Global Partners
We support 19 full time global partners who are involved in a wide spectrum of ministries including evangelism, church planting, leadership training, medical care, student outreach, camping ministry, community development, business as mission, missions mobilization, mountaineering, church restoration, military ministries and missionary care.
Engage the world
We want to make Jesus known to every culture and every people! Our priorities are —
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Paul & Sandra Bradley
Cadence International
Colorado, USA
Paul & Sandra Bradley
Paul is the Foreign Military Ministries Director for Cadence International and the Chaplain for the Free Burma Rangers. He has been working in Thailand, Cambodia, Burma, Burundi, Vietnam and Iraq with these countries’ militaries and police since 2004. The Bradleys have many ties with ENCOUNTER as Paul served as the assistant youth pastor here from 1987-1990. In August 2019 they moved back to the States to be closer to family. Now based in the USA, Paul will continue his role as the Foreign Armed Forces Division Director as well as continuing his VP role at Cadence Headquarters. Paul will continue to travel to Asia and the Middle East as well as around the USA as he develops new strategic partnerships with mission agencies. They have three adult children: Tyler, Madelyn and Jared.
Jonathan & Nancy Fitzgerald
Bridges International
University of California, Irvine
Jonathan & Nancy Fitzgerald
Nancy was born and raised in Ventura and graduated from BIOLA with a masters in Intercultural Studies, Pastoral Counseling, and Spiritual Formation. She has been involved in short term trips to Asia for over 10 years and has a passion to reach the unreached! In 2019 she began serving part-time with Campus Crusade for Christ (Bridges) at University of California in Irvine and made a decision in 2020 to become a full-time staff member. Jonathan and Nancy met in 2020 and married in February of 2022. Jonathan and Nancy share the Gospel, disciple, mentor, lead bible studies, and journey with unreached international students from over 20 countries. Their vision is to win, build, and send out equipped international students back to their home country where then they will take God’s life-giving message to their country.
Daniel & Lori Hahn
Catalyst
Intl
Daniel & Lori Hahn
Catalyst Intl supports Christian workers who are taking the gospel to the ends of the earth. They do this through conferences for men, women and families. Catalyst is led by Dr. Daniel and Lori Hahn. The Hahns have been in pastoral ministry since 1983. They came to Encounter in 2000 where Daniel served as the Community Life pastor for 7 years and the Lead Pastor for 14 years. Lori served in Women’s Ministry, Communications and Global Outreach. They launched Catalyst in 2004 as a way of meeting the emotional, physical and spiritual needs of weary global workers. In July 2021, the Hahns transitioned from pastoral ministry to focus full time on caring for global workers.
Luke & Daisy Holland
Global Grace Fellowship
Sheffield, England
Luke & Daisy Holland
Since 2008, the Hollands have been serving with The Oakes Holiday Centre, a Christian camp located in Sheffield, England. English children attend with their church
groups, schools and clubs, and they share the gospel with them. The Oakes offers over 40 camps each year for children 8-18 years old. Daisy grew up at ENCOUNTER and served on the youth staff while making many short term trips to The Oakes. She met her English husband Luke while there. They have three children: Bethany, Caleb and Micah.
Nate & Louise Johnson
Cadence International
Colorado
Nate & Louise Johnson
Phil & Cheryl Kingsley
Greater Europe Mission
Dublin, Ireland
Phil & Cheryl Kingsley
Since 1982, Phil and Cheryl have been involved in multiplying disciples and churches in Ireland and Europe. They train and coach leaders for evangelism, discipleship, and church planting in Ireland. Phil has been an adjunct lecturer at the Irish Bible Institute in Dublin since 2012. Phil and Cheryl grew up at ENCOUNTER and were married in what is now The PLEX. They have two grown children and five grandchildren.
Steve & Kathryn Moore
Wycliffe Global Alliance
Latin America
Steve & Kathryn Moore
As children of missionaries sent out from Bible Fellowship Church, Steve grew up in Chile; Kathryn grew up in the jungles of Peru. They met while both were home on furlough at the church, were married and served as youth pastors at Bible Fellowship Church. They served with Wycliffe in Lima, Peru for 10 years. In 1998 they moved to New Mexico, where Steve and Kathryn specialize in intercultural communication and Christian conciliation. The past two decades Steve has traveled throughout Central and South America (occasionally to Africa and Asia) building capacity in leaders, pastors and missionaries in the areas of spiritual unity and biblical peace. With the growth of digital communication, they have been able to teach, counsel and conduct mediation online. As of 2021, Steve and Kathryn will be increasingly working with ProMETA which develops healthy national leaders to multiply healthy churches in Latin America and the Caribbean. They have three adult children and one grandchild.
