Dan Bouchelle | Executive Director

Bouchelle comes to Missions Resource Network from the Central Church of Christ, Amarillo, Texas, where he has served for nine years as senior minister. Prior to his role at the Central Church, Bouchelle served as pulpit minister for the Alameda Church of Christ, Norman, Oklahoma from 1994 to 2001 and ministered with the Northwest Church of Christ, Abilene, Texas, from 1988 to 1994.

Bouchelle earned his Doctor of Ministry, Master of Divinity, and Master of Arts degrees from Abilene Christian University. He received his Bachelors degree from the University of Houston - Clear Lake.

Bouchelle serves as chairman of the Board of Directors for Christian Relief Fund. He is author of When God Seems Absent: Studies in Ruth and Esther, published by ACU Press, and The Gospel Unleashed and The Gospel Unhindered, published by College Press.

Bouchelle and his wife, Amy, have three children.

Alan Phillips | Associate Director

Alan Phillips grew up as a missionary's kid in Australia, son of Marvin and Dot Phillips. He graduated from Oklahoma Christian University and worked for the university for 17 years in the president's and development offices. He was appointed Vice President for Development at OCU in 1987. In 1993, he left the university to begin a development consulting practice for churches and church-related non-profit organizations.

Alan serves as the Senior Partner of Phillips Consulting, with offices in Dallas and Atlanta. His initial relationship with Missions Resource Network was as a fundraising consultant in 1999, but he was appointed Associate Director in 2000.With a heart for world evangelism, Alan also assumed in 2004 the role of facilitating South Pacific church planting.

He is the missions committee chairman for the Lake Cities Church of Christ in Trophy Club, Texas. He and his wife, Donna, have three children.

Jay Jarboe | Director for Church Equipping

Jay holds a BA from Texas Tech University in History and Speech Communications. He is also a 1986 graduate of the Sunset School of Preaching and a 1987 graduate of the Sunset School of Missions. The Sunset church sponsored Jay and Sherry while they served on a church-planting team in Mexico City for six years. They result is Mexico City's Metropolitan Church of Christ. The Metro church is now a multiplying church with its own Mexican elder and other leaders.
Jay has worked in various roles in Sunset's ministry, including serving as the Director of the Adventures in Missions (AIM) internship program and the Dean of Missions in the Sunset International Bible Institute SIBI). Jay also served as the Lead Minister at the Sunset church 2006-2010.
Jay will lead MRN's initiatives to equip U.S. and foreign churches in stewarding more effective world missions. His passion is seeking to be transformed into the image of Christ and helping others in the same quest. He enjoys reading, playing golf, spending time with his family and loves Mexican "tacos al pastor."
Jay and his wife Sherry (Holcomb) have been married for more than 25 years and have two children, Meagan and Ryan.

Dr. Bob Waldron | Director for Research and Global Planning

Bob and his wife, Gina, have been involved in missions ever since he was converted to Christ during his freshman year at Pepperdine University, where he was attending on an academic scholarship. While still in school, Bob preached for the Japanese-American congregation in Los Angeles. Following graduation, he and Gina worked with the church in Juneau, Alaska. Then Bob earned his M.A. in missions at Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas, and the family moved to Guatemala in 1972 as missionaries with primary responsibilities in church planting and leadership training. After returning to the U.S., Bob taught missions first at the Bear Valley School of Biblical Studies in Denver, Colorado, and then at Abilene Christian University. He also served for 10 years as Co-Director of the Continent of Great Cities ministry with the objective of planting large churches in the state and federal capitals of South America. In 1998, he earned a doctorate in Missions from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School near Chicago, with an emphasis on urban church planting. Bob has been the Executive Director of Missions Resource Network since its beginning in August 1998. He also serves as a trustee of the Bell Trust.

Dr. Dorris M. Schulz | Director for Missionary Care

With her late husband, Tom, Dorris (Dottie) Schulz served as a missionary in Amsterdam, 1962-1971 and 1972-1977. Dottie earned her master of science degree in Human Development and the Family and her Ph.D. in Community and Human Resources, both from the University of Nebraska. Her dissertation was on missionary reentry. She holds licensure from the State of Nebraska Department of Health as a Licensed Mental Health Practitioner, Certified Professional Counselor, and Certified Marriage and Family Therapist.

Dottie has worked as adjunct faculty in the Department of Human Development and the Family at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and served as Assessment Director of the Human Resources Management Program at Friends University in Wichita, Kansas, where she was also Associate Professor of Family Therapy and Human Services/Psychology.

Dottie had worked at York College in York, Nebraska, before earning her doctorate, and returned there in 1991, where she was Professor of Psychology and Family Studies and Director of the Cornhusker Center for Human Development until coming to Missions Resource Network in 2004.

Dr. Dale Hawley | Associate Director for Missionary Care

In addition to his part-time role with MRN, which he has capably filled since 2002, Dale Hawley is an Associate Professor and Chair, Human Development and Family Studies and Program Director, MS in Family Studies and Human Development at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. He holds a master's degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Abilene Christian University and a Ph.D. in Family Social Science from the University of Minnesota. He was previously on the faculty at North Dakota State University and has worked as adjunct faculty with the University of North Dakota Medical School, the University of Minnesota, and Bethel Theological Seminary.

He has also served churches in Minnesota and Wisconsin as a minister with a primary emphasis on families. Dale has worked with several missionary teams, both on the field and in pre-field preparation. He has primary research interests in missionary kids and their families and in the area of family resilience. Dale and his wife, Vicki, have three children and are members of the Church of Christ in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where Dale serves as an elder.

