Global & Local Outreach

Mission Focus: Dante and Kiera Baca have served in Poi Pet, Cambodia since 2022 with LightBridge International. Dante leads the Child Advocacy program, ensuring students are in safe home environments and engaging in outreach to children and youth on the streets. Kiera directs the Health and Hygiene program, providing education and resources to students, staff, and the wider community. As they transition back to the U.S., they will continue developing Khmer leadership, creating program curricula, and supporting LBI’s mission through training, fundraising, and leading future teams to Cambodia.

Mission Focus: Hope Beyond Bars equips volunteers, staff, and offenders to live out the Jesus model of Kingdom reproduction. By partnering with believers inside prison facilities, they foster accountability, discipleship, and transformation through Christ. Their ministry emphasizes compassion, kindness, and respect, encouraging these values in every relationship and interaction.

Mission Focus: Released to the field in 2019, Bob & Glenda have been serving near some of the largest military training bases in the world, sharing the gospel and their lives with military personnel and their families. Their work continues to grow as they seek to make a lasting spiritual and practical impact in the communities they serve.

Mission Focus: We serve at a rural mission hospital in Kenya focused on training African OB/Gyns. We call is “40 by 40 – Training up 40 African OBs by 2040” Their work continues to grow as they seek to make a lasting spiritual and practical impact in the communities they serve.

Mission Focus: Nathan and Stephanie Crandall have served in Thailand with the International Mission Board since 2012 and now lead the Chiang Rai team with a vision to start churches among the unreached. They use fitness, sports, and community development to build relationships and share the gospel, while also serving through disaster relief, medical clinics, and English teaching.

Mission Focus: The Davis family has been serving in Italy since 2016 specifically in Umbria where they lived for 9 years and built hundreds of relationships with Italians. They have helped translate several John Eldredge books and teach these books online. They focus on discipleship, deep trauma work and bringing resources to the country at large. Their work continues to grow as they seek to make a lasting spiritual and practical impact in the communities they serve.

Mission Focus: Our mission with Farsi-speaking refugees in Athens through an organization called One Heart offers essential support, including medical care, mental health services, and assistance with legal and language needs. We aim to love refugees as Jesus would, helping them rebuild their lives with dignity and hope for a brighter future. Their work continues to grow as they seek to make a lasting spiritual and practical impact in the communities they serve.

Mission Focus: Bill and Debra Howeth have served in Uganda since 2016, following God’s call to “go.” Bill focuses on teaching and training pastors and youth, while Debra works with Feed My Lamb Kabarole, supports schools, and ministers in a youth detention center through ESL and Bible teaching. Together, they host marriage conferences, community dinners, and serve the Church with a heart for building up leaders and strengthening families.

Mission Focus: Brenda and Sneed have been serving in Malindi Kenya since 2004. Their calling is to come alongside individuals living in the cycle of generational poverty. Their mission focus is developing long-term relationships, and projects and initiatives that empower families to thrive physically, emotionally and spiritually. Their work continues to grow as they seek to make a lasting spiritual and practical impact in the communities they serve.

Mission Focus: Phil Largent has been teaching, training and encouraging pastors and leaders for 30+ years. He teaches upon invitation both at churches in the US and globally. In the last year he has taught several courses in Denver. He has also taught recently in Tanzania, Madagascar, Liberia, Cameroon, South Africa and Bangkok. Phil is the founder of IMD and continues to serve with IMD as President Emeritus and as a volunteer teacher. Their work continues to grow as they seek to make a lasting spiritual and practical impact in the communities they serve.

Mission Focus: Patty serves as the U.S. director of the Dignity Education Center (DEC) in South India, which she helped launch in 2020 alongside Reuben Muthiah. DEC provides education, tutoring, and spiritual encouragement to over 800 Dalit students and their families, along with leadership training, English instruction, and the Circle for Dignity program for women. The ministry partners with the Dignity Community Church, where Reuben pastors and disciples students, staff, and their families. Together, they work to bring dignity, hope, and new life through Christ to communities facing deep poverty and systemic injustice.

