Johnny Condrey, President of Global Year, and Natalie Balltzglier, his wife and ministry partner, were married in 1981. They have seven wonderful children and eighteen grandchildren. Four of their children serve the Lord in vocational ministries and all seven serve the Lord faithfully in their daily lives. Johnny has served the Lord for almost 30 years in student ministry. His passion is to involve young adults in life changing experiences with Christ.

Doug and Babs Stone have been working with students most of their adult lives. They have four children and ten grandchildren. Doug left his vocation in the banking industry to invest in eternity, by equipping and mobilizing students to the nations with Global Year. We are blessed to have them serving as the Directors of Mobilization.

Taylor Condrey is the son of Johnny Condrey. After attending his Global Year in Costa Rica, Taylor felt the Lord calling him into full time ministry. Since graduating from North Greenville University, he has been serving with Global Year. He and his wife Emily have been incredibly blessed with two wonderful children.

Lauren joined the Global Year team along with her husband, Derek, in 2016. They spent 3.5 years in Cape Verde, Africa leading student teams and have recently returned to support state-side operations. Lauren has a B.S. in Psychology from North Greenville University and her passion is to see emotionally and spiritually healthy missionaries sent to the nations.  She will be working with our current and future staff supporting new hire training, on-going field support, and missionary furlough care. Lauren and her husband reside in Greenville, SC and have three daughters - Rosie, Violet, and Hazel.

Richard and Lauree Hayden married in 2007 and have five children. Richard has served in ministry since 2008 when he took his first position in student ministry. Lauree has worked as a public school teacher for nearly twenty years. However, the Lord is leading them to transition to the mission field through Global Year in 2020. They are planning to move to their first assignment in Guatemala as field directors in June of 2019. Both have a heart to equip and disciple students while also reaching the people of Guatemala with the Gospel!

Popeye and Olive Oil serve in an undisclosed location. Their pseudonyms are to protect their identity, please contact us directly for more information. We are blessed to have them serving as Student Life Directors.

Field Director

Emily Brink had her life radically changed by God during a college semester spent abroad in Austria. That personal experience lit a fire in Emily’s life for the importance of discipling students in their relationships with Christ. It took a few years to see how God intended to use that passion; but, as He does, God fit all the pieces together and Emily has been on staff with Global Year since May of 2013. She is now living and serving as our Student Life Director in Italy with her husband Samuele.

Kelsey Beaton is a valuable addition to our staff. She had her life changed after a college fair at the mall. Someone talked with her about mission trips. After doing some research on the web and prayer, she came across Global Year. Graduating high school in 2011 she decided to take a year long mission to El Salvador. Upon her arrival home she attended some college, but kept feeling God’s call toward missions. She has a huge heart for young people and for serving the Lord! She is now serving as our Administrator of Finance.

Growing up, Tanya had the opportunity to go on a few mission trips to Belize, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, and El Salvador. Through those mission trips God showed her how desperately our world is in need of the Gospel. After graduating high school, God put in her heart to take a gap year to pursue missions. In August 2013 she committed and moved to El Salvador with Global Year. During those nine months God pressed on her heart again how desperately our world is in need of the Gospel. In 2014, she returned back to El Salvador with Global Year to do an internship. Again God worked in her life and called her into full time missions. In April of 2019 Tanya married her husband Santi. Today, Tanya continues to serve with Global Year full time.

Caleb Earle has had a passion for missions for as long as he can remember. Even as a child, Caleb had a fascination with Italy and started learning the basics of the language when he was seven. He went on his first mission trip to Italy eight years ago to help with a summer camp ministry. Caleb returned every summer for months at a time as he became more involved and was learning Italian. At the beginning of 2019, he was asked to consider moving to Italy as a Global Year staff member. Caleb has a passion for young adults and helping them discover who God created them to be. Now, he gets to do that full-time in his favorite place in the world!

Rebecca Nelson has had a heart for missions since she was 15 years old. In 2018 she had the opportunity to go to Chertsey, Quebec with Global Year for a gap year. There God showed her how much He is doing and can do in the French Canadian culture. During this year God gave her a heart for His work in Quebec. She has happily made herself available to Him and will be going back to continue serving in Quebec with Global Year as a field director.

Field Director / Canada

 Zac has always been interested in ministry, and went on short term mission trips in high school to New York City and Ireland. He then spent 2017-2018 in Global Year Ireland, where the Lord confirmed his calling into ministry and missions. The Lord has given Zac passions for leading worship, as well as youth ministry.  We are excited that Zac will begin serving as a Go Coach with us at Global Year in the fall of 2019!

Abigail Coolidge went on her first mission trip with her church in 2016. On this trip she learned about Global year. God spent the next many months opening her heart to his plans for her life. After spending a year at Cedarville University, she went to Southeast Asia for her gap year. During this time, God continued to develop her passion for his Word, discipleship, and evangelism. She is so excited to be joining Global Year in equipping students and sharing the Gospel with the nations!

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Mary Elisabeth Bryant is the Guatemala intern for 2020-2021. She did her Global Year in Honduras in 2019-2020. She fully believes that this is where the Lord is calling her and she wants to follow in His will. She will be an incredible asset to our team and leadership in Guatemala.

Intern / Guatemala

Cassidy was immediately intrigued with Global Year after Johnny Condrey came to discuss the program at her church. For a few years after her introduction to Global Year, she pondered the idea of taking a break from school to go and serve the Lord. Without having a strong idea of what she wanted to pursue in college, Cassidy signed up with Global Year and was accepted to Cape Verde. After learning and growing during her Global Year, she felt the Lord was leading her to return and continue to grow and serve as an intern this upcoming year.

Intern / Cape Verde

Stephen and Caroline got married in 2019. Stephen has felt called to be in full time ministry since a young age and followed that call into Newspring College in 2014, where he learned hands-on ministry experience with youth, leadership development, theology, and discipleship. He knows he has been called to pastor young people, introduce them to Christ, and assist them in growing in their faith journey with Jesus. Before his time at Newspring College, he went on two different short-term mission trips to Kenya, Africa spreading the Gospel and helping build schools for the Nanyuki community. Through these experiences and prayer, he knew being a part of Global Year was his next step. Caroline has known for a long time she is called to be a dance teacher. Her goal is to start a dance studio that is Christian based, glorifies God, and makes a difference in young people’s lives. Both Stephen and Caroline have a heart for young men and women and want to see them experience Jesus through whatever means possible. They are both excited to be joining the Global Year team in seeing the nations reached and young people becoming disciples of Jesus! 

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