Lausanne Movement

Kent Parks, and his wife Erika (serving with Mission to Unreached Peoples – www.mup.org) have served in SEAsia almost 20 years, working mainly among Unreached People Groups and in helping develop UPG ministry networks at various levels including “people-specific,” nationwide and region-wide.  He served seven years as a Baptist pastor in the US before serving in SEAsia as a seminary professor (Ph.D. in missiology), and as a Strategy Coordinator focused on stimulating trans-denominational and trans-national efforts among UPGs.  

He is currently serving as the Facilitator for SEALINK, the SEAsia UPG network.  He also serves as Co-Facilitator for the Ethnê Global UPG Initiative (www.ethne.net).  Ethnê is a collaboration of “Least Reached Peoples” focused network leaders from around the world as well as between the Lausanne Committee on World Evangelism and the World Evangelical Alliance Mission Commission.  Kent is also the Lausanne Committee on World Evangelization Senior Associate for Least Reached Peoples and a WEAMC Mission Associate.  Kent most recently became International Director for Mission to Unreached Peoples.
 
Erika has served as Cultural Adaptation Coordinator, MK Education Coordinator, Prayer Facilitator among other roles.  She is especially known for leading seminars to train workers in to reach “oral-preference” learners by using Chronological Storying of Scripture.  Kent and Erika have two daughters at Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas.