GlobalRize workers

GlobalRize is blessed with more than 800 volunteers worldwide, in addition to the salaried staff who work in our ‘Mission Center’ office every day of the week.
Please meet some of our talented, enthusiastic, and above all, committed workforce.
If you think you might be able to contribute as a volunteer yourself, please have a look at our vacancies; we are more than happy to welcome you!

Marten Visser

Missionary Director

Marten Visser is the missionary director of GlobalRize. He is a pastor in the Dutch Protestant Church and was previously a church planter in Thailand and founder of Stichting Gave, a Dutch foundation aimed at helping refugees find faith in Jesus Christ. Marten focuses on innovation and the international development of the organization.

Frans de Lange

Operational director

Frans de Lange is the operational director of GlobalRize. He was previously the mayor of the Dutch municipality of Elburg. Frans is mainly concerned with expanding the organization, PR, fundraising and staffing.

Emmie Kaljouw

Teamleader English language

Emmie Kaljouw-Conijn is the English team leader. She is responsible for GlobalRize's English language activities. Emmie previously worked in radiotherapy for 17 years, where in addition to treating patients, she was involved in international studies and conferences. She also studied Theology.

Marijke Reedijk

Team leader Design

Marijke Reedijk is team leader of the graphic designers. Together with a team of designers, she creates weekly images for the Dutch and English pages on Facebook and Instagram. In addition, Marijke designs GlobalRize's printed and promotional materials.

Albert Koffeman

Coordinator likers team Facebook Biblword

Albert Koffeman is the coordinator of the likers team of the Biblword Facebook page.

Jannita van Winkelhof

Team leader She Rises

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Karel Remmelink

Church seeker

As a retired consultant, Karel Remmelink has a lot of experience with in-depth personal conversations and giving advice. The combination of fifty years of pastoral and teaching work in the Christian field makes him not only an experienced mentor but also an ideal church finder for students who have completed the course.

Grietje Commelin

Editor-in-Chief Biblword.net

Grietje Commelin studied theology and completed the master's degree in Bible Translations. In addition to her role as a mother, she contributes to writing Bible devotions and other GlobalRize products.

Nico Bontenbal

Contentmanager

Nico Bontenbal is our content manager. He is responsible for the theological side of the GlobalRize content and coaches and trains our many volunteers. Nico worked in Africa for ten years to mobilize the church for missions. Prior to that, he worked in the business world in purchasing and marketing.

Dianne van Es

Course Coordinator

Dianne van Es is a mentor coordinator. She liaises with group mentors to assist wherever she can, answer questions, arrange replacements, etc. In addition to working for GlobalRize, she is a school social worker.

Joost de Jager

English course coordinator

Joost de Jager is an e-course coordinator (English) and guides new mentors through the introduction process. Before he retired Joost worked for KLM, the Dutch national airline, for 33 years. For a large part of those years he worked as an information manager and was involved in the IT support for airport processes. He then worked for Gevangenenzorg Nederland (Dutch Prisoner Care) for ten years, and as a volunteer at the Food Bank.

Willie Jonker

Mentor coordinator BiblWord courses

Willie Jonker is a mentor coordinator for BiblWord courses. As such she liaises with the group mentors. Before her retirement Willie worked for the Evangelische Omroep (Dutch Evangelical Broadcasting Company) where she held multiple positions.

Albert David Bakker

Programmer

As a programmer, Albert David is involved in the development and maintenance of software for GlobalRize on a daily basis. After attending a Bible school Albert David decided he wanted to dedicate himself to spreading the Gospel.

Gideon van de Weg

Software developer

Gideon van de Weg is one of our software developers. He is responsible for maintaining and developing Learnnn.com, our e-course platform. In addition to his work at GlobalRize, he studies theology.

Jelle Kaptijn

Online marketing team leader

Jelle Kaptijn manages the departments Online Marketing and IT & Design. In this role he is responsible for scheduling, reporting, allocating tasks to team members and supporting language teams. Jelle previously worked for various webshops.

Johan Klaver

Software Developer

Johan Klaver is software developer at GlobalRize. His main project is the development of our online course platform Learnnn.com. Johan started out in programming as a hobbyist, after which he pursued formal training as a programmer. He now puts his IT talents to use for God’s Kingdom.