Lanny Tucker | Director for Missions Development

While still in college, Lanny participated in two six-week mission internships in Africa that changed his life and developed his passion for sharing Christ with others.

With a team of seven urban church planters, Lanny and his wife, Suzy, established the PUMP Church of Christ among the ethnically diverse population of Portland, Oregon's inner city where they worked and lived from 2001-2006. He then served as the Director for Advancement at Cascade College in Portland until the school closed and he came to Missions Resource Network in 2009.

With a team of seven urban church planters, Lanny and his wife, Suzy, established the PUMP Church of Christ among the ethnically diverse population of Portland, Oregon's inner city where they worked and lived from 2001-2006. He then served as the Director for Advancement at Cascade College in Portland until the school closed and he came to Missions Resource Network in 2009.
Lanny's work involves developing mission teams, assisting churches as they send out missionaries, and raising funds for the ministry. He and Suzy have three young daughters.

Sam Shewmaker | Facilitator for African Church Planting

Sam Shewmaker was born in Zambia to missionary parents. After graduating from Harding University in Searcy, AR, Sam and his wife, Nancy, served in Zambia and Kenya for 29 years. He planted churches, trained African church leaders, did relief work with World Vision International and co-founded Africans Claiming Africa, a movement to pass the evangelistic baton to the African church. He compiled and edited Drumbeat, a newspaper for churches of Christ in Africa and two books: Africans Claiming Africa: Living the Vision, 1998, and A Great Light Dawning: Profiles of Faith in Africa, 2002.

Sam also co-directed the 2002 Jabulani Conference held in the Dallas-Fort Worth area to celebrate 100 years of missions to Africa by churches of Christ. He received his M.A. in Missiology from Fuller Theological Seminary in 1987.

From 2000-2005, Shewmaker served as Missionary-in-Residence for Africa at Harding University, teaching missions courses, coordinating a weekly Africa missions interest group, directing Harding's international missions internships and mentoring students during their mission internships and survey trips to Africa.

Sam and his wife, Nancy, are supported by Sunny Hills Church of Christ, Fullerton, CA, Airline Drive Church of Christ, Bossier City, LA and Richland Hills Church of Christ, Fort Worth, TX. He and his wife, Nancy, now reside in Kigali, Rwanda, where they have opened MRN's African offices.

Mark Hooper | Facilitator for Asian Church Planting

Mark and his wife, Debbie, were missionaries in Mumbai (Bombay), India, from 1985-1990, where they were active in church planting, personal evangelism, city-wide evangelistic campaigns and leadership training. Before coming to Missions Resource Network, Mark served for 16 years as Assistant Professor of Bible and Missions at Freed-Hardeman University in Henderson, Tennessee. During his time there, he directed FHU's Mission Studies Program and coordinated Spring Break and summer campaigns to India, China, Thailand, Sri Lanka and the Philippines, as well as to locations in Africa and South America.

Mark received his B.A. from Harding University and a Masters of Theology in Missions from Harding University Graduate School of Religion. While in India, Mark obtained an M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Mumbai.

Mark has served as the pulpit minister for congregations in Arkansas and Tennessee. He and Debbie have two children, Kyle and Kristen. Both are forming mission teams to return to Asia as missionaries.

Mark and Debbie partner with the Highland Oaks Church of Christ, Dallas, Texas, in their work for Asia at Missions Resource Network.

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Phil Jackson | Facilitator for European Church Planting

Phil grew up in Arkansas and Texas, the son of a minister's family. He received his B.B.A. from Harding University and later his J.D. from the University of Arkansas. After completing their respective educations, Phil and his wife, Rebecca, met on a short-term mission trip in Bucharest, Romania in 1991. That mission trip turned their interests toward Romania and each other, and they returned to Bucharest in 1993 as a missionary family. They worked three years with the Bucharest church, also helping start the church in Ploiesti, a city located 40 miles from Bucharest. In 1996, they and another mission family moved to Cluj, located in northwest Romania, and began planting a church there. The Jacksons also organized and promoted an annual Christian camp and national church conferences in Bucharest.

The family returned to the States and Phil joined Missions Resource Network in 2002. As European Facilitator, Phil is recruiting long-term mission teams for strategic locations throughout Europe and working with missionaries and churches to develop effective mission strategies for those locations. They have two children and are members of the Prestoncrest Church of Christ in Dallas.

Marti Wise | Office Manager

Marti, mother of twin sons, became a Texan in 1994 after growing up in Alaska and spending several years in different locations around the country. Her background consists of undergraduate studies at Lipscomb University, and administrative, investigative and sales work with a variety of businesses extending from Alaska to Washington D.C. and points in between. Her more recent experience includes serving as Executive Secretary for the Senior Minister at her home congregation, Saturn Road Church of Christ. Following that, she worked as Billing Specialist at the Mesquite campus of Christian Care Centers, Inc., handling the finances for the three independent living segments of the ministry.

She has participated in short-term mission trips around the states, and to Austria and Ireland. She is enthusiastic in her service as part of the Missions Resource Network family.

Kelley Cook | Administrative Assistant

Kelley graduated from Harding University with a degree in Business Management. Active in various organizations while in high school, Kelley also worked for a county judge for five years during her summer and holiday breaks from Harding. She joined the MRN staff in July 2004.

Kelley has been involved in short-term missions, both domestic and foreign, and studied for a semester in Florence, Italy. Her travels have sparked a growing interest in people of different cultures and their spiritual needs. Kelley currently resides in the Fort Worth area.