About Us

Adam: I grew up in Indiana, and as a 7 year old realized Jesus died for my sins and had paid the price for me to spend eternity with Him. During the summer of 1998, following my sophomore year at Anderson University, I decided to go on a seven month internship with New Tribes Mission in Papua New Guinea. It was at that point that God enlarged my view of world missions and gave me the desire to give my life to the work of full-time tribal church planting.

Julie: I was raised in Iowa. As a young child, I realized Christ’s death was for my sins and I accepted His work on my behalf. Growing up in a strong Christian home, I was often exposed to the vast need for missionaries to go and proclaim Christ to the nations. Knowing that lost people die every day with no knowledge of Christ, I’m convinced that I could not live my life any other way than by bringing the truth to them.

Adam: Julie and I met during overlapping trips in Papua New Guinea. Afterward, we entered New Tribes Bible Institute in Michigan in 1999 and graduated in 2001. We were then married in February of 2002. Together, we finished another two years of training with New Tribes that covered everything from planting a church in a tribal setting and learning unwritten languages to operating chainsaws, generators, and solar panels. Our passion today is the same as when we first entered the training: To be used as God sees fit in reaching those who have no opportunity in hearing His truth.

Julie and I decided with great certainty at different times in each of our lives that we simply could not carry on normal lives with the knowledge that every second of every day, there are people all over the world hurtling toward a Christ-less eternity with no opportunity to be saved. Burdened with that knowledge, along with the truth from God’s Word that He ardently desires all to believe on His name and be saved, we have ventured forth to make this a reality for some remote tribal group who would not otherwise hear apart from our going to them.