Personnel Bios
Mike Matthews:
Since 1976 Mike Matthews has worked in Alaska, Canada, and Siberia in various cross-cultural ministry roles – church planter, Bible teacher, curriculum developer, field director, and church planting consultant. Mike is a PhD student in religious studies. He coordinates Worldview Resource Group’s training with agencies that work with First Nations peoples. He and his wife, Kathleen, live in Spokane, Washington, where they enjoy gardening and spending time in nature. They have four children and six grandchildren.
Greg Melendes:
Natives of Wisconsin, Greg and his wife Laura served 21 years with New Tribes Mission in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and Greg an additional six years as Missions Pastor in California before joining Worldview Resource Group in 2006. While in PNG Greg served as a church planter, translator, and consultant, helping establish two indigenous churches among the Waxe people group. As WRG’s Ibero-America Coordinator, Greg enjoys working with leaders and missionaries from Mexico to Argentina as together they prepare a new wave of missionaries for service around the world. Greg and Laura live in Colorado Springs, Colorado and have one daughter, Aubrey.
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Robert Strauss:
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The President and CEO of Worldview Resource Group, Robert has a Doctorate of Missiology from Biola University’s School of Intercultural Studies in Los Angeles, California. Along with George Walker and Mark Zook, Robert co-founded WRG in December 2001. For 30 years he has worked in intercultural training. He lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado, with his wife, Carole, where they enjoy hiking and mountain biking. They have two married children, Carrie and Christopher, and five beautiful grandchildren.
George Walker:
For 18 years in Southeast Asia, George Walker was a cross-cultural church planter among the unreached Bisorio people, where a local church was established and the Scriptures were translated into the Bisorio language. Subsequently, for the next five years George was the coordinator of a U.S. missionary training center. He has also worked as a church planting consultant in Asia, South America, and the Balkans. For the past seven years George has worked as a training consultant in India, Ibero-America, and among ministries with First Nations peoples. In 2001 George co-founded Worldview Resource Group. He and his wife, Harriett, live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. They have two children and three grandchildren.
Mark Zook:
Originally from Belleville, PA, Mark spent 14 years in Papua New Guinea working among the Mouk tribal people. Mark and his wife, Gloria, along with Mouk believers, planted churches among this tribal people (featured in the video, EE-Taow! The Mouk Story—the Mouk journey is graphically portrayed, from a history of murderous sorcery and deceit to a discovery of God’s love and an understanding of truth) In addition, Mark has worked as a church planting consultant and was a faculty member of the New Tribes Mission missionary training center in Jersey Shore, PA for four years. Mark and Gloria are cofounders WRG.
Dr. Tom Steffen:
Dr. Steffen is Professor of Intercultural Studies and Director of the Doctor of Missiology program at the School of Intercultural Studies, Biola University. Before joining the faculty of Biola, he planted a church among the Ifugao tribal people in the Philippines. He is the author of the widely used "Passing the Baton - Church Planting That Empowers," and the co-author of the new book "Great Commission Companies."
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