MTW WESTERN HUB

A native of Texas, Jerry graduated from Dallas Baptist University with a degree in theology and biblical studies. He has been involved in cross-cultural ministry for most of his life, going back to his earliest and most formative years serving with Native Peoples in South Dakota. Jerry has also formally served in cross-cultural missions since 2001, including ministry in three low-income urban areas of Dallas. He has traveled to more nations than he can remember to serve alongside missionaries and indigenous believers.

Most recently, Jerry served as the senior director of missions and church planting at Park Cities Presbyterian in Dallas, where he helped develop the process for preparing new missionaries called “Thrive.” Much more important than credentials, Jerry hopes his years of experience (sometimes learning things the hard way) will benefit him in this new position with MTW. Jerry has been married to Kerry for 20 years. They have two daughters.

Anthony English is the assistant director of Mission to the World’s West Coast Hub and national diversity mobilizer. He is currently enrolled at Birmingham Theological Seminary where he's pursuing a Master of Arts in public theology. He has a heart for evangelism and apologetics as well as helping Christians of color find their place in what God is doing among the nations. Anthony and his wife live in Northern California with their three boys and are members at New City Fellowship of Sacramento where he's under care of the Northern California Presbytery.

Sam Kang is a global missiologist involved with missions in many nations and contexts. Spending his formative years as an MK from East Africa, he has had the privilege to witness and experience the Lord’s work in various contexts. This has shaped his involvement in pastoral ministry as well as in his academic work. Sam holds a Ph.D. in Intercultural Studies from (TEDS)Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and fulfills the role of adjunct professor at the same institution. He is also an ordained teaching elder in the PCA. His passion is to engage, equip, network, and send the next generation of kingdom workers worldwide. He and his wife, Gloria, live in the greater Houston area with their two children.

Teresa Weber is the Youth Mobilizer for the Central Hub. She completed an internship with Mission to the World in Thailand in 2019 and is zealous for missions. Teresa believes that people of all ages should engage in missions and is excited to mobilize youth and watch the Lord work in their lives as well as in the lives of those they serve. 

Tina Simpson was raised on the mission field in North India. After college while she was teaching sixth grade in Chattanooga, she spent three summers in Australia serving with the MTW team. The Lord then called her to serve with MTW’s church-planting team in Nagoya, Japan, where she taught English as a Second Language and was involved with campus ministry. She has now worked in the Atlanta office for over 30 years, talking with potential candidates as they discern their call to missions and connecting them with fields, as well as mobilizing missionaries and helping them through the application process.. She is married with four children and serves on the missions committee of ChristChurch Presbyterian in Atlanta.

Becky's love for other cultures began early, growing up in South Texas surrounded by Mexican culture and heritage. Her first missions trip in high school took her to interior Mexico, and she began to grow a love for Spanish and language learning that later took her to study in Spain in college. As a recent college graduate, she moved to East Asia to travel and teach English, and was floored by the millions who had never heard of Jesus, God, or grace! As newlyweds, Becky and her husband Andrew served in Thailand with MTW from 2006–2008 and 2012–2017 and helped plant two churches in Bangkok, Grace City Bangkok and New City Fellowship. She loves to encourage the pursuit of missions in both churches and with its people to consider how their gifts might be used to bring the nations to Himself.