My husband, Rob, and I met in Tokyo in the summer of 1980. After our marriage the following year, we spent 21 years as missionaries in Japan.

During our years working and raising our family on the field, we saw first-hand the importance of the emotional and spiritual health of global workers. We observed that missionaries often have excellent skills in theology, missions, and church planting, but it’s their hearts and lives that often have the greatest impact on the national church. Overworked, striving, and spiritually stagnant missionaries will unwittingly reproduce these same qualities into the national leaders with whom they work. But missionaries who attend to their own souls often have a greater capacity to reproduce spiritual depth and vitality into the national church and its leaders.

Since 2003 our ministry has focused on the spiritual formation of global workers, especially those serving in under-resourced areas of the world.

Rob and I are both graduates of Fuller Theological Seminary. I have an MA in Global Leadership, trained as a ministry coach through Creative Results Management, and am a certified Spiritual Director and Ignatian Exercises Director through SoulFormation in Portland, OR.

Rob and I have two adult TCK children, both born and raised in Japan.