NPC Member Missionaries
NPC members who are actively engaged in missions (often professionally) with Christian mission/evangelism organizations.
Designation by application to Outreach Pillar, reevaluated every three years.
Peggy McCracken - The Christian Embassy (Washington, DC)
(http://www.christianembassy.com)
Peggy interacts with diplomats, wives of diplomats, and women who are chiefs of staff to
members of congress. Her purpose is to serve them and to share with them the basic
teachings of Jesus Christ and encourage them to respond to his message of real and lasting hope.
John Wagner - Young Life (Washington, DC)
(http://sites.younglife.org/sites/EasternDivision/)
John serves as Young Life's Senior Vice President for the Eastern Division. John is also a
valued NPC Ministry Associate. Young Life's goal is to give adolescents and teenagers hope
for the future by sharing the Good News of Jesus Christ.
John Bernbaum - Russian American Christian University (Moscow, Washington, DC)
(http://www.racu.org)
The mission of the Russian-American Christian University is to train young Russian Christians
for leadership roles in their country. Our goal is to equip these young people to be leaders
with integrity and with sound moral character, so they can help to build a just and peaceful
society in the Russian Federation. Our university is the only faith-based liberal arts
university in Russia, so its role is truly unique.
For more about NPC members' involvement with RACU, click here:
http://npceurope.org/index.cfm?main=RACU.
NPC contact: Miley Tucker Frost
Keith Patman - Wycliffe Bible Translators
(http://www.wycliffe.org)
Keith provides tools and training to African Bible translators. The main tool he is helping
to develop is a series of translation guides to the books of the Bible, written in French
for those who are translating from French versions of the Bible into their own African
languages. He is also currently involved in twice-yearly training workshops in Central
African Republic for teams from four languages that are translating the Gospel of Luke.
Mary Lou Lyon - CrossCare International (USA, Europe, Eastern Europe, former Soviet Union)
(http://www.faithinthefamily.org) (http://maryloulyon.com)
As a professional counselor, Mary Lou serves as a resource to pastors, missionaries,
churches and mission agencies in providing emotional and spiritual care for their
ministries. A special focus of her work is support for Christian workers in Europe and
Eastern Europe. She travels to this part of the world meeting with mission leaders,
speaking at conferences and providing individual counseling. The goal of her ministry
is to help missionaries and Christian workers survive and thrive in the midst of the
unique pressures they encounter.
Steve and Janice Quakenbush - Wycliffe Bible Translators (Dallas, Texas)
(http://www.wycliffe.org) (http://www.sil.org/)
Steve and Janice Quakenbush served in the Philippines 1984-2008, primarily as part of a
team that translated the Agutaynen New Testament, dedicated in 2004. Steve directed the
work in the Philippines 1997-2001, and coordinated Academic Services for Asia 2004-2008.
Today they are committed to providing academic resources and training for a worldwide
Bible translation movement, so that peoples of all nations can have access to the
Scriptures in a language that speaks to their hearts.
On July 1, Steve began his new assignment as International Academic Services Director.
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