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Celebrating Greg Young’s 15 years of service with EMI

EMI Global,

Originally hailing from Vancouver, BC, Greg established his architecture career in private practice for 10 years, always with a heart for mission work.

Greg’s journey with EMI began in 2001, when he volunteered on his first EMI project. After several other EMI trips, Greg and his young family moved to Calgary in 2005, when Greg became EMI Canada’s second full-time staff member. In 2010, Greg assumed the role of Executive Director for EMI Canada, where he continues to serve with great energy and vision. Greg remains active as a project leader, and has been a part of over 30 projects to date.

To those who know him, Greg’s enthusiasm for EMI’s work is evident, as is his desire to see the gospel advance through the work of EMI’s partner ministries. Greg and his wife, Julie, lead an active life in Calgary; and their children reside in Vancouver and Calgary.

Thank you, Greg, for your invaluable contribution to EMI over the years!

Cherish Uganda and EMI

EMI Uganda,

From our Cherish Uganda partners:

A Chat with Engineering Ministries International

Brent Phillips, Cherish CEO, sat down with Phil Greene from EMI Uganda to reflect on this incredible partnership.

"It feels funny to call this relationship with EMI a 'partnership' because it sometimes feels like EMI is a part of us. As an organization, we have grown up with EMI by our side, cheering us on. To date, EMI has built countless structures for Cherish... Most importantly, EMI has been like-minded in sharing the love of Jesus diligently over the years... Without EMI, Cherish would not look the same or have been able to grow as fast."

See more and watch the interview on the Cherish blog,

Celebrating John Agee's 10 years of service with EMI

EMI Global,

After discovering and volunteering with EMI, he joined the US Office with a desire to see EMI grow in West Africa.  Since then he has been a part of over 30 project trips, with the majority in West Africa and leading 14. John was instrumental in launching a new EMI office in Senegal in 2016. 
 

For those of you who privileged to know and work with John, you will appreciate his passion for cross-cultural ministry, travel and cuisine.  It is hard to keep up with John's shirts from all over Africa and he loves to cook traditional dishes from the continent, preferably in large quantities and with lots of hot spices!  More than that, John has a desire to collaborate with local design professionals and EMI projects have hugely benefitted from his many friendships of engineers and architects in West Africa.  John stepped out in faith in 2014 to attend language school in Paris where he met his future wife Céline.  The Agee’s welcomed baby Luka back in December 2019.
 

John, thank you for your friendship and commitment to EMI – we are looking forward to the next 10 years!