Angela serves as a guidance counselor at Evangelical Christian Academy in Camarma, Spain. In addition to her role as a counselor, she has also taken on leadership of several Bible studies and Bible classes, student council, and yearbook. The school’s student population is comprised primarily of missionary kids. As a missionary kid, or “third culture kid,” herself, Angela feels uniquely equipped to meet these students where they are and counsel them through making sense of their situations and responding to their problems in God-honoring ways.

Chris and Lori Gassler, along with their children Noah, Kristin, and Ben, have been missionaries with Wycliffe Bible Translators since 2011.  Their work is with the EthnoArts group and since 2014, they have been assigned to Cameroon, Central Africa.  In their EthnoArts ministry, they look for ways to infuse scripture into local music and arts with the goal of seeing people learn about and worship God in their own language with their own musical and artistic forms.

Jim and Karen, along with their son, Roman, live and work in Dakar, Senegal, one of the largest and most influential cities in West Africa, with a population that is 95% Muslim. At the invitation of the Presbyterian Church of Senegal, Jim has been working with the denomination to identify and train pastors for church planting through the Timothy House program—a two-year, residential, church-planter training program. Additionally, Jim serves as MTW’s Regional Director for all West Africa and as the Chairman of West African Reformed Mission (WARM)—a partnering ministry that supports over 100 national missionaries working in West Africa. Prior to moving to Senegal, Jim served as a senior pastor of a PCA church in Delaware from 1999-2017. In 2003, he began traveling to West Africa to build relationships, teach seminary classes and collaborate for ministry.

Working alongside Jim, Karen serves as Jim’s administrative assistant, and also assists with women’s ministry and a girls home ministry, for girls at risk of being sold into a growing child trafficking industry. Karen also serves as Co-Chair for SALT (Sub-Saharan Africa Ladies Together)—women’s ministry for MTW missionary women serving in all Africa.

Jim and Karen have six children, four sons-in-law and four grandchildren.

The Driggers have been Wycliffe members since 2010. From 2012 to 2019 Marty, Sara and their four daughters, Taylor, Tia, Miriam and Jade, were engaged with Bible translation in several support roles in Papua New Guinea, and now find themselves working a remote assignment in Virginia. Marty is working outside the organization as a sheriff deputy and remains a Wycliffe member. Sara is working as a partnership development (PD) associate director, PD coach and an Engage (new member orientation) PD facilitator. She loves the honor of serving her department on the leadership team, and her role in encouraging and advising new and established members as they seek prayer and financial partners to sustain them in their Wycliffe assignments. The Driggers experience great joy in helping to advance Bible translation all over the world by serving other Wycliffe missionaries.