Who We Are
We have more than 50 years’ experience in ministry. We have served in ministry from the local church to the national level with Youth for Christ, and mission work in over a dozen countries. Danny is a contributor to the Life Application Bible, Parents and Teenagers, Parents and Children and numerous other publications. Cathy has used her gifts of mentor-ship and guidance as she has home schooled their two children and provided encouragement for numerous missionaries and their families.
Danny Sartin
Many years ago I sat in a revival at the church where I grew up. That night the Holy Spirit pricked my heart for ministry and led me on a search for God and His will. At the same meeting, unknown to me, my future wife, Cathy, gave her life to Christ. I asked the evangelist, “How would I know if God was speaking to me?” He replied, “Your presence here says He is speaking. What He is saying is for you to discern.”
Today I look back on these decades of ministry with students, parents, staff, pastors, board members and key Christian leaders in countless schools, prisons, churches, cities and regions. This roller-coaster of experiences has taken Cathy and me to leadership venues locally, nationally and internationally. We have mentored hundreds of young leaders and served many mission settings on four continents. Most importantly, God has provided outstanding mentors in our lives to support encourage and challenge us along the way. Now we look forward to the opportunity to pass this on to young missionaries and Christian leaders through Deeper Still Missions. (2 Timothy 2:2)
Cathy Sartin
Danny and I have served the Lord together for five decades, but our ministry began separately, long before we met. Although we grew up around the block from each other we did not meet until 1975. We married six months later and what an amazing time we’ve had thus far. I had no idea that we would end up in seminary, in Dallas, nor on a church staff. God has been full of surprises. He has given us two children along with five grandchildren.
God has grown Danny and me through many trials and triumphs. We have ministered to thousands of teenagers, missionaries and staff at schools, churches and on mission trips. We also taught our own children about Jesus while as we home schooled. We still hear from some young people from more than 35 years ago. What an encouragement!
During all these years “we have struggled with some of life’s hardest blows and still proclaim God’s goodness,” as a missionary intern said to us. We have learned that testing of your faith produces endurance. (James 1:2-3) and that there is no other way to go deeper with God.
We have served many Youth for Christ staff, traveled to their cities and trained, led and built relationships with them over a 30-year period. These were rich times of fellowship, prayer and learning about God’s servants and seeing Him meet many needs including our own. It’s been a joy to work and minister to so many staff of different backgrounds and denominations. It has been the same when we have ministered to missionaries in Honduras, Ukraine, Brazil and South Africa. God is so big and He’s got some dedicated followers the world over. We are learning to be still and know what He wants us to do and be. This is what He’s been teaching me this year. Danny and I want to look intently at Jesus, to be still and hear His voice, and to follow where He leads.
Today I look back on these decades of ministry with students, parents, staff, pastors, board members and key Christian leaders in countless schools, prisons, churches, cities and regions. This roller-coaster of experiences has taken Cathy and me to leadership venues locally, nationally and internationally. We have mentored hundreds of young leaders and served many mission settings on four continents. Most importantly, God has provided outstanding mentors in our lives to support encourage and challenge us along the way. Now we look forward to the opportunity to pass this on to young missionaries and Christian leaders through Deeper Still Missions. (2 Timothy 2:2)
Cathy Sartin
Danny and I have served the Lord together for five decades, but our ministry began separately, long before we met. Although we grew up around the block from each other we did not meet until 1975. We married six months later and what an amazing time we’ve had thus far. I had no idea that we would end up in seminary, in Dallas, nor on a church staff. God has been full of surprises. He has given us two children along with five grandchildren.
God has grown Danny and me through many trials and triumphs. We have ministered to thousands of teenagers, missionaries and staff at schools, churches and on mission trips. We also taught our own children about Jesus while as we home schooled. We still hear from some young people from more than 35 years ago. What an encouragement!
During all these years “we have struggled with some of life’s hardest blows and still proclaim God’s goodness,” as a missionary intern said to us. We have learned that testing of your faith produces endurance. (James 1:2-3) and that there is no other way to go deeper with God.
We have served many Youth for Christ staff, traveled to their cities and trained, led and built relationships with them over a 30-year period. These were rich times of fellowship, prayer and learning about God’s servants and seeing Him meet many needs including our own. It’s been a joy to work and minister to so many staff of different backgrounds and denominations. It has been the same when we have ministered to missionaries in Honduras, Ukraine, Brazil and South Africa. God is so big and He’s got some dedicated followers the world over. We are learning to be still and know what He wants us to do and be. This is what He’s been teaching me this year. Danny and I want to look intently at Jesus, to be still and hear His voice, and to follow where He leads.
Our Partners
David and Vicki Frazier
Equipping Servants International www.esionline.org
ESI offers Training and Consulting to mobilize and equip Christ’s Church to better fulfill God’s mission to reach the nations, both here at home and abroad.
