Our team
The Executive
Dr. Marcus Grohmann
Director
Post-doctoral researcher at the Beyers Naudé Centre for Public Theology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
Deborah Bernhard
Deputy director
Missions coach and advisor on contextualization and the Buddhist context at Middle Path Initiative – previously served in Thailand.
Maria Richter
secretary
Physicist at the Fraunhofer Institute in Dresden, Germany.
Governing Board
Dorothea Witte
Treasurer
Trained banker; M.Sc. in economics; close relationship with a church in Cuba for many years
James Alongi
PhD candidate Dallas Theological Seminary
Dr. Jim Harries
Chair governing board
Adjunct, William Carey International University – missionary in East Africa.
Rev. Canon Dr. John MacDonald
Emeritus professor of Mission, Trinity Anglican Seminary, one-time missionary to Latin America.
Advisory Board
Dr. Jay Gary
Associate Professor of Strategic Leadership, Oral Roberts University, Tulsa, OK, USA; Entrepreneur, educator, and futurist; developer of the Perspectives mission study program
Frank Paul
Member of OJC Christian Intentional Community, one-time fraternal worker with indigenous churches in Argentina, author of “Mission without Conquest”
Jean Johnson
Director Five Stones Global, six years of work with Cambodian refugees in the US and 16 years of service in Cambodia, coach-trainer of cross-cultural ministry workers, author of “We Are Not the Hero”
Dr. Chris Flanders
Professor of Missions at Abilene Christian University, research on honor, face, and shame; Thailand
Tim Reeves
Longtime supporter of Vulnerable Mission with a background in computer programming, physics and philosophy.
