Marcia Bosscher InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Madison, Wisconsin

Marcia is editor of The Well, a virtual gathering place for graduate and professional women to receive wisdom, care, challenge, and inspiration as they seek to follow Christ in the academic or work world. The Well is published by Women in the Academy & Professions, a ministry of InterVarsity's Graduate & Faculty Ministries.

To learn more about InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, go to www.intervarsity.org.

Calvin Chen InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Madison, Wisconsin

Calvin Chen serves as Campus Staff Member at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship.  His primary responsibility is to serve as advisor, discipler, and evangelist for InterVarsity's ministry to Asian American undergraduate students (AAIV) at the UW. 

Calvin was born in Chicago to Taiwanese parents and raised in a church planted by Christian Reformed (CRC) Home Missions, targeting ethnically Chinese students and faculty at the University of Chicago. His father served as an elder at the church and his mother served as the choir director and also worked for the Back to God Hour (a CRC broadcast ministry), preparing Mandarin-language gospel material for broadcast in China. Spending his teens in Taiwan, Calvin attended both a missionary school and a secular school for international business children before moving to Champaign, Illinois to study history and voice performance at the University of Illinois. His parents still reside in Taiwan and his sister is a cardio-pulmonologist in Chicago.

Calvin writes, "The process through which God called me back to faith in college, brought me to Madison, and prepared me for college ministry in a pan-Asian American college context, all testify of his goodness and grace. It's pure coincidence how God also led me back to a CRC church, and the ministry partnership with Geneva has been very rewarding. Geneva's engagement of the campus, multi-generational discipleship and fellowship, and sound doctrine fantastically complement InterVarsity's strengths in evangelism, missions, and Bible study. It's fun and challenging working in a pan-Asian ministry with critical masses of Chinese, Korean, and Hmong American students, yet partnering alongside other InterVarsity ministries on campus and also benefiting from the community and discipleship of Geneva."

More info about AAIV: www.uwaaiv.org
Contact email: calvin_chen@ivstaff.org

Amy Lewis, Athletes in Action, Texas A&M University

Amy is campus staff with Athletes in Action (AIA) at Texas A&M University.  Her responsibilities are to engage college athletes emotionally, intellectually, and spiritually in their campus environment.  A majority of her time is spent doing evangelism and discipleship, and sending athletes out to use their platforms for sharing the gospel with others.  In short, Amy writes:  “I trust God to change lives within the athletic department at Texas A&M.  Ultimately our goal is to see a spiritual movement of changed, equipped, and spiritually led disciples grow in College Station and see many sent out as athletic influencers for Christ in their campus, community, and world.”  Amy joined the staff of AIA in the summer of 2009, after being involved with AIA at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 2005-2009.

“God has placed an intense desire on my heart to address the issue of identity formation in young adults’ lives,” Amy says. “Athletes specifically seem to struggle with defining themselves by something (sport) that is inconstant and often leads to destructive living because it never satisfies.  Praise God I know the comfort, strength, peace, and joy that is found in knowing your identity in Christ Jesus and the work He accomplished on the cross to save us from our sin and separation from God. There is nothing I would rather do than pursue this end with AIA, and train others to go out and do the same wherever God guides their path post-college.”

“It is an incredible blessing to have the opportunity to help fulfill the Great Commission in this generation.  If you would like to get a bigger picture of how God is using AIA to impact the world, check out our website at http://www.athletesinaction.org.”

Terry and Shirley Morrison InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Madison, Wisconsin

Dr. Terry Morrison is the Emeritus Director of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship Faculty Ministry, a position which has kept him moving by ground and air for several decades. Though he is more home-based in Madison now, he is still very involved in faculty ministry, mostly in Wisconsin, and other types of Christian leadership and teaching, at Geneva Campus Church, where he and Shirley attend, and through InterVarsity and other organizations. Shirley worked thirty years as Terry's secretary, in the Intervarsity Madison office. She is enjoying her retirement, and continuing to serve as a volunteer in many ways, including as a pianist at Geneva.

To learn more about InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, go to www.intervarsity.org.

Pamela Oldham InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Madison, Wisconsin

Pamela serves as Director of Human Resources (HR), leading InterVarsity's HR team in serving over 1700 staff members, both paid and volunteer. About herself and her work with InterVarsity, Pamela writes, "I'm originally from Indiana. God called me to this position at InterVarsity's national office in 1997. My involvement in InterVarsity as an undergrad--coming to personal faith in Christ through this ministry--combined with my career in Human Resources, have provided a rich background from which to serve in this position. My family consists of my sister, her four children and five grandchildren, and my sister-in-law and nephew.

Our HR team is currently working with others in the national office to provide a web-based HR / payroll solution for our staff and supervisors. This will greatly increase our efficiency in our geographically dispersed organization. InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA is an evangelical campus mission, serving more than 32,000 students and faculty on more than 550 college and university campuses nationwide.

I am blessed to be a part of the ministry of InterVarsity and the National Service Center community, as well as a member of Geneva Campus Church. God has provided two wonderful communities for me here in Madison, for which I am very grateful."

Pamela Oldham Director, Human Resources 6400 Schroeder Rd, Madison WI 53711 (608) 443-3744

To learn more about InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, go to www.intervarsity.org.

