Jean Gill
Jean, along with her husband Rob, have been serving as cross-cultural missionaries in Asia for nearly 30 years. Many of those years were spent living in Japan where her ministry focused on missionary care, MK education, leadership development among women, and multi-cultural ministries. She is on staff with Church Resource Ministries (CRM/InnerChange) and serves as their Director of Lifelong Development for International Staff.
As the co-founder and team leader of Refocusing Leaders networks for missionaries, Jean finds this ministry brings together her twin passions for resource cross-cultural missionaries for long-term, effective service with her love of working with people from around the world. Her vision is to see missionaries from many sending nation equipped and encouraged so that they can serve effectively in cross-cultural ministry over the long haul.
Jean is the mother of two adult MK's, both born and raised in Japan. She is also a graduate of the University of Illinois and has a Masters in Global Leadership from Fuller Theological Seminary.
Rob Gill
Rob has been a career missionary since 1979. Most of his service has been developing national leaders in Japan and he has recently also been involved in leadership development in Cambodia and South Korea.
He started and led for the first 15 years the Japan Church Growth Institute - an internationally acclaimed premier pastor training program. The denominational and key local church leaders from most of the evangelical groups in Japan have participated in this program, which has now spread to numerous other Asian nations under its new name, Asian Access.
Rob helped launch CRM's ministry in South Korea and is currently co-ministering with Jean and others to start the ReFocusing Cross-Cultural Leaders networks in Cambodia, Japan, and potentially in many other Asian countries.
Rob is a graduate of Fuller Theological Seminary and George Washington University.
Lynn Newhouse
Lynn lives in Phnom Penh with her husband and two children. She and Tom are Strategy Catalysts for the Kuy People of Cambodia, and also serve as country directors for Mission to Unreached Peoples (MUPS). They have been in Cambodia for more than ten years and in ministry for over 25 years.
Since coming to Christ as a college student she has been convinced of the importance of equipping all believers for ministry. She has a heart to see that cross-cultural Christian workers have the encouragement and equipping to stay in ministry for the long haul and finish well. Lynn participated in the first Refocusing Leaders - Cambodia program and found it to be quite helpful in her own life at a crucial stage and she would like to see others impacted in the same way. Lynn has a Masters of Divinity from the International School of Theology.
Barry Potter
Barry, along with his wife Jan, has been involved in cross-cultural ministry with OMF International since 1976. They lived and ministered in Japan over a period of 28 of those years, and were involved in church planting, media, and field leadership, as well as in leadership development roles. Barry presently serves on the OMF International Leader Development team and is presently the Home Assignment Care Coordinator for the U.S. In these roles he trains and works with missionary staff throughout East Asia as well as in the U.S.
Barry has been involved in Refocusing Networks for missionaries since its inception, and has a passion to see those in cross-cultural ministry grow, develop, and become increasingly effective in the roles to which God has called them.
The Potters' five children were all raised in Japan, and two currently continue to live and work there. Barry received his MA from the Wheaton College graduate communications program, and holds a DMin from the Fuller School of Intercultural Studies.
