Our Next Generation for Christ Team

Alena (above) is from Minsk and is on our Next Generation for Christ team, serving as a translator for Next Gen events in Belarus.

Next Generation for Christ is building up an incredible team of Next Generation leaders in the US and overseas. We have been blessed to have God provide us with some wonderful young leaders to help catalyze a movement to reach the next generation for Christ, and some great established leaders to help guide these leaders, make connections, and share their wisdom and experience. Check out our team!

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Joel Petty
Russia / Eastern Europe Rep

Joel is a long term missionary in St, Petersburg, Russia. Joel helped to put together a translation team for the Russian SOR, and has helped with SOR trainings across Russia and Eastern Europe. 

Gina Nored
Next Gen Team Member

Gina Nored grew up going on Next Gen mission trips and sharing Christ with the Story of Redemption, with Next Gen / SOR mission trips to Israel and Croatia. Gina studies with many people, and assists in writing social media posts and Next Gen newsletters. She also helps keep the Next Gen websites updated as well. On Next Gen film trips, she also can assist in filming. 

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John Miller
Board Chair, Colorado

John Miller, long time elder at the Liberty Church of Christ in Liberty, Missouri, and now an elder at the Castle Rock Church of Christ in Castle Rock, CO, is a lawyer and serves as the chairman of the board for Next Generation for Christ.. John has the true heart of a shepherd, counseling numerous couples and individuals to better their lives, marriages, and walk with God.

Noubar Vosgueritchian
Israel Rep.

​​Noubar is a great young minister in Jerusalem and serves as our Next Gen representative in Israel. He is Armenian and speaks Arabic, and he has edited the Arabic translation of the Story of Redemption. Noubar directs a Next Gen sponsored youth camps in Jerusalem that use the Story of Redemption. He also helps coordinate an ongoing SOR discipleship study, and helps identify families in need that Next Gen provides assistance to, with followup and invitations to follow Christ.. On Next Gen film trips to Israel, Noubar is a valuable assistant and local guide. 

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Evans Mochoni
Kenya rep.

Evans is a Church leader and minister in Nairobi, Kenya. He is faithfully serving the needs of the people in his city and church, and is invested in Next Gen's work. ​

Chorlian Samson Karumanchi 
​India Rep.

Samson directs the Basic Bible Institute and an orphanage in Sathupally, India, and serves as our Next Gen representative for India. A great worker for the Lord, his father was a pioneer in tribal evangelism, and Samson continues this work today. Samson has incorporated SOR into the Basic Bible Institute trainings, and has helped coordinate SOR mission trainings, travel, and filmings.

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Sandy Detherage
​Asia Rep.

Sandy Detherage served an elder at the High Pointe Church of Christ in McKinney, Texas, and recently relocated to Temple, Texas.. He serves on the Next Generation for Christ team as a representative for Asia, and has conducted SOR trainings in SIngapore and Malaysia. Sandy studies with many Chinese students with the English learning version of SOR. He takes college students on mission trips to Papua, New Guinea with "Barnabas Mission" where he provides leadership training.
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Ilya Rivkin
Russia Rep.

Ilya is a great young leader at the church in Moscow and has an amazing story. A mission team from the US came to Samara, Russia, in the 1990s, and Ilya ended up coming back to the US with this team for six months. He soon came to faith in Christ, and he carries a heart foe evangelism with him. Ilya is a catalyst for mission in the Moscow church, and he still has a heart for his hometown in Samara. Ily directs a youth camp there that is doing a fantastic job of gathering in seekers. For several years, this Next Gen sponsored camp has used the Story of Redemption, and a number of teens have come to faith. 

Ilya also helps coordinate an ongoing  Next Gen / SOR online study in Russia, and assists in Next Gen seminars and trainings.

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Rusty Campbell
Ecuador Rep. 

Rusty Campbell directs a camp center in Ecuador, located an hour east of Quito, Ecuador. He is the Next Gen rep / contact person for Ecuador, working with Guillermo Racines to provide Next Gen / SOR training and an ongoing Spanish SOR study.

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Mladen Dominic
Croatia Rep. 

Mladen is the preaching minister in Varazdin, Croatia (an hour north of the capital city, Zagreb), and serves as our Next Gen representative in Croatia. Mladen is a tireless worker for the Lord, and his church conducts nearly twenty outreach events each year. The English learning version of the Story of Redemption is a major evangelistic tool being used by the local church and mission teams that come to Croatia, and SOR has been broadcast across Croatia by Next Gen partner Croatia for Christ (directed by Jura Lazar). The SOR broadcast, social media and newspaper advertising, children's ministries, mission teams using SOR, and much prayer have formed a powerful combination of reaching people in Croatia for Jesus Christ, and Mladen is a great catalyst and leader for all of these efforts.

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Kainey Espinoza
Peru Rep.

Kainey is a great young adult who serves as a Next Gen representative in Peru, helping coordinate SOR studies w/those who sign up for the English Learning Version of SOR with people in the US. Not only is she fluent in Spanish and English, but also in Portuguese as well!

Clint Loveness
Video Production

Clint Loveness is a talented video producer who has lent his considerable talents behind the camera to the Story of Redemption Film Series. One of the first graduates of Pepperdine University's Film School, he works as a video field producer for RightNow Media, filming top Christian speakers and teachers across the US and around the world. Clint has served as our main videographer and a fantastic video production adviser, recruiting other talented video production crew for the Story of Redemption Film shoots.

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Jon Reed
California Partner

Jon is the preaching minister at the Hilltop Church of Christ in El Segundo, California (LA area) and is an active partner of the Next Generation Team. Jon has helped grow Hilltop from 30 people to 300, and he has had the privilege of training and coaching dozens of churches across the nation on hospitality and how to be welcoming to guests. Hospitality and guest relations has been a passion of Jon’s for many years.​

Željka Prahić
Croatian English Teacher & Children's & Youth Worker 

Željka teaches English with the Bible in Croatia, including using Story of Redemption (SOR) lessons with youth there. She also is helping us film new children's versions of SOR that can be used with younger ages than our main SOR series. God is using her both to draw people to Christ and build up children and youth ministries in Croatia.