Curtis Chanda
International Director
Curtis Chanda joined Global Teams as International Director in 2018, bringing over two decades of field experience with Frontiers International, an organization which shares Global Teams’ emphasis on reaching unreached people groups and equipping and sending believers from within new movements.
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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 Matumba
Africa Director
Francis Matumba joined Global Teams in 2003 and served as Malawi Country Coordinator from 2007 to 2021. His creativity and passion for the unreached has led to numerous outreach platforms, including Agape Farm.
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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.
Makset
Turco-Russia Director
Makset grew up in Karakalpakstan, an autonomous region of Uzbekistan bordering Kazakhstan. As a teenager, following the breakup of the Soviet Union, he attended classes at a local mosque. After a friend shared with him that God loved him, Makset accepted Jesus as his Savior and Lord. “From this day, I had joy, peace and hope. I became a new creation!”
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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.
Amy Law
North America Director
Amy has a passion to mobilize young people and churches to pray, give and go to foster disciple making movements among unreached people groups. She has served with Youth with a Mission (YWAM), Caleb Project, Perspectives on the World Christian Movement, Teen Mania, and Frontiers.
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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.
David Carne & Astrid Hecker
Latin America Directors
Biography coming soon…