About Us
We are a family of 5 (soon to be 6), formed in the rural Midwest. We were both raised in Christian homes and have surrendered our lives to Christ. Reed spent his former years working in the trades and co-running a construction business. Andrea spent her years as a special education teacher in preschool and lower elementary school. We have 3 (soon to be 4) daughters that each bring their own personality and gifts to our ministry.
Our Mission
Our Vision
Our family’s priority and passion is to make God’s glory known, through Christ, among all the nations by the power of the Holy Spirit. We are committed to training overseas in order to acquire skills necessary for learning a language and culture, in hopes of helping plant a church among unreached people groups.
Currently, there are 3.4 billion people that live in the 10/40 window. This is where most unreached people groups of the world live. Only 3% of global workers focus on the unreached areas of the world. These are areas that have little to no knowledge of Christ. After receiving training we hope to plant churches in these unreached areas, through a partnership with Global Serve International which uses business as a platform for creating healthy churches.
Our Calling
Our draw to become missionaries started when we were dating. We discussed the possibility of becoming missionaries as we both had a sense of the calling. As any new couple does, we began dreaming of the future. We began dreaming of getting married, where we would live, how many kids we wanted, and our jobs. We both thought mission work would be something we would do once our kids were grown. However, as the years have passed, God’s timing and sovereignty has brought us to the conclusion that our time to go has already come. It is the gospel that propels us forward in this vision and mission. The more we read scripture, the more we understand God’s big picture of gathering all nations to Him. When the church wants to bring discipleship to the nations, God sends the missionary. In order to achieve church planting, missionaries need to be willing to walk with the lost. This task seems mountainous and we know we cannot do this on our own, only God can do it in accordance to His will. We want to be obedient and faithful to the Lord and serve Him in any way He sees fit for our family, as living sacrifices for Him. (Romans 12:1).