André Scholten

Online marketeer

André Scholten is an online marketeer. He is responsible for posting articles to Biblword.net, maintaining the GlobalRize.nl website, and developing websites in new languages.

Teun van Loon

Online marketeer

Teun van Loon is an online marketer. His job description includes subtitling videos, Google advertisements, scheduling content on Facebook, and promoting the growth and reach of our English Twitter account.

Joël van Otterloo

Online marketeer

Joël van Otterloo is an online marketer. He is responsible for advertising campaigns on Facebook and Google. He is also involved in data analysis and data management. Joël studied Communication & Media at the Erasmus University Rotterdam and was previously an advertising specialist at Cameranu.

Diederik Koops

Financial administration

Diederik Koops studied Logistics & Economics at the Hogeschool Windesheim college in Zwolle. At GlobalRize, Diederik is responsible for the financial administration, co-organizing events and office management.

Elly Moorlag

Board and executive assistant

Elly Moorlag was employed by the Church Office of the reformed municipalities of Nunspeet and Elburg as a secretary for many years. At GlobalRize, Elly supports the board, management and directors.

Esther Visser

Developer courses and editor-in-chief communication

Esther Visser is the communications editor. She was previously a church planter in Thailand and gained experience as editor-in-chief of the Dutch magazine De Waarheidsvriend of the Gereformeerde Bond within the Dutch PKN church organization.

Netty van de Berg

Relationship manager

Netty van de Berg is our relationship manager. She is responsible for growing and maintaining GlobalRize’s network of business contacts and church benefactors. By establishing and developing more meaningful relationships with our sponsors she helps build a solid foundation for our organization and mission.

Mirjam Buurkes

Operations

Mirjam Buurkes is part of the Operations team and is responsible for event organizing and volunteer management, among other tasks. In addition to her work within GlobalRize, she is taking a part-time course in Missionary Work at the 'Evangelisch College' (Evangelical College).

Rob Boerma

Head of Operations

Rob works at GlobalRize as Head of Operations and oversees the organization of human resources, the secretarial office, administration department and facility management, and is responsible for reports and project-based duties.

Arjan Vaders

Language Team Leader Spanish & Coordinator Language Team Facilitator

Arjan Vaders is Spanish language team leader and supervisor of language teams. Together with other coaches he supervises 33 language teams and starts up new language teams. He was a missionary in Peru until 2012 and is grateful to be able to lead teams to make the GlobalRize strategy "from screen to church" a reality.

Martin Stoffer

Dutch language team leader

Martin Stoffer is the team leader of the Dutch language team. He supports the mentors and supervises the process from screen to church. Martin is involved in the translation process of articles and looks for new opportunities in the Dutch language area.

Harry Raaphorst

Advisor R&D

Harry Raaphorst is our Research and Development advisor. He previously worked for Open Doors and was the general manager of a number of IT companies.

Elsa van Wessel

Language team supervisor

Elsa coaches team leaders of languages in (Eastern) Europe, Central Asia and Russia. She has worked as a missionary in Central Asia for years. It is her dream that people will be touched by God's Word online in the farthest corners of the former Soviet Union.

Hennie van de Worp

Volunteer Coordinator

Hennie greatly values personal contact with people. Previously working as a maternity nurse, she is now involved in pastoral care in the church and helps women and their families who came to live in Oldebroek as asylum seekers (Luz group). Within GlobalRize, Hennie is a mentor and coordinates the work of volunteers.

Gert Jan Messelink

Project leader Church Map NL

Gert Jan is the project leader for our Dutch Church Map project and is a mentor for the Bible course. In the last years of his career he worked as an interim director in engineering companies. In addition, Gert Jan has held many board positions in churches and associations.

Alicia Coetsee

Team leader African

Alicia is originally from South-Africa. From an early age, her heart has been set on following and serving Jesus. She has done missionary work in Malawi and Swaziland. Her involvement with Bybelwoord started as a translator and designer, but she is now the team leader for the Afrikaans language.

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Jorien van Beek

German language team leader

Jorien van Beek is married and has three children. She is originally from the Netherlands, but has been living in Germany for 8 years because of her training as a pediatrician. Jorien is the German language team leader and, together with a small team of employees, ensures that the German course page and Facebook page are up-to-date.

