Larry was appointed to serve as President / CEO of Partners International In February 2013. Previously, Larry serve the Lord in a successful 28 year career in senior leadership with Hewlett Packard and Procter & Gamble, The Lord led Larry to take an early retirement from the marketplace in 2012, to seek and fulfill a deeper calling to serve the Lord’s mission to make disciples of every nation more fully. 
 
Larry was born and raised in Sacramento, California. He studied Business Operations Mgmt. and Mgmt. Information Systems at CSU, Sacramento, and then completed his MBA at CSU Chico. Larry accepted Jesus Christ as his Savior as a senior in college. After coming to know Christ, he got involved in various leadership, teaching, and outreach roles through his local church and other ministry organizations.
 
Larry has been married to Bethanne for over 30 years. They have four adult children: James, Timothy, Rebekah, and Jonathan.  Larry serves as elder and in various discipleship initiatives at the North Church in Spokane, WA.  Larry also serves with Serve Spokane, and organization focused on serving the needs of marginalized communities.

Bob was working as a young engineer when God called him into full-time ministry. He and his wife Martha left their jobs and studied at Fuller Theological Seminary, where Bob earned a Master of Divinity degree with a specialization in cross-cultural studies.
While at Fuller, Bob and Martha got to know outstanding international Christian leaders from all over the world. They longed to somehow help them. At the time they were also being mentored at their home church by Allen and Ruth Finley, who were pioneers in building the ministry of Partners International.

They decided to follow Allen and Ruth’s example, as Partners International was already doing what they felt called to do: helping local believers who are effectively impacting the most unreached parts of the world. It was a great fit, and now Bob has been with Partners International for 27 years. He has worn many hats, including serving at the International Director for the ministry for 7 years. He especially likes telling the story of what God is doing through PI’s heroic indigenous partners. He knows many of them personally, having been with them in 45 countries. Bob also serves on the Steering Committee of the Coalition on the Support of Indigenous Ministries, a nationwide movement that advocates best practices in cross-cultural partnerships.

Presently, Bob serves as Director of Grant Development and as a partnership facilitator, helping our indigenous and USA partners develop relationships and work together.
Martha is a professor in the Teaching English as a Second Language program at Gonzaga University, working daily with international students. They have two married daughters and are really enjoying being grandparents.

Don Hemmer joined Partners International as Chief Financial Officer in August 2013. He was born and raised in Marysville, Washington. He attended Central Washington University, where he earned a Bachelors of Science in Accounting and a Bachelors of Science in Business Administration with an emphasis in Finance. He is a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Internal Auditor.After college, Don worked in public accounting and banking. In 1989 Don started work as the Controller, then later as the President of Accra-Fab, Inc, a manufacturing company located in Liberty Lake, Washington. In 1999, Don became a co-owner of that company.

Don has served in a number of leadership roles with his local church and served on the board of Valley Christian School in Spokane Valley, Washington. For the last few years prior to joining Partners International, Don served extensively in his church’s benevolence ministry, where he provided financial counseling and pastoral care.

Don has a new-found enthusiasm for diet and fitness. He recently has become a Personal Trainer, teaching High Intensity Interval Training classes. Don and his wife Connie have two children, Matthew and Alyssa.

Carlos grew up in war-torn El Salvador. As a young man, he served as a youth pastor at his church, Iglesia Nazaret, led at the time by Argentinean Luis Bush who later became the President of Partners International and director of the AD2000 movement.

After completing his B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas, Carlos returned to El Salvador where he coordinated Mission ’84, the first international missions conference in Central America. This conference helped spark a missionary movement across South America.

After marriage, Carlos and his wife returned to Texas where they both earned masters degrees to qualify them to move to the Middle East where they served as leaders of a church-planting team among Muslims. This proved to be an invaluable experience for his future role with Partners International as Area Director for the Middle East and North Africa. He served in this role from 1991 to 2006.

Currently, Carlos serves as Vice President of International Ministries directing the work of all our indigenous ministry partners.