Seima and Naoka are involved in a church planting ministry in downtown Tokyo, Japan, that is affiliated with Mission to the World (MTW), Presbyterian Mission International (PMI), Acts 29, and City to City. This is not just a single church plant—their desire is to see a city-center church-planting movement take root throughout Tokyo. Through this they hope to see Tokyo, the biggest city and the most lost city in the world with only 0.23% of the population professing Christ, transformed by the gospel. Grace Harbor Church in Toyosu (a city-center area of Tokyo with 150,000 people without any church) was planted in 2015. They intentionally target non-Christians, building relationships and sharing the gospel with people who have never heard the gospel before. They have about eighty adults and thirty children gathering each Sunday.

Kathleen works as campus staff with RUF in a long-term role to reach and equip Stanford students with the truth and hope of the gospel. She is one of about forty-five women working in the position of campus staff with RUF across the nation, and she enjoys reaching and pouring into high-achieving college women.

Stanford University, in the heart of Silicon Valley, is located in the Bay Area of California—the most unchurched and de-churched populated area in the country. Stanford’s demographic is a unique mixture of incredibly intelligent, high-achieving, self-reliant students who often end up at high-powered and incredibly influential companies such as Google, Facebook, Bain, Apple, and SpaceX. Kathleen has the privilege of meeting one-on-one with Stanford undergraduate and graduate students to read the Bible together and to walk with students as they grow in grace and consider how to live out the truth of the gospel. She also leads community groups, trains student leaders, and coordinates events and retreats for RUF Stanford and also for the RUF regional conference, WestCo.

Jimmy and Erin have been leading a church-planting team in a restricted-access South Asian nation. Their mission is to help initiate and nurture church-planting movements among the unreached people groups in that country. They partner with local believers to help create and distribute indigenous print, audio, and video content for evangelism, discipleship, and leader training in order to equip them to reach their own people with the good news of Christ. In addition, Jimmy and Erin provide logistical and administrative support to several Bible translation projects, particularly in the areas of print and digital publication, distribution, and follow-up. In 2023, Jimmy and Erin and their family will be relocating to a nearby Asian country from where they can make periodic visits and continue this ministry remotely.

Ezies serves with Middle East Mission, a small mission agency working to demonstrate God’s love by promoting wholeness and growth in the gospel and serving the Arabic-speaking community both in the US and the Middle East through biblical teaching. Ezies has written and recorded for Christian radio broadcasts that go all over the world. She also writes devotions and other biblical material.

God has placed a strong call for evangelism and discipleship and counseling on Ezies. She knows that a good understanding of the culture is key to showing the unreached in the Middle East the truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Through her visits to the underground churches in the Middle East, she equips and encourages the Muslim-background believers through mentoring, teaching, and counseling in person and via video conferencing platforms. Ezies has unique access to minister to Middle Eastern women, and she also encourages CMB (Christians from Muslim background) in the US, connecting them to good churches so that they are able to find help and support through their struggles and challenges. She collaborates with different ministries in order that her people in the Arabian Gulf have access to good Reformed teaching.

Jim and Carole Fitzgerald serve in the Middle East and North Africa with Equipping Pastors International. Their vision is to equip pastors in North Africa and the Middle East where Islam is firmly entrenched. This region was once the intellectual and theological capital of the Christian world, and Jim and Carole desire to see its true Christian heritage recovered.

Since 2009, Jim and his domestic and international partners have trained hundreds of pastors and Christian leaders in the region, started two theological seminaries, and built nearly one hundred churches (many of which are new church plants). They have also translated multiple biblical and theological books and materials from English into Arabic.

Miles is an assistant pastor at St. Paul’s with a special emphasis in prison ministry. He is entirely self-supporting and receives no staff compensation from St. Paul’s.

Ministering inside the large state prison east of Orlando, Miles provides worship services with verse-by-verse expository preaching. As an extension of St. Paul’s, these services reflect aspects of corporate worship at St. Paul’s.

