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Speakers  John Love John serves in Southeast Asia and the Pacific helping 55 teams and 350 personnel achieve their God-given dreams among the unreached. He speaks to and invests in global leaders. When not doing that, he enjoys climbing mountains, riding his motorcycle and having coffee with God early in the morning. John and his wife, Dawn, have four kids, each of whom love Asia and are glad God called them to serve Him overseas. John's pursuit of missions is influenced by the story of Caleb because, as John explains, "He never held back, but courageously pressed forward with God." |  Marcel Morneau Marcel works in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia reaching out to Indian immigrants. He and his wife, Christina, have been married 15 years and have a son and daughter. For fun, Marcel loves to play music and learn new instruments, play almost any sport, and ride anything with a board, wheels or horsepower! Influenced by the lives of William Carey, Hudson Taylor, and Charles Finney, who call him to something greater, Marcel says, "So much of the Christian journey is about Heart. It is here that God meets us and moves us and changes who we are and who we are becoming." |  Gayle McCord Gayle lives and works in Central Asia planting churches in an isolated mountain area. God captured her imagination for the region, and she has been walking out the strategies, dreams and visions that He showed her through years of prayer since 2005. She says, "The journey is hard, but… I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world." |  Steve Richardson Steve is the president of Pioneers-USA. Growing up in Indonesia, Steve witnessed the impact of the gospel on a war-like society, a story documented in his father's book, Peace Child. Steve and his wife, Arlene, served in Southeast Asia for 12 years, helping launch a church-planting effort among a major unreached people group using an integrative approach that included an evangelism center, a local-language Christian magazine, two schools, and a business. Steve and Arlene have four daughters--all born in Indonesia. Steve enjoys mountain climbing, tennis, and eating toasted beetle grubs. |  Paul Richardson Paul works with a network of Christian schools, orphanages, and youth centers in Southeast Asia. When he's not doing that, he enjoys mountain biking, writing, hiking, camping, mountain climbing with his wife Cyndi and three children. The stories of his father have influenced him since he was a young boy as he witnessed to the transforming power of the Gospel amongst an unreached tribe. Paul says, "Moment by moment, the Spirit of the Living God in us waits patiently for us to recognize our powerlessness apart from him, to step out beyond the edge of human capabilities and trust Him." |  Ann Summer Ann had no idea that a diehard home body from New Jersey could feel so at home in Central Asia. Church planting, discipling women and leadership development "is an amazing privilege, a complicated mess and just plain fun. Things—life, ministry—don't always turn out the way I thought they would and that's been a good thing!" Ann loves a cup of coffee with God late in the morning. First cup they just sit together and sip, second cup is when the conversation starts. |  Buster Brown Pastor Brown was born in Yadkinville, North Carolina, (population 1,300). After graduating from high school, he attended and graduated from The Citadel in 1976 with a Bachelors of Arts in History. He then attended Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and earned his Master of Divinity. While there, he lived in Denton, Texas, and married Sara Marxen on June 27, 1980. They now have two children, Zack and Anna-Kathryn. Pastor Brown serves as the Senior Pastor of East Cooper Baptist Church in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina. He enjoys camping, reading, and sports. |  JFK JFK oversees church planting teams in northwest Africa. He and his wife Georgina are based in Ghana and work with Christlike Disciplemakers Movement, and organization that focuses on disciplemaking. JFK and Georgina have four girls and one boy. JFK was inspired for missions to North Africa in 1975 when the Logos ship came to Tema, Ghana. Years later, JFK's burden was confirmed when, he says, "I took one of our Pioneers workers to Guinea Conakry, and for so many, many miles, we could see only mosques—there was not a single church! I've never been more driven to bring these people to Christ." | Worship Leader  Matt Papa "The main thing that's been on my heart lately is missions and how I can inspire students to be the hands and feet of Christ and go to the places where people haven't heard the name of Jesus yet," Papa shares. "I heard someone say once that it's easy to lift your hands before God in worship, but if you aren't reaching those hands out to the world, those hands lifted to God are worthless. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not against lifting our hands in worship. But we've got to love this world with those same hands." For more information, click here. |
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