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

Jolene Erlacher grew up as the daughter of missionaries. She has a doctorate in leadership and is the founder of Leading Tomorrow where she works as a speaker, consultant and leadership coach specializing in intergenerational leadership and ministry. She has worked with missions teams and agencies for over 15 years. Jolene has written three books, including her most recent, Mobilizing Gen Z. She is passionate about effectively engaging the next generation in Kingdom service. Jolene and her family currently live in central North Carolina.

Dr. Marvin J. Newell has spent over 45 years engaged in Christian missions. He is presently Ambassador at Large of Missio Nexus, an association of missions in North America.  Previously he served as a missionary in Papua, Indonesia, a mission administrator, a professor of missions, director of a missions association (IFMA), and senior VP of Missio Nexus. He is the author of five mission related books, the newest: A Third of Us: What it takes to reach the Unreached.

John Rinehimer, a New Jersey native, holds a BA in Education from Asbury University and a Masters in Biblical Studies from Wesley Biblical Seminary. He and his wife previously served as missionaries in Uganda with World Gospel Mission, training indigenous church planters on the Sudanese border. God then led them back to the States to serve at Southeast Christian Church, in Louisville, KY as the disciple-making pastor for 5 years. In 2014 he became a campus pastor with Community Christian Church in Chicago.  In 2017, John returned to World Gospel Mission as the Vice President of International Ministries and Mobilization and is currently working on his PhD in Manchester England on Spiritual Formation and Leadership in Generation Z. John & Erica have three children, Jackson (14), Caleb (12), and Ava (10). They live in Noblesville, IN.

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.

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.