Derek Engdahl - General Director, Field Director
Derek ministered for ten years with Intervarsity Christian Fellowship at the Claremont Colleges in California, where he especially enjoyed developing summer urban projects and challenging university students with God’s heart for justice.  Responding to God's heart, Derek moved into a troubled community in Pomona in 1998, and soon after he and his wife Lisa put down roots in that community.  Today they, with their daughter, continue to live and minister in Pomona.  Derek is renowned among field staff for an uncanny ability to land in any world city and immediately locate the best local food.
Derek@servantpartners.org

Lisa Engdahl - General Director, Director of Leadership Development
Lisa grew up in suburban Minnesota, but God drew her to the city through scripture study and experiences in urban poor communities around the U.S.  After graduating from Occidental College, she ministered for fifteen years with Intervarsity Christian Fellowship, serving as a Campus Staff Member and Southern California Associate Regional Director. A gifted mentor and teacher, Lisa serves as Co-General Director and catalyzes leadership development of staff.  Lisa and her husband Derek are elders and part of the teaching team at First Presbyterian, a cross-cultural church actively involved in community renewal in Pomona.
Lisa@servantpartners.org

Will N. - Executive Director, Barnabas Ventures Director
Will is a native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He graduated from Stanford University and worked for InterVarsity for six years at University of California-Davis. Will was part of the original visioning group for Servant Partners in 1993. He pioneered Servant Partners’ work in Pomona, and lived with his family for six years in a gang-ridden neighborhood in northwest Pasadena, where he played a key role in facilitating community organizing. Will, his wife, Laurie, and their three children have lived short-term in slum communities in Kenya, Mexico, Honduras, and India. They currently reside in Colorado. As Director of Barnabas Ventures, Will develops our partnerships with indigenous ministries in Africa, India, and Latin America, most recently residing in Nairobi short term with his family to establish partnerships there.
Willn@servantpartners.org

Kevin Blue - Internships Director
Kevin has spent his adult life doing ministry in the heart of Los Angeles, and is a founding leader of a multi-ethnic church plant Church of the Redeemer in South Central LA. He was on staff with Intervarsity Christian Fellowship for eleven years, and served as a teaching specialist and director of Intervarsity’s Los Angeles Urban Project. As Servant Partners’ Director of Internships, he has prepared generations of young adults for effective urban ministry. An engaging speaker and writer, Kevin was a contributing author of Faith on the Edge (InterVarsity Press), and wrote Practical Justice: Living Off-Center in a Self-Centered World (IVP).
Kevin@servantpartners.org

Dave Palmer - Pre-Field Training Director
As one of Servant Partners’ pioneering overseas missionaries, Dave lived in slum communities in India for seven years. He mentors and trains missionaries preparing for the field, teaches at the Global Urban Training School, and leads The Launch, a monthly gathering for people interested in preparing for urban ministry and joining a Servant Partners site. A UCLA and Fuller Seminary graduate, Dave lives in Long Beach, California with his wife Mini and two daughers. He is infamous among staff for having once eaten a cockroach to toughen himself up for overseas work, and for being an incredibly devoted dad.
Dave@servantpartners.org