Because of the sensitive nature of John’s work, we are not using his full name or specific country of service. For his safety – and the safety of those he is serving among and with – please also refrain from posting any information or images on social media.

We are excited to welcome John to the family of NAB missionaries. John has served as an adjunct faculty at Taylor Seminary in Edmonton, Alberta, where he taught evangelism, church planting, and cultural anthropology. He is a respected missiologist – he holds a PhD in Missiology from Asbury Seminary – with wide ranging cross-cultural experience in church planting, pastoral ministry, and theological education across South Asia and North America.

John and his wife, Eve, have been partners in life and ministry for three decades. They have two adult children. John planted and pastors a church in Edmonton and has established Karuna, an evangelism and church-planting ministry driven by compassion, in one of South Asia’s most unreached regions. Karuna has trained over 120 native evangelists and planted more than 100 house churches.

The first overseas missionary to come out of the NAB 144 years ago was Emma Rauschenbusch, who, in 1882, traveled to South Asia. We now have this wonderful opportunity as the NAB to engage once again with South Asia through the ministry of one of our newest missionaries, John. South Asia has the largest concentration of unreached people groups in the world, so this is an important step forward.

Pray for John as he develops a team of prayer and financial supporters who will partner with him in taking the Gospel to the unreached peoples God has called him to – a people dear to his heart.