Sign Up for an Individual Session with Marci

Marci Langston grew up on the mission field. She lived in Guatemala, playing with other kids on the street and learning Spanish. God gave her a heart for seeing the gospel work its way into other cultures. 

She met her husband James in college, fell in love, got married, had 3 kids, applied with the imb and moved to Africa… in just that order. For the first few years they lived in a really nice hut in southern Zambia. They saw the power of the gospel as God planted churches among an unreached people group. They watched as the Holy Spirit raised up leaders. They fell in love with the Tonga people; laughing together with them as they did ministry, and weeping with them at their funerals. After 11 years in Zambia they returned to Arkansas. Their 3 kids (Taylor, Emily and Micah) are now all in college and also love missions.

Currently, James and Marci train believers in the US and around the world to make multiplying disciples using simple and reproducible tools through a small organization called Mission Encounters International.

Sign Up for an Individual Session with Brenda

Brenda grew up as an MK in East Africa, served with husband Ron as a missionary in SE Asia, and was a part of planting a church during the early years of their marriage. She has been practicing as a marriage and family therapist since 2008 and has been teaching in counseling programs since 2014. Her areas of expertise include building resilience & wellness, preventing burnout and compassion fatigue, team leadership, trauma recovery, adult learning and development, and optimal personal functioning. Her work with ministers and missionaries has led her to provide counseling, teaching, and coaching in over 10 countries. She is a full-time Associate Professor in the counseling program of The Townsend Institute at Concordia University Irvine.

Sign Up for an Individual Session with Greg

Greg Pickering is Pastor of Brazos Pointe Fellowship in Lake Jackson, Texas, a church he and his wife Kathy planted in 2001. Challenged to be a church plant that plants churches, BPF has helped plant 24 churches, several in Seattle. Greg is the South Region Leader for the Houston Church Planting Network, the South Texas Ambassador for NAMB, and an IMB Trustee. Kathy is a church planting wives assessor for NAMB. Greg’s a graduate of Texas A&M and Southwestern Seminary. He and Kathy have two married sons and 5 grandchildren. Greg is passionate about missions, mentoring, and mobilizing. He’s also a fan of baseball (Go Stros) and all things Texas A&M. 

Sign Up for an Individual Session with Ron

Ron is semi-retired and currently serves pastors and leaders as a coach & ministry consultant. In retirement Ron also gets to live out one of his deep passions by running a fishing lodge on the Kenai River in Alaska. Ron is the former multisite Pastor at Saddleback Church, where he spent 7 years developing Saddleback’s reproductive multisite model and systems. Ron is known as a strategic thinker and church growth practitioner who loves helping churches by coming alongside next-generation church pastors and leaders. Ron has spent decades as a Sr Pastor, strategic planner, publisher, entrepreneur, missionary, church planter, and multisite practitioner. Ron’s greatest joy comes from being available to encourage and process or problem-solve with younger pastors and leaders. He considers it a privilege to now be that ‘older’ but (hopefully) relevant leader whom he needed when he was in the heat of planting and leading a growing church.