Joy Phillips
Regional Director for Europe and the Middle East with World Gospel Mission
Joy Phillips serves as Regional Director for Europe and the Middle East with World Gospel Mission, where she provides leadership, care, and strategic support for missionaries and ministries across the region. Her missionary journey began in Africa, where she served for more than three decades in Kenya and South Sudan through nursing, community health, and ministry leadership. Joy’s connection with Trinity Mullica Hill is also personal, as she moved to Mullica Hill as a teenager when her father, Rev. Bruce Phillips, served as pastor of Trinity. Through her current role with World Gospel Mission, Joy continues to support global workers as they share the love of Christ and help disciple individuals, families, churches, and communities around the world.
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Joanna Beske
Missionary and Bible Storyteller with Pioneers
Joanna Beske is a missionary and trained Bible storyteller serving with Pioneers, an international and interdenominational missions organization. Her ministry has been closely connected with the Wolof people of Senegal, where she has served through Bible storytelling, community outreach, a women’s shelter, and other ministry efforts in Saint-Louis, Senegal. Trinity also has a meaningful connection with Joanna’s work, having sent a mission team in 2010 to help lead a children’s camp alongside her. With many years of cross-cultural mission experience and a doctorate in Biblical storytelling, Joanna is now preparing for a new season of ministry among African refugees in southern Spain, where she will continue sharing the hope of Christ through Scripture, storytelling, and faithful presence.
Naveed Hameed
Director of Next Gen Servants Ministry in Pakistan
Next Gen Servants Ministry is a Bible-based, Christ-centered ministry dedicated to equipping young people to become faithful disciples and servant leaders. Rooted in the Great Commission, the ministry works to strengthen the church by training the next generation through discipleship, leadership development, outreach, and digital ministry. Its purpose is to help young people grow in faith, serve with humility, and carry the Gospel into their communities and beyond.
Josh & Jackie Frankeas
Missionaries to South Africa
Josh and Jackie Frankeas, along with their son Caleb, are faithfully serving at Restoring Hope Village in Welkom, South Africa. This Christian children’s home provides a place of safety, love, and care for orphaned and abandoned children, helping them to know the hope and healing found in Jesus Christ. Jackie has deep roots in our Trinity family, having grown up in Mullica Hill and attended Trinity UMC with her family before moving to South Africa. Together, let’s join in prayer and partnership with the Frankeas family as they bring hope and restoration to vulnerable children in South Africa.
Erin Kennedy
EMI Civil / WASH Engineer (Cambodia Office)
Erin Kennedy is a Civil/WASH Engineer serving with Engineering Ministries International (EMI), an international development organization that brings together architects, engineers, surveyors, and construction managers to support ministry partners around the world. Through her work with EMI’s Cambodia Office and Fellowship Program, Erin uses her engineering skills to help design practical projects such as water systems, schools, hospitals, and other facilities that strengthen communities and support the mission of local ministries.