CRM - Empowering Leaders

 SDCT Staff Members

Dr. Alex Galloway (PsyD) is the director of the SDCTeam. He is a clinical psychologist with specialized interest in marriage counseling, trauma recovery, and the holistic care of God's people. He has worked among the poor for 10 years in Memphis, has a passion for marginalized and victims of injustice. In October 2005 he served Hurricane Katrina survivors in MS at the invitation of the International Red Cross. He enjoys encouraging, equipping, and empowering those who minister on the "front lines."

Amy Galloway (MA) makes a special contribution to the team with her deep love for women in ministry and their families. Her authentic living, transparency about the spiritual journey, and deep passion for Jesus permeate her teaching and ministry. Amy is passionate about prayer and serves as a member of CRM's Intercession Team.

Dr. Steve Hoke (PhD) is a natural Barnabas who loves to encourage and empower staff, linking them to educational resources and helping them design appropriate growth opportunities from Sabbaticals to graduate programs. Steve's passion is to encourage and equip front-line cross-cultural workers to minister with spiritual authority in the difficult places of our world. With Ardath Smith, Steve helps CRM staff who have been on the staff for more than seven years to discern future direction for their ministries in the Mid-Career Assessment. He focuses his time on mentoring and spiritual direction, while helping develop CRM's in-house leader development training capacity.

Karen Kilbourne-Young (LMFT) grew up as a third generation MK (missionary kid) in Asia. She is a Licensed Marriage Family Therapist, and provides counseling and encouragement to CRM personnel around the world. Karen has a wealth of experience from her nine years working with missionaries at LinkCare, a counseling agency serving people in ministry. She brings a wonderfully integrated and balanced approach to whole-person care, an importance part of which is going to people in their place of ministry to understand their circumstance. Karen believes strongly that being with people in their ministry environment is an important part of the healing process.  

Patty Metcalf is drawn toward helping others grow in intimacy with God through prayer, inner healing, and spiritual renewal. Authenticity and simplicity of heart are core values for Patty, and she desires to see others walk in the freedom that these bring.  Patty is especially interested in seeing the women of CRM flourish.  She leads the Women and Family sub committee of the SDCTeam and is working with other CRM staff to generate avenues for the on-going development of women.

Dr. Myra Perrine (DMin) has a passion for authentic intimacy with God, and has authored several workbooks to help others draw nearer to Jesus. With a doctorate in spiritual formation, she loves to pray with leaders as well as teach, mentor, laugh, and worship her Savior. As a L.I.F.E. Coach (Love & Laugh, Integrate & Influence, Freedom & Fun, Empower & Encourage), Myra is gifted in helping people "think outside the box." She also writes and teaches on how God has wired us to interact with Him uniquely, and has a book on the subject entitled, What's Your God Language? Connecting with God Through Your Spiritual Temperament.

Ardath Smith  Ardath's calling is to support missionaries in their relationships with Christ.  She enjoys creating venues that will assist CRM staff in focusing on and attending to the Lord, including Scripture meditation and prayer times at conferences, as well as individual and team retreats.  She provides pastoral care and spiritual direction, and loves to visit missionaries in thier ministry locations, seeking to assist them in their openness to, and understanding of, the Lord and his work in and around them.  She also facilitates bringing new staff into the organization, debriefs missionaries who are in transition, and helps CRM staff who have been on the staff for more than seven years to discern future direction for their ministries.  She is in the midst of Masters Degree studies at Talbot Seminary's Institute for Spiritual Formation in La Mirada, CA.

Tom & Jan Wilkens

Tom & Jan Wilkens have been married 26 years, and have two beautiful daughters whom you must meet!  Other interests are how people and ministries grow well, which typically involves leaders being developed and cared for.  His theology study was at Dallas Seminary in the good ole days, marriage & family studies at Biola University, and a Ph.D. in counseling psychology at the University of Denver.  He has church planted, pastored, counseled, and taught.  Tom and Jan like to engage with those who know of sanctification pathways, and with those admittedly lost in the weeds - still believing Light overcomes darkness - still hoping there is a pathway out there somewhere.

Rev. Johnny (and Sue) Wilson

Johnny Wilson has a heart to shepherd and encourage people, which he has done through many years with Young Life and as the Shepherding Pastor of an inner-city church. He is gifted in providing pastoral care, encouragement, and prayer for missionaries in their personal lives, marriages and families so they can live and minister fruitfully in the places where God has led them. He has a passion for the poor and disadvantaged, and has been significantly impacted by his twenty years of friendships with them in urban areas and in third world countries around the world.

Sue Wilson's tender heart, wisdom and discernment has been used by God through 30+ years of Hospice/oncology nursing, Young Life, and as a Parish Nurse.  She has a zeal to see women discover and walk in the fullness of their gifts that there might be unity, teamwork and synergy for the body of Christ. Sue is currently completing a degree in Spiritual Formation and Direction at Regent College in Vancouver, BC.