Aad van der Maas

Team leader Albanian

Aad van der Maas is a regional coordinator at the Dutch GZB organization. In Albania/Kosovo he works as coordinator of the FOKUSI programme.

Woudineh Endayelalu

Team leader Amharic

Woudineh Merin is team leader for the Amharic language. He pastors the Vineyard Church in Ethiopia of which he has been a part since it was founded in 2008. He currently lives in France with his family due to a work assignment of his wife. While in France, he is part of the pastoral leadership team for the Ethiopian Evangelical Christians Fellowship in Lyon. Woudineh invests his time in training key leaders for the Ethiopian Evangelical Churches.

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Team leader Arabic

The Arabic team leader lives in the Gulf region and from there, manages various sub-teams whose members live all over the Arab world and have a passion for reaching with the Gospel, the many unreached in this region.

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Team leader Bengali

This anonymous employee has worked in Bangladesh for several years. He is the Bengali language team leader and effectively uses the network he has built up in Bangladesh.

Freddy De Gouanou Souemi

French language team leader

Freddy De Gouanou Souemi is the French language team leader and manages the team of mentors. He has a passion for empowering young people and leading them in servant leadership. He completed his master's degree in general linguistics in January 2019 and is a translator and speaker. He is currently the National Program Coordinator of the International Christian Students Fellowship in Ivory Coast.

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Finnish team leader

According to the Finnish team leader, he is “inspired and motivated by Acts 6:7 “And the Word of God went abroad.” His hope is that people will be encouraged to follow Jesus and will be built up in faith.

Elise de Koning

Ambassador

Elise is a GlobalRize ambassador. She wants to raise awareness for the work GlobalRize does worldwide, and keep participants engaged. Elise raises funds to support online missions. In daily life, Elise works as a marketing coordinator and account manager for "Cellro" in Veenendaal.

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Team leader Kurdish

The Kurdish team is managed by the Home for Kurds foundation.

Freddy De Gouanou Souemi

Team leader Laotian

The Laotian team is managed by an anonymous GlobalRize employee.

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Team leader Nepali

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Team leader Ukrainian

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Team leader Uzbek

Alfa Wijnveen

Team leader Portuguese

Alfa Wijnveen was born in Angola and grew up in Portugal, where she started teaching languages and literature. She has been involved in several local and national outreach programs, especially in the field of education for children and youth. She is married to a Dutch man and now lives in the Netherlands, where she serves with the prayer team for missions at a local PKN church.

Daniel en Else Mic

Team leaders Romanian

Daniel and Else Mic are the first married couple to lead a team together. Daniel is Romanian and lives in the Netherlands and he is married to Else who lived in Romania as a ‘mission kid’. They have a warm heart for the Romanian people and see this ministry as an answer to prayer. They rebooted the Romanian team with lots of enthusiasm.

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Team leader Russian

The Russian team is led by a Korean missionary who lives and works with her husband and children in the former Soviet Republic.

Elias Phanuel Musigwa

Team leader Swahili

Elias is the GlobalRize language team leader for Swahili and works as the pastor of the Anglican Church of Tanzania Diocese of Tabora. He is the head of St. Peter Secondary school. Elias is married to Jesca and together they are blessed with two sons and a daughter.

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Tagalog team leader

Priya Dcruz

Teamleader Tamil (with Jesus.net)

Priya D'Cruz coordinates the Tamil language initiatives including the Nadu language, in the southern part of India. She previously worked as a Journal Manager for the Dutch scientific publisher Elsevier. She has a heart for reaching the unreached with the Good News through online ministry.

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Telugu team leader

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Tagalog team leader

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Team leader Urdu

Courage Kuzanah

Team leader Hausa

Courage Kuzanah received English-spoken training from GlobalRize. This strongly motivated him to make these same courses available in the Hausa language, because he longs for the Hausa people to be able to access rich Biblical content in their own language.

Mark Cocker

Language team supervisor Fula

Mark Cocker spent nine years as a missionary with WEC International among the Fulani people of South West Burkina Faso. His dream is for multitudes of Fulani to come to know Jesus as their Savior and Lord, as they join from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, as per Revelation 7:9.

Gerard van der Velde

Ambassador

Gerard is a GlobalRize ambassador. He enjoys life by dedicating himself to God's Kingdom to reach others with the Gospel. Gerard fulfills managerial functions for various associations and in his church.

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