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Transforming Uganda Join DELTA Ministries, in partnership with Christian Life Ministries, if you are looking for God to use you to impact lives, leave a legacy and help us harvest a nation for God! Transforming Uganda’s short-term mission team dates:  Summer - July 23rd – August 1, 2010 or Winter – December 29th – January 9, 2011.
Haiti Relief & Recovery Teams Our hearts have been moved as we have watched the images during the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti.  Yet we know that God has not been surprised by this disaster.  In fact, quite the opposite, He is at work in this situation bringing glory and honor to His name. In partnership with "Haiti 4 Him", DELTA's strategy is to mobilize prayer, short-term mission teams and giving for long-term relief and recovery of Haiti. 
Resources DELTA Ministries can provide you with the necessary resources needed to effectively train and mobilize your team for ministry.  These resources include websites, articles, curriculum and ministry tools.  These resources will help you learn and share about Jesus Christ to others as you serve on short-term mission teams:
Training Teams and Leaders The most effective training for short-term missions is gained  by active learning and not just by watching a video or reading a book. The training process begins roughly four months prior to departure (pre-field) and should continue on field and back home after your return (post-field). We highly recommend using a training curriculum such as The Next Mile for your team.
Post-Ministry Discipleship Stay the Course!
"Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain." 1 Corinthians 15:58
Activate Your Church God continues to move in a mighty way through short-term missions. What started as small groups of individuals going out a few decades back has now grown into a global missions movement.

Staff Directory

Brian Heerwagen

Brian Heerwagen   -   Chief Executive Officer

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I serve as the Chief Executive Officer for DELTA Ministries. My first short-term mission (STM) ever was on a DELTA (MOP) team in 1980. I continued to go on short-term teams each year. In 1985 I was hired as the director at DELTA. At that time, I was a student at the University of Oregon in the School of Architecture. Though I don't do much with design or building buildings, much of what I learned about strategies, organization and people have helped in my leadership at DELTA. I have learned many lessons over the last 20+ years of involvement with STM. Along with my continued ministry with churches and short-term teams, I do intend to complete a seminary degree.

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Chris McDaniel

Chris McDaniel   -   Chief Business and Development Officer

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I serve as the Chief Business Development Officer for DELTA Ministries International. I began serving the Lord with DELTA in 2002. In this role, my focus includes strategic planning, launching new vision, donor relations, discovering funding for vision and communications/marketing.  I have also had the privilege to author Dying to Give published by the ECFA in 2010 and contribute to The Next Mile Short-Term Mission Curriculum.

I received my first undergraduate degree in Business Administration from Regis University in Denver, CO in 1996. My second undergraduate degree is in Organizational Management from Colorado Christian University in Lakewood, CO and an MBA from Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA in 2005.

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Brian Stark

Brian Stark   -   Director of International Partnerships

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I have the privilege of serving as the Director of International Partnerships with DELTA. International Partnerships (IP) seeks to glorify God through cross-cultural partnerships by equipping and engaging national leaders to mobilize the local church in mission. The focus of IP is to come alongside the leadership of existing mission efforts in other countries for a limited time to assist in developing a church-based model of mobilization and short-term missions by that country for that country. The goal is to equip and engage nationals to execute effective church-based mission efforts through short-term missions and without direct long-term assistance from DELTA Ministries.

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Kathy Mort

Kathy Mort   -   Director of Curriculum and Training

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I am thrilled to join DELTA Ministries after spending over thirty years in public education. During most of those years I taught middle and high school. After receiving my doctorate in educational leadership, I worked as a high school assistant principal of curriculum, instruction, and assessment, a middle school principal, and district coordinator of professional development. Most of my formal training has been in the area of education. My undergraduate work was in secondary education. I then earned a master’s degree in reading, followed many years later by the doctorate. 

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Asher Sarjent

Asher Sarjent   -   Chief Operations Officer

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Serving as Chief Operations Officer, I oversee the Short-Term Mission Team Process and DELTA’s Missions Coaches, coordinate festival and crusade events and assist the CEO with organizational vision and global aspects of DELTA Ministries International. 

I graduated from Multnomah Bible College in Portland, OR, with a BA in Religious studies in 1986 and have a Masters of Theology from Bakke Graduate School of the Ministry. I served in the local church for 16 years as a youth pastor before beginning my ministry with DELTA.

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Tory Ruark

Tory Ruark   -   Short-Term Missions Director

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As Short-Term Missions Director, it is my privilege to serve churches through short-term mission trip preparation and training. The Lord called me to this role through a love for the church and seeing His Body love Him and love others through action as well as words. My first mission trip was as a freshman in college in 1998 and I went to Ensenada, Mexico over Thanksgiving. To this day, I still cannot say what made me decide to go, but it certainly changed me forever. 

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Pam Sarjent

Pam Sarjent   -   Teams Assistant

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Carrie Scheuermann

Carrie Scheuermann   -   Communications Manager

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Wanda Ketchem

Wanda Ketchem   -   Bookkeeper

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I am blessed to serve as Bookkeeper at DELTA Ministries.  While working mostly with the numbers I am privilege to see the difference good training and willing servants can make in the world.  It is exciting to watch God work through local churches and short-term mission teams to reach others for Christ.  God works in amazing ways.


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Art Heerwagen

Art Heerwagen   -   Director of Communications

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Career(s): 1958-1964 - Univ. of Denver. B.A. communications and business.

- Ski Magazine, New York City, N.Y., writer; 
- Phoenix Magazine, writer/ad sales;
- Paul Arthur Adv. and Public Rel., owner, Phoenix, Ariz.; 
- Owner/editor of community newspaper, Burns, Ore.;
- Director of Communications for the Conservative Baptist Foreign - Mission Society, Wheaton, Ill. (12 years); 

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TESTIMONIES

Serving with DELTA greatly impacted me as we worked with French teens; my burden for the teenagers of my country grew. God's call for me to be in ministry was confirmed in my mind. I serve as a Youth Pastor in a small, country church in North Eastern PA.

Wayne M. - 1999 France Team

 
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