The Mission Commission’s direction is guided by a Steering Committee and implemented by the Executive of that Committee.
In addition we have missions-issues and special projects leaders that we call “Synergists“.
CO-LEADER
(Aotearoa New Zealand)
Jamie has been a Mission Commission Associate since 2007. He was appointed to lead the World Evangelical Alliance Mission Commission from January 1, 2020 as Executive Director. As a result of a realignment process that Jamie led throughout 2025, the Executive Director role was concluded at the end of 2025 and replaced with “Leader” of the MC’s Steering Committee. From January 1, 2026, Jamie now shares that role with Ruth Wall.
Jamie also serves as Executive Chair of Mutuality Charitable Trust in Aotearoa New Zealand and is the Opinion Editor for Christian Daily International.
CO-LEADER
(United Kingdom)
Ruth has been involved with the Mission Commission since 2011, initially as a leader in the International Missionary Training Network (IMTN) and a member of the Global Leadership Council, serving as Chair since 2020. Throughout 2025 Ruth supported Jamie with the realignment process and joined him as Co-Leader of the Mission Commission from January 1, 2026.
Ruth grew up in West Africa and has spent her adult life in cross-cultural living and adult education; two decades living in South Sudan, Kenya and Central Asia, and nine years on staff at All Nations Christian College designing curriculum, teaching and mentoring trainers. Her doctoral research in transformative learning and mission training continues to inform her work.
EXECUTIVE MEMBER
(South Africa)
Adriaan has been involved in the Mission Commission since the early 2000’s, an Associate Director, and then a Deputy Leader since 2020. He joined the Executive Committee January 1, 2026 with special responsibility for administration, event management, and data management.
Adriaan is a local missions practitioner, speaker, consultant and futuristic thinker with a passion for the application of AI in missions. His commitment to develop next generation leadership led him to create the Generation Index, an intergenerational competency tool for organisations. Generation Index is now and organisation that believes that by identifying the common behavioural trends between generations and creating intentional focus within the workspace to address them, a healthier environment of collaboration can be developed.
EXECUTIVE MEMBER
(South Korea—Asia Region)
Dr. Barnabas Moon is a South Korean mission strategist serving as Executive Director of the Mission Commission of the Asia Evangelical Alliance (AEA). He also founded the WiThee Missions International, a mission organization based in Korea focused on diaspora and cross-cultural church planting across Central and East Asia.
Dr. Moon has actively engaged in mobilizing and equipping Asian churches and Christian leaders for diaspora mission, especially among migrant and overlooked peoples. His work emphasizes collaboration among national evangelical alliances, indigenous leadership development, and creative approaches to people-movement mission in the 21st century.
STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBER
(Singapore—Singapore Bible College)
Patrick was born in Hong Kong and received medical training in Australia and the UK. He, and his wife, Jennie, previously served as medical missionaries in South Asia and became the first Asian General Director OMF International (from 2005–2023), sharing the good news of Jesus Christ in all its fullness with East Asia’s peoples.
Patrick was a director on the Singapore Bible College Board from 2010, and in 2026 he became its 8th Principal. He also continues to serve as the global ambassador of OMF International, and is the Chairman of the International Board of the Chinese Coordinating Centre of World Evangelisation (CCCOWE).
STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBER
(Australia—South Pacific Region)
Kimberley joined the Steering Committee as a newcomer to the Mission Commission. She is the designated representative of the WEA’s South Pacific Evangelical Regional Alliance.
In February 2025, Kimberley joined Missions Interlink Australia, the Australian missions alliance, as their National Director. Prior to that position she was Training Coordinator for Pioneers Australia (4 years) and a missionary with Pioneers in The Czech Republic (also known as Czechia).
Allan is the Fields Director for COMIBAM, the Latin American missions association, and chairman of Vision 5:9, a global network of 180 mission agencies working together to share Jesus’ love and plant churches among Muslims.
Together with his wife Patricia, he is devoted to evangelizing the Muslim World, having been personally involved in mission work in Jordan, Cyprus, and Spain. Their work has two main focuses: deploying Latin-American church planting teams in Islamic regions and, from their regional centre in Valencia, they are working alongside Muslim background believers. Their ministry activity involves Discipleship, Church Planting, and Compassion Ministries, especially in the Arab World (Middle East, North Africa) and African Muslims in the West Africa region.
STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBER
(Kenya/UK—MANI Network)
Peter has served in the leadership of the Mission Commission since 2020 when he joined the Lead Cohort as a Deputy Leader. From the beginning of 2026 he continues his contribution as a member of the Steering Committee.
Originally from Kenya, Peter serves on the Movement of African National Initiatives (MANI) Leadership Team as the Executive Coordinator. Previously he served as the Director of African Mobilisation with AIM International, as a Pastor in the UK for 10 years, and as a student worker with both the Fellowship of Christian Unions in Kenya and the Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship in the UK. He remains actively engaged in teaching the Bible, cross-cultural missions, leadership development, and mentoring emerging leaders within African National Initiatives. Peter is one of the founding directors of the Centre for Missionaries from the Majority World, UK and a member of the Global Connections Council, UK. Peter is involved in various other global and continental initiatives to catalyse mission efforts to the least reached.
STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBER
(India—India Mission Association)
Dr. Isac S Rajais the General Secretary of the India Missions Association. He committed his life to the Lord Jesus Christ at the age of 20. He has served the Lord in various facets of ministry, including as on the faculty of the Hindustan Bible Institute for 25 years (1986–2011), teaching Cross Culture Communication, serving as the Director of Missions, and then as Principal. Isac also served in the leadership of a member care organization in India named Missionary Upholders Trust (2011 -2021).
Jan has been involved in ministry since 1987 and is an ordained as pastor in the Christian Reformed Churches in the Netherlands. He is General Secretary of the European Evangelical Alliance alongside Connie Duarte, and on the board of OM Netherlands and the board of a special chair about the Church in the context of Islam at the Free University in Amsterdam.
In addition Jan continues to lead Faith2Share (Oxford) as International Director, a global network of disciple-making mission movements, a position he was appointed to in 2018. Prior to that, Jan and his wife Beppie (now City Pastor of the Havenkerk ministry in the Hague) served as missionaries in western Botswana among the Naro San people in the Ghanzi District (1992 until 2010), and in 2010 Jan joined the Evangelical Alliance in the Netherlands.
STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBER
(USA—North America Region)
Jenn is the Director of Leadership Formation for Missio Nexus. She is passionate about equipping and encouraging Christian leaders to guide their organizations to greater effectiveness by developing and employing strategies and systems that reflect and reveal the Kingdom of God.
She is a co-host of the podcast, GOING: Where God is at Work, discussing global missions. Originally from the US, she has lived and worked in Lyon, France since 2010 where she participates in church planting, mentoring pastors and emerging leaders, and training cross-cultural workers.