Bryson brings more than 20 years of ministry experience at multiple levels. He has served on leadership at Passion City Church and Passion Conferences, helping raise nearly $20 million to resource over 50 ministry projects worldwide. Bryson also co-founded and led the END IT MOVEMENT—which has surpassed 1 billion media impressions and raised more than $8 million to fund anti-trafficking efforts. Before joining Partners, Bryson traveled to many countries promoting gospel outreach. His heart prayer is, “God, I will go anywhere, at any time, and at any cost to ensure that every person has the opportunity to hear and respond to the gospel.” Bryson, his wife Emily, and their four children live in Atlanta, Georgia.

Carlos grew up in war-torn El Salvador. As a young man, he served as a youth pastor at his church, led by Luis Bush, who later became the president of Partners. After completing his B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering, Carlos returned to El Salvador and coordinated the first international missions conference in Central America, helping spark a missionary movement. After marriage, Carlos and his wife moved to the Middle East, where they led a church-planting team among Muslims. At Partners, he served as area director for the Middle East and North Africa for 15 years. He now oversees the international ministries team and our relationships with indigenous leaders.

Dave graduated from Marquette University with a BS in Business Administration and later from the University of Minnesota with an MBA in Finance & Accounting. He spent 20+ years in human resources working for large multinational corporations, most recently as the Chief HR Officer for a Fortune 500 industrial manufacturing company. Dave left the corporate world in 2017 and felt led to pursue a new path that would allow him to be more directly involved in building God’s kingdom. He volunteered at several organizations in the non-profit world helping them improve their systems and processes while learning how they operated differently than the corporate world he came from. Dave and his wife, Kathy, have three children and live in Southlake, Texas.

John Burrough is an international leader, strategic thinker and kingdom builder. His career started in the NFL as a defensive end for the Atlanta Falcons and Minnesota Vikings. He then founded and led multiple businesses before being called into full- time ministry. John served as a director on the missions’ staff at North Point Community Church, leading partnerships in 22 countries. Most recently, John was the CEO of HOI, a faith-based nonprofit in Central America. He is eager to serve at Partners because of his deep calling to advance the gospel to the people living in the 10/40 window. John lives in the suburbs of Atlanta with his wife and two high- school-aged children.

John Stewart spent 20+ years in sports and entertainment before pivoting to nonprofit management. He served in the Boy Scouts of America to assist the largest fundraising project in its history of $500 million – which is the largest ever campaign for youth-serving organizations. John has served a variety of nonprofit organizations including the World Scout Bureau, Sustainable Forestry Initiative, and several faith-based organizations. He has traveled and worked in 50+ countries and is following God’s calling to use experience in marketing and fundraising to lead our Communications and Development teams. He is a father of three and resides on a 125-year-old Indiana farm with his wife of 33 years and over forty farm animals.

Allan grew up in Costa Rica where he became a Jesus follower in 1984. At the age of 18, he attended a missionary youth congress where he dedicated his life to missions with a deep passion for the Islamic world. Soon after, he studied in business administration and entered the school of world missions that was part of the first Costa Rican international missionary agency. For decades, Allan has served in many leadership roles with several Latin American mission societies, lead evangelistic missions among the least reached, and helped advance the gospel to the Muslim world. Allan and his wife, Patricia, are based in the Middle East and have two young adult children.