Global Partners

Tom and Vicki Gilliam are based in the Republic of Ireland and reside in Maynooth, County Kildare, a university town of 12,500 located on the western outskirts of Dublin, Ireland’s capital. They are part of the core group of Maynooth Community Church, a church they helped to plant in 2003. Tom serves as an elder in the church and is involved in leading worship and discipleship. Vicki’s passion for women sees her in discipling relationships across the age spectrum—from teenage girls and university students to women in their twenties, thirties, and beyond. The Gilliams oversee the Serge missionary apprenticeship program in Ireland and also help lead Encounter, Serge’s Irish summer internship for college-age Irish and American students. Year round Tom and Vicki work to identify, mentor, and release emerging Irish leaders into church planting and the wider Irish harvest.

Joel and Amy Hardman serve in Rome, Italy, where they live with their daughters. They work on a team reaching out to the 400,000 university students in the city. At first glance, Italy may seem to be a culture saturated with religion, yet few have heard the good news of the Gospel or know someone who truly follows Christ. The Hardmans desire to bring hope to Rome as they seek to win people to Christ, build them up in their faith, and send them out as ambassadors of Christ.

The Kaye family moved to Granada, Nicaragua in 2006, where Charles and Sarah serve as team leaders for Serge. Their work is based around the El Puente mission and the Granada Christian Education Center.
Charles and Sarah met while working in the financial services industry in New York. With the arrival of their second child, they decided to leave New York City and moved to rural Virginia outside of Charlottesville, where Charles began a hedge fund and Sarah focused on bringing back to life a historic farm and raising their children.
Challenged to walk out their faith in a new way, Charles and Sarah took several trips to Central America over a period of three years, finally deciding to focus on Granada, which had seen very few successful mission entrants over the years. They established El Puente mission base at the crossroads of five barrios at the edge of the historic district, in the heart of drug territory. El Puente now hosts a bilingual church, Vida Joven youth clubs, post-recovery addiction support groups, an economic development initiative making and marketing jewelry and handcrafts, and many visiting mission teams throughout the year. The Kayes also founded a bilingual Christian school in Pantanal, a poor but growing barrio, on the outskirts of town.

The Myhres are missionary physicians who joined Serge (then World Harvest Mission) in 1991 and have worked in East Africa since 1993. Seventeen of those years were spent in Bundibugyo, Uganda. Most recently they served for five years in Kijabe, Kenya.

Their roles are twofold. First, they serve as East Africa Area Directors for Serge, supervising teams in Uganda, Kenya, South Sudan, and Burundi. Second, they serve as doctors to provide compassionate, excellent health care and training in the name of Jesus, reaching the vulnerable throughout East Africa. Their four children Luke (’93), Caleb (’95), Julia (’96), and Jack (’98) call Africa home, though they all are now in university (Caleb, Julia, and Jack) or medical school (Luke) in the U.S.

For more than two decades they have sought to follow the example of Jesus in neglected areas of Africa by healing, teaching, and preaching the good news of the Kingdom, and drawing others alongside them to do the same. Scott and Jennifer have combined curative and preventive care by working in hospitals, participating in health management, and promoting community health (focused in the areas of HIV prevention and nutrition). They have invested heavily in the training of emerging indigenous leaders, and have conducted research to better understand and address health issues in their areas. Both consider it a joy to minister to Jesus by caring for the least (in the world’s eyes) of His children, and by prayerfully supporting the expansion of the Kingdom through relationships with Serge teams.

Bob was born and raised in Massachusetts. After graduating from the University of Massachusetts with a degree in psychology in 1979, he spent a term with the Peace Corps in Africa. Bob came to Christ through the witness of Christian missionaries. He and his wife, Nancy, met while living in Africa. Seven years later, Bob took a position as Director of Missions and Ministries at Trinity Presbyterian Church, where he served for four years. Nancy and Bob have two children, Leigh and Brian.

Nancy and Bob began serving with Serge in 2002, and Bob was appointed Executive Director in 2005. Serge has more than 250 missionaries serving around the globe. They invite you to join Serge in praying, going, or supporting their work.

Bruce and Deb Robinson work in northwest Haiti, one of Haiti's poorest areas. Some of the efforts they are involved in include gravity (piped) drinking water systems and wells, irrigation and drainage to increase agricultural production, reforestation with fruit trees and integrated water resource management in the watershed, and church and church school construction. The team they work with in Haiti is working on a large spring capping and piped water system that will eventually have 50 km of pipe taking water to several communities and churches. They are also working on draining a large area that is too wet to farm in the middle of their semi-arid region so that food can be grown there again. Another project in process is a hurricane- and earthquake-resistant warehouse and emergency casualty center at the mission hospital.