Miles also provides counseling in various forms, ranging from biblical application of scripture, to marriage and family concerns, to general life-skills counseling.

Jonathan and Maggie serve with the PCA’s missions organization, Mission to the World, in Asia. They moved to South Asia in 2010 with two children to help plant a church in a global city and serve an indigenous denomination. Having pastored that church for a number of years, Jonathan is now the international director for MTW in Asia-Pacific, overseeing MTW’s work and establishing new ministries in the region.

MTW desires to plant Reformed and Presbyterian churches around Asia-Pacific among the unreached and least-reached peoples. Maggie helps to lead Parakaleo, a ministry that equips ministry wives to face the complex world of church planting and pastoral ministry. It provides a grid for viewing and living life through the gospel in the midst of life and ministry challenges with practical, tangible tools.

As of 2023, Maggie and Jonathan have six daughters ranging in age from three to fifteen, and a very sweet golden retriever. They live in Chiba, Japan.

Dan and Tawnny were members of St. Paul’s for many years. They serve with the JESUS Film Project (a ministry of Cru) and moved to Chiang Mai, Thailand, in the summer of 2017. The JESUS film is used by more than 1,500 missions organizations and denominations around the world to communicate the gospel to people in their own language, disciple new believers, help plant churches, and train and equip pastors. It is a film about the life of Jesus taken from the Gospel of Luke and has been translated into more than 2,000 languages so far.

Dan provides technical support for the regional JESUS Film office located in Chiang Mai and travels to surrounding countries to train other missionaries and local believers to record the JESUS film in the many local languages that do not yet have gospel materials available. Dan also helps develop equipment and strategies for indigenous church planters to use JESUS film tools in their local ministry.

The Love family lives in southern Ethiopia where they serve at Soddo Christian Hospital. Tim is a board-certified general surgeon and directs the Pan-African Academy of Christian Surgeons general surgery training program in Soddo. This program trains Ethiopian doctors to become surgeons, while also discipling them in their faith and engaging in hospital-based evangelism and ministry to patients. Most people in Ethiopia cannot access basic surgical services due to a lack of surgeons and surgical capacity, which leaves many suffering and dying with conditions that could be easily treated with surgery. This opens the door to share the hope of the gospel and to provide life-saving surgery to some of the neediest people in the world.

Tim grew up at St. Paul’s, and much of his exposure to missions was through St. Paul’s missions conferences and mission trips with the youth group. He served on an MTW internship in Ethiopia during college and there felt a clear call to long-term missions in Ethiopia. That summer in Ethiopia is also where he met his wife, Laura! Laura is a social worker who now spends her time homeschooling their children, leading Bible study for female residents and wives in the PAACS program, and engaging in relational ministry and discipleship.

Dan serves as a chaplain with Good News Jail & Prison Ministry in a close- and medium-custody prison in Limon, Colorado. He has what he calls a ministry of presence and is known to the inmate population and many of the staff as a man of God whom they can be comfortable speaking with. His love for his men and his love for the Lord Jesus and his word are used to minister truth to those who so desperately need to hear it. He ministers in the cell houses, on the prison yard, in the prison visiting room, and in his chaplain’s office. Dan teaches weekly Bible classes, leads church services, gives one-on-one counseling sessions with both inmates and staff, and also handles emergency notifications, informing inmates of the severe sickness or death of a family member.

Shirley ministers with him on Sundays during their prison worship services where she uses her wonderful gift of singing: sharing the gospel through special music, for which the men are so appreciative. She also handles much of the administrative tasks associated with their ministry.

Curtis serves as the executive director of Valeo. He is involved in vision, strategy, administration, implementation, management, counseling, debriefing, consulting, and developing partnerships.

