Kyle Trewern

Marty Vanderzanden

Thailand

River Valley 500. We minister to the people of Thailand. We focus on Thai nationals who are discipling other people and then we help them. We also look for any lost or broken person that God brings into our life and we minister to them.

Amada (Kusel) Stapp

River Valley 500. Amada is full time staff in the health care ministry at Youth With A Mission in Perth, Australia. She leads the Birth Attendant School, an 11 month training program that trains missionaries to be birth attendants in developing nations. Part of this school is an 8 month field assignment, where Amada leads teams of students and trains them in vital areas of mother and child health in pregnancy, birth and postpartum, working in low resourced hospitals throughout Africa and Asia.

John Carrano

Spain

The Carranos’ ministry is to young adults/students in Spain, as well as church planting & leadership development.

Ryan Plute

United States

Global Initiative has done trainings in over 91 countries. We work with National Church Leaders, Bible schools, and local pastors. We teach undergrad and graduate level classes as well as do many Lay minister and church seminars and conferences. Recently we have been creating resources and curriculums that we are (and have) been translating into multiple languages and posting for free online. Many of these resources can be found at our “connect link” above. We have a BIG DREAM that we are working on now. It is to create a secure app we’re christian around the world can download and receive training on reaching Muslims for free. **again on another note :-) when we are in Springfield, we help organize and participate In and English conversation club put on for the Saudi families here in town. Through this club we have built friendship with the Saudis that are here in the states for one year. We have them to our house for dinner, go to theirs and go on outings together. Each holiday season we host a large Thanksgiving dinner and facilitate multiple Christmas parties and events. These times give us many opportunities to share the truth of Jesus.

Larry Gruetzmacher

Mexico

The Gruetzmachers work directly with Hispanics here in the United States and within several countries in Latin America. Their main focus is to develop leaders, and their schedule is filled with ministry to Hispanic churches; coaching pastors and leaders; leading mission trips with Hispanic students; holding retreats for men, women, and youth; leadership training; and working with 2 Institutes for Church Planters.

Gloria Biffert

Gloria plans to return to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where she will continue teaching in the extension Bible schools, seminaries, and at WAAST in Lomé, Togo. Training of professors in our various Bible schools through APTEA (Association of Pentecostal and Theological Education in Africa) will also be a part of her ministry to help advance their accreditation and train leaders for the future. She will continue to train teachers in the over 800+ AG primary and secondary schools throughout the DRC.

Joe Butler

United States

According to the CDC, there are over ONE BILLION people in the world who live with some form of disability*1, including... - 61 million adults, one out of six children, in the United States. *2 - Within the disability population, more than 200 million experience considerable difficulties in activities in daily life. *2 - If pulled together, individuals with disability would represent the third largest nation in the world, with the highest rate of abuse, divorce, suicide, homelessness, and joblessness (WHO 2011 report). *3 *1 - 1 Billion people worldwide https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/disability-and-health *2 - 61 Million Americans - Disability Impacts All Info Graphic https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/disabilityandhealth/infographic-disability-impacts-all.html *2 - Increase in Developmental Disabilities Among Children in the U.S. (1 out of 6 children) https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/developmentaldisabilities/features/increase-in-developmentaldisabilities.html *3 This stat can be found in the WHO Disability Report on the WHO website here: https://www.who.int/health-top

Herb Johnson

Philippines

Herb and Karen work in Manila, Philippines, in addition to the general Asia Pacific. Their main role is teaching EPHOD seminars.

Jean Johnson

Jean coaches worldwide church leaders in Asia, Africa and the U.S.A. on how to conceptualize, plant, cultivate and multiply churches and ministries that are indigenous in nature. She makes sure to do this in ways that are culturally relevant, self-functioning, self-determining, self-supporting, self-propagating and self-giving, and that promote a healthy self-image and a healthy community-image.

Alex Hultquist

Lithuania

River Valley 500. Lithuania has one of the highest suicide rates in the world and the people are very downcast and depressed. Of the 2.7 million people who call Lithuania home less than 1% are Evangelical Christian. Alcoholism is high, people are ignorant to their need for the gospel, and are wrapped up in materialism.

Gethin Amoss

Health and wellness including disability support and programming. Coaches on the ground for Liberty Church Manzini and the Liberty Community Centre in Swaziland

Andrew Raatz

United States

Andy and Nancy Raatz serve as area directors for AG World Missions Russia/Belarus where there are at least 80 unreached people's groups and 20 "black holes"--Russian states with few or no believers.