Our Global Partners

David Montgomery 

Pastor, Greystones Presbyterian Church (Ireland)

 

 

Amy and Richard Vise

serving Auburn University with Reformed University Fellowship

 

 

Michelle and Ray Call

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Call family lives along the U.S./Mexico border ministering mainly in the cities of San Diego and Tijuana. Ray is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church in America and serves as a church planter with a focus on evangelism and pastoral ministry. Michele is a homeschooling mother of six who delights in serving God in various ways – at home as well as in the church and community. Ray and Michele have a passion to see God establish confessionally reformed churches along the border which will render Biblical worship to the Triune God, serve His people and be beacons of light to a world that needs Christ. The Calls moved to the border in 2008, spending one year in language school at RGBI near McAllen, TX and then relocating to Mexicali where they served two years in church planting ministry in Mexicali, Mexico – the capital city of the Mexican state of Baja California. They recently relocated to the San Diego/Tijuana area to join BEAMM’s new E4 Team.

 

 

Betsy Christiansen

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As medical missionary Betsy recruits and prepares (culturally, practically, spiritually) both healthcare professionals and laypeople for overseas medical missions, and then serves as team leader for these 1-2 week mobile-clinic teams.  Coming alongside our ‘front-line-soldier’ missionaries and national pastors, her teams assist in church-planting efforts using hands on care, compassion and listening ears, prayer, counseling and the Word.  We pray that through us the Spirit will give more visibility and credibility to the local church. Her ‘first love’ is Latin America, where she can communicate in their heart language, but she’s been blessed by seeing God at work – and by being culturally and relationally stretched – in Asia, Africa and Europe as well.

 

 

Erin and David Frerichs

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Frerichs are ministering to English-speaking internationals in Iasi, Romania.  Much of their work is with medical school students who come to Iasi for their education and then return to their countries.  They desire to make disciples so that these students will return to their countries as Christian doctors and missionaries, taking the Good News with them!  David and Erin have three children – Zeke (2004), Marit (2006) and Levi (2010).  They are looking forward to the birth of their 4th child in August.

 

 

Queta and Ron Shaw

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Since 2009 Ron has been in a part-time capacity as both an advisor and Independent Contractor for the Spiritual Life Department of Mission to the World.   Ron has opportunities for conference and teaching ministry as well as spiritual counseling both to missionaries and national leaders recently in such places as India, Canada, Japan, Thailand and Myanmar as well as ministry to the church stateside.  Currently Queta and Ron have been invited by the MTW teams in Lisbon, Portugal, Madrid, Spain and Uganda to serve as the pastoral couple to those teams and in that capacity make annual field visits to those locations.

 

 

Leslie and Lanier Wood

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lanier and Leslie Wood serve with RUF at the University of South Alabama.  2011 will be the first year of RUF at South Alabama.  They have two children, Camille (3) and Nier Nier (2), and they are both excited about loving on and being loved on by students at South Alabama. College is a time for asking questions and discovering truth about the world and yourself.  This process of discovery takes students in different directions, but our prayer and hope is that as we show and tell students about Jesus, as we talk with them about their questions, as we proclaim the redemption of Jesus, they will find their lives and hearts renewed in that hope.

 

 

Susie and Jason Sterling

 

 

 

 

 

 

After 6 years of ministering with Reformed University Fellowship (RUF) at Samford University, Jason and Susie moved their family to Oxford, MS where Jason is now RUF Campus Minister at Ole Miss. The Sterlings have three daughters, Kate (6), Elizabeth (4), and Anne Wright (2) and Eva (4 months).

 

 

Jessica and Owens Hall

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jessica and Owens live in East Asia where they work with Campus Crusade for Christ Int’l ministering to young professionals in the cities. Their main role is to help nationals live out the Gospel in their lives in a country where organized religion is illegal. They grew up together but (because Owens is a bit slow in the head) they didn’t start dating until they happened to meet back together in Asia. They are now married and raising support in the US to head back.

 

 

Sally Morson

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sally Morson lives in Beirut, Lebanon where she works with Church Resource Ministries partnering with Lebanese nationals in church planting and leadership development throughout the Middle East. Sally’s main roll is to research and implement business opportunities to create funding and to use her work as an avenue to share God’s love to others. Sally was born and raised in Birmingham and has lived in Ethiopia and South Africa since studying business at Auburn University.

 

 

Kate Defuniak 

 

 

 

 

 

 

serving Honduras with Mission to the World

 

 

Mary Elizebeth Allen

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mary Elizebeth Allen and her husband, Whit, live in Birmingham and have been attending Cahaba Park Church for almost two years. Currently, Mary Elizebeth is completing a four month internship in Washington D.C. at International Justice Mission (IJM). IJM is a human rights agency whose mission is to secure justice for victims of slavery, sexual exploitation, and other forms of violent oppression. Mary Elizebeth’s role as the Aftercare/Human Resources Intern is to develop a staff care program for IJM employees working in 12 different countries spread throughout Asia, Africa, and Latin America. After completing her internship at the end of April, she plans to return to Whit and their dog, Charlie, in Birmingham.

 

 

Elizabeth and Britton Wood 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Campus Minister Britton Wood grew up in Birmingham, Alabama and graduated from Vanderbilt University in 2001.  He served as an RUF intern from 2001-2004 at the University of Tennessee where he met his wife Elizabeth.  They went to Covenant Seminary from 2004-2007 and during those short three years had Mary Walton (1.10.05), Shelby(1.10.05), Britton (9.20.06), and Katherine (9.20.06).  They served RUF at the University of South Carolina from 2007 to 2011.  In the Spring of 2011 they were called to serve RUF at Stanford University in the Palo Alto, CA.

 

 

Anna Nedelcu 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

David and Jill Martin

Serving in Odessa Ukraine with Mission to the World.

 

Suzy Triplett

Serving in Thailand with Servant Partners.