
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.
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.