Kansas City Team
The Kansas City Hub was founded in 1993, and is now one of five global All Nations Hubs. We exist to mobilize, train, send, and care for missionaries and other disciple-makers. Meet our Hub team!
- Meredith, Executive Director – Meredith is a beloved daughter of the Father, the wife of Joshua and the mom of Luke. She loves cooking, hiking, reading, traveling, and befriending Muslim-background people. She started intentionally loving Muslims in 2005, and is delighted to now be training Muslim-background Jesus-followers to ignite movements among their own. She serves as on the All Nations International Leadership Team.
- Lisa, Associate Director – Lisa enjoys creative endeavors and building systems, as well as games, dancing, reading, traveling, and the chaos of raising a little person with her husband, Brandon. She previously worked in the Perspectives National Office and at Frontier Ventures. She’s been a local in Naleigru, Kathmandu, Manhattan KS, Fayetteville AR, and Pasadena CA.
- Randy, Co-Director of Pastoral Care – Randy has served with All Nations Kansas City since it was founded in 2000. He cares for and pastors church planters around the world. An experienced traveler to over 90 different countries, Randy has a deep understanding of how to care for church planters living in difficult circumstances. Randy also oversees our pastoral care team in Kansas City.
- Lynn, Co-Director of Pastoral Care – Before joining All Nations, Lynn was an Occupational Therapist serving children with special needs for over 19 years. She was active in various ministries including Perspectives, Women’s Ministry, and Jail Ministry. She is also passionate about completing the Great Commission by mobilizing, equipping, and encouraging missionaries as they take the Gospel to the unreached people of the Earth.
- Jason, Finance Director – Jason desires to see Jesus worshiped by people of every tribe, tongue and nation. He is committed to using his gifts and talents to help field workers be successful in reaching the nations. One of his passions is reaching incarcerated men with the Gospel. Jason is a devoted Oklahoma Sooner fan and loves having fun.
- Kathleen, Communications Assistant – Kathleen is passionate about serving and walking alongside the immigrant and refugee communities, especially in the areas of education, advocacy, and discipleship/mentorship. A graduate of Georgetown University, Kathleen is fluent in Spanish and aims to live her life with a “corazón de pasión, vida de acción” [heart of passion, life of action].
- Cariane, Executive Assistant – Cariane teaches elementary school and serves as the Executive Assistant at the Hub. She handles logistics in many areas of the Hub including the prayer and training calendar, housing for missionaries, and many details of the annual fundraiser. Cariane makes lives better behind the scenes!
- Christina, Mobilization Director – Christina loves listening to people and launching them into their destiny. Christina dreams of a day when the generation behind her loves God, themselves, and everyone so deeply that the choices they make from a place of love shift the course of families, communities, and history. She started making disciples and training leaders in the Pacific Northwest before she could drive.
- Phil, Training Director – Phil is passionate about raising up leaders to be servant-minded, promoting healthy family structures, and providing practical training with mentoring in loving communities. He lived in East Asia for over 9 years up until 2020, making disciples who make disciples. He loves movies and smoking meat (and making other delicious food).
- Charlie, Finance Assistant – Charlie and his family where previously in the Netherlands reaching out to refugees. Charlie has a degree in business administration from Washburn university. In his free time he enjoys spending time with his wife and 3 boys, as well as woodworking, gardening, and spending time outdoors.
- Ruthe, Human Resources Coordinator – Ruthe homeschooled her children for 18 years and also started and directed homeschool co-ops. She loves to serve children through teaching and calling them up into their God-given destinies. Ruthe also loves interceding for the world around her, gardening, canning, and spending time with her husband, family and grandchildren.
- Hannah, Communications & Pastoral Care Specialist – Learn more about Hannah when you meet her! Bio withheld & pseudonym used for security reasons.
- Gretta, Finance Administrator – After earning her bachelor’s degree from Azusa Pacific University, Gretta received her education while raising and homeschooling her three children, who are now grown. She has lived in the Kansas City area since 2005 and enjoys solving puzzles, playing musical instruments and discovering new places. Gretta is an encourager and has a passion to inspire others to worship God. Her life motto is: Honor God, Enjoy life, Restore the broken, and Bless others.
