The Launch - Middle East

Bringing the Gospel Into the Middle East (June 21 - July ?)

This summer, I have the opportunity to spend three weeks in Jordan participating in “The Launch Middle East” — an immersive missions intensive focused on worship, discipleship, evangelism, and serving local communities throughout the region.

Our team will live in close community while partnering with local believers, engaging villages with the Gospel, serving the church, and learning how to communicate and minister effectively across cultures. The heart behind this trip is simple: to love people well and make Jesus known.

Jordan sits in one of the most spiritually and politically significant regions in the world. This experience will not only deepen my understanding of the Middle East and its people, but also strengthen the long-term calling I feel toward reconciliation, ministry, and peacebuilding in the region.

What We’ll Be Doing

• Worship & prayer gatherings

• Outreach in local villages

• Serving and encouraging the local church

• Cultural and language immersion

• Training in communication, unity, and conflict resolution

• Building relationships with people throughout the region

Financial Goal

The total cost for this trip is approximately $3,000, which includes:

• International airfare to the Middle East: $1,200–1,600

• In-country housing, meals, transportation, and ministry expenses: ~$1,500

Any support given helps make this mission possible and directly contributes to ministry efforts on the ground.

How You Can Partner

Pray

Pray for safety, wisdom, humility, and meaningful opportunities to serve and encourage people throughout the region.

Give

If you feel led to financially support this trip, every contribution — large or small — helps make this possible.

Share

Sharing this page with friends, family, or communities who care about missions and the Middle East is also a huge encouragement.

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Not only is this trip a deeply full-circle experience for me personally, but it also further strengthens and confirms the calling I feel toward the Middle East and the people who call this region home. The local leaders facilitating this trip, Daniel and his wife Lydia, carry a sincere apostolic and pastoral heart for Jordan and the surrounding region. As meaningful as the trip itself will be, one of the greatest gifts is the opportunity to build genuine relationship and trust with resident Jordanian leaders who have faithfully devoted their lives to serving their communities and advancing the Gospel in the Middle East.

I believe these relationships will become meaningful and lasting connections as I continue to pursue long-term work throughout the region. In addition, two dear friends whom I previously served alongside in Israel will also be part of this Launch team, making this experience even more personal and significant to me. There are several deeply meaningful factors surrounding this trip that make it feel profoundly anchoring and closely connected to the future I believe God is continuing to unfold.

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Some photos from my first trip to Jordan back in the summer of 2012 (14 years ago)!

Tel Aviv, Israel

I’m grateful to share that I’ve been accepted into Tel Aviv University, where I plan to pursue a second master’s degree in Conflict Resolution and Mediation with a focus on International Diplomacy.

My hope is to move back to Israel this fall and continue building upon the life, relationships, and calling the Lord first began unfolding there in 2023.

While there will always be opportunities for ministry in Israel, this portion of the journey is less of a traditional missions trip and more of a strategic transition into the next season of my life and calling. After completing my time in Jordan, I plan to cross the border into Israel and spend several weeks preparing for my return this fall as a master’s student in Conflict Resolution and Mediation.

Since 2023, Israel has become the place where I have spent the greatest portion of my time — living, studying, volunteering, ministering, discipling, and building deep community. Over the past several years, the Lord has opened doors for me to serve alongside pastors, nonprofit leaders, students, and local communities throughout the country. What began as a simple willingness to go has steadily developed into a deep love for the land, the people, and the work taking place there.

This summer provides a unique and incredibly meaningful opportunity to reconnect with ministry leaders, my former pastor, and several men I previously discipled while living in Israel. Because I will be relocating to a new city and attending a new university, this time will also allow me to begin establishing practical foundations before officially moving back on a two-year student visa — including finding a church community, touring campus, building new relationships in Tel Aviv, and prayerfully searching for long-term housing.

Housing in Tel Aviv is notoriously difficult due to the density and cost of the city, so I am especially hopeful to pursue housing opportunities through ministry and relational connections rather than navigating the market alone. More than logistics, however, this trip represents continuity — returning not as a stranger, but to continue cultivating relationships, ministry, and community that have already deeply shaped my life.

I genuinely believe the Lord is making a way for me to return to Israel this fall to continue building upon the life and work I have been privileged to steward there over the past several years. The opportunity to first be in Jordan opens an incredible door to make many of these connections and preparations before fully stepping into this next chapter.

While housing in Israel this trip is largely covered through friendships and ministry connections, I am still raising support for transportation, food, local travel, and transition expenses as I prepare to relocate back to Israel this fall for graduate studies at Tel Aviv University.

• Border crossing & transportation from Jordan — $100

• Food & groceries — $250

• Public transportation — $100

• Coffee meetings & ministry connections — $75

• Phone / SIM / practical expenses — $50

• Apartment & university preparation — $125

• Miscellaneous / contingency — $100

A couple photos from my time living in Israel — two dear friends of mine on the left, and a discipleship group hike through the desert on the right.

Stuttgart, Germany

What began as a multi-city speaking tour last February has opened doors for continued partnership, teaching, and encouragement.

Earlier this year, I had the privilege of traveling throughout southwestern Germany on a ministry and speaking tour — teaching in churches, leading worship, and encouraging leaders in building stronger cultures of prayer, discipleship, and spiritual formation within their communities. One church in particular was deeply impacted by the vision of becoming a praying church and has invited me back to Stuttgart this summer to lead a weekend seminar focused on prayer and leadership development for both their congregation and ministry leaders.

Following my time in Israel, I plan to spend about 10 days in Germany teaching, reconnecting with pastors and leaders, and continuing relationships that were established during my previous visit.

While many of the primary expenses are being generously covered by the hosting church, I will still be responsible for several train journeys, a few meals, and my one-way flight from Germany back to Houston as I conclude this summer season of ministry abroad.

I’m budgeting $1,200, which primarily covers the one-way flight back to Houston.

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Several photos from my recent speaking tour through southwestern Germany this past February/March.