Leadership Team
David HARPER
Montego Bay, Jamaica
Dave was born in Zimbabwe, Africa to missionary parents and then raised in Canada. From an early age, a call to missions has been on his life.
On a two year church planting team in the Caribbean he met his wife
Nancy. After earning various degrees in Bible College and University, they committed to career missionary service with YWAM.
Over the last fifteen years Dave has served in Grenada and Barbados at
various levels of leadership and currently serves on the YWAM Caribbean
leadership team. Dave has a passion for training and sending missionaries from the Caribbean to the ends of the earth. He has helped to launch long term teams to Albania, West Africa and Brazil. He is currently running schools and multiplying DTS leaders out of Montego Bay, Jamaica while operating in his role as Caribbean DTS Centre Coordinator.
Bjarte TONHIEM
Kristiansand, Norway
Doris and Bjarte are IDTSC Regional Coordinators for Northern Europe. They did their DTS in 96-98 and staffed and lead a many DTS’s in Norway for 10 years. In 2007 they moved to Honduras with their two children Sigurd and Johanna, to be a part of pioneering a DTS amongst the Misquito Indians. In 2009 they joined the international DTS center working and living in Northern European once again. They are also a part of the leadership at their training location.
Bjarte is a man with a big heart for people. He is born in a family with a great heart for the Kingdom and for the nations. He has been active in Christian ministries and church life since late 80’s. His goals are to see young people equipped and disciple to reach their generation and the unreached. He is studying communication, worldwide and apologetics part-time at Gimlekollen Mediehøgskole in Kristiansand.
Doris had a dream as a little girl to work in the nations and she is living out her dream with YWAM. She has taken a school of ethno linguistic and cultural studies, and a part of her responsibilities is to keep in touch with the field workers from their training location. She is also active locally with music and singing.
Susan grew up in Eastern Washington State in a family that doesn't know
the Lord. She became a Christian at age 16, and even then the Lord began
to speak to her about serving Him full time. In college she knew she was
called to Missions, but thinking she should get some security for the
future first began working awhile, to gain a permanent teaching
certificate. After a few years of not being able to reach her goals, and
beginning to drift , she finally realized that the Lord wanted her to
trust HIM for her future, and that delayed obedience is disobedience.
After that she worked with her church for a short time before going to
serve in YWAM Nepal. Since that time (May 1988) she has served in many
roles in YWAM Kathmandu including leading DTS's and serving on the
leadership in Nepal, and for some time has been the Training Director in
Kathmandu. Her passion is to see young people know God intimately and be
discipled and that discipleship to be multiplied so that they can bring
change to their nations and beyond.