Luciano and Luciene Pires serve with Presbyterian Mission International in Porto, Portugal. They are the founders of a home-based apologetics and evangelism ministry known as Colloquium. Through weekly lectures, movie nights, dinners, and roundtables, the Pireses work to reach across intellectual and cultural divides, inviting seekers and skeptics alike to consider the truth, goodness, and beauty found uniquely in Jesus. Their evangelism and discipleship ministry has led them to plant a church in Porto, where they offer discipleship training, theological teaching, and mentorship.

“We talk of the second coming of Christ; half the world has never heard of the first.”

James, Jane and their family are empowered by G&P and serve in Central Asia. The Lord has brought them on a journey to focus on the 1% unengaged Muslim places left on the earth in the 10-40 window (from the Caucasus of Russia to Kyrgyzstan to their current place in the region). Since Jesus taught us to take the Great Commission in word and deed, they strive to win, build, and send nationals through education and discipleship programs, outdoor and sport ministries, and young adult/youth groups. Through these bridge-building activities, they are passionate about forming multiplying home-church movements in the least reached places on the planet. To receive incredible stories of what God is doing and partner with them in prayer please write to: thegreatadventure@pobox.com

Ananias House Women’s Leadership Training helps women from the Middle East and North Africa become competent and confident servants of the church. Many women in these regions work in leadership in local churches and also provide for their families, so the ministry focuses on discipleship, trauma healing, and leadership and economic skills.

Preparing Arab-world Leaders for Ministry (PALM) nurtures self-replicating discipleship groups and trains leaders to plant churches in the Arab world and beyond, especially where there are no historic churches. To help establish new believing communities in the least reached places, PALM partners with national churches whenever possible to mentor leaders of discipleship groups, who will then mentor others.

Kraynebo Publishing translates and shares gospel-focused resources in Ukraine. Biblical materials in Ukrainian are rare, and Kraynebo—a ministry of the Reformed Church of the Holy Trinity, a church plant in Lviv—aims to reach believers and skeptics across the country in their native language. The resources include Bible studies, historical and reference books, guides for spiritual growth, sheet music for worship, and Sunday school lessons for kids. These materials offer encouragement and hope in a war-torn area.

Dan and Rebecca Gregoire serve with Mission to the World in Kosice, Slovakia, engaging in leadership development, compassion, and evangelization through Slovak and Roma outreach programs. Dan is developing a Work Life program to train Roma men to become certified welders. The program grants a two-year certification and provides discipleship so Roma men can be leaders in their communities and churches. Rebecca leads a club where moms with young children come to play, learn songs in English, gain encouragement in their mothering, and hear the gospel. The Gregoires’ MTW team also established a kindergarten for Roma children, where they can learn the basics of Slovak language and culture, to help them transition into Slovak schools.

Timothy House is a two-year residential church-planter training program in West Africa that trains and equips leaders to serve in urban and rural communities in countries such as Senegal. Students and their families live together in a community, work alongside a local church, and receive a theological and pastoral education. They are also equipped with agricultural and entrepreneurial skills so that they are prepared to reach poverty-stricken areas. 

Felipe and Jéssica Madruga lead a church plant known as Confessional 5 Presbyterian Church, in Estância Velha, a city of 50,000 people in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, one of the least evangelized of Brazil’s 26 states. They lead weekly worship gatherings and prayer meetings, teach theology studies, and offer biblical counseling and discipleship.

Gama and Grace serve with Mission to the World on both sides of the Texas–Mexico border. They live in McAllen, where they support church-planting efforts in the Valley by networking with pastors, preaching where needed, and mentoring. They also partner with a church-planting center in Monterrey known as CPI (Centro Para La Plantación de Iglesias/Center for Church Planting), which is committed to revitalizing churches in cities across Mexico. 

The name of this missionary has been changed to protect his safety.

"Brother David" is the founder and leader of a Christian seminary in an unreached part of Asia. Having been shunned by his family and community for his conversion, he now ministers to new converts by providing not only discipleship, but supplies and job training.

In 2018, Grace + Peace is honored to partner with him both in his daily discipleship, and in the construction of a new Christian training center.

Listen to the Voice of the Martyr's interview of "Brother David" here.

Holt earned a M.Div and Hattie an MA at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. He was previously a Reformed University Fellowship intern at TCU and is now the campus minister for RUF at Trinity University in San Antonio. He and Hattie help students navigate tough intellectual and spiritual challenges.

Nicholas majored in civil engineering at the University of Tennessee and became a Reformed University Fellowship intern at UT Austin. He is now a part-time RUF staffer at Washington University in St. Louis while he completes his seminary education at Covenant Theological Seminary.

Emily is a videographer for Cru, a college ministry formerly known as Campus Crusade for Christ. She makes educational and evangelistic videos that encourage young people to attend Bible studies, conferences, retreats, and summer missions.

A graduate of the National University of Colombia, Juan Pablo is an engineer and an RUF church-planting apprentice in Bogotá. Many students in Bogotá discover their faith through RUF but then have trouble finding a gospel-centered home church; for this reason, RUF has become a training ground not just for campus ministers but also for church planters. Juan Pablo has begun studies at Reformed Theological Seminary and is receiving his training at Resurrección Bogotá, a church that began worship services in 2024.