David serves as the Executive Director of the Missional International Church Network as well as Senior Pastor of North Sea Baptist Church, an international church in Stavanger, Norway.

Though born in the USA, he moved overseas at a young age due to his father’s work in the oil industry, living in the Netherlands, Norway, Oklahoma, and Texas during his childhood. He attended Houston Baptist University where he met Scottie, his wife, and they are blessed with two children, one who is at university.

David did seminary studies at both Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary as well as Fuller Theological Seminary where he completed a Masters in Global Leadership.

In addition to his full-time work for the church and serving MICN, he is the president of Fresch Ministries International, a ministry aimed at empowering leaders and indigenous ministries around the world as well as the CEO of Fresch Investment Initiatives, a company seeking to connect Kingdom-minded investors with Kingdom-impacting businesses around the world.

North Sea Baptist Church
Fresch Ministries International

Andrew has taken on the role of Church Starting Coordinator for MICN, helping to make sure we are true to the “Starting” part of our mission.  He is leading MICN in coming alongside IC’s, church planters, national mother churches, denominations, and anyone else who wants to start an international church and doing what we can to help those IC’s get started all over the world! His prayer is to see healthy, Christ-centered international churches started and strengthened in strategic cities where the nations and the next generation intersect. Andrew himself has just transitioned to Oslo, Norway with his family to start an international church.

Bill has taken on the role of Church Strengthening Coordinator for MICN, helping to make sure we are true to the “Strengthening” part of our mission.  He is leading MICN in finding the best ways to address the needs of IC’s today while at the same time leveraging their strengths to help one another be as effective as possible. He has a deep commitment to discipleship and effective communication in the IC movement.  Bill also serves as the Associate Pastor of Discipleship and Training at Fellowship Dubai.

Werner serves as both the Regional Coordinator for the Americas and the Senior Regional Coordinator globally, giving guidance to the other Regional Coordinators and being a connector between them and the Senior Leadership Team and other teams within MICN.  The Regional Coordinators work hard to connect with IC’s in their regions through one-on-one communication, online gathering, and an annual Regional Recharge retreat.  Additionally, Werner pastors an IC in Buenos Aires and serves as the South American Regional Coordinator for World Mission Centre.

Dina Dreessen serves as the Implementer on the MICN Admin Team. Dina’s role with MICN is to make sure the decisions made by the MICN Board and the Admin Team are completed as directed. One of her main functions is to plan the annual Global Gathering.

Dina and her husband Paul currently serve at International Baptist Church in San Jose, Costa Rica. Paul is the Senior Pastor and Dina is the Worship Leader. They have one married daughter and 2 granddaughters who currently reside in Houston, Texas.

Diane serves as the Resource Development Coordinator for MICN. Her role is to lead a team in gathering, developing, and implementing resources that will help IC leaders develop and grow healthy missional international churches. She has been involved with teaching and preparing multicultural students and pastors for reaching the world around them with the gospel.  Pre-covid she was pastoring an IC in Florence, Italy.

Randy McGehee serves as RC for Europe. He has served as Pastor, Evangelist, Missionary and Church Planter. He and his wife, Diane are founders of Rivers of Living Waters Ministries. Randy began in ministry in 1978. He has served as a pastor in the U.S. and Italy and he and Diane have shared special ministry in New Zealand, Europe and Canada.

Diane and Randy are the co-founding pastors of the Florence International Church in Florence, Italy. Randy as well has served as executive officer for the International Christian Fellowship Association of Italy.

Werner and Adél Swart were both born and raised in South Africa. After 17 years on the mission-field living and serving in Africa and South America, they moved to Argentina in 2012. They now serve as pastors of United Community Church in Buenos Aires.

In addition to working as the MICN Ambassador for the Americas, Werner also serves as the South American Regional Coordinator for World Mission Centre, assisting local churches to train and send out their own workers into the harvest field. Werner and Adél have been married for almost 30 years and have five children and one grand-child.

Martin and Kirsten Hofmann have lived in Chiang Mai, Thailand since 2012. Both are German, but Kirsten was born in Thailand where she spent a significant part of her childhood as an MK (Missionary Kid). After theological seminary, Martin first worked as a pastor in a local church. Then he became a full-time youth evangelist traveling all over Germany.

Martin has a ThM in Missions and Evangelism from Trinity Evangelical University, Deerfield, IL. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Hofmanns moved to Leipzig and founded a church in the former communist part of the country. In Chiang Mai they are pastoring an international, Thai-German-speaking church. Martin’s and Kirsten’s first encounter with MICN was In 2018 at the conference in Hanoi, Vietnam. Since then, they have been enthusiastic about the great potential of this network.

