Jeff and Patty served in Africa from 1993 – 2010, training national church leaders at Rusitu Bible College in rural Zimbabwe, then the Bible Institute of South Africa in Cape Town, and also partnered a Xhosa-speaking pastor to start Guguletu Bible College as the first Bible College in his massive “township” in Cape Town with nearly 1 million residents! Pastor Ngcwatywa served as the Principal, and Jeff served as his Dean.

After returning to Virginia for Home Ministry Assignment in 2010 under MTW, Jeff served as the first Africa Coordinator for MINTS (Miami International Seminary) from 2011 – mid-2018, and then as Director of Africans Teaching Africans through 12/2020, when he accepted the invitation to join SAGE and ITTOP as Curriculum Director and Teacher. He and Patty have 3 children (Daniel, Matthew, and Lydia) and 2 grandchildren (Charis and Micah).

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Nagoya, Japan

Brooks and Riva have been serving with MTW in Nagoya, Japan, since 2013. They both attended Covenant Theological Seminary where Brooks received a Master of Divinity and Riva received a Master of Arts in counseling. It was there that the Lord called the Cains to serve with MTW’s Next team in reaching the “10/30 window” (10–30-year-olds) with the good news of Jesus.

The Cains serve with a local church called All Nations Fellowship, reaching out to young people in their community. Brooks is also involved in training next-generation ministry leaders through teaching seminary courses in Japan. Regionally, the Cains lead the Next Asia-Pacific team in ministering to missionary kids and families throughout the Asia-Pacific region through regular gatherings, discipleship, and Riva uses her passion for counseling to meet one on one with missionary kids and people locally in Japan. The Lord has blessed Brooks and Riva with four amazing missionary kids who teach them more about Japan and next generation ministry every day. Please pray for the Cains and their goal of “Reaching the Nations and the Next Generation.”

Brooks and Riva Cain

Nagoya, Japan

Today the Carters are fully dedicated to church planting in downtown Nagoya alongside Shiga Christ Church. They help facilitate an English outreach program, prayer meetings, Bible studies, mini gallery/Art’s Ministry and have various responsibilities in the community. 

The Session and church plant core team, along with the Carters, launched worship for the new church in April 2021.  For one year the worship was limited to the vision team who worked together to solidify a vision for the church and the specifics of how church would “be done.”  In April 2022 they opened their doors via a “soft launch.”  During the soft launch they didn’t publicize the church, but were focused on inviting friends, neighbors and contacts.  On January 22, 2023 Nagoya Central Church (NCC) was officially opened! Michael is now a “cooperating Pastor” with the PCJ and is serving as the site Pastor of NCC. Although meeting in its own location, NCC is considered the “afternoon service” and a church planting work of Shiga Christ Church.

To find out more please check out their website: www.cartersan.com.

Meredith and Sandy were both raised in Virginia, and came to Christ in their teenage years. They met during their college years, when Meredith was attending the University of Virginia and Sandy James Madison University.

After college Meredith worked as an accountant until 1985, when he went overseas as a Bible smuggler to communist Eastern Europe. Sandy was in social work in northern Virginia, until 1984, when she started studying counseling at Westminster Seminary. After seminary, she worked for the Christian Counseling and Education Foundation.

At the very end of 1989, Meredith left Europe and moved to Pennsylvania to court Sandy. They were married in September 1990, after knowing each other a mere 15 years. In late 1990, Meredith began working in accounting for Serge.

In 1996, they left Serge and moved to Hungary to help oversee missionary teams with another agency, moving to Austria in 1997. In 1999, they rejoined Serge, doing the Sonship course with folks in central Europe.

They returned to the U.S. in 2002, and Meredith is now Associate Team Leader of the Member Care team, seeking to provide the resources and care our personnel need to work overseas. Sandy provides spiritual direction and care for several overseas staff.

Meredith and Sandy Elder

PRCC/MNA - Grafenwoehr, Germany

The PCA supports the PRCC through its MNA organization. PRCC provides pastoral care to Chaplains and their families (Shepherd the Shepherds). Over 200 PRCC Chaplains and almost 100 Chaplains from six other conservative reformed denominations like the OPC, ARPC, RPCNA, KAPC, and KPRCC. Chaplains who bring the Light of Christ into hospitals, correctional facilities, hospice ministries, retirement communities, police and fire stations, and businesses are supported. The PRCC also provides credentialing and ecclesiastical endorsement, cover, and protection (Chaplains are granted the freedom to proclaim Christ without being restricted), catch and counsel-mentor (assist and advise along the path to becoming a Chaplain), and connects local congregations to the chaplaincy.