Mission Focus: Al’s passion is discipling and mentoring men, serving with Joe and Darlene Bahr’s Hope Beyond Bars prison outreach at the Denver Referral and Diagnostic Center. He also partners with Brian Cabral to lead Life Relaunch events and follow-up sessions with men at Fort Lyon, many of whom are recovering from homelessness and addiction. Using resources like The Making of a Dangerous Man and Preparing to Battle, Al helps men experience lasting transformation through Christ.

Mission Focus: Dr. Moses and Sharon Liancuh serve in Yangon Myanmar. Dr Moses is the founder and leader of Peniel Theological Seminary in Yangon. He leads a network of over 500 churches in Myanmar and surrounding countries. Most of these churches have been planted by graduates of the seminary. He is also a regional leaders for The Timothy Institute ( one of the fastest growing church planting organization in the world) He and Sharon also run an orphanage and school as a part of their ministry. Their work continues to grow as they seek to make a lasting spiritual and practical impact in the communities they serve.

Mission Focus: Ingrid reaches out to the nations with the love of Christ by meeting the social, physical, and spiritual needs of international students as they study in the United States with the goal of bringing the light of the gospel to spiritually dark places. Their work continues to grow as they seek to make a lasting spiritual and practical impact in the communities they serve.

Mission Focus: The Quattlebaums have been serving with Cadence since 2013. This ministry provides a home away from home for the military community. In our home we provide a place to develop biblical community and authentic discipleship. Their work continues to grow as they seek to make a lasting spiritual and practical impact in the communities they serve.

Mission Focus: Monica and Ryan Reeves serve with Cru, helping fulfill the Great Commission by winning, building, and sending students, faculty, and others as multiplying disciples. Ryan ministers on several Kansas City–area campuses, while both coach Cru staff in developing ministry partner teams to serve globally. Monica also leads their team of staff coaches, equipping leaders to reach thousands each year with the gospel.

Mission Focus: Dave Runyon has been serving as the Executive Director of CityUnite since its inception in 2010. He helps churches work together alongside of local civic leaders to serve people in need in their communities. Dave is a bridge builder who has a passion for building unity among Christians and mobilizing believers around our city’s most pressing issues. Their work continues to grow as they seek to make a lasting spiritual and practical impact in the communities they serve.

Mission Focus: Lindsey has been serving as a missional teacher in Taiwan since the summer of 2024. As a high school science teacher, she is honored to instruct, mentor, and disciple at Morrison Academy, whose vision is “to glorify God by meeting the educational needs of the children of Christian missionaries throughout Taiwan.” Their work continues to grow as they seek to make a lasting spiritual and practical impact in the communities they serve.

Mission Focus: Jason and Nicole have served with Cru for over two decades—13 years on college campuses and the past 7 years with Cru City. They bring the transforming love of Jesus to the city through relationships, partnerships, and creative ministry, fostering unity among pastors and churches to reach their community together. Their work includes discipleship, small groups, school outreach, and leadership in local pastor networks, all aimed at equipping believers to make disciples where they live, work, and play.

Mission Focus: Todd and Karla have been serving in southeast Asia for close to 20 years. God has allowed us to be deeply involved in fighting trafficking in poverty through the Name and Power of Jesus on one of the most humanly trafficked borders of the globe: Poipet, Cambodia. We fight holistically and individually through our Five Pillars: Spiritual Redemption, Comprehensive Education, Dignified Employment, Health & Hygiene, and Property Ownership. Their work continues to grow as they seek to make a lasting spiritual and practical impact in the communities they serve.

Mission Focus: Heart 4 Dental Missions has provided high-quality dental care to the impoverished locally and globally since 2011. They have led and participated in multiple international mission trips, most recently partnering with LightBridge International in Cambodia to offer mobile dental care to the Khmer people. Alongside dental outreach, they mentor and disciple students at the University of Colorado School of Dental Medicine, encouraging them to integrate faith and service in their future careers.