Angela Breidenbach is Director of Operations & Youth Education for Spiritual Orphans Network (SON). A native of Albuquerque, NM, she had a 30-year career in finance operations. She has completed 18 mission seasons leading teams and teaching youth about Jesus, and loves when God reveals Himself in unexpected ways.
Nathan Hanson has been a pastor in over a dozen rural congregations, serving since his ordination in 1984. His experiences have been expanded by mission opportunities and ministry working with chemical dependency. He lives in Vining, Minnesota with his wife, Ruth. They have 3 grown children.
A pastor for 33 years, Tom Hux served 5 years at a three-point parish in Montana and 28 years in various roles at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in Salem, OR. He and his wife, Brenda, have 3 sons and 3 grandchildren. His passion is seeing people drawn closer to Jesus.
Carol & Paul Anderson are University of Minnesota graduates: Carol (Elem. Ed), Paul (B.S./Ph.D. Biochemistry). Paul retired in 2001 after 30 years research/teaching at the U of MN Medical School-Duluth. Active members of First Lutheran Church, Duluth, MN, they are involved in many programs and initiatives. They have 3 children and 3 grandsons.
Pastor Rebecca Heber, ordained in 1987, served as an early member of the Lutheran CORE Steering Committee, Provisional Dean of the Sonshine Mission District, and on the NALC Executive Council. She and her husband, Pastor Bill Heber, planted OASIS Church, the first NALC church in Florida, in September 2010.
Carmen Gronewold has been involved with human trafficking issues since 1996 when WMPL sent her to Nepal to serve with Peace Rehabilitation Center (PRC), a Nepali charitable organization dedicated to fighting and preventing sexual exploitation. In October 2009, she became the PRC Associate Director for North America.
Lanto Rabenasolo, FOMM Program Director in Madagascar, has 38 years experience with church-related organizations, strategic and organizational work, and in Christian leadership. He is a deacon in the Ambatovinaky Lutheran Church. A multi-disciplinary manager with background in Economics and Micro-management from the University of Antananarivo Madagascar, he served 22 years with SALFA.
Rev. Dagaga Gemachu (MA) is a NALC Global worker and lead pastor of the Oromo Christian Fellowship Nairobi (OCFN). His focus is on evangelization and discipleship of refugees in the local area and its outreach to the Borana community in northern Kenya. He and his wife, Bruktawit, have one son.
Julia and Vincent work in the Samburu area of northern Kenya, showing The Jesus Film to unreached people in these isolated areas. They maintain the WMPL mission station, work on building projects, provide discipleship to leaders, and operate Outreach Mission Team, the non-governmental organization (NGO) they founded in 2016.
