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An Updated: About Us!

Welcome to our blog home! We will periodically post ministry updates, blogs, and prayer requests here. Our hope is to keep you updated on the ministry we are partnering with for the Kingdom of God. Thank you for being a HUGE part of what God is doing through and in us! 

 

An Updated: About Us! 

Derek and I have the honor and privilege of serving with the ministry of Adventures in Missions. As an organization – we both send and receive missionaries all over the world. We love and value this mission of seeing God’s Kingdom come to every tribe, tongue, and nation. 

I (Madie) first partnered with one of our programs to serve overseas from 2016-2018. In 2017, one of the places I served was in Haiti, which is where Derek and I met (more on this later). 

After a couple of years on the international mission field, I moved to Gainesville, GA to serve alongside our stateside staff. Over the last three years, I have worked with several of our programs – discipling, training, and debriefing the missionaries we send internationally to serve. I am now the Program Administrative Manager where I get to oversee the logistical pieces of sending and receiving the next generation of the Church both domestically and internationally!

Derek served with Mission of Hope, an incredible organization based in Texas, for over four years. During this time, he lived in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and the Turks and Caicos. He hosted our team for a few months as we served the Haitian people together, and from there – our story is history! 
In November 2020, Derek accepted the role of Field Ministry Development Manager. In this position, Derek oversees and stewards our partnerships with our international ministry hosts. He and his team connect with these pastors, organizations, and churches to best partner with what God is already doing in the countries in which they live. 

Both of our jobs involve empowering the local Church and mobilizing teams to meet needs and see real life transformation. 

Outside of our jobs, we are passionate about continuing discipleship within this next generation. We believe that they will be a generation that ushers in the Gospel of Jesus wherever they may go. With this, we have recently accepted an opportunity to come alongside our mission’s discipleship school here in Gainesville. The Center for Global Action (or CGA) equips their students to live lives on mission for The Lord in and out of the classroom. Derek and I are partnering with this mission by house mentoring for this program. This essentially means we steward a house-full of students as they attend the school for a five month semester. We have the honor and opportunity of mentoring, discipling, and loving these students who live in our home as they learn more about living and looking like Christ. 


Our love for missions, the next generation, and the nations comes through a desire to see God’s Kingdom come on earth as it is in Heaven. 

We are so honored The Lord has allowed us to serve Him and His Kingdom as we utilize our giftings and passions. It’s incredibly humbling to have the ability to lead and disciple the next generation of the American Church as we encourage and empower the local international Church in the countries we deeply love. 

 

When we say ‘we cannot do this without you’ – we mean it from the bottom of our hearts. Thank you for partnering with us in this ministry. We deeply love and appreciate each and every one of you. 

As always – we would LOVE to hear from you. You can reach out to us and/or send prayer request to us anytime via this platform or via email <[email protected]> and <[email protected]>