Valeo is a group of faith-based mental health professionals serving those sent cross-culturally by providing preventative and restorative care to strengthen their well-being in life and work. Services include counseling, psychiatry, debriefing, spiritual direction, and consulting. Services are primarily delivered online to those located outside of the US, as well as in person to those who come to Columbia, SC, for care.

The Newkirks serve with Christ Bible Seminary in Nagoya, Japan, where Matt is president and professor of Old Testament. The Japanese are the second-largest unreached people group in the world and are therefore in desperate need of well-trained gospel ministers, so CBS’s mission is simple: to equip Christians in Japan for the work of gospel ministry.

CBS operates within a larger organization called Christ Bible Institute, which also includes a church-planting center (Joy of Japan Center), a publishing arm (CBI Press), and a newly established counseling ministry (Christian Counseling for Japan). In addition to teaching courses in Old Testament and missions, Matt leads the faculty and staff in executing the seminary’s mission and caring for the students and their families.

The entire Newkirk family enjoys participating in the life of their Japanese church and building relationships with people in their community.

Eric and Sara-Beth are serving in South Asia amongst numerous people groups, including the largest unreached people group in the world. They have been serving there since 2014.

They are in the midst of transitioning from an area where they helped start a medical ministry team partnering with a local hospital, and are currently seeking a new strategic location in this country where their gifts and callings can be used for kingdom work, especially church planting.

Eric and Sara-Beth work with a local partner denomination and have a heart to see the church locally and internationally mobilized to reach this needy land.

Ryan and Katie are vocational workers supporting local churches in a major city in Central Asia. They serve in a Muslim-majority country where religious work is illegal. As such, their professions serve as platforms for being in the country, as well as a means to be involved in the community. Katie is a physician and works at a private clinic, with the hope of being able to expand access to care to the poor living in rural regions outside the city and increase access to medical education. Ryan is a project manager and works for a believer-owned handicraft store that provides a safe and fair marketplace for local and rural artisans to sell their handmade artwork and products. Ryan is also involved in developing strategies and resources for theological education in their city and in the broader Central Asia region.

Together, Ryan and Katie work with a small local church. Their primary focus revolves around helping their team organize local and regional theological education to identify and train new church leaders. They minister alongside a small local reformed Presbyterian church that is pastored by national partners. The church is small but growing steadily and hopefully will be ready to consider planting another church in the city soon. While training up new local leaders, they assist the existing local church to develop the resources and passion for planting more reformed Presbyterian churches throughout the region. They have two children, Claire and Sarah.

Hardy serves as the campus minister for Reformed University Fellowship (RUF) at the University of Central Florida (UCF). RUF is the campus ministry of the Presbyterian Church in America and, to date, is on over 150 campuses across the nation. RUF seeks to reach students with the hope of the gospel and equip them to serve Christ’s kingdom during a season in their lives when they are asking deep questions and experiencing significant personal growth. The success of this mission is not so much measured in the present but seeing students become lifelong lovers of the triune God who are committed members in his church and equipped for a lifetime of kingdom service.

Hardy and his wife, Bri, have one daughter, Elena, and they began their service to the students of UCF in June 2020. More information about their ministry can be found on the RUF at UCF website at ruf.org/ucf.

Matthew, Timothée, Etienne, Vallouise, Augustine, Violet

Alex and Suzanne have been involved in full-time ministry in Lyon since 2001, the year they were married. With less than one percent of the population being Bible-believing Christians, the needs are great. According to recent surveys, France has the largest proportion of atheists in Western Europe and one of the largest proportions of Muslims.

Alex leads a French-speaking Presbyterian church plant near the center of the city, and together as a family they seek to glorify God through communicating the gospel message to as many people as possible. They pray that many would come to a saving faith in Jesus Christ, and as a result, the church would grow, and in time other churches would be established. They long to see the gospel have a positive, visible impact on this urban area that is the second largest in France.

