The following global workers are supported and prayed for by First Presbyterian Church.
Please note that we also support and pray for several global worker families whose names cannot be listed online for safety reasons.
Please note that we also support and pray for several global worker families whose names cannot be listed online for safety reasons.
Trish and Ben Alexander
Ben and Trish are World Witness missionaries serving in Chelmsford, England. Ben serves as the associate minister at Chelmsford Presbyterian Church. They seek to engage the community through outreach events in the church, in their home, and at local schools.
The Allers Family
The Allers (First Presbyterian Church members) are World Witness missionaries serving in Germany as part of the Bridge Europe team. Their mission is to reach the growing immigrant and refugee populations in Germany with the gospel, to provide a “bridge” between them and Christ.
Scott and Victoria Andes
Scott and Victoria (First Presbyterian Church members) serve with RUF International on the campus of the University of South Carolina. They are reaching international students by welcoming them, exploring the Gospel with them, and equipping believers to become Kingdom ambassadors to their home countries.
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These global workers serve with World Witness’ Bridge Europe. As part of the Bridge Europe team in Strasbourg, they focus on caring for refugees from highly restricted access areas. They seek to build a bridge between Muslim communities and the local church.”
Justin and Gillian Brickey
Justin and Gillian (First Presbyterian Church Members) are based in Columbia, SC, and serve with World Witness’ SEED ministry. Justin travels to provide training to church leaders in other countries. Gillian coordinates member care events for the children of families serving with World Witness.
Michael and Laura Cochran
Michael and Laura are World Witness missionaries who are church planting in the United Kingdom. In 2020 they planted Gloucester Evangelical Presbyterian Church in Gloucester, England. Michael serves as pastor to a growing congregation as they seek to establish a foothold for the gospel there.
Dennis and Rhonda Conroy
Dennis and Rhonda (associate members of First Presbyterian Church) serve with Wycliffe Bible Translators. Dennis, a typesetter of Scripture, assists translators in preparing Bible manuscripts for publication in a variety of digital formats. Dennis is also part-time with Seed Company.
Abigail Conroy
Abigail is a missionary with Mission to the World planning to serve in El Salvador. She will be assisting the church planting effort by ministering to women and children. Initially, the focus will be on building connections to start Bible studies and community groups.
Alex & Eska
Bio coming soon!
David and Annelies Galletta
David and Annalies serve with World Witness’ SEED Ministry. David continues to train pastors and church leaders in their own countries and cultures. He currently teaches in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Zambia, South Africa, Burundi, Ethiopia, and Pakistan.
Drew and Lauren Goodman
Drew and Lauren serve with World Witness’ SEED Ministry in Uganda. Drew teaches at African Bible University in Kampala, Uganda. He also teaches at Africa Reformation Theological Seminary (ARTS) and other locations. They seek to educate and encourage leaders and churches in developing contexts.
Ed and Maxine Gross
Ed and Maxine (First Presbyterian Church members) serve with Global Training Network. Ed trains pastors in Evangelism, Discipleship, Ministry Equipping, Leadership Development, Church-Planting, Preaching and Theology. Their fields include China, South Asia, Cameroon, Congo, Uganda, Burundi, Tanzania, and Rwanda.
Miriam Jerome
Miriam (an Associate member of First Presbyterian Church) currently serves with AZMERA, a ministry to women serving in a variety of nations. Her goal is to help women (and sometimes couples) reach the highest level possible emotionally, physically, and spiritually.
Peter and Rebecca Jones
Peter and Rebecca direct truthXchange (tXc) in Escondido, California. truthXchange equips churches to communicate the gospel to a culture that has lost the distinction between worshiping creation and worshiping the Creator. They seek to honor, glorify, and pronounce the name of the Trinitarian God.
Anni Kenyon
Anni serves with Reach Global in Austria, mobilizing people for Jesus through youth ministry. Through relational ministry and discipleship in the local churches, they desire to see youth growing in their faith and becoming leaders in the church and communities.
Jeff and Lisa King
Jeff and Lisa (First Presbyterian Church members) serve as World Witness missionaries at Evangelical Christian Academy (ECA), a 1st-12th grade school in Madrid, Spain. ECA exists to provide quality Christian education. Jeff is the assistant director, and he and Lisa also teach English.
Doug Kracht
Doug (First Presbyterian Church member) currently serves with World Team. He has worked with his ministry partner, Paul Thompson, since 1984. Paul was born in Cuba and has ministered there since the 1980s. Doug is a videographer who produces Paul’s lesson series into teaching videos.
Randy & Allison Lieuwen
Bio coming soon!
Andrea and Chuck Lynde
Chuck and Andrea serve with Wycliffe Bible Translators. They support the work of Wycliffe by mobilizing the local church and recruiting new missionaries. They mobilize by raising awareness of the needs and opportunities to be a part of God's work in Bible translation.
Ali and Tara Mitchell
Ali and Tara serve as World Witness missionaries among unreached people groups in North America. Their focus is on equipping Christians for fruitful cross-cultural ministry through a team-based disciple-making approach in an expanding network of teams.
The Oliveira Family
The Oliveira Family serves as missionaries with PMI in Jordan. For almost 20 years, they have invested their lives in reaching Muslims. As Christ's ambassadors, they work as English teachers in a community center where they witness to refugees, mostly from Sudan, Yemen, and Somalia.
Paul and Brenda Pepin
Paul is serving as a faculty instructor with Equipping Leaders International. He travels internationally with teams to train and educate pastors and leaders in places where resources are lacking. His current ministry is focused on Cuba.
Alex and Irina Ponomarev
Alex and Irina (First Presbyterian Church members) are originally from St. Petersburg, Russia. Their ministry is MOST (a Russian word for bridge) – “Ministry of Outreach to Slavic Tribes” – which seeks to bring Slavic (Russian-speaking) peoples to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.
Anna Price
Bio coming soon!
Missy and Paul Robelot
Paul and Missy Robelot (First Presbyterian Church members) are U.S.-based missionaries with World Witness’ Ethne Outfitters. They serve to be an example, encouragers, and equippers for the local Church to actively engage their Muslim neighbors with the gospel.
Zeeshan & Humera Sadiq
Bio coming soon!
Paul and Lizzie Sanduleac
Paul and Lizzie serve as missionaries with IXO Global in Moldova. They are planting the first confessional Presbyterian church in Moldova, in the capital city of Chișinău. They also seek to strengthen existing gospel-centered churches in Moldova and the wider region (Romania, Belarus).
Joni and Lee Shelnutt
Lee and Joni serve with World Witness’ SEED Ministry. Lee is overseeing the Global South Initiative. He also provides encouragement and care for World Witness missionaries in Europe, and serves as the Interim Field Director for the ARP Mission, Pakistan.
Filip Sylwestrowicz
Filip serves as an International Missionary Associate (IMA) with World Witness at Redeemer Evangelical Presbyterian Church, a church plant in Warsaw, Poland. Along with three other churches, they seek to establish a new presbyterian denomination in Poland. He is also finishing a DPhil at Oxford.
Vonia and Josh Thomas
Josh and Vonia are World Witness missionaries serving with Bridge Europe. They are planting an international church with a special interest in the Muslims and Muslim nations represented in their community. There are 113 nations represented in their community, largely unreached by the gospel.
Andy and Dorciane Toth
Andy and Dorciane (First Presbyterian Church members) serve with World Indigenous Missions. They evangelize, organize missions and churches, train and install leadership, start seminary programs, and send out missionaries in Mexico and abroad. They are also members of the Board of Beth Shalom Ministries.