M and S Christensen want to live exuberant lives of repentance and faith that glorify Jesus by loving Him and others through prevailing prayer, active service and making disciples. M comes alongside leaders in the rapidly expanding ReIgnite Hope https://www.reignitehope.com ReIgnite Hope ministry reaches out to those on the margins of society as Jesus did to nurture the spiritual and emotional well-being of those served. ReIgnite Hope helps former gang members, those struggling with homelessness and ex-offenders get back on their feet. S supports disadvantaged mothers as a calming and peaceful presence during the pains and challenges of childbirth. They are based in Rolling Hills Estates, Calif. M earned his bachelor’s degree in engineering technology with an emphasis in construction management. He has worked towards a master’s of divinity at Talbot School of Theology at Biola University. S graduated from college with a degree in psychology, and later studied to become a doula and childbirth educator. Previously, the Christensens have worked for their church, Rolling Hills Covenant Church. M was a junior high director and S was associate director of junior high ministries, global outreach administrator and student ministries administrator. Then in 1997, they moved to Central Asia with their two young kids. For more than 20 years, they served in three different Central Asian countries as church planters, English teachers, ministers to refugees, initiators of international development work. M also worked as a project manager and engineer at a wheelchair factory to help move the company from being a highly subsidized and unprofitable business to profitability and self-sustainability. S has also homeschooled their children overseas. M and S have been through traumatic and unexpected departures, but have seen their ministry shift, grow and deepen, especially among vulnerable populations. They’ve also gotten to work on diverse teams and partner with other organizations such as World Relief and Refugee Highway Partnership. ReIgnite Hope is a unique Christ-centered training program that started in 2010 on Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles. M supports leaders who teach students marketable job skills, giving them dignity and enabling them to provide for their families reigniting a hope for their future. Training programs are established in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Philippines and Brazil with potential new locations all over the nation and globe. S supports women and their families involved with Reignite Hope, prison ministries of Local Outreach, the missionaries of Global Outreach departments at RHCC and others in their existing mission networks. The Christensens have eight children, three of whom were born overseas and the rest in the United States. Their kids love being a part of a large family and growing up outside their passport country. They have all been homeschooled and three have graduated from university.