We train, guide, and resource missions mobilizers.
Gospel Mobilization was officially launched at Trinity Bible College and Graduate School in October 2018. The initial vision was to resource the Christian community by researching missionary mobilization, publishing various articles and academic papers, and training missions mobilizers on various topics impacting mobilization.
Our Core Values
Integrity
Excellence
Innovation
Diversity
Passion
Collaboration
Discovery
Meet our DIRECTOR
Dave Jacob is a missions mobilization practitioner, researcher, trainer, and consultant. He is the Founder and Executive Director of Gospel Mobilization, a ministry dedicated to resourcing, training, and coaching missions mobilizers. He has trained hundreds of mobilizers from all over the world. Previously, he spent 7 years as the Chair of the Intercultural Studies department at Trinity Bible College and Graduate School in Ellendale, ND, where he used education and inspiration to mobilize students to the nations. Dave is also the Director of Mobilization at World Gospel Mission, an inter-denominational missions-sending agency based in Marion, Indiana. From 2008-2014, he and his family served as missionaries in a sensitive country in Northern Asia. Dave is the author of It’s Your Call: To a Missional or Missionary Life, and the host of the Gospel Mobilization Podcast. He has a Master of Arts degree in Missional Leadership and loves to read books about missions, spiritual formation, and neurotheology. He also enjoys gardening, camping, kayaking, and roasting his own coffee beans outside over fire.
Meet our board members
Kanita Rutley is a missiologist, mobilizer, humanitarian, speaker, Bible teacher & worship artist. After answering the call to full-time ministry in 2013, she has had the privilege to work alongside multiple global Bible translation, engagement, prayer mobilization and evangelism initiatives. She currently serves as the Global Manager of Prayer Mobilization at Seed Company; a leading Bible translation organization part of the Every Tribe Every Nation (ETEN) Alliance, working to engage every Bibleless language across the globe with Scripture. Prior to Seed Company, she served as Director of Intercultural Prayer & Missions for the National Day of Prayer, and on American Bible Society’s inaugural Prayer Mobilization team.
She is also the founder of She Saves a Nation, a global nonprofit & disciple making initiative that empowers displaced girls in Africa and Asia to become leaders & agents of change within their nation and around the world. She also serves as a global missions mobilizer, rallying the Church toward the Great Commission call, engaging marginalized groups to take their place in God’s global mission, and equipping missionaries to proclaim the Good News to the nations. As an evolving African-American female missiologist, she has become a voice on global missions mobilization on several podcasts, seminars, and missions platforms.
Kanita is currently pursuing a Doctor of Missiology at Fuller Theological Seminary. She is married to her beloved husband, Minister Ryan Rutley, and they are the proud parents of two daughters, Rayn and Kierstyn. Kanita is a disciple who carries a passion to equip the church to understand God's Word and His mission in the world, becoming mature believers desperate to know God and determined to make Him known.
Katy White is the VP of Goer Experience with GoCorps, an innovative missions agency pioneering new pipelines and recruitment strategies with Gen Z. At GoCorps, where she has served the past 11 years, Katy oversees the mobilization process from initial discovery to exploration, placement, and launching. Katy published her first book Mobilizing Gen Z: Challenges and Opportunities for the Global Age of Missions with Jolene Erlacher in 2022. Katy also speaks and consults with churches, missions agencies, and collegiate ministries on how to effectively reach and send the emerging generation. She lives in Texas with her husband Colton.
Jake Smith and his wife Michele planted and co-pastor a church in La Crosse, Wisconsin, in 2020. They are committed to serving the local and global community as much as they can. Prior to planting their church, Jake served as Missions Pastor for their parent church in Roseville, MN. In both places, he has led missions trips and helped others explore their calling and role in missions work. He appreciates the opportunity to serve on the Gospel Mobilization Advisory Board and to support mobilizers and missions work around the world. Jake and Michele have two adult children and are (im)patiently waiting for grandchildren.
Mark Stebbins met the Lord as a Freshman at the University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill, in 1971. After involvement with The Navigators as an undergraduate, Mark went to Ethiopia in 1974, immediately after graduation, serving 6 months with Sudan Interior Mission. After 3 years as a Sears salesman and Job Service counselor for the state of NC, he served with The Navigators for 2 years in Accra, Ghana, West Africa from 1978-1980 involved in evangelism and disciple-making among civil servants and university students. After 8 years in full-time campus ministry, Mark and his family returned to Kumasi, Ghana, with The Navigators in 1989, where they served 8 years winning and training businessmen for Christ, as well as helping nationals start several small businesses there. He served 12 years (1997-2009) as Director for Short-term Missions and Director for International Mobilization and Recruitment for the U.S. Navigators. From 2009-2019 he served as Missions Director and Western Director for the U.S. Collegiate Navigators. He currently serves as a Missions Mobilizer-at-large for The Navigators. Mark has served as a mission mobilization consultant with The Mission Exchange from 2009-2012, and as mission mobilization catalyst for Missio Nexus since 2013.
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