Alexis Asbury
NC State University, Raleigh, NC (Since 2023)ALEXIS' MINISTRY FOCUS: I will be working in full-time ministry on NC State’s campus. Most of my time will be spent meeting with girls one-on-one for discipleship, leading small group Bible studies and planning on-campus events for students. NC State has one of the largest CRU movements in the country, so there are a variety of different opportunities for students to be introduced to the love of Christ. My time and talents will be stewarded so that the ministry of CRU can continually give students the opportunity to experience the love of God – whether that’s through outreach events, weekly large group meetings or the annual Fall Retreat.
Chip & Tana Atkinson
Middle East, Arab World, North Africa (Since 2004)
CHIP & TANA'S MINISTRY FOCUS: Train our church planters. Chip Atkinson is a Great Commission influencer and an advocate for unreached peoples. He has served with Crossover Global for over 20 years and currently serves as the US Senior Director of Partner Relations which seeks to provide Gospel access to unreached peoples of the world through the planting of multiplying churches. Chip and his wife Tana live in Columbia, South Carolina.
Bob & Hope Carter
Kenya (Since 1994)
BOB & HOPE'S MINISTRY FOCUS: We are serving with SIM as medical missionaries in Kijabe, Kenya. We also serve as “Senior Faculty Emeritus” at Moffat Bible College in Kijabe in the Department of Community Health and Development. Hope serves the college as its Health Coordinator and Bob continues to develop new courses for the department, most recently “Community Health for Pastors and Christian leaders” and “The Church and Disability”. Through these and other such courses, we hope to empower the church to transform lives and communities and to build the Kingdom of Christ by practical demonstrations of applied gospel truths in the areas of greatest concern to local communities. In addition, Bob serves as Clinical Advisor for Banda Health, a novel project that strengthens and equips small faith-based clinics serving the poorest of the poor in economically constrained African settings.
Brenda Carter
Taiwan (Since 1986)
BRENDA'S MINISTRY FOCUS: Though Taiwan is a relatively wealthy, high tech, highly educated, and democratic country; over 80% of the population are still in bondage to idolatry consisting of Taoism, Buddhism and folk religion intertwined with one another. Brenda started her ministry in 1986-1988 teaching at Christ’s College, a four year liberal arts College with the mission of evangelizing and discipling students to be light and salt in the secular world. God then led Brenda to join a church plant team among the Hakka, a classical Han Chinese group which are referred to as the ‘Jews of the East’ due to so many cultural similarities to the Jewish people. They are one of the least reached groups in Taiwan. Out of the 20 million Hakka, only 0.4% are Christian. Brenda has lived in a small Hakka town, ministering in the church plant for the past 35 years. Currently Brenda’s ministry focus is teaching “Gospel Transformation”, a discipleship course for church leaders, in churches around the island, traveling over 800 km each week. She also serves on the Hakka Seminary Board and on the Christ’s College board. To see me and my town: https://youtu.be/q_3m8WI6tKA
Lauren H.
SC (Since 2025)
LAUREN's MINISTRY FOCUS: God has called me to serve him overseas on the mission field. I was recently approved by World Witness, the mission board of the ARP denomination, for a 2-year internship. For this internship, I have joined the Ethne Outfitters team in SC and, after a year, will transition to the Bridge Europe team working with refugees. My plan is that I will be able to shine the light of Christ into people's lives and that He would open their eyes to His freely offered salvation.
Grant & Jenna Hodgins
Guam (Since 2015)
GRANT & JENNA 'S MINISTRY FOCUS: We serve with TWR on the island of Guam in the western Pacific. Grant is the station director at the KTWR broadcast site where engineers, network specialists, facilities workers and administrative staff work together with a common goal of broadcasting the Good News across Asia.
Pookkattu & Molly
South Africa (Since 1994)
POOKKATTU & MOLLY'S MINISTRY FOCUS: Reaching Miners Globally and intentionally discipling with IMMSA, building followers of Christ in the Diaspora Network, Mobilizing believers globally in cross cultural mission of God. We are with SIM serving in South Africa since 1994. We have served in different missionary responsibilities on the field of cross-cultural Church planting, evangelism and intentional discipleship and leadership training. Recruiting, mentoring, and sending missionaries across the Globe. We have served in leadership as SIM South Africa Director and Country Coordinator for Botswana, Madagascar and Mauritius.
Matthew Parker & Family
Ecuador (Since 2012)
THE PARKER'S MINISTRY FOCUS: Train our church planters.
Being instrumental in spreading the gospel of Christ to thousands of people in Ecuador and around the world via our radio ministry with Reach Beyond. We are planning some big changes for HCJB, as we try to make our 90-year-old radio station a more multi-media ministry. We are currently developing new content that will be reaching a monthly audience of over 500,000 people. We have the privilege of leading several new young staff members in the creation of podcasts, videos, and campaigns to reach the next generations.
The second part of our ministry is in Brazil where there are 10,000 communities along the Amazon River and around 8,000 who have never heard the Gospel. God gave us the vision to help reach and disciple these people using solar powered mp3 players. For the past 10 years we have distributed close to 4,000 players, providing families with quality programming that has helped open up and evangelize communities and is helping believers grow and mature spiritually.
“I will praise you Lord with all my heart; I will tell of the marvelous things you have done.” Psalms 9:1