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The Mission Society is pleased to announce the addition of Becky Stephen to our staff. Becky began serving as the director of field ministry on January 7, 2013.

Here, Becky shares her journey to this point and how God led her to The Mission Society.

It was in college, at the University of New Mexico, that I decided that Jesus was fiction and life was meaningless. However, God steered me to an InterVarsity staff worker who was not afraid of my questions and doubts. He showed me that Christians can have a brain and that there are reasons for faith. He taught me to love the scriptures and to see Jesus again. And in the process, I came to understand that God is a missionary God and that if I claim to be His child, I share that identity.

One day, God’s words came to me almost audibly, “You are a missionary.” The Lord called me to InterVarsity staff in preparation, I thought, for long-term missions.

My friendships with international students were the best part of staff work. The more I ministered to international students on campus, the clearer it became that I needed more cross-cultural training.

I began a master’s in cross-cultural studies at Fuller Theological Seminary while I worked as an International Student Ministries staff worker at the University of Southern California. Those four years were exciting and life-changing. Not only did God transform my worldview through my classes, my professors, and my experiences, but it was there that God assured me of my call to India.

In 1987 I went on an InterVarsity summer project to India where God confirmed to me – and to my worried parents – the rightness of going to India long-term. In the fall of 1988 I hopped on a plane headed for Varanasi, India to be the only staff worker at Benaras Hindu University. While in India I met and married Roy Stephen.

In February 1997, my family and I moved to Madison, Wisconsin, where I worked to recruit, train, supervise, and care for InterVarsity staff working overseas. In 2000, I was asked to serve as the director of InterVarsity’s sending division (Link).

In 2009, the Lord called Roy and me to leave full-time ministry and move to Dubai. In Dubai, Roy started an IT software company with a Business as Mission vision. I took on whatever assignments I felt the Lord give, helping to develop prayer networks, leading worship, preaching and teaching, developing leaders in the church, and doing crisis debriefing for cross-cultural workers.

When we left Dubai this summer, I began to pray for a place where I could use my God-given gifts and cross-cultural ministry experience to empower God's people to be and the do the gospel wherever He calls them. The Lord, in His mercy, introduced me to The Mission Society.

Everything I’ve seen and heard so far – from the humble, transparent visionary leadership and competent, grace-filled staff, to The Mission Society missionaries with their deeply resonating stories – makes me confident that this is God’s good gift to me and my family.