In 2003, R joined the team as an English and Linguistics teacher at a university in Central Asia. B joined the ministry after their marriage in 2005.
From 2016 to 2019, they lived in Mizoram in India, honouring a commitment with BCM for R to fulfil a role as Principal at a university college in Mizoram. Just as they were preparing to return to Central Asia in 2020, the global pandemic outbreak prevented them from re-entering the country. R and B have since relocated to New Delhi in India.
R now serves as an Asian Mission Mobiliser at Baptist Mission Australia. He is also undertaking relevant studies at the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies to equip him for his new role.
R is developing a pilot intercultural training program in Northeast India, which will become a model for other contextualised intercultural transformational training programs in the future. The New Testament model of Jesus’ discipleship is being studied and applied to a new program, which will mobilise intercultural teams, and disciple new believers from other religious and cultural backgrounds.
R also continues to visit and actively engage with mission leaders in the region.
Their family desires to return to the frontlines again in God’s timing, as the Spirit leads.
Baptist Mission Australia has a long and fruitful partnership with Baptists in North East India, and
In a remote district of Assam in India, is a people group who we long to see empowered and enabled to
Your gifts will help fund their living and ministry costs. These include:
Please note:
Gifts to R and B are NOT TAX DEDUCTIBLE.
Committed to reconciliation, Baptist Mission Australia acknowledges and pays respect to the past, present and future Traditional Custodians and Elders of this nation and their connection to land, sea and community and all that the creator God gifted to them. We pay our respect to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Committed to reconciliation, Baptist Mission Australia acknowledges and pays respect to the past, present and future Traditional Custodians and Elders of this nation and their connection to land, sea and community and all that the creator God gifted to them. We pay our respect to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.