Serving With

Equipping Leaders International

Background

Dan and Mako met in Japan where Dan served for 8 years as a missionary (in various capacities with various agencies). After getting married, they returned to the States to attend seminary. They moved to the Chattanooga area upon graduation, where Dan served as a pastor for close to 16 years. Dan continued to have a desire to serve the worldwide Church more directly. In 2019, the Lord provided the opportunity to invest full-time in training Christian leaders around the world with ELI.

Dan and Mako live in Flintstone, Georgia with their three children: Naoki, Tomoya, and Manami.

Ministry

Dan and Mako Gilchrist serve with Equipping Leaders International (ELI). ELI partners with influential yet under-resourced Christian leaders from around the world to equip and multiply Biblically mature Christian leaders for every area of community life. Dan serves full-time with primary responsibility for three training partnerships in Ghana, Kenya, and Tanzania. He is also responsible for receiving and processing requests from prospective faculty members as well as Christian leaders seeking leadership training partnerships. In addition to her full-time responsibilities as a mother and registrar at a local school, Mako is responsible for ELI’s social media communications on Facebook and Instagram (be sure to “Like Us”!).

Prayer Requests:

• ... for the nearly 100 Christian leaders and their families in the three leadership networks we serve in Kenya (as well as another four or five networks in other parts of Kenya, plus others in East Africa) who are struggling in the midst of an on-going drought, now exacerbated by effects of Russia's war in Ukraine;
• ... for our upcoming trip in late June/early July to Kenya to present a conference to nearly 1000 church leaders on "Biblical Theology: the Story of God's Glory from Genesis to Revelation."