Alliance Missions: New Staff Members

Article By: Tim Crouch, Vice President for Alliance Missions

We have a number of new hires and changes in our Alliance Missions (AM) leadership:

Assistant VP for Alliance Missions – Mrs. Bao Her

Bao will be replacing Jim Malone as he retires. Bao and her husband, Jing Su, have served in the Hmong District, and served 18 years among several Hmong (Miao) tribes in southeast Asia. Bao has operated a manufacturing and export business that has employed over 200 women in need in villages in their area. This couple has carried out evangelism and discipleship, planted, churches, translated Scripture, and ministered to spiritual, health, and economic development needs. Her strong background in business and finance, coupled with her years of serving with aXcess through a Business as Mission strategy, positions her to serve in AM administration well.

Co-directors for CAMA – Ron and Lisa Ramsey

Ron and Lisa have served with CAMA since 2007. They have been team leaders in Kosovo and they have more recently served as regional developers for CAMA in the Europe and Middle East and North and Central Asia regions. Their work has not only been in coaching and overseeing CAMA staff but has involved various relief response efforts—most recently with AM colleagues on the Poland-Ukraine border to map out facilitation of CAMA’s response to refugees and displaced peoples during the current war.

aXcess Regional Leadership Couple for Middle East and Central Asia Region – Matt and Rachel

Matt and Rachel have served in the Middle East as clergy track IWs since 2007, most recently in their city as team leaders, and then in the EME region as teams developers. They bring a strong understanding of how teams in cross-cultural contexts can thrive and succeed.

Envision – Jen Schepens will transition from her role as director for Envision during 2022.

During these past two years of transitioning the National Office to Ohio, Jen has assembled a very strong Envision leadership team and office staff. We are thankful that Jen has been guiding Envision toward consistent delivery of people development in all its programs and site locations. Pray for the timing of transitions and the search for our next Envision director.