PRCC/MNA

Brentford, West London, UK

The Ilderton family have ministered in London since 2015 where they’ve helped the International Presbyterian Church in its mission to plant gospel-proclaiming churches. In May of 2016, they helped to plant Immanuel Church in the revitalizing community of Brentford, West London. In 2021 they were sent to by Immanuel Church to plant a daughter congregation in Hammersmith, Central London. Grace Church Hammersmith began worship in September of 2021. Rob serves as the pastor and church planter of Grace Church as well as the team leader for MTW in London. Jenny is a musician who leads the music and women’s ministry of the church.

Rob and Jenny have three children. The family enjoy being outdoors, having people over for meals, and going to Brentford Football (soccer) Club matches.

Rob and Jenny Ilderton

Dan grew up in a ministry family. He met Carol in college where both were discipled. Carol went on to graduate school and Dan became a Marine infantry officer, serving initially in Japan. They married in 1976, and spent seven years in the Marines. God led them to Reformed Seminary where He impressed on them a central Bible theme they had missed: God’s heart for all nations. A team of four seminary couples formed. Three Japanese pastors invited the team to come work together in East Tokyo planting churches to start a presbytery. The four couples made 12-year commitments to Japan. The Iversons arrived first in 1986 with five children.

The Japanese are the world’s second largest unreached people group, but Jesus is building His Church as promised! (Matt. 16:18) God blessed the ministry, churches were planted, and the Tokyo/Chiba Presbytery was born. It now has over 1,000 members in 20 congregations. By God’s grace, the one team has become five teams in Metro Tokyo with more than 120 MTW, other American, Korean, Australian, and Japanese ministry partners. Since 2010, Tokyo city center church planting has become a fruitful new emphasis in partnership with Redeemer City to City. We pray for a church-planting movement throughout Japan. Currently U.S.-based, Dan has handed off duties as pastor, team leader, and country director, and now focuses on mentoring, coaching church planters, teaching/preaching, and recruiting. Carol handed off duties as principal in our team’s school, and now focuses on mentoring women, Parakaleo training for women, Japan member care, and teaching.

The Iversons have nine children, eight wonderful spouses, and 34 grandchildren.

Dan and Carol Iverson

Serving in France

Toyko & Chiba, Japan

Pastor Tom and Karen Mirabella are working to bring hope in Japan as part of a team planting and strengthening Gospel-centered churches in the Toyko/Chiba area.

Tom and Karen Mirabella

Their mission is to support indigenous ministries that share the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ and minister to the needs of the world’s poorest and most neglected, urban communities. Oakseed employs strategic partnerships with indigenous ministries to accomplish its mission. Identifying opportunities for ministry growth and long-term relationships. Oakseed provides prayer, counseling, training, technology, and financial support, allowing Ministry Partners to focus on the work of God’s kingdom – namely sharing the good news of Jesus Christ, caring for the poor, and enabling pathways to break the cycles of poverty and addiction. Tiffany Crosley is the Director of Oakseed, International which currently partners with 20 ministries in 13 countries.

Oakseed International

Equipping Leaders International works in teams to equip influential church leaders. Its mission is to partner with highly influential yet under-resourced Christian leaders globally to equip and multiply biblically mature leaders in every aspect of community life. ELI intentionally trains men and women with the capacity to call and train others. Their partners enrich their initiatives: They include Mission to the World, Third Millennium Ministries, Advancing Native Missions, Ligonier Ministries, Miami International Seminary, and World Reformed Fellowship.

Please join EHPC in praying for Don Ward.

New Castle, England

Benjamin initially moved to England to work as an intern at our church in 2011. Over the next four years, he studied at Edinburgh Theological Seminary, Westminster Presbyterian Theological Seminary, and Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Greenville, USA. In 2016, he obtained a Master of Divinity and moved to Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, to take up a call as a minister at Bury St Edmunds Presbyterian Church. In the spring of 2019, he was called back to the Northeast and to All Saints. Benjamin is married to Anna (who is a native of the northeast). They have two children, Joy and Ezra. The Wontrops are funded by the Presbyterian Evangelistic Fellowship (PEF) which is partnered with PCA MTW in New Castle. Please join EHPC in praying for the Wontrops.

Benjamin Wontrop

The Wallaces joined Serge in 1999 and were the first Serge missionaries in South America. As team leader of the Serge Chile team, Brad established a long-term Serge presence there by recruiting other families to join the work full-time. In 2012, with a vision to expand the reach of their work, and a desire to be reunited with their oldest two adolescent children studying in the U.S., the Wallace returned to the States where Brad is now working in the role of Missions Team Facilitator for Serge recruiting and coordinating short-term missions teams to support the work of Serge teams around the world.

Brad and Margarita Wallace