Our Team
Jay and Anna
Jay’s experience is with catalyzing multiplying micro-church networks among Bibleless peoples, especially Buddhists, Muslims, Hindus, and Jews.
Justin Lovan
Snatched from the heart of darkness, God has picked Justin and Nicole and gifted them with unique gifts and abilities to reach the unreachable.
Carl White | Chairman of the Board
Carl is a pastor turned Church Planting Movement coach who was based in Southeast Asia for 2 years and now trains and coaches believers as a pastor in west Tennessee. Carl has traveled and trained believers from all over Asia and the U.S. Carl's testimony is very relevant to Asia because he was previously a Buddhist before finding Jesus. Before leaving the US Carl helped his tiny church to multiply home groups and house churches. Carl was a pastor who raised up leaders and worked himself out of a job and now is doing the same coaching process.
Ying & Grace Kai
Ying & Grace the church planters and pastors became trainers and catalysts for Church-Planting Movements. He called his process of making disciples “Training for Trainers” (T4T). “Trainer” conveys the idea of someone who both grows in his loving obedience to Jesus and passes on what he learns to others through witness and training. Ying and Grace continue to train movement leaders across the world.
Additional information on T4T can be
found at www.t4tglobalmissions.org
Mason Turner
Mason was raised in a Christian household. He was baptized at the age of 13 and became an active member of his youth group. At 15, Mason felt the Lord call him to the mission field in Asia. That call would be first answered in the summer of 2013 at the age of 22 when he went on a mission trip to Thailand. After falling in love with the country, culture, food, and various people groups, he has lived out the last 8+ years of his missions career living in the border town of Mae Sot.
Seth and Kelly Nelson
Seth was born and raised in Jackson, TN where he was locally known as a young entrepreneur with a coffee company and a food truck. He thrived in business until Jesus radically changed his life and called him out of the business world and into a missional lifestyle. Seth underwent training for this new calling in Dallas, Texas, and afterward ventured out to Sri Lanka equipped with Obedience training and began to train others himself. Upon returning to the US, Seth met his wife Kelly who had just spent several years based in Australia as a part of a missions group leading teams to Nepal, Indonesia, and the Philippines. Seth & Kelly were married in July 2020 and began serving as Outreach & Discipleship Pastors at a church in Seth’s native Western Tennessee. Seth & Kelly have now returned to Sri Lanka where they are venturing to support the local church networks there as well as establish new ones through people of peace!
Stephen and Onnolee Shepherd
Onnolee and Stephen Shepherd are both from Tennessee and graduated from Tennessee Tech with Nursing and Chemical Engineering degrees respectively.
Stephen has worked in North Africa helping local businesses with marketing and engineering applications and is conversationally fluent in Arabic. He is experienced in water treatment as well.
Onnolee has specialized in emergency medicine and has a passion for teaching and training others in medical care. She has spent time in Belize doing medical training and community health education in South Asia to help support teams working there caring for the people.