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Missionary D G DONATE I am deeply grateful for every individual who chooses to partner through prayer and financial giving, helping make it possible to bring the hope of the Gospel to unreached communities. Donate

MISSIONARY Benjamin Caldwell DONATE JESUS: He gave me hope where it was completely lost and purpose where there was none. This is what a real encounter with a real Jesus does. When I found the Jesus that had been relentlessly pursuing me I was in the worst of predicaments. Rebellion, sin and chaos were the rulers of my life and I thought there was no way out. I encounter people on the street and see the hopelessness in their eyes, hear the despair that fills their voice and it breaks me because I once knew it well. All I can think is, “if He can save me, He can save them.” I recently worked with a ministry called Teen Challenge that afforded me the opportunity to travel to dozens of churches and share our story of Hope. Looking back on these experiences it became very apparent that the seats in the churches were filled with little to no young people. Fewer and fewer young people are making their way into the doors of the church, which is why we are going to them. Circuit Riders are dedicated to taking the message of Jesus to college campuses that are filled with promises of fulfillment through everything except Jesus. “God” has become a stigma of religious “yeses and no’s,” placed in a political conservative box, thrown to the side and labeled “not relevant.” Young people are hungry for something real and pure, so we carry the love of Jesus to them right where they are as a group of people who have been raptured by grace and transformed by the looking into the eyes of a savior. His name is Jesus. Circuit Riders & The One Love Initiative: http://www.crmovement.com Donate

MISSIONARY Jaco & Ashley Diederiks DONATE Hi there! My name is Ashley Diederiks, and my husband, Jaco, and I are missionaries serving in Potchefstroom, South Africa, with Fire & Fragrance South Africa. We are raising our two young children, Hans (born January 16, 2021) and Amelia (born November 14, 2022), while continuing to say yes to Jesus and the call He has placed on our family to see revival and lasting kingdom transformation across South Africa and the African continent. Thank you for considering partnering with our family. Our ministry is our full-time calling, and Fire & Fragrance is a faith-based, donor-supported movement, which means we do not receive a salary. We are fully dependent on God’s provision through monthly and one-time partners who believe in what He is doing here. We have partners who give anywhere from $5 to $200 a month, as well as one-time gifts. Truly, every amount plays a meaningful role and is a blessing and investment in what God is doing here in South Africa. Every prayer, every gift, and every act of encouragement enables us to continue serving, training leaders, and investing in this nation long-term. Here is a bit of how we got here and what we are currently doing in South Africa. I first encountered missions in 2017 during my Discipleship Training School, when I went on outreach to Uganda. It was there that the Lord ignited a deep love for missions and for Africa. After DTS, I joined staff and later led an outreach to the Philippines, where we saw God move in powerful ways and even had the privilege of helping plant a church in the upstairs room of a strip club in the middle of the red-light district—one of those moments that forever marked my faith and my understanding of the gospel’s reach. Jaco and I met through Fire & Fragrance and spent several years serving in Kona, Hawaii, where we helped pioneer and develop a training school focused on revival, reformation, and biblical worldview. During that season, we were trained, equipped, and prepared to eventually plant and contextualize this work in South Africa. In 2022, we transitioned to South Africa and helped run the first Revival & Reformation school with Fire & Fragrance South Africa. Since then, our roles have continued to grow. Today, we are deeply involved in leadership development, discipleship, and training schools, equipping young leaders and missionaries locally and across multiple nations in Africa. Jaco plays a key role in teacher training and discipleship initiatives, helping equip educators and leaders to teach from a biblical worldview, and he also serves on the leadership team as an elder at our missions base here in South Africa. Alongside training schools, we partner with local churches, campus ministries, prayer and worship initiatives, evangelism efforts, literacy and education projects, and broader missions expressions throughout South Africa. We have seen firsthand that God is moving powerfully in this nation, and we continue to believe the prophetic words spoken over South Africa—that it is a gateway nation for the gospel to be released into the rest of Africa. We truly believe the time is now to train and equip local and indigenous leaders who will bring revival into their own cultures and see lasting kingdom transformation in every sphere of society. We are expectant for all that God still has ahead for our family and for this nation. Thank you for partnering with us and investing in what God is doing in South Africa and beyond. We are deeply grateful to walk this journey with you and to see His Kingdom advance across Africa. Blessings, Ashley, Jaco, Hans, & Amelia Diederiks Donate

Missionary Joey Burckel DONATE Hello Friends and Family, I want to invite you to support me as I go about pursuing what God is working on through my life. My name is Joey; I am loved by the grace of God. I am 26 (almost 27) years old I have lived in Colorado for most of my life with some stint’s other places. I love to read, talk, sometimes bake, and I love to live life with people. One of my primary passions is mentoring people, locking arms alongside them to step to realization and freedom. I am not done growing in wisdom and knowledge but I hope to pass along all that I have been shown by the Jesus and other people. I am joining with a group of people who are starting a discipleship missions training facility (a YWAM, Youth With A Mission base) in Bozeman Montana. This base will be tasked with helping people learn who Jesus is and who He says they are and what He is asking of those who follow him. We will focus on youth and young adults (in college or other arenas) to see them learn about Jesus and know Him. Our base is a new location and we are incredibly passionate about what God is doing in this next wave of people. I hope you will join me by financially or spiritually supporting in what I feel called to. We are not an army for God if there are only individuals. With Hope and Love, Joey Donate

