Case, The Rev. Jaime -- The Rev. Jaime Case considers himself a TCK (Third Culture Kid), raised by missionary parents from the U.S. in the Philippines then returning for college to Iowa. He is currently the Executive Director of the Center for Hispanic Ministries and Adjunct Faculty at ETSS. Formerly he served as Executive for El Buen Samaritano Episcopal Mission where he completed $7.3 million capital project. Jaime also served as Vicar for San Francisco Episcopal Church during the same period. Jaime (hai-meh) loves to study issues of diversity, culture, language and mission.

Chapman, JoAnne -- JoAnne Chapman is the United Thank Offering Coordinator, serving as staff to the 12-member United Thank Offering Committee. She oversees their annual grant cycle and supports the many facets of their work. At the Episcopal Church Center she is a member of the Anglican and Global Relations staff. In this setting she is involved with Anglican Provinces throughout the Anglican Communion, and is well acquainted with the worldwide mission strategy of the Episcopal Church. Before taking the UTO Coordinator position at the Church Center in the summer of 2001, JoAnne was an Area Director for Lutheran Social Services of Washington and Idaho. She holds a Master of Education in English as a Second Language and an MA in counseling. JoAnne has been an Episcopalian for over 30 years.

Daley, Valeska -- Recently returned from Honduras where she served as a YASC/SAMS missionary developing micro-enterprise projects with Honduran women, Valeska currently resides in Mattapan, Massachusetts. She served a previous term as a SAMS missionary teaching in Honduras. Upon completion of her first term of mission service, Valeska earned an MBA at Simmons College in Boston.

Fletcher, Wesley -- Wesley is currently the Director of Youth Ministries at St. Francis Episcopal Church in San Antonio, Texas. After graduation from Brown University in 2001, she served in the Diocese of West Ankole in Uganda as a secondary school teacher with the YASC program. Since her return, Wesley has traveled to speak about the Young Adult Service Corps and her involvement in what she feels to be the most convincing aspect of an Episcopal Church that claims missionary status-sending young people into the world for missionary service. In addition to youth ministry, she now serves as a Special Appointment missionary for the YASC program.

Jenkins, Willis -- Began his work in missions as a Volunteer for Mission to West Ankole, Uganda in 1997, a connection that continues through his position as Appointed Missionary (part-time) to the companion diocese relationship of West Ankole and Oklahoma. Willis served as the Associate Coordinator for the Episcopal Young Adult Service Corp through its first triennium. Currently he is in graduate school at the University of Virginia, studying Theology and Environmental Ethics.

Kane, Ross -- A YASC missionary, Ross served as Program Associate Director with the New Sudan Council of Churches for 30 months in the Nairobi and Kampala offices of the NSCC. A graduate of the University of Virginia and from the Diocese of Virginia, Ross's home is in Charlottesville. He anticipates further study in law and theology and is currently completing his third year with YASC as a mission intern with sabbatical.

LeCompte, Roger B., MBA -- Mr. LeCompte has 25 years US experience with hospitals and related health organizations in strategic analysis, business planning and managed care. He recently served as a mission volunteer for the Diocese of Lebombo, Mozambique, where he developed fund raising, communications, and support programs for the Diocese generally and for its AIDS activities. As a Clinton Foundation volunteer in Mozambique he served as a budget analyst to the Mozambican Ministry of Health in developing its proposal for AIDS treatment. During 2003 he worked for the Catholic Medical Mission Board assigned to the Mozambican Christian Council to help with AIDS education. He has also served the General Board of Global Ministries of the United Methodist Church as a consultant on the long-term development of Chicuque Rural Hospital, and served as treasurer to the English language congregation of the Parish of St Steven and St Lawrence in Maputo.

Peyton, Will -- Seminary Intern with the Mission Personnel office and the United Thank Offering. Will is a Master of Divinity student at General Theological Seminary in NYC and Candidate for Ordination in the Diocese of Virginia. He grew up in Alexandria, graduated from the University of Virginia, and lived in Charlottesville where he worked as a stonemason before starting theological studies. Will lives in NYC with his wife Betsy and their three children.

Presler, The Rev. Dr. Titus L. -- Dean and President of the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest in Austin, Texas. Titus was an ECUSA missionary in Zimbabwe (with Jane - see above) from 1983-86 and grew up in India where his parents served as Methodist missionaries at Leonard Theological College. Author of "Transfigured Night", "Horizons of Mission", and numerous published articles on mission, Titus is past chairman of the Standing Commission on World Mission for the Episcopal Church, Professor of Global Christianity and World Mission at ETSS, and a leading activist for mission in the Episcopal Church.

Schmidt, The Rev Dr. Richard -- is from Chesterfield, MO, where he attends Grace Episcopal Church. He served as a Volunteer for Mission in the Diocese of Akwa, Nigeria. While in Nigeria, he lectured at St Paul's University College in the field of theological education. Author of Glorious Companions (Eerdmans), Dick presently teaches at Eden Theological Seminary.

Smits, Dr. Helen L., MACP -- As a Fulbright scholar Dr. Smits taught management in the new Masters in Public Health offered at the Medical School at University Eduardo Mondlane in Maputo, Mozambique; her invitation to participate came through New York University's Wagner School of Public Service. Dr. Smits served from 1993-1996 as Deputy Administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration in the Department of Health and Human Services. Following that she worked as President and Medical Director of a Medicaid-only HMO and taught at the Wagner School. Former chair of the Board of Commissioners of the Joint Commission on Health Care Organizations, she has recently completed terms as a member of the Board of Governors of the Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health and as co-chair of the Strategic Framework Board for the National Quality Forum. Her current interests are in the uses of Quality Improvement techniques in developing countries. She is married to Roger LeCompte and lives in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.