Ryan Lee Peters
I'm a specialist in the army right now. I have a couple months 'till I get out and finish my degree (youth ministry: 38 credits to go) at Cascade College. I have decided I want to use my tools in youth ministy and missions to start orphanages. I started "The Refuge" in late 2005 and it's mission is to start orphanages in areas of the world that need them most. The first orphanage will be somewhere in Mexico probably and the name will be Dia Por Los Ninos or "The Day for the Children" I am seeking several partnering church's and/or individuals who will pray for and support this ministry for the next several years.

Background Information: I grew up in the farming community of Linden California and graduated Linden High School in 1998. I grew up at Stockton's Central Church of Christ where I got my first taste of youth ministry. I worked and went to school from the fall of 1998 to Dec 30 2003 when I left for basic training. While in college I had the opportunity to work closely in 3 ministries. I worked with the youth and middle school groups at Vancouver Church of Christ (formerly Andresan Road Church of Christ), I worked for a short time as a children's minister and an intern at P.U.M.P. Church and for a summer I worked as a youth minister at the Tulare Church of Christ on Blackstreet. When I joined the army I met and married my wife (Dec 5th 2004), went to Iraq, and am now preparing to get out of the army and finish school.

Emily Kay Peters
I am a 23 year old Early Childhood Educator from Brunswick, GA. After marrying my husband Ryan I found out that I have a love for helping less fortunate children and teaching them about the Bible, how to read/write, and many other things.

I grew up in Brunswick, GA and graduated from Glynn Academy in 2000. I was raised in a catholic church where I worked with children in sunday school. I attendend Valdosta State University where I got a General Studies Degree with some teaching experiences. After marrying Ryan, him deploying, and finding The Chapel (a methodist church) to involve myself in. I realized where my true goal in life lays... helping other people (especially children) come to know God. I myself am a very new Christian; one week after Ryan and I got married (which was Dec. 5th, 2004) he baptized me in my bathtub at my home in Brunswick. I was baptized in the catholic church as a baby, but had wandered away from christ. After having this experience, God has opened my eyes to many more experiences that I want to share with the world.

Jordan Allaway
I am a 22-year-old who grew up in the small town of Trout Lake, Washington. There I was raised going to the Trout Lake Church of Christ, a small congregation that meets in the house of my aunt and uncle. I met Ryan when he came with a ministry team from Cascade College to our church while I was still in high school. After graduating high school, I also went to Cascade College, where Ryan and I crossed paths again (he was the RA on my dorm floor). I spent two years at Cascade, where I worked on general studies, and then dropped out and spent 2 years working multiple jobs, trying to save up money and build up an art portfolio to go back to college somewhere. After quitting work to focus exclusively on an art portfolio (and with that going nowhere), Ryan asked me if I wanted to come live with him and his wife in Georgia, to help them plan and work on a mission trip to Mexico. Having no job, I decided to do so.

Though I see myself still pursuing a career in art sometime soon, I still have a great desire to do mission work. Since I was 13 or so, nearly every summer I have spent a week as a camp counselor for 3rd and 4th graders. While I was in college, I joined Kappa Sigma Chi (Kingsmen), the same service club that Ryan belonged to. We did a variety of odd jobs throughout the community and spent spring breaks going on week-long mission trips to work on church summer camps. In church, I began to take on an active role, preaching and leading songs on occasion. Also, before coming to Georgia, I spent a week volunteering in New Orleans with the Hurricane Katrina relief effort, which was one of the greatest experiences of my life. Anyway, throughout all of this, I have seen the enormous impact that can be made on people's lives through the service of just one person (whether it was myself or someone else), as well as the need for God's word and our service everywhere in the world.