Bill Koogler together with his wife and 2 school-aged children have lived in Dubai since 2016. Bill serves as the Associate Pastor of Discipleship and Training at Fellowship Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates. He joins the MICN with a deep commitment to discipleship and effective communication in the IC movement.

Bill has a ThM in Pastoral Leadership and a DMin in Expository Preaching from Dallas Theological Seminary. As Dubai becomes more diverse, Bill seeks creative ways of understanding and communicating God’s truth to train over 85 nationalities.

Living in Africa during my teens and in a Canadian Aboriginal community as a child gave my heart and ministry an unshakeable global perspective. I have just concluded serving The Lighthouse Church, an International Church in Kuwait to begin working full time with MICN (Missional International Church Network – www.micn.org as its first Executive Director. The past year I have also had the privilege of serving GCGW as the steering committee chairman. Melanie and I have three grown children and five grandchildren who all live in Canada.

David and Lana Packer began their ministry together in youth and student ministry in large churches in the USA. From those settings God called them into overseas/cross-cultural work. They have served as missionaries in the Philippines, as senior pastor and wife of International Baptist Church of Singapore (1992-2004) and IBC Stuttgart, Germany (2009-2020). Lana serves as director of the anti-human trafficking ministry, Kainos, that the Packers organized in 2014, as well as speaks to women’s groups around the world. David’s heart is to help strengthen international churches overseas, and to encourage and mentor pastors. David holds a D.Min. in World Missions from Southwestern Seminary. They are both published authors. And have three grown children and five grandkids.

Philippe and Jan de Chambrier love serving the Lord together around the world. Married since 1988, they are now both ordained in ministry after having pursued secular careers, Philippe as an airline pilot with United and Jan as a professional musician and professor of music at Rice University. Called to teach to the nations, they have served for many years as Global Leaders with International Leadership Institute. With a passionate desire to see individuals and families healed and restored through prayer, they established the Christian Healing Prayer (CHP) ministry, establishing centers of healing prayer in hospital chapels. Jan and Philippe were also founding members of Christ Restoration Ministries, an inner healing prayer ministry. They are blessed to be the parents of one awesome son, Paul.

Vic and I lived in South Africa until 1999. We then moved to Kuwait and then finally arrived in America in 2003. We came to Christ in 1991 and the Lord has continued to bless us in miraculous ways. We have 3 children and 4 grandchildren.

We live in Woodland Texas and I have been mentored by Jan deChambrier for 8 years. We look forward to working with MICN for many, many years to come.

Mary and David Sixta reside in Houston, Texas and are active in their church as well as local ministries, including TruHope, an inner healing and deliverance ministry. Mary is a retired nurse and David is a retired geophysicist. They have been married 31 years and have a son and daughter living in El Paso, Texas and Barcelona, Spain respectively.

Karen is a born and raised Texan who has lived in the Houston area since 1978.  She joined Jan & Philippe de Chambrier’s Christian Healing Prayer hospital ministry in 2017, and has led women

‘s Bible studies to foster personal experience of the Holy Spirit.

A now semi-retired business owner and former accountant, she has been ministering in inner healing s

ince 2011, now serving in a ministry called Freedom Ministry Prayer at her local church.

She is married to Jeff, has a daughter named Abigail who is a teacher, and manages a menagerie curre

ntly composed of 4 dogs and one very careful cat.

Born and raised in England, Elizabeth King was trained first as a registered nurse and then a certified nurse midwife, working in London, Paris, Geneva, and Kuwait.

It was there that she met her husband, Lowell, and was happily married for 51 years until his recent death in November 2021. Raising five children together, they lived in Indonesia (Java and Sumatra), Lagos, Nigeria, and London, England before moving to Houston, Texas upon Lowell’s retirement.

In Houston, Elizabeth earned a PhD in high-risk obstetric nursing and worked at UT-Houston School of Nursing, St. Luke’s Hospital in the Texas Medical Center, and Lone Star School of Nursing.

Now retired, Elizabeth has taken an active role in prayer and spiritual care at her home church, Champion Life Center, in addition to ministering at Hope Homeless Center. She has served as a member of the Christian Healing Prayer ministry with Jan and Philippe de Chambrier in Houston-area hospitals as well as serving as a lay chaplain at St. Luke’s—The Woodlands Hospital.