Robert and Lisa Stewart are Mission to the World missionaries serving in Nagoya, Japan. The MTW Nagoya church-planting team is focused on starting and establishing churches in one of Japan’s most unreached metro areas, Aichi Prefecture, in which Nagoya is the largest city, and has just one church for every 28,000 people. The team is currently in the process of establishing a new, grace-filled Christian school to help meet the educational, spiritual, and social needs of both missionary children and Japanese Christian families in Nagoya. 



To that end, in the fall of 2023 after returning to Japan after a year in the US, Robert and Lisa will be working to establish the Nagoya Christian School, where Robert will be serving as headmaster. They will also work with fellow Nagoya team members as they work to establish a new church in the Nagoya area.
After working in the Tokyo area for more than two decades, the work in Nagoya is a new ministry for the Stewarts. They feel that their years of experience in Christian education and work as assistant church planters have uniquely qualified them for this new call to Nagoya.

St. Paul’s is Stephanie’s home church, where she served on staff before answering God’s call to France. For over a decade, she helped French nationals in church planting through youth and children’s ministry, English outreaches, music, and drama. For over a decade, Joel prayed for Europe and served his local church through music and missions before leaving a civil engineering job to use his gifts in apologetics and serving for two years on a church-planting team in Ukraine.

Married in 2014, Joel and Stephanie served for four years in Toulouse. In 2020, after an extended home mission assignment due to Covid, they moved to Paris to work with a small evangelical church that has supported thirteen church plants in its first fourteen years. They are using their gifts in discipleship, apologetics, music, and children’s and youth ministry to strengthen this church as it continues to help launch others.

They long for Parisian believers and non-believers alike to see how the gospel of Jesus Christ transforms all of life and work. Their vision is to see a growing prayer movement that transforms their city, which has seen much bloodshed in the name of religion.

Although based in Atlanta, GA, the focus of Sasan’s ministry is teaching and resourcing Iranian Christian communities both inside Iran and all around the world. He uses three “platforms” to deliver his teaching: satellite TV, seminars, and Bible college courses.

Sasan produces dozens of programs every year on various Iranian Christian satellite TV networks that are then broadcast into Iran. The purpose of these programs is to encourage believers in Iran and help grow the house church movements in that country. He also teaches at conferences and seminars for Iranian Christians living in Europe, North America, and, more recently, in Australia. He also co-founded an Iranian Bible college, Pars Theological Center (with offices based in London), which aims to train house church leaders in Iran and pastors in the diaspora.

Nate and Erin serve with MTW in partnership with the Free Church of Scotland. The Free Church has a vision of planting thirty churches and adding sixty ministry workers by 2030.

Scotland is a nation that prides itself on being one of the most secular in Europe. Once at the heart of the Reformation, many of its churches are closing or close to empty. Estimates are that less than 1.5% of Glaswegians attend church on a Sunday, and of that 1.5% more than half are over the age of 65.

Serving alongside the Scots, the Taylors are seeking to plant new churches and strengthen existing churches in Glasgow—the largest city in Scotland. In this their first term, Nate is on staff with Glasgow City Free Church, seeking to strengthen discipleship and outreach ministries, be a discipleship resource to the Glasgow presbytery, meet weekly with a church planter nearby to organize their launch, and help facilitate plans for a new church plant in the greater Glasgow area.

Since 1985, the vision of the Rafiki Foundation has been to cultivate a multitude of godly contributors in Africa through Bible study and classical Christian education. To accomplish this, Rafiki established ten Rafiki Training Villages within the African countries of Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. Rafiki’s vision is carried out in each village through five programs: Bible study, education, teacher training, orphan care, and widows.

After being called to missions in high school, Catherine moved to Orlando in 2016 to attend Reformation Bible College where she earned a BA in Biblical Studies. A member of St. Paul’s since 2017, Catherine worked part-time as a member of the church staff for two and a half years and also served as a youth ministry volunteer.

