Missionary Partners

Khader and Stevie along with their four children, live in Jericho, WB, and serve as CEO of Seeds of Hope (SOH). The mission of Seeds of Hope is to work to bring long-term change in the community through education and humanitarian aid while sharing truth and His redemptive love.

Jericho, WB, is a community of about 40,000. Currently, 99% of the population is Muslim, leaving 1% Christian, mostly Catholic or Greek Orthodox. Seeds of Hope is the only organization of its kind that works behind the scene to provide long-lasting discipleship programs. While this is a very risky thing to accomplish, we have worked very hard to establish trust in the community and it is time for us to take the next step to save the lost. We know and believe that what we sow we shall one day reap. Every day, we want our students and those in the community to see us living a Christ-centered life, showing love, and being the His hands and feet. For more information on SOH click here.

T & M have worked for many years with Muslims in Southeast Asia. Their work involves discipleship and multiplication movements across their country.

M & C's hearts were captured over twenty years ago with a passion for Muslims to come into a living and life-changing relationship with Jesus. They first left for the Middle East in 1991. Most of that time was spent in Syria.

Although they had to leave Syria in 2009, they later returned to another country in the region. The war in Syria has brought them into contact with many Syrian refugees, and they have become increasingly involved with outreach and ministry among them. They are also inviting their local Muslim neighbors to follow Jesus with them.

They believe God will raise up disciple-making followers of Jesus; those who will faithfully share and make other disciples. They are looking to see a disciple-making movement established among Muslims for the glory of God.

The Marquezes are serving in Southeast Asia, studying the national language and culture while taking part in an exploratory team to determine ways they can equip and disciple the existing church. They are eager to share the Good News with the nearly 96 million unreached people in their host country.

M & B are a family of four who are serving in Southeast Asia with a desire to reach unreached people groups and to disciple and build relationships with those around them.

Cynthia has moved to a small town in South Asia to introduce physical and spiritual wholeness to the community through business. This district is famous for having communities that openly sell their daughters to traffickers, send their men to work abroad, and offer their souls to idols. The ultimate goal is to reach unreached people with the gospel. She is also focused on combating the problem of human trafficking by addressing the issues that contribute to the vulnerability of young girls to traffickers such as poverty, lack of education, job skills, and awareness.

Tim & Courtney Shontere have planted an Indigenous Tribal Church in the YembiYembi tribe of Papua New Guinea. Tim & Courtney are long term missionaries who are staying as many years as it takes until the Indigenous Pastors and Deacons are actually multiplying themselves and showing signs of a sustainable church. They are currently preparing lesson books and writing commentaries for the New Testament, all while engaging in daily discipleship with the leaders of the church.

Justin and Lauren Rees and their children Paisley and Paxdin are church planting among the Pei people of Papua New Guinea. They have been serving in this remote location with their team since 2012, learning the unwritten, undocumented language and culture of the Pei. They developed an alphabet and taught the Pei to read and write their own language. As a team, they led the Foundational Bible teaching in 2020, starting with Creation and ending with the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. They are currently teaching book-by-book through the New Testament. They are currently preparing a Romans and Ephesians course. And, lastly, they are working on translating the entire New Testament.

Please be praying with them as they continue to strive for excellence and clarity in communication as they teach and disciple the new baby Church in Pei.

Matt and Mai met when they were studying at Long Beach State University. Matt was involved in a campus ministry reaching out to Japanese international students and Mai came to Christ there through Matt’s ministry team. At that time he was preparing to be deployed to Osaka, Mai’s hometown, to join a church-planting team with Encompass World Partners.

Matt arrived on the field in 2018 and is in the midst of Japanese language and culture learning in order to be able to effectively communicate the gospel and make disciples in Osaka alongside their teammates.

Allana is preparing to move to Japan and serve in Osaka with Encompass World Partners and the Higby’s around early 2026. She has been passionate about Japan for years and is excited about joining the Osaka team! Allana currently lives in Southern California and is working on developing a team of prayer and financial partners to support her and the work in Japan.

Viorel Cruceru was born in a Christian family during the communist regime in the southern part of Romania. His father was a pastor who was arrested four times for his faith. All of his family have suffered persecution for their belief in Christ. Since 1993, Viorel and Delia have been working with Grace Baptist Church in Slatina. The church has started six other churches in the region. Grace Baptist is committed to raising leaders to start new churches in the southern part of Romania.

Beni Cruceru graduated from Emanuel Christian University with a Masters in Pastoral Theology. Ordained as a pastor in September 2014, he and his family are working with his father, Viorel, in and around Slatina, Romania. He is the coordinator for children's, youth, and music ministry. Though Beni has had many invitations to work with other large churches, he has decided to stay in the south where there is the biggest need for the Gospel.

Vance and Jennifer serve as church planters in Łódź, Poland along with their two boys. Vance leads the church planting team, focusing his efforts on developing leaders and strategic planning for the young church they planted in 2016. Jenn is a prolific mentor in the church and provides insight and unique perspective to the team while caring for the hurting. Together, they work to help the Polish believers reach Poland and beyond. For more info, visit www.reachPoland.com.

Czarek and Ewa have been serving in Łódź, Poland for several years. Together with other missionaries, they planted a Church there in 2016. Their vision is to see people united in Christ who are ready for His return. In order to fulfill this vision, they make disciples who make disciples and are committed to the Great Commission. Czarek is a pastor in the Church and focuses on discipling men, while Ewa focuses on discipling and serving the women in the Church. Together they are devoted to bringing people to Jesus, helping new believers grow in faith, serving the Church, and serving the city.

Tim’s passion is to see the Lord glorified throughout the world. He has been serving the local church since 1990 with a heart to mobilize the body of Christ to engage in God’s mission both across the street and across the world. His goal is to help followers of Jesus seamlessly integrate God’s global purposes in and through the fabric of their lives. He currently serves with an international mission reaching across to the Islamic community and seeking to build bridges between followers of Jesus and followers of Islam.

Jim and Sonya live in Southern California. Jim serves as the Perspectives Southwest Regional Director with Frontier Ventures (formerly The U.S. Center for World Mission) in Pasadena. He works with and helps train lay people to become coordinators to run the Perspectives Study Program at their church. Sonya serves as the Perspectives Trinity Credit Supervisor and is a member of the Judson school board. To date there has been about 200,000 U.S. Perspectives alumni and nearly 40,000 globally.