Explore a Call to Missions
Discover Your Next Step
If you’re sensing a nudge toward missions—or simply curious about what missionary calling looks like—this is a place to explore, learn, and discern. Whether you’re looking for information, guidance, or one‑on‑one mentorship, the Missionary Mentorship Network is here to walk with you. Scroll below to learn more and take your next step in discovering God’s call on your life.
Missionary Mentorship Network
The Missionary Mentorship Network aims to connect those who sense a calling to missions with veteran missionaries for encouragement, help in discernment, and advocacy if needed. Every person’s path is different, and every missionary’s experience is unique, but there is still much we can learn from one another. This Network seeks to build up the next generation of missionaries by inviting the wisdom and strength of those who have gone before.
We welcome you to reach out to Pastor Jessica Jackson, missionary kid to Papua New Guinea (2001-13), to tap into the Network. If you have missionary experience, we’d love to match you with someone who is at the beginning of their journey, and if you are (or know someone who is) just starting to explore your call, we’d love to connect you with a missionary mentor.
This is a flexible mentorship by design, and we work with our mentors and mentees to ensure this is not a burden but a blessing. As such, we offer suggestions for how this can look while also encouraging the Mentor/Mentee to determine what works best for them.
Pastor Jessica Jackson
Jessica served with her family as missionaries in Papua New Guinea at Kudjip Nazarene Hospital from 2001 to 2013 when she left to return to the United States for college. After graduating from Mount Vernon Nazarene University in 2017 with a general ministry degree, she came to NWO, serving first on staff at Troy First Church of the Nazarene for a few years as their discipleship director before joining the team at The Valley Church’s Troy Campus as their online ministries director. During her time at The Valley Troy, she not only met and married her husband Kyle but also completed her coursework for ordination in the church of the Nazarene and was ordained in June of 2025.
Having experienced her own call as well as sitting around the dinner table with guests and missionary family who told their call stories, Jessica has come to value the uniqueness of everyone’s call and journey, experiencing firsthand how listening to theirs gave her and others encouragement and confidence to continue stepping boldly into her own. She hopes this Missionary Mentorship Network will provide that kind of encouragement and support for those in the early parts of their call journey as well as open new chapters in experienced missionaries’ journeys too.