Announcing Our New Executive Director

After a fruitful search which brought us multiple candidates, we are very excited to announce that our board has hired The Rev. Jared Wensyel as our new full-time Executive Director as of August 1. 

Jared lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with his wife Abbi and two girls, Thea (4) and Olivia (1). They will continue to live in Greensboro where he will work remotely, including from time to time at the office of the Anglican Diocese of Christ Our Hope.

Originally from Ohio, Jared and Abbi moved to Germany in 2014, where he worked as a church planting intern in Frankfurt for a church plant in the global City to City Church planting network and pursued seminary education at the Freie Theologische Hochschule in Gießen (Giessen School of Theology). 

After finishing his B.A. in Theology, Jared worked as an interim pastor at a Baptist congregation in Frankfurt, before being ordained as a deacon in the Anglican Church in Germany in 2019. At the end of 2020 he and Abbi moved back to the US, landing in Greensboro, NC where he took a job as Curate at Church of the Redeemer. 

Jared was ordained an Anglican priest at Redeemer in August 2022, where he had a wide variety of responsibilities, including, amongst other things, responsibility for the church's mission partnership in Rwanda and oversight of Redeemer's two international services - one in Arabic made up of people from Sudan and South Sudan, and one in Swahili/Kinyarwanda made up of people from Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, and Uganda.

While Jared was serving as Curate and then Assistant Rector, he regularly visited Rwanda and worked locally to equip the pastors and leaders of the Arabic and East African services. Jared also recently finished his M.A.R. in Biblical Studies from Trinity Anglican Seminary in Ambridge, PA, where he was surprised to also receive the John Guest Award in Mission & Evangelism, an award meant to encourage and affirm Jared's capstone on multi-ethnic church and his missional efforts throughout his time at the seminary. 

From his time as a church planter in Germany, serving refugee groups in Greensboro, and traveling to support mission partnerships in Rwanda, Jared has discovered a passion and a gift for cross-cultural work. With this new full time role, we will be able to significantly increase our capacity for recruiting and connecting American churches with our brothers and sisters in the Nuba Mountains, as we look to continue this vital work of partnering with the Sudanese Anglican Church in raising up and equipping Christ-centered leaders. In addition to serving full-time as our Executive Director, Jared will continue to serve as an Anglican Priest in volunteer capacities, including continuing to be a friend and support to the leaders of the Sudanese and East African services in Greensboro. 

Coming up soon, we will be launching an exciting Fall season of visits and meetings. We will start with representing our ministry at the New Wineskins Conference in September, including the pre-conference for the Anglican Persecuted Church Network. After the conference, we will be visiting Apostles Houston on Oct 5, Christ Church Vero Beach on Oct 19, and The River on Oct 26. Pax Dei for Nuba will also host a special non-Sunday fundraiser event at Church of the Incarnation in Harrisonburg (more info to follow).    

Thank you for joining us in this good work. Your support and prayers make it possible for us to continue to develop and expand the important work the Lord is calling us to do! Please keep our Sudanese brothers and sisters in the Nuba Mountains in your prayers.