Lynn Kickingbird, a mission team member at Peace Lutheran Church, Edmond, OK, served on the Strategic Planning Team for Missions in the formation of the NALC, and later served on its Executive Council. She currently serves on the Texas-Oklahoma Missions Region Mission Team and on PLC's Sending Team, leads a weekly in-home Bible Study with her husband, and is active with her 4 grandchildren.
Dalager joined Prayer League ministry partners in Lviv, Ukraine, in September 2025. She works alongside them and their families, teaching English, leading youth and young adult groups, and working with new or expecting displaced mothers. She also writes LETTERS FROM LVIV, a bimonthly newsletter about her missionary life in Ukraine.
Juan Fernández Bocángel has served with the Prayer League since 2009. For 14 years in Bolivia, he partnered with Lutheran churches across Latin America in discipleship/leadership development, helping establish the online Lutheran Seminary of Theology (SLT) in 2022. He and wife Anne currently serve at WMPL’s Home Office in the U.S. Juan continues working with SLT, also serving as Assistant Regional Director (ARD) for North America.
Kathy Cummings joined Grace Lutheran’s Missions and Service Team in February 2023. She serves as editor of Mission Connect (a special mission-focused edition of Grace’s newsletter, Grace Vine), which relates correspondence and updates monthly from Grace’s ministry partners to the congregation. Kathy also coordinates Grace’s annual Missions Festivals.
David Tran, born in 1991, is a Liberty University graduate in Christian Ministries and Discipleship. Based in Ho Chi Minh City with his wife, he serves the Lord through ESL ministry, his local Baptist church, and mission work with the BGEA and ALWM. Duc is dedicated to making disciples and reflecting Christ through medical missions and clean water initiatives.
Pastor Mark Wilhelm serves as Director of Donor Growth and Formation for the Spiritual Orphans Network, helping connect churches to global mission opportunities and deepen discipleship engagement. He writes and speaks on stewardship, discipleship, spiritual formation and connecting churches in mission partnership cross-culturally.
Rev. Dr. Mark E. Ryman has served as Pastor for St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Salisbury, NC, since 2021. Previously, Pastor Ryman served congregations in North Carolina and Ohio, as well as a call to specialized ministry with Sola Publishing. He is pictured here with his dog, Wyclif.
Katherine Eppley, a daughter of the most-High King, disciple of Christ, sister, wife and mother, works as an English as a Second Language (ESL) instructor for Adult Education programs in the greater Phoenix, AZ, area. She and husband Matthew, married for 32 years, have 3 grown children.
