Worldwide Discipleship Association’s mission is to serve the church worldwide by         developing Christlike character in people and equipping them to disciple others according to the pattern Jesus used to train his disciples. This ministry has worked with churches, college     campus ministries, and youth groups to help people grow in their relationship with God and to equip them to help others grow.  

The Stream supports the ministry of Worldwide Discipleship Association (WDA) as one of our partnering ministries. 

WDA has various materials and resources available at their website, several of which we utilize in Watershed

I’m a physician certified in family medicine. Family physicians thrive in environments where they are dealing with a variety of patients ranging from children with the usual viruses and more complicated illnesses to pregnant mothers to people dealing with occupational injuries to the elderly and folks with chronic health issues. We thrive in a context of variety and enjoy being engaged with and caring for people of all ages and backgrounds.

I am the director for a summer internship called The Well. This is a two-month mentored summer internship generally geared toward Americans and Bulgarians in their 20’s. They participate in daily discussions/lectures throughout the weekdays pertaining to missions and cultivating their own life with Christ, and they are involved with outreach through English Clubs ministries. I am involved with the teaching and outreach, and I’m a mentor for the men. Oversight and execution of this is essentially a full-time job for me from mid-May to early August.

Most significantly (in my opinion), I’m a mentor. I am part of the core leadership of our church plant, and facilitating our leadership has primarily fallen to me.  Whereas our team leader is a great strategist and vision-caster in ways that I’m not, my gifts lie more in mobilizing people toward executing as they are encouraged to grow in their own faith and walk with Him.  I’m more gifted as a shepherd who encourages and exhorts others to be their best in the roles and gifts that they have.  So, part of my week is spent in both facilitating planning meetings; active involvement in the weekly worship services—alternately teaching, leading worship, or facilitating flow of the service; and mentoring the other men in leadership.  I also spend time mentoring other men from the church plant who are NOT YET in leadership with the expectation that God desires them to grow in their relationship with God and in the exercise of their gifts.  The “proto-session” of leaders is composed of three of my best Bulgarian friends—Vlado, Boyan, and Petko—my team leader, Dal, and myself.  God has given me the privilege to mentor my Bulgarian friends and brothers.  We are a team of equals, just that I have some life experience and theology to draw upon as we work together through the challenges of seeing His church grow.