Area Directors

Curtis and his wife Diana spent the last twenty years living and working in a Muslim context in Central Asia, where their three daughters were born. Through God’s grace, they were able to plant the first churches in their area for Muslim background believers.

Francis received a diploma in Theology and a bachelor’s degree in Social Work and Social Administration from Uganda Christian University and earned his master’s degree in Diakonia and Christian Social Practice from Diakonhjemmet University College in Oslo, Norway. He has been an ordained Anglican priest since 2001 and served as a full-time pastor until assuming his current position as GT Africa Director. Francis and his wife, Irene, have five children.

God gave Makset an evangelistic gift and an apostolic heart. “From this day I shared with my friends. A lot of my friends came to Jesus.” He became involved in an underground church that experienced exponential growth. God also provided an opportunity to study at a Bible seminary in Russia. Despite ongoing arrests and harassment, he chose to remain in Central Asia, where he discipled believers and planted churches. In 2012, Makset was jailed and threatened with years of imprisonment. Miraculously he was freed, and he moved, with his wife and four boys, to Sweden. There, he pastors refugees from all over the world.

Makset speaks several Turkic languages – Kazakh, Karakalpak, Uzbek, Kirgiz – as well as Russian, Swedish, English, and a little Chinese and Dari. He has a passion for seeing the church multiply throughout Russia and Central Asia.

Leading youth teams to Yemen, India, Turkey, Malaysia, China and Thailand has helped her training remain practical and reproducible, as she continues to train young people in YWAM and churches in Perspectives. Amy and her husband raise cattle in Wyoming and home educate one son, while their other son attends high school.