Meet The Team

MPI brings together a team of leaders and volunteers to empower the work we are doing in South India

Our executive board with a wide range of experience and expertise.

This blend of leadership and commitment to India and the work MPI is doing there provides a solid leadership team to help guide Mission Partners India to serve those most in need.

Meet our board

Without key volunteers very little of this would be possible.

Volunteers: Mrs. Sandi Hansen, Mrs. Ruth Klungle, Mr. Donn VanDerSchie, Judy Hupe, June Veldheer, and many others

We work in partnership with the Church of South India (CSI) to help develop sustainable, indigenous, income generation programs for the poor, since unemployment in this region was and continues to be over seventy-five percent.

Church of South India Synod Co-workers

  • The Most Rev. S. Vasanthakumar, Moderator, CSI
  • The Rt. Rev. G.  Devakadasham, Deputy Moderato, CSI
  • Mr. M.M. Philip, Genral Secretary, CSI
  • Dr. Bennet Abraham, Honorary Treasurer, CSI

Vellore Diocese

  • Rt. Rev. Bishop William

Rayalaseema Diocese

  • Rt. Rev. Dr. Yesuvaraprasad

Ministry Staff in India

  • Mrs. Padma Sundarraj – Geegh Nursery School & 18 teachers
  • Mrs. Lily Prasad – Administrtor Give-a-Cow Program
  • Mr. Vinnay Kumar – Project Manager, Give-a-Cow Program
  • Mrs. Kumari – Banyan Tree Tailoring Program Project Leader

Inidgenous Co-workers & Local Development Committee Members

  • Rev. Dr. B.D. Prasad Rao (Korind Mission)
  • Mrs. Lily Prasad
  • Mr. Benjamin
  • Mrs. Padma Sundarraj
  • Mrs. Mary Phillips
  • Mrs. Swarna
  • Grace Johns
  • Many others not listed

Volunteers in India

Mrs. Padma Sundarraj, Mrs. Raveena, Mrs. Chandhra Isaac, Mr. Benjamin, Mr. Sudarshanam, Mrs. Mary Phillips,Mrs. Swarna Johns, Mr. Prabakhar, Mr. Christopher, Mr. Baktha Vasalam, Mrs Swarnalatha Johns, others

Rev. Linn Gann, MPI President and Reformed Church in America (RCA) Ecumenical Co-worker Church of South India (CSI) lives between two cultures; South India and the U.S.

In the years following my first visit to India, I volunteered as a liaison between donors in the West and in Madanapalle, South India; our goal was to rebuild the mission compound. In 2002, I founded Mission Partners International, Inc., 501(C)3 tax-deductible non-profit organization, to support the on-going needs in this region through partnership support.

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