Engaging the Next Generation in Missions

Pictured L to R: Christina Zeeb, Andrew Butcher, Auston Bevins, Peggy Spiers,
Sandeep David, and Meagan Mann] 

Description:

Peggy Spiers of All Nations International will facilitate a conversation with a group of panelists who are actively discipling/mobilizing the next generation. Join us as they explore questions about "passing the baton" to the next generation. Let's brainstorm who our next generation is and how we might engage with them. We will ask what missions means to the generation behind ours. How is the local church doing with engaging the whole congregation?  What needs to change? How can mission organizations help?  

Panelist Background:

Peggy Spiers came to All Nations after being a longtime friend and local church ministry partner. Her first career was in the first grade classroom. Her second career began with coordinating Perspectives classes, volunteering with Wycliffe and Wycliffe Associates and working in a local church’s missions department. These years of learning and travel taught her much about the challenges of missionaries. To see Jesus worshipped among all peoples, Peggy wants to help send strategically and care for workers on the field well. As Global Gap Analyst, Peggy works to develop and sustain healthy partnerships between goers, senders, home churches and agencies.

Christina Zeeb helps people grow closer to Jesus, become more themselves, and launch movements wherever they go. She is a former children's pastor, certified life coach and an amateur gardener. Christina dreams of a day when the generation behind her loves God, themselves, and EVERYONE ELSE so deeply that the choices they make from a place of love shift the course of families, communities, and history. She started making disciples and training leaders in the Pacific Northwest before she could drive and believes that waterfalls and chocolate are essential elements to a healthy balanced life. In this season, Christina serves fieldworkers and the All Nations Kansas City Hub as a trainer, coach and director of mobilization.

Andrew Butcher is a Christ-follower who has been blessed to witness God’s desire for all peoples to be in relationship with Him. Currently Andrew lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas, where he works as a mechanical engineer for a manufacturing company: Maynard Inc., and gets to serve as the Missions Coordinator and Youth Co-Director for Vertical Community Church. Where he gets the opportunity to disciple students, equip the Church to participate in God’s heart for the world, and facilitate partner care.

Auston Bevins is a civil engineer with a passion for mobilized communities. He graduated from Kansas State University where college ministry and the Perspectives course placed a spotlight on God’s heart for the world. Since then, Auston has traveled to southeast Asia, engaged with international students, and served on three Perspective coordinating teams. Auston and his wife currently live in Columbia, Missouri, and are part of a local team seeking to unite, mobilize, and equip God’s people in the Mid-Missouri region.

Sandeep David serves TMS Global by managing the financial reporting and analysis for informed decision making. He has lived in three different countries (India, New Zealand, and the U.S.), and has a heart for missions and serving cross culturally. In his spare time, he serves as a youth leader in his church to champion the next generation for Christ. 

Meagan Mann lives in Worcester, Massachusetts with her husband Foster. Her background is in urban diaspora studies and cultural anthropology. Meagan has lived and worked alongside the refugees God has brought to Worcester and the Boston area for over 6 years. She directly works with the NGO WARM (Welcoming Alliance for Refugee Ministry) to equip and train followers of Jesus in how to welcome refugees in a culturally sensitive and Biblically aware manner. In her spare time Meagan enjoys thrifting forgotten treasures, learning herbalism, and researching cultural folktales.