Staff & Leadership

J. Douglas (and Beth) Gehman

President & Director

Doug and Beth Ann Gehman joined the Globe International staff in 1994, and became President in 2004 when the founding President/Director (Bob Bishop) retired. From 1978 to 1993, the Gehmans served as missionaries to Asia where they founded AsiaNet Ministries, a crusade and church planting ministry in Thailand and Sri Lanka. In Sri Lanka, the Gehmans and their team helped start more than 35 churches among Tamil tea estate workers, a church planting movement that has now grown to over 90 congregations and nearly 35,000 members. Doug attended Goshen College and Fuller Theological Seminary, and earned Master’s and Doctorate degrees in Missions at Liberty Christian University. They have ministered in over 50 nations. The Gehmans have four children and seven grandchildren. They live in Pensacola, near Florida’s beautiful Gulf Coast.

Alan Prouty

Office Manager

Alan Prouty has been in the full-time ministry since 2001 serving the Kingdom in primarily administrative roles.  Alan also served in the US Air Force for 14 years.  In addition to his role at Globe International Ministries, Alan serves on the staff of a local church where he was ordained as a pastor and leads short term missions trips when possible.  He met his wife on a short term trip to Ukraine and they have 5 children together.  Alan has been serving missi0naries with Globe since the fall of 2009.

Glenn (and Phyllis) Hatcher

Coordinator of Missions Training

Glenn and Phyllis Hatcher have been Globe missionaries to Africa and the Middle East for over 15 years. They served at Manna Bible College in Kenya, helped form the Manna School of Missions, and traveled all over North Africa and the Middle East training Christian leaders. Glenn and Phyllis joined the Globe Leadership Team in 2006 to help start the “Institute for Global Ministry.” They now oversee all of Globe’s training programs, including IGM, the Globe School of Ministry (www.gsom.org), and Next Step Missions Training School.

Sandy Carter-Britnell

Globe Hope Coordinator

Sandy Carter, the daughter of New Tribes missionaries, is a missionary veteran, who grew up in South America. She is the founder and president of Globe International Nicaragua, overseeing three homes for children there. She is also the director of Globe Hope, the Humanitarian arm of the mission agency Globe International.

Bob & Melissa Hill

Area Representatives – Europe, Africa

Bob and Melissa Hill have been involved in missions since 1985. They worked for nine years in Nagoya, Japan and helped plant two churches. In 1994, God called the family to move to Scotland. Bob now pastors His Family Church in Clydebank, a suburb of Glasgow. Their ministry also includes Overtoun House Christian Centre, a Victorian Manor House, which is an outreach centre for local children and youth, women in need and Deeper, a skate church.

Josh & Akiko Jones

Area Representatives – Asia, Latin America

Joshua and Akiko are team leaders of The Village Mosaic – a church-planting project designed to plant culturally-relevant churches in Japan and East Asia. Before serving in Japan, Joshua served for over 8 years in missionary care as director of Emercy, a missionary care and support ministry. Akiko is a first generation Christian and a native of Japan. Joshua and Akiko met in a Christian fellowship while attending the University of Alabama.

Danny & Judy Armstrong

Intern Program Coordinators

Danny & Judy Armstrong have been missionaries to Southeast Asia since 1986. They spent their first 6 years in Indonesia where they helped start Rhema Bible Institute. The Armstrongs also worked for four years from a base in Penang, Malaysia to reach an un-reached people group in South Thailand. During this time they helped to launch the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, a missions training and mobilizing ministry for reaching the un-reached of Southeast Asia. Currently the Armstrongs divide their time between the U.S. & Southeast Asia as they continue to mobilize and equip churches and individuals to reach the un-reached.