All Nations Kansas City Board
Jacob and Teresa and their five children spent 9 years in Youth with a Mission, most recently pioneering YWAM Horn of Africa. Jacob now serves as Global Mission and Local Outreach Pastor at LifeMission Church. He also pastors a campus of LifeMission in Kansas City, Kansas. Jacob is still a part of the African Eldership Circle for YWAM and sits on several local and international ministry boards. Jacob is passionate about seeing God do new things, in new ways, in new places. Jacob serves as Chair of the ANKC Board.
Mary is the International Executive Leader of All Nations. She is passionate about finishing the Great Commission in this generation by making disciples in every remaining unreached people group of the world. Born in Taiwan and raised on four continents, Mary has lived in Swaziland, Taiwan, Indonesia, New Zealand, Philippines, Hong Kong, and the U.S., and traveled extensively. She received her Doctor of Strategic Leadership from Regent University, VA in 2017. She is married to John and has two boys.
Through worship dance, living life with the Lord, and a class called “Perspectives,” Jesus placed in Phyllis’ heart a tenacious passion for all peoples to worship Him. To this end, Phyllis mobilizes the Body of Christ, locally and abroad through teaching, friendship, pastoral care, and Board service with All Nations. She holds a Bachelor of Arts and Education degree, having taught in Christian school and home-school. She enjoys advocating for “Perspectives” in a variety of roles.
John was born in Tainan and grew up in four countries – Taiwan, Thailand, Laos and the U.S. He graduated UC Berkeley, and is a licensed architect with his own consulting practice. He has lived and worked in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Taipei, Hong Kong and Kansas City. John is a third generation believer, whose grandparents were saved through missionaries with the China Inland Mission, who went deep into China where others did not go.
Originally from South Africa, Athol and his wife Debbie moved to the USA in 2000. Athol has a degree in Mechanical Engineering and worked as an engineer until the Lord called him to serve as director of project management for a local short term mission organization. In 2009, the Lord called Athol and Debbie to serve with YWAM in Kona, HI and Kansas City, MO for five years until the Lord called them to lead a small church in South Kansas City. Athol has a Master of Divinity with a missions focus. Athol believes that prayer and missions are the essential elements that the Lord uses to revitalize dying churches, and he is passionate about seeing the local church mobilized and becoming the equipping and sending agency that the Lord calls it to be.
Jessie is an ordained Foursquare minister and a demonstrated disciple-maker and facilitator of spiritual community transformation. She is a nationally recognized leader in the fields of experiential education and educational neuroscience and holds a Master’s from Harvard in Mind, Brain, and Education. Jessie is a published academic and serves on multiple boards internationally. She currently works as an independent denomination consultant. She is the co-founder of 5Q and co-author of Activating 5Q, which seeks to help implement an Ephesians 4 culture in faith environments. As a neuro-ecclesiologist, her goal is to connect the journey of faith with the science of transformation.
John is a retired banker and credit manager. He has served as a conference co-chairman for the local Family Life Conference (a Campus Crusade ministry) and also served on several non-profit boards. John has been a private pilot for over 60 years. He flew over 50 missions for Angel Flight Central transporting people in need of air travel for specialized medical treatment. John served the United States Army both in the United States and abroad. He has worked with his local church in outreach to refugees coming into the Kansas City area. He assisted in opening and managing a restaurant so that refugees in the Kansas City metroplex could find jobs.
He and his wife manage a farm in northern Missouri and have both completed the Prospectives course.
He and his wife manage a farm in northern Missouri and have both completed the Prospectives course.
Pam spent ten years in Central Asia as a church planter and Bible translator working among a previously unengaged people group. Along with others, she was able to help lead people to Jesus and train them to lead their own churches. The local believers have, in turn, shared Jesus with others and also raised up other leaders. Pam's heart is to train and send church planters to share Jesus with other unreached people groups: those who would never have any chance in their lives to hear about Him. To this end, she trains and coaches disciples who make disciples based on simple Biblical and research-based best practices. She serves Perspectives Global as the Co-Editor for the 5th Edition of the Perspectives curriculum.