Catherine is on a two-year assignment with Rafiki that began in September 2021, serving in Liberia, West Africa. She currently works as the assistant dean of the Rafiki Institute of Classical Education (RICE) teacher-training college. In this role, she provides academic support to the RICE students for various courses and also teaches music. Catherine also serves in other ways around the Rafiki Village, such as tutoring and teaching piano to several Rafiki children.

Andy and Kelly have served with the high school ministry of Cru since 1984. Cru is all about connecting teenagers to Jesus Christ. Teenagers are the future leaders and parents of our nation and world, and they are a major influence in today’s society, both for good and bad. Teens are also the most responsive age group to the gospel, as over 80% of those who receive Christ do so by age 18.

Imagine a spiritual movement of teenagers living out a contagious faith in Christ at every school. Since 1967, Cru has specialized in impacting the youth culture and taking the gospel to their world.

Teenagers are leading movements of evangelism and discipleship that touch schools and communities for Christ. Andy and Kelly train and coach new missionaries and help send them out to take the gospel to teenagers.

Donnie and Kara work with the Presbyterian Church of Senegal (l’Église Presbytérienne du Sénégal/EPS) and help to prepare men and women for leadership in existing and new churches. The denomination is currently comprised of around eleven established churches and is pioneered by mostly first-generation converts from Islam. They are part of the less than 1% who are protestant evangelicals in a country of 14 million people, where 95% of the population is Muslim.

Donnie and Kara assist a Senegalese pastor and his wife in implementing a two-year intensive church planter training program called the DEFAAR-Timothy House, equipping pastors theologically, personally, and practically. A Senegalese pastor and his wife will be sent as church planters and leaders of this training effort. Until construction is completed, Donnie and Kara work closely with the same pastor and his wife in the planting of a church in the vicinity. They also travel to work with three of the ordained rural pastors in preparing their apprentices for ordination.

Donnie and Kara have three adult children—Gabe (engaged to be married to Devon in May ‘23), Alec (married to Faith), and Kathryn (Appalachian State University)—all living in North Carolina.

Asia Minor Partners (AMP) is a network of churches and individuals dedicated to helping reformation Christianity prosper and grow throughout Asia Minor. Its vision is to see the gospel of Jesus Christ flourish through a locally led movement of believers, pastors, and teachers who demonstrate the love of Christ based on a deep understanding of Middle Eastern culture.

AMP currently supports two national pastors: Pastor Turgay Uçal in Istanbul, Turkey’s largest city, and Pastor Yavuz in Ankara, the country’s capital. Pastor Turgay is among the most prominent figures in Middle Eastern evangelical Christianity, with an established church community on the eastern side of the Bosphorus River (near ancient Chalcedon). Pastor Yavuz has a vision for planting over eighty churches in the Ankara region and has pioneered a model and approach for building churches within a complex legal system and secular Muslim culture.

Africa Reformation Theological Seminary, located in Kampala, Uganda, seeks to glorify God by educating and equipping pastors and leaders to serve Christ’s church and advance his kingdom in Africa. Their mission is to train and equip pastors, preachers, church planters, biblical counselors, and church leaders who have a passion for the gospel of grace and a zeal for building and multiplying healthy, strong, biblical, God-centered, and Christ-exalting churches in Uganda, Africa, and to the ends of the earth.

Where the church is growing the fastest (Africa, Asia, South America), there are the least resources for church leaders to learn the Bible and sound theology. Thirdmill believes every Christian deserves a well-trained pastor. By creating a graphic-driven video seminary curriculum (currently being translated into twenty-five languages), Thirdmill equips church leaders in their own lands, in their own language, and at no cost to them. They deliver curriculum to learners at every level of technology: print, web, mobile apps, USBs, microSD cards, and satellite. With learners (to date: 1.8 million) in many countries of the world (176 of the 196 recognized by the UN), Thirdmill is advancing God’s kingdom by changing the lives of pastors, lay leaders, and their congregations everywhere.