Featuring - Caleb Crider

Senior Director of Program Innovation, Mission Increase

Caleb Crider is a trainer, writer, and missiologist. Originally from California, Caleb has developed and facilitated training for an international audience of churches and missionaries. He specializes in instructional design, adult learning technologies, and outcomes-based education. He is one of the authors of Tradecraft: For The Church On Mission. He’s married to Lindsey, and has two children: Jonas and Meredith.

Featuring - Tracy Nordyke

Oregon Area Director, Mission Increase

Tracy Nordyke currently serves as the Oregon Area Director, helping organizations and leaders in Portland, Salem, and Southwest Washington foster growth and find momentum. After serving MI for fifteen years developing Transformational Giving training materials and coaching the Area Director staff, Tracy is humbled and excited to shift her focus to the Kingdom work happening in the region she loves. Since earning a BA in History at the University of California Irvine, Tracy has worked in fundraising for over thirty years including consulting in marketing, communications, and donor discipleship with ministries in virtually every sector of the Christian nonprofit world. Tracy is passionate about sharing the message of biblical generosity and partners with Women Doing Well and Generous Giving. She and her husband Kevin live in Portland, Oregon where he serves with the Luis Palau Association. They enjoy doing life with their adult children Garrett and Sophie.

Featuring - Scott Harris

Vice President of Church and Global Engagement, Mission Increase

Scott Harris serves as the Vice President of Church and Global Engagement at Mission Increase, helping ministries maintain and grow healthy relationships with local churches. In addition, Scott focuses on soul care, evangelism, and ways to take Mission Increase training beyond North America to the global church.  Prior to Mission Increase, Scott served for 18 years as Missions Minister at Brentwood Baptist Church in Tennessee. He worked with an team in local, state, national, and international initiatives. A native of San Jose, California, Scott spent part of his childhood as a missionary kid in Barbados. While a student a Golden Gate Seminary, he served as a youth pastor at a Korean church in San Francisco.  He served also as a university pastor at Spurgeon’s College in the United Kingdom and in Hong Kong. Scott was an International Mission Board (SBC) Trustee since 2009 and also recently served as Chairman of the IMB.  Scott lives in Brentwood with wife, Beth and two children, Elizabeth and Jonathan. Beth was raised in Taiwan, also by missionary parents. Scott celebrates the connection of churches with a passion of missions!

Featuring - Scott Sharpen

Chief Strategy Officer, Mission Increase

Scott Scharpen serves as the Chief Strategy Officer for Mission Increase, where he oversees the organization’s strategic plan and related initiatives, including opportunities for expansion into new areas, growth of funding sources, and innovation with our service delivery.

Prior to his work at Mission Increase, Scott served as president of The Scharpen Foundation, a Christian non-profit that he and his wife Carolyn founded in 2007, with the principle work focused on a church plant and the operation of a pro-life licensed mobile pregnancy clinic. He continues to volunteer at Rock Valley Christian Church as a part-time pastor and board member. In addition to this work, Scott has enjoyed a successful consulting career as a healthcare business executive and owner at Stockamp & Associates, and he has served as a member of the board of directors at Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) and also as the board chairman of ParentalRights.org.

He has a degree in economics from Stanford University. Scott and Carolyn have been married for over 30 years, live in Southern California, and have two adult children.

Featuring - Geoff Rogers

Chief Growth Officer, Mission Increase

Geoff Rogers serves as the Chief Growth Officer for Mission Increase. He is a seasoned executive, entrepreneur, and nonprofit leader in corporate, startup, and ministry settings. He previously served as Vice President at IBM and Dassault Systèmes, where he led high-performing teams and business partner channels, earning top honors, including IBM’s Golden Circle award and a spot in its exclusive Next-Gen program.

After 13 years in the corporate world, Geoff transitioned into ministry leadership, applying his business acumen to accelerate nonprofit impact. He co-founded Ships of Tarshish, a Christian media nonprofit known for Surrender the Secret and Blind Eyes Opened, the latter shown in over 500 theaters nationwide. He also founded and led the U.S. Institute Against Human Trafficking, spearheading national initiatives and advising policymakers in Congress and the White House. His media appearances include Fox News, C-SPAN, and USA Today.

A graduate of the University of Notre Dame, Geoff now dedicates his time to equipping nonprofits with tools for growth in fundraising, leadership, and operational strategy. He and his wife, Kerri have been married over 25 years and homeschool their three sons, rooted in Christ-centered family values.