Rev. Doug Christgau served as outreach pastor in three churches from 1985-2019. During this time these churches sent 40 long-term missionaries and doubled or tripled their missions giving. Doug has led 100+ short-term mission trips in 40+ countries. Doug is the Global Ambassador for MedSend, an agency that gets health care missionaries to the field by paying their educational debt and keeps them on the field through member care specific for health care professionals. Doug has presented health care missions in 50+ schools. He has spoken at various church mission events and the Global Missions Health Conference in Louisville Kentucky.

Dr. Rick Donlon currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Christian Community Health Fellowship (CCHF) in Memphis, TN., and recently as the Interim Chief Medical Officer at Mercy Community Health Services in Franklin, TN. He also serves part-time as an emergency department physician at the Memphis Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Dr. Donlon earned his Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry from Texas Christian University in Fort Worth TX, and his Doctor of Medicine from Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans followed by a combined internship and residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Tennessee in Memphis. He is board-certified in both Internal Medicine and Pediatrics and holds an active medical license in Tennessee. Dr. Donlon has co-founded several healthcare initiatives, including Resurrection Health and Christ Community Health Services, which focus on serving low-income populations in the Memphis area. His recent publications include contributions to book chapters on healthcare missions, emphasizing the importance of serving underserved populations. Dr. Donlon is an active member of various professional organizations and community boards, including the Community Advisory Board for the Assisi Foundation.

Jenny Ellefson grew up in Manchester, UK. After completing an English Literature degree, she joined a team working and living incarnationally in an inner-city community in the north of England. Ellefson left the UK at the age of 27 to join a church planting team working in a township on the outskirts of Pretoria, South Africa where she spent 5 years before returning to the UK to complete a Masters in Missiology and Development. She then went to Burundi to train local Burundian missionaries in holistic mission to see communities transformed with the gospel. Ellefson currently lives in Wisconsin with her husband and two girls. They lead a non-profit called “Partners International” which resources Burundian missional leaders taking the gospel to unreached people groups in Burundi and beyond.