Christopher and Grace Mancillas
Christopher and Grace, with their son Andreas, will be serving in college ministry at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Christopher grew up in Houston and was raised going to church here at Grace. After graduating from college in 2014, he moved to West Virginia to help start a campus ministry at West Virginia University (WVU), where he met Grace. Grace grew up in West Virginia and, after graduating from WVU, starting working with the same ministry. They married in 2019 and Andreas was born in 2023. In May of 2024, they transitioned to world missions and are currently preparing for their first two years in the Netherlands starting in January. They have a huge heart for college students and are excited to take to the Netherlands what they’ve learned and experienced here in the U.S. Although the Netherlands has a rich history of Christianity, it is now bound by the secular worldview, with over half the population denying the existence of any god, and the percentage of evangelical Christianity at only 4% of the population. Their hope is, through reaching college students for Jesus, the Netherlands will be changed from Utrecht.