JIM AND MELANIE WILSON

ReachGlobal and IBAC

Jim and Melanie serve as missionaries in Latin America through ReachGlobal and IBAC, focusing on equipping church leaders and strengthening local congregations. Their ministry centers on providing biblical training for pastors and ministry leaders who often have limited access to formal theological education.


Through ReachGlobal, the missions arm of the Evangelical Free Church of America, the Wilsons help multiply disciples, leaders, and churches. Their work with IBAC (Instituto Bíblico de las Américas Central) partners with local churches to offer practical, doctrinally sound training that prepares leaders to faithfully shepherd their congregations. 


Click HERE to read about the work in Latin America.

Josh emmanuel


TEACH THE STORY AND JUNGLE MINISTRY

Josh serves as a missionary in Jos, Nigeria, partnering with Teach the Story and Jungle Ministry to bring gospel-centered transformation to some of the city’s most difficult communities. His ministry focuses on equipping church leaders with strong biblical training while discipling men trapped in addiction, crime, and spiritual brokenness.


Josh leads a two-year addiction recovery and discipleship program that uses evangelism, mentoring, and small-group discipleship to help men experience freedom in Christ and grow into servant leaders. He also helps train students through a Bible college that develops theological understanding and practical ministry skills.


Through creative outreach like music training, concerts, and community engagement, Josh connects people to the gospel in culturally meaningful ways. His ministry helps raise spiritually grounded leaders who are transforming lives, strengthening churches, and bringing hope and stability to their communities. 


Click HERE to learn more about the work in Nigeria.

Jimmy and Shelby Stewart


ETHNOS360

Jimmy and Shelby are preparing to serve as missionaries with Ethnos Aviation, a ministry of Ethnos360 that uses aviation to support gospel work in remote and unreached regions. Jimmy will serve as a missionary pilot, transporting missionaries, supplies, and emergency aid to isolated areas where travel is only possible by air.

Currently in training in Missouri, Jimmy and Shelby are preparing for cross-cultural ministry and missionary life. They are prayerfully considering future service in the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Brazil, or Indonesia—regions with many unreached people groups. Their ministry is focused on making it possible for the gospel to reach communities that might otherwise remain without access to the message of Jesus Christ.


For more on their ministry, click HERE.

SCOTT YINGLING

AVANT

Scott serves with Avant as the Vice President of Strategic Initiatives, helping lead efforts to expand gospel outreach in unreached areas of the world. His role focuses on developing innovative mission strategies that mobilize, equip, and empower churches—especially in the Global South—to plant churches, train leaders, and send missionaries.


Scott works to identify new opportunities for ministry, guide strategic projects, and help missionaries and churches adapt to changing global realities while remaining faithful to the message of the gospel. Through research, collaboration, and leadership development, he helps launch and support initiatives that strengthen international missions and increase the church’s effectiveness in reaching unreached people groups.


His ministry is centered on advancing the Great Commission by helping churches and mission efforts grow, innovate, and bring the hope of Jesus Christ to communities around the world. 


For more on Avant, click HERE

CAIRO FARINAS

IBAC

Cairo has served with IBAC (Instituto Bíblico de las Américas Central) since 1999, helping train pastors and equip church leaders throughout Central and South America. Through roles as a translator, country coordinator, and board member, Cairo has played a vital part in providing biblical and theological training to leaders who often lack access to formal education, strengthening churches with sound doctrine and gospel-centered teaching.


Click HERE to read about the work in Latin America.

PETER AND MIRIAM FRETHEIM

SIM

Peter and Miriam serve as missionaries with SIM in Northern Nigeria, one of the most spiritually challenging regions in the world. For over twenty years, they have shared the gospel while demonstrating Christ’s love through compassionate ministry.


Their work focuses on evangelism and mercy outreach, helping Muslims come to faith in Jesus while meeting critical physical and emotional needs. Through ministries serving street children and women rescued from abuse, terrorism, addiction, and exploitation, they provide education, trauma healing, discipleship, and vocational training—helping individuals find dignity, purpose, and new life in Christ.


The Fretheims’ ministry is a powerful testimony to God’s transforming grace, as churches grow, lives are restored, and the gospel continues to spread throughout Northern Nigeria.


Click HERE to read more about their work in Nigeria.

J & A

They are serving in South Asia among unreached people groups. This ministry includes learning the language and culture of the people, understanding their worldview, presenting the whole story of the Bible from beginning to end, and seeing a church plant discipled to maturity. While this goal of seeing a mature and thriving church established will take years, they are excited to be a part of what God is doing in South Asia.