Dr. Linus Morris
Global Training Network
Global
Dr. Linus Morris
Linus co-founded Christian Associates International (CAI), the Jesus Christ Light and Power House, and News Release Basketball ministries before joining the staff of Global Training Network (GTN). He lived in Europe for 10 years, launching churches in Geneva and Amsterdam, and led CAI for 25 years, during which time 50 churches were birthed.
He draws upon these earlier seasons of ministry to equip networks of leaders with Global Training Network today in the majority world. His vision is to equip, encourage, and empower leaders to multiply Christ-following movements that reach people for Jesus, make disciples, develop leaders, and plant and develop more churches. Based upon the book of Romans, Matthew 28:16-20, and 2 Timothy 2:2, they call their training the Divine Expedition, and are seeing the multiplication of leaders and churches in Africa, Asia, Europe, South America, and the United States.
Matt & Bethany Mowad
Mission Quest
Chiang Mai, Thailand
Matt & Bethany Mowad
After serving in the Navy for 23 years, in 2017 the Mowad’s moved to Chiang Mai, Thailand to evangelize and serve throughout Southeast Asia. They partner with other pastors, missionaries and organizations in several countries to provide evangelism, discipleship, occupational development, aviation support, children’s programs, international school support and humanitarian aid to unreached and oppressed people groups. Matt came to know Christ through the youth ministry of ENCOUNTER when he was in high school. They have two daughters: Marin and Brooke
Joe & Lori Pent
Latin America Assistance
San Jose, Costa Rica
Joe & Lori Pent
Joe and Lori have been directing La Montaña Christian Camp in Costa Rica since 2000. The camp has hosted over 150,000 Latin American youth since its inception. Their vision is to:
– Empower Latin youth and youth leaders to pursue excellence in Godly character, lifestyle and service.
– Develop evangelistic adventure camps with leadership and discipleship training by providing financial assistance, prayer support and joint participation with North American churches, organizations & individuals.
– Mobilize other camping ministries throughout Latin America.
Joe served as the youth pastor at ENCOUNTER in the 1980’s. Lori teaches elementary school in San Jose, Costa Rica. They have three adult children: Ryan, Lindsey and Joshua.
Phil & Rita Warkentien
Global Grace Fellowship
Pernambunco, Brazil
Phil & Rita Warkentien
Varughese & Alayamma Thankachen
North India
Varughese and Alayamma Thankachen work with unreached Hindus through evangelism, church planting, discipleship, and compassion ministries. Some of the ways they are serving the poor is building small huts, installing water pumps, providing medical aid, and caring for widows and street children.
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South Asia
This family uses their professional skills to work among an unreached Muslim people group.
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South Asia
This family has been working among an unreached Muslim people group since 2013. They meet with individuals and small groups to evangelize, study the Bible and strengthen disciples. They have three children.
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Bosnia-Herzegovina
This family has been serving the people in the Balkans since 1998. They focus on spiritual, physical and emotional needs through training, coaching and counseling with a focus on life transformation through entrepreneurship and resource assessment. They have four adult children.
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Central Asia
This family serves a muslim people group by using their professional skills and creativity to engage people in every sector of the city they live in with the gospel. The husband does coaching and consulting for local businesses and the wife build relationships with local women. They have three children.
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HOPE for North Africa
In February 2020, two single women moved from Central America to North Africa to join a team of church planters. They are serving a muslim people group in the Sahara Desert.
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Central Asia
This couple and their two children use their professional skills in mountain guiding to develop mountain tourism, aiming to provide job opportunities in this industry for locals, and engage those they are working amongst with the gospel.
Prayer For the Nations
Prayer for the Nations is a time set aside the final Sunday each month for our church family to gather and pray for the world, specific countries and peoples, our global partners, their work among the unreached and less reached, and any specific challenges our partners face.
We will meet and pray between services for 15 minutes in the auditorium in the area adjacent to the Community Life counter. Everyone is welcome.
