Missions & Outreach

David & Rachel Anderson

Serving the Red Lake Indian Reservation with CIM

David and Rachel Anderson have been serving with River Ridge Evangelical Free Church in Mankato, MN, for the past several years. God is calling their family (David, Rachel, and their five children) to the Red Lake Indian Reservation in Northern Minnesota. David and their five children are tribal members of that community. They plan to service with CIM to help revitalize two churches by the end of summer 2025.

Rene & Crystal Argueta

Pastoring Primera Iglesia Evangelica Bautista in Columbia Heights

Rene and his family focus on preaching the gospel and training believers in ministry through bilingual fellowship. One of the main target groups is the youth who are coming to the US experiencing significant cultural transition.

Larry & Mary Caldwell

Serving with Converge Worldwide through the Kairos Project at Sioux Falls Seminary.

Larry is a Senior Missiologist for Converge and he serves by training the next generation of western Converge leaders and non-western missionaries to minister to unreached people groups.

Jeff & Barb Chapman

Serving with Converge Worldwide in Japan

The Chapmans, serving under Converge Worldwide, work to develop local outreach ministries in partnership with Keihnna Christ Church through leadership in preaching, bilingual bible studies, youth mentoring, and outreach to all ages. Jeff is the Osaka Project Leader for the Japan Baptist Church Assoc. where he helps the churches network to evangelize and plant churches with a focus on young families. They have many ministry events in their home.

Don & Janet Ekstrand

Serving with SEND International in Japan

Don and Janet serve under Send International and are currently co-managing a SEND’s Yamanka Chalet in Japan with multiple cabins that house missionaries, pastors, or groups who need relief from ministry or as an alternative place to meet other than in a crowded urban setting.

Jeff & Sandy Hagen

Leads Hill Cities Ministries in the Twin Cities

Jeff provides life groups for men through his organization, Hill Cities. There are over 70 men in eight different groups centered on studying the Word and creating strong bonds through fellowship to lead men toward their destiny and a greater sense of belonging and outreach through the community. Jeff writes all curriculum and discussion materials used in the groups, focusing on books in the New Testament.

Ashraf & Nivin Ibrahim

Serving with Converge Worldwide to reach Arab people groups

The Ibrahims assist the church in Egypt in its evangelism and discipleship strategies to reach Muslim Egyptians. Additionally, the Ibrahims assist American churches in understanding the challenging facets of Islam, helping them begin an effective outreach strategy to win and disciple Muslim immigrants in the United States.

Todd & Karen Indehar

Serving with Converge Worldwide in Thailand

Todd and Karen have initiated a church-planting movement in partnership with Thai pastors in an unreached people group. The Indehars have started a new church in Uttaradit, a rural town in northern Thailand. As they mentor young adult leaders there, they also advise and help with a youth group and an ESL/Bible study outreach in Uttaradit.

Jim & Lynn Jarman

Serving with Converge Worldwide in Sweden

The Jarmans’ mission is to direct Converge’s Nordic Project for Church Multiplication which facilitates movements in prayer, evangelism, discipleship, leadership development, and church multiplication. Jim and Lynn mentor leaders and church planters in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Estonia, Latvia, Russia, Switzerland, Tunisia, and India, with their home base now in Florida.

Jeff & Stacey Krohn

Serving with SIM in Ethiopia

Jeff and Stacey serve under SIM and minister primarily through teaching. Stacey teaches Spanish full-time at a local high school in Wheaton, Illinois. Jeff teaches at the Evangelical Theological College in Ethiopia, mostly remote, but with occasional trips for intensive in-person sessions. Jeff teaches Biblical Interpretation and Systematic Theology.

Braden & Cora Lowe

Serving with Converge Worldwide in Thailand

The Lowe family is going to Northern Thailand to assist the Indehars in planting Christ-centered churches by identifying, equipping, and mobilizing Thai believers. They are praying that God would use their efforts to raise up the Thai church toward evangelism in the unreached villages so that the church will multiply in the areas where they are needed the most. Their long-term prayer is for a church to be planted in each of the 218 subdistricts of Northern Thailand without a church. They are currently raising support and hope to be in Thailand by the end of 2026.

Gil & Norene Zinke

Serving with Training Leaders International

The Zinkes live in New Brighton, but Gil travels the world training church leaders in expository preaching (i.e. preach the meaning of the Biblical text, not their own thoughts). Since joining Training Leaders International (TLI) in 2015, Gil has led teams to train cohorts of 15-60 people in India, the Philippines, Uganda, Tanzania, Sierra Leone, Haiti, Ethiopia, and the Dominican Republic. 

After nine years of traveling to Ethiopia, Gil graduated his last two Ethiopian cohorts in May 2025. His focus now shifts to Japan.