Collaborative partnership with local churches is very important to the Andersons. Through pastor and student pastor fellowships, leadership training, outreach events, and short-term mission opportunities, they equip churches to serve their communities while creating meaningful opportunities for people to receive practical help, grow in their faith, and become part of the transformation taking place in their neighborhoods, communities, and city.
Joe and Lindsey grew up in the ministries they are now leading with InFaith. They value the long-term relationships they have built with residents, ministry partners, and local churches while serving in the Dallas community for more than three decades. Roseland Homes has been an InFaith ministry site for over 30 years and continues to be a place of genuine, transformational, exciting, challenging, and growing ministry. Joe and Lindsey see opportunities for outreach and discipleship everywhere in their neighborhood, community, city, metroplex, state, and nation.
In addition to their local ministry, Joe serves as the National Director of Training and Development for InFaith. In this role, he helps equip missionaries, strengthen ministries, and develop collaborative partnerships that support the mission of InFaith nationwide.
Training
Joe provides training and relevant resources for InFaith’s national leadership team, regional leadership, area missionaries, and summer missionaries. He also prepares missionary candidates for service by facilitating the annual missionary candidate orientation each spring and developing training that empowers both new missionary candidates and current missionaries to grow in their calling and ministry.
Development
Joe coaches and mentors missionaries as they build and strengthen their ministry partner teams and fundraising efforts. He also supports national funding initiatives for chaplaincy, disability, camping, and InFaith’s 21 other speciality groups.
He works alongside pastors and student pastors to strengthen partnerships between local churches and InFaith through leadership training, local and national mission opportunities, short-term mission trips, and summer missionary experiences that help transform both churches and the communities they serve.
Joe is also developing a “Legacy Process” to help longtime InFaith missionaries intentionally transition their ministries to the next generation of leaders they have raised up. In Addition, he is organizing InFaith’s speciality ministries into collaborative leadership groups that encourage shared learning, stronger leadership, and greater ministry impact across the organization.
We have a prolific InFaith Home Office team that Joe has already been working with for several years, which provides the mission of InFaith with Executive Leadership (CEO-Jerry Iamurri), Financials (Dan Sheldon), Mobilization (Meg DeHaven), Creative Technologies (Michael DeHaven), and Marketing and Communication Resources (Jon Wolbert).
Joe holds a Bachelor of Arts from Criswell Bible College and a Master of Arts in Christian Leadership from Dallas Theological Seminary. He is currently completing a Doctor of Ministry in Organizational Leadership at Dallas Theological Seminary.
Currently, the Anderson kids are living life to the fullest. Jacey (19) will be starting her sophomore year of college at Southern Methodist University here in Dallas. Landon (16) is now an Eagle Scout and will be a junior at Garland High School, where he competes on the gymnastics team. He had his first job as a lifeguard this summer. Luke (14) will be in 8th grade and loves playing soccer and learning percussion. Addelyn (10) will be in 5th grade this year, where she participates in the Announcement Team and Book Club. She still loves riding horses!
Thank you for praying for and supporting the Andersons as they continue to serve with InFaith.