MISSIONARY Troy Mack DONATE My name is Troy Mack, and I grew up in Virginia Beach, Virginia. When I was 18 I did a missions school with YWAM in The Netherlands where I learned about the Bible and how to reach people who don’t know Jesus. I then spent three months on outreach where we put all our knowledge we gained into action in Indonesia. I loved seeing God work, and my soul was most satisfied when God’s glory was displayed to people who don’t know Him. I then went back to Virginia, and went to University. Though I quickly realized that God had different plans for me. I felt complacency while being in school. All the while this incessant fear of wasting my life kept springing up in me. Yet I knew the only one way to avoid wasting my life was to lay it down for Jesus and the Gospel. You can obviously do this in the business world, but for me I felt this deep call to missions. Now in the winter of 2017 I joined the Circuit Riders. We do events on college campuses in America and throughout the world preaching the Gospel, and calling students to give their lives to a missional lifestyle whether on their campus, in their business, in the inner cities, or to the unreached! I also have felt the call to continue school, but in a seminary rather than a regular university. I will start online school in the fall of 2018 at Faith International University and Seminary. Now, as for the foreseeable future I will be in Circuit Riders seeking how to reach young people in America and around the world! Donate

MISSIONARY Wambui Gitau DONATE My name is Wambui Gitau, and I have been a full-time missionary with YWAM Circuit Riders for the past 1 year. Our purpose as Circuit Riders is to Save the Lost, Revive the Saved and Train them all. We do this by loving our generation like Jesus and activating them into salvation, awakening, and multiplication. We are devoted to carrying the love and hope of Jesus into our world, no matter the cost. We are a movement of Jesus lovers dedicated to presenting the simple gospel to our generation where they are praying for the lost and broken, and equipping and training young people to go out and fulfill the Great Commission throughout the world. I have had the privilege of being part of the pioneering team of young people going to university campuses across Kenya. In this, we have seen many young people adopt the great commission as a lifestyle. We believe that the power of the gospel empowers a generation to see youth reach youth on and off their schools. I will be traveling to America to do my DTS with the Circuit Riders in Huntington Beach California and thereafter crisscrossing Africa to preach the Gospel and reach young people on university campuses with the Love of Jesus. Additionally, I will be involved in evangelistic gatherings and gatherings equipping believers for the Great Commission. The harvest is so very plentiful and the Lord is sending out laborers! (Matthew 9:37-38) 37 Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. 38 Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field." I would be honored if you would prayerfully consider partnering with me in prayer and financially to see a generation saved across the nations. I long to see a blood-washed Africa saved and every person living in the fullness of the love of God (Ephesians 3:16-19) 16 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the Lord's holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge--that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Thanks! Wambui Donate

Missionary Olivia Kitts DONATE Hi there! My name is Olivia Kitts, and I serve as a full time missionary with the organization YWAM (Youth With A Mission) based in Kona, Hawaii. God called me to do a DTS (Discipleship Training School) with YWAM a few years ago, and my life hasn’t been the same since! I discovered that God was a Father who deeply desires relationship with His children and wants to partner with us to bring forth His kingdom in the nations! The specific school I serve with is the Fire and Fragrance DTS. Worship and prayer are the heartbeat of this school and is at the center of everything we do! The vision of Fire and Fragrance is to raise up young leaders who burn with love for Jesus and are willing to go to the hardest and darkest places to share the Gospel with those who haven’t heard! We regularly train and equip hundreds of young people to be sent all over the world in obedience to Matthew 18:18-20 ““And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”” I am passionate about Gen Z knowing that they CAN have a relationship with the God of the universe and seeing them step fully into who God has called them to be! I am also passionate about seeing unreached people groups reached with the Gospel of Jesus, discipled, and reformed by the Word of God. Through staffing at YWAM, I have the great honor of pouring into my generation and leading teams to the nations to see the lost saved, the broken healed, and the captives set free! I’d love to invite YOU to be a part of what God is doing in Gen Z and in the nations!!! As a missionary I do not receive a paycheck, so I am currently building a team of investors who will collectively give $2,000 a month. This will allow for me to fully serve all God has called me to do. If you’d like to commit to being a monthly supporter, or giving a one-time donation, please pray about an amount that you can give here! My mission is simply not my own, it’s a partnership with those who believe that there is a need for the Gospel to go forth! Your support means the world to me. I know that each prayer is heard, and each dollar is used for His Kingdom. You are each a part of this movement of God! By your prayer and support, you are with me as I go! I cannot express my thanks to God and to you who have supported me for making my dream of being a missionary real life. May God bless you! Olivia Donate