Ted and Carolyn Turnau have lived and worked in Prague, Czech Republic, since 1999 with an agency now called Global Scholars. Ted teaches cultural and religious studies at Anglo-American University (a small business and liberal arts college) and Charles University (the big state university in Prague). He tries to teach in these secular environments in ways that challenge the students' regular ways of thinking, to get them to consider that God is real. Ted also occasionally teaches seminary classes in apologetics and culture in Wales and Latvia; he also speaks at conferences in Europe. Ted is the author of Popologetics (2012). Ted and Carolyn helped start the Christian International School of Prague (CISP) in 2004. Carolyn teaches 8th–10th grade Bible, and Ted teaches comparative worldviews to 11th graders and apologetics to 12th graders. In addition to their work in the classroom, Ted and Carolyn host students at their house for movie discussions and parties. Ted and Carolyn have three children: Roger, Claire, and Ruth.

Santosh and Shimona lead Kashmir Evangelical Fellowship (KEF), which has a passion to reach people all along the Himalayan with the Gospel. These efforts are accomplished through film crusade, jail and hospital ministries, through reaching schools and universities by teaching morality education classes, and by providing a one-year Bible school for future missionaries. Leadership, encouragement and pastoral training are at the core of KEF’s mission. Yearly pastors conferences and ImagineNations teams visit to build and inspire over 1,000 leaders.

Mike and Kris York have been serving Romanian staff and university students for more than 20 years through InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. Their main focus is in discipleship and evangelism among university students: training them to walk with Jesus, engage their friends with the Gospel, be involved with the local church, and graduate with a desire to serve the church and their colleagues. They also seek to challenge students to engage their communities and respond with integrity at work and with Christlikeness to social injustices like trafficking and poverty.

Kirk and Emily Ogden joined South America Mission (SAM) in June of 1999 after spending a number of years ministering with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship’s University of Virginia chapter. Along with their great joy of mentoring younger missionaries, they first served in San Ignacio, Bolivia, where they were privileged to help plant two churches and revitalize a leadership development program. Kirk, Emily, and their four beautiful children reside in Fort Mill, SC where the SAM U.S. head office is located, and Kirk serves as executive director and shepherd of South America Mission. Followers of Jesus Christ who are passionate about seeing Him glorified in His church all over the world, Kirk and Emily find their great joy leading their children and family in proclaiming Christ to the nations.

Having been members of Trinity since 1972, Wright and Dori are near and dear to Trinity. They serve a group of 15 people in two sister organizations, one (China Institute) based in the church and the other focused on the academy. Wright focuses on writing books and articles; ministering to their associates and to Chinese by Internet, Skype, and personal visits; and mentoring a few men. Dori takes care of Wright. Both are slowly building relationshps with Chinese in their church in Texas.

Rebecca’s first introduction to cross-cultural missions began with Serge’s Missionary Apprentice Program in Dublin, Ireland (2005-2009). Since then, she has dedicated her life to missionary care, specifically focusing on transition points for families. Rebecca taught children and young adults at Mission Training International in Colorado in pre-field training, language acquisition, and re-entry programs (2011-2015). She then served with NEXT, Mission to the World’s ministry to the next generation as she completed her Master’s degree in Educational Ministries at Covenant Theological Seminary.

In 2019, Rebecca moved to St Andrews, Scotland to continue working with NEXT as well as for The Chalmers Institute, a learning community that provides a rigorous study of theology for European women and men, preparing them for biblical leadership in the church and in society. In January, 2022 Rebecca returned to Serge’s home office staff as an Associate Team Leader for Member Care.

Member Care concerns the spiritual, emotional, and physical well being of the staff member starting at the missionary's appointment to the field through the end of their employment. This type of care promotes the lengthening of staff member service, and with God’s help, staff member fruitfulness for the sake of the Kingdom. Her particular focus will be on whole-family resiliency and caring for missionaries in their first term and at critical transition points.

John provides theological education and pastoral training to young Christians living in a Muslim context. Sandy ministers to members of their city and church community. They have two children, Daniel and Abby.

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Jonathan and Maggie are part of a church-planting team in South Asia. Their team partners with a local Presbyterian denomination to assist Indians in theological training, discipleship, coaching, and resourcing for church planters. They are also planting an urban church among young professionals in partnership with Redeemer City to City. They have five daughters.

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Kim mentors and teaches students in a large urban nursing school in a central Asian Muslim country. She takes groups of nursing students into different hospital wards to demonstrate excellence in providing nursing care to patients of all ages. While doing so, she has the chance to share the hope she has in Jesus.

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Saleem and Joy help lead house churches in the Muslim world, and they counsel couples and developing leaders as well.

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