The 'K' family has been serving with OMF's Returnee Focus
team in Madison, Wisconsin since September of 2019. They are
working with Thai and other East Asian international students at
the University of Wisconsin. Jesse and Kristen studied Thai
language from 2007-2008 in Lopburi, Thailand, and then served in
campus ministry at Naresuan University in Phitsanulok, Thailand
from 2008-2011. After a two-year home assignment, their family of
four returned to Chiang Mai, Thailand in 2013 to work in
missions mobilization among Thai and tribal churches in North
Thailand, teaching the Bible and mentoring indigenous believers
in evangelism. Jesse, Kristen and their two daughters returned to
the USA in 2015 to help family members battling cancer and to
recover from some of their own health issues which had developed
overseas. During their time in the USA, Jesse completed his
Master of Divinity degree at Asbury Theological Seminary's
Florida Dunnam Campus in Orlando. Jesse and Kristen are now
serving with the Returnee Focus field of OMF. They are excited to
continue their calling to reach the nations through international
students and visiting scholars who have come to study on the
American college campus - future leaders who will be returning to
impact their own unreached people groups and other ethnic groups
around them!