Missionary Alexis Faeh DONATE Hello! My name is Alexis Faeh and this is my first year serving as a full time missionary with YWAM (Youth With a Mission). For the next two years, I have committed to helping pioneer a new base in Nashville, Tennessee! The Lord has radically encountered me through his love, and I want every person to have the same chance to meet Him. Two years ago, I was working in full time Marketing but the Lord began to break my heart for the lost and awaken a desire in me for missions. I began to realize that there are still 3 Billion people who haven’t had the chance to meet Him and only 0.37% of missionaries are currently going to those unreached people groups. YWAM’s desire is to raise up a generation of young believers who are on fire for Jesus and willing to go to the ends of the earth for the gospel. I am staffing a school called “Fire and Fragrance” which is focused on training and sending students into missions. Our primary focus is on the least reached populations of the world. We also have a heart to awaken America and the youth of Nashville to the transforming love of Christ. As part of this journey, I will be helping pioneer the base, staffing a Discipleship Training School and leading 3-month missions trips overseas. God has called me to go and I’m trusting he will provide! If you’d like to be a part of what God is doing in this generation and support me through prayer or financial support, please consider partnering with me. I’d love to have you on my team. Alexis Faeh Lafaeh10@gmail.com Donate

Missionary Madeline Coady DONATE Hi there! My name is Madeline Coady, and I am a full time missionary with YWAM (Youth With A Mission) in Portland, Oregon! YWAM is a global missions movement full of young people driven by a passion to know God and to make God known. Here at YWAM PDX, we are committed to engage our city with a loving God and to see His Kingdom come in Portland "as it is in Heaven." One way we plan to specifically engage with our city, is through the coffee industry. That is why we are pioneering Lost + Found Coffee: a coffee roasting business with a mission. Not only do we hope to use this as an outreach opportunity in our own city, but we also plan to impact the nations as we develop long-term, meaningful relationships with our coffee farmers! When I first enrolled in my DTS (Discipleship Training School) with YWAM Lausanne, I had no idea of the impact this would have on my relationship with Jesus. I encountered the love of God in such a new way and began to give Him room to truly be Lord over my entire life. Not only did He give me a passion for discipleship, but He also began to reveal to me how to bring the ministry of the Gospel into the coffee industry. I first witnessed this in Switzerland, then later on outreach in Spain and Morocco. I kid you not, one of the biggest churches in Lausanne, Switzerland opened a coffee shop downtown during my DTS called "le Madeleine." I came home to Tennessee curious how to blend my passion for discipleship with the coffee industry, and after following the Lord to Boise, Idaho in 2022 and staffing Mission Adventures last summer, He crossed my path with the opportunity to join the YWAM PDX staff as the Lost + Found Coffee intern in January 2024! After a year of gaining vocational and ministry skills while pioneering what we call Missional Living Communities here at YWAM PDX, God has invited me to continue what He’s started here in Portland. I will be staffing our brand new Apprenticeship Program as I continue to help launch our Kingdom-focused coffee roasting business. I am so incredibly honored and excited to continue on this wild journey with the Lord, and I am overjoyed to share more with you! I invite you to prayerfully consider the critical part you have to play here in what the Lord is doing in the city of Portland, whether that be through prayer, encouragement or financial support. By joining this movement through your generosity, you are empowering YWAM PDX staff to extend spiritual discipleship and vocational mentorship to a starving generation of young people living in one of the most spiritually dark cities in America. Will you consider partnering with me to see the next generation transformed by the love of God and launched into missional living right here in the city of Portland? Thank you dearly. Love, Madeline Donate

Missionary Anna Curless DONATE Hello! My name is Anna Curless and I am a full time missionary with Youth With A Mission (YWAM) Circuit Riders located in Huntington Beach, California. Circuit Riders is a missional movement empowered by YWAM whose mission statement is to save the lost, revive the saved, and train them all. Our mission field is middle schools, high schools, and universities throughout the United States and Europe. I first heard about Circuit Riders in the spring of 2022 as I was falling into wholehearted love with Jesus. I started having dreams and visions about joining Circuit Riders. Although I didn’t fully grasp their mission, I felt that the Lord was calling me to join them. In a leap of faith, I applied to the DTS (Discipleship Training School) – 3 months of lectures and practicals of life in love with Jesus and as a missionary, and 3 months applying these skills on outreach. My team and I visited over 20 college campuses in the Southern United States. We introduced thousands of young adults to the gospel of Jesus Christ and proclaimed the freedom that He gives! We witnessed young people’s hunger for a move of God, and we witnessed His desire and willingness to move in His people. Once I returned home from DTS in March, I realized that the very thing my heart burns for is the mission of Circuit Riders. I desire to see my generation free from suicide, anxiety, depression, and the all-too-normalized partying lifestyle. I have seen firsthand that the gospel transforms hearts and minds! There is such a hunger in my generation for more, and I firmly believe the object of their desire is Jesus. God has called me to serve with Circuit Riders for the foreseeable future— at least two years. I will plan and lead DTS outreaches in America and Europe. Please consider partnering with me to fulfill The Great Commission through prayer and financial support. I am excited to see how the Lord uses our partnership to further the gospel! Thank you, Anna Donate