David Sironi InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Madison, Wisconsin

David works behind the scenes in the computer area as a database administrator. The database contains core information about InterVarsity supporters, alumni, chapter involvements, Urbana delegates, Human Resources and Financials. In 1971, he moved to Madison with his wife Barb and two young sons, to become InterVarsity's first computer programmer. David writes, "We came for three years, getting through the Student Missions Convention at the University of Illinois in1973. It was very clear that God called us to this ministry in 1971, and continues to affirm our calling. We obviously are still here. God has provided marvelously for our needs. Our desire is to see students and faculty transformed, colleges and universities renewed and world changers developed, for, by and through the cause of Christ. Young staff and old give their lives into the ministry on campuses, pressing the Gospel of Christ into that environment. It's our privilege to serve them as they give their lives to Christ." For more on InterVarsity, go to www.intervarsity.org.

David and Barb Sironi
David's office at InterVarsity: (608) 443-3675

David and Terri Wegener, Mission to the World, Zambia

The Wegeners live and serve in Ndola, Zambia, where David teaches at the Theological College of Central Africa (TCCA). Terri serves students' wives by leading Bible studies and encouragement groups, and also leads a Bible study group for teen girls. The Wegeners have four children. Lizzie, their oldest, studies in the States; Mary, John and Sarah all attend an international school near their home.

When they're not busy with their work, Wegeners pass the time by battling invasions of rats, ants, roaches, fleas and flies, killing black mamba snakes (well...one, anyway), watching fruit bats migrating through their neighborhood, and enjoy their children's volleyball and soccer games.

TCCA is a twenty-five year old college which prepares students from all over central Africa, so they can go out with the gospel, as church-planters, missionaries and teachers. An introduction from the Wegeners can be found here.

Gordon and Sara Williams Wycliffe Bible Translators, Stevens Point, WI

Gordon and Sara with their children, Samuel, Emma and Ethan

Gordon and Sara serve with a subsidiary of Wycliffe Bible Translators - USA, known as The Seed Company. The Seed Company specializes in mobilizing and training national partners in Bible translation. Gordon works as a field coordinator, helping to manage language projects led by national colleagues in West Africa. In addition, Gordon coordinates a world-wide internship program to train qualified nationals as translation consultants and advisors. Sara finished a 14-year career of home schooling 2 years ago and has a general assignment with The Seed Company, mostly involving French translation.

Gordon and Sara both received their MA's in linguistics from the University of Wisconsin, and attended Geneva Campus Church while they lived in Madison. They moved to France in 1985, to study French before starting work for Wycliffe in Senegal, West Africa. Their language assignment was to the Soninke people in eastern Senegal. The Soninke people number close to two million with major populations also found in Mali and Mauritania. A team in Mali took over the project and today literacy materials, plus several portions of Scripture, are available to the Soninke!

In 1991, the Williams left the Soninke project and moved to Dakar, the capital of Senegal. Gordon became Branch Director in 1993, and served for seven years, directing a group of 80 expatriates and national staff working in 14 languages. Throughout this time, Sara, in addition to home schooling their three children, Samuel, Emma and Ethan, taught linguistic courses to nationals, translated and edited documents and served on various committees. During their last term in Senegal, Gordon served as director of partnerships and worked on various strategies to reach the remaining languages, including a new work in the neighboring country of Guinea-Bissau. Sara continued her participation in training programs for Senegalese nationals and also developed a new "introduction to linguistics" course. For the sake of their children's education, the Williams have taken their present Stateside assignment for the next several years. They are based near family in Stevens Point, Wisconsin.

Gordon and Sara's motivation for serving with Wycliffe Bible Translators is to provide access to God's Word for all people in the language that serves them best. This global movement of God involves over 12,000 workers from 60 countries, working in partnership to serve minority language communities located in more than 90 countries. Wycliffe personnel have assisted in the completion of 759 New Testaments or Bibles for peoples whose total population is 107 million, and are currently serving in 1,363 language projects around the globe representing 937 million people.

To read stories of those impacted by the translated Word of God or learn more about Wylciffe's work, visit www.wycliffe.org.

To read more about The Seed Company and it’s special work, visit www.TheSeedCompany.org.

Mailing address: Email: gordon_williams@sil.org Gordon and Sara Williams sara_williams@sil.org
3201 Jordan Lane
Stevens Point, WI 54481-2226

Joel Zwier CRWRC, Dominican Republic

Joel is on the staff of the Christian Reformed World Relief Committee (CRWRC) in the Dominican Republic (DR). He works with three partner organizations in the DR and one in Cuba. He provides training, consulting, encouragement, challenge, and support to these national partner programs and the communities they serve. Joel writes: "My goal is to help these programs be the best they can be so that communities can be transformed." Joel brings a wealth of experience to his work; his entire professional career has been with the Christian Reformed Church, for whom he worked first in Nicaragua, then in Honduras and now for 26 years in the DR.

"We are an international family," says Joel of his family of six, "with a son and his wife in Laos, two daughters in North America, and our younger son in college. My wife Patricia is a family therapist in a Christian group practice here in Santo Domingo."

Joel describes his motivation in this way: "The kingdom of God is here among us, although many times, with all the evil around us, this seems not to be true. It is, though, and my job is to help in any way possible to bring that kingdom to completeness and perfection. Since there is so much pain and hurt around me, I keep on doing my small part!"