Book: Mission Smart: 15 Critical Questions To Ask Before Launching Overseas
Available on Amazon in paperback or kindle
Podcast: Mission Smart: Practical Advice for Global Missions.
David & Vicki use their 35+ years of experience in global missions, 20 of which were living abroad, to discuss a variety of topics related to global missions, with the goal of offering wise and practical counsel.
Available on all podcast platforms.
See attached photo.
Equipping Servants International www.esionline.org
ESI offers Training and Consulting to mobilize and equip Christ’s Church to better fulfill God’s mission to reach the nations, both here at home and abroad.
Book: Mission Smart: 15 Critical Questions To Ask Before Launching Overseas
Available on Amazon in paperback or kindle
Podcast: Mission Smart: Practical Advice for Global Missions.
David & Vicki use their 35+ years of experience in global missions, 20 of which were living abroad, to discuss a variety of topics related to global missions, with the goal of offering wise and practical counsel.
Available on all podcast platforms.
ESI offers Training and Consulting to mobilize and equip Christ’s Church to better fulfill God’s mission to reach the nations, both here at home and abroad.
Book: Mission Smart: 15 Critical Questions To Ask Before Launching Overseas
Available on Amazon in paperback or kindle
Podcast: Mission Smart: Practical Advice for Global Missions.
David & Vicki use their 35+ years of experience in global missions, 20 of which were living abroad, to discuss a variety of topics related to global missions, with the goal of offering wise and practical counsel.
Available on all podcast platforms.
See attached photo.
Equipping Servants International www.esionline.org
ESI offers Training and Consulting to mobilize and equip Christ’s Church to better fulfill God’s mission to reach the nations, both here at home and abroad.
Book: Mission Smart: 15 Critical Questions To Ask Before Launching Overseas
Available on Amazon in paperback or kindle
Podcast: Mission Smart: Practical Advice for Global Missions.
David & Vicki use their 35+ years of experience in global missions, 20 of which were living abroad, to discuss a variety of topics related to global missions, with the goal of offering wise and practical counsel.
Available on all podcast platforms.
Steve and Sherry Lanier
Steve is a native of Rome, Georgia, and a graduate of Darlington High School and Shorter College, both in Rome. Steve has been involved in Christian ministry for virtually his entire adult life. While completing his college courses, Steve served as a campus missionary with Youth for Christ. It was during this time that he met Sherry Chambers, a native of Atlanta and a graduate of Belhaven University. The two were married in 1977, and moved to Jackson, Mississippi, the following year to continue their ministry with Youth for Christ in the local schools and institutions for 23 years. Steve continued his education, earning a Masters of Arts Degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Reformed Theological Seminary, creating more avenues to work with teens and their families as a therapist and as a secondary drug and alcohol treatment provider. In 1997, Steve joined the ministry staff of Trinity Presbyterian Church, PCA, as the Director of Outreach & Missions. In 2004, Steve was appointed to serve as the staff representative of a new church plant which eventually became Redeemer Church, an intentional multi-ethnic church in Jackson, Mississippi. In that same year, Steve became the first full-time staff member of Redeemer Church, PCA, and remained on staff until his retirement in December, 2022.
Sherry serves as the Mission to North America, Short-term Missions and Disaster Response Facilitator for the Presbyterian Church in America. Sherry began as a volunteer immediately after Hurricane Katrina crashed into the Mississippi and Louisiana Gulf Coast in 2005. By building an administrative office through which the PCA was able to respond to the storm by mobilizing thousands of volunteers and receiving and managing the donation and distribution of massive resources, Sherry proved herself to be an invaluable member of the team of first responders. In 2008, Sherry joined the full-time staff of MNA’s Short-term Missions and Disaster Response team. This work continues and has grown to include coordinating short-term teams and resources to assist church planters throughout the North American continent and the Caribbean. In her very small amount of free time, Sherry is a popular speaker and teacher at women’s retreats and conferences. She has served on the PCA National Women’s Ministry Team as a Regional Advisor and served as an advisor to the PCA Permanent Committee on Discipleship Ministries. She has served on many local ministry boards and currently is serving on the Board of Directors of Mission First, an inner-city joint ministry outreach of First Presbyterian Church and First Baptist Church of Jackson MS. Her foremost passion is to facilitate the spread of the Gospel in both word and deed ministries.
Steve and Sherry have been blessed by God with a wonderful daughter and son-in-law, Doctors Mandy and Brad Bailey, and two grandsons, Hayden and Brett, along with a number of other adult children and ‘surrogate grandchildren’, who either lived with them and/or were closely discipled by them over these many years. Together, Steve and Sherry have served in gospel ministry for almost five decades, sharing and showing the love of God in Christ Jesus to thousands, and they are trusting the Lord for many more years of service into the future now with Deeper Still Missions, as they walk alongside domestic and foreign missionaries and church planters, pastors, and church leaders with wisdom, compassion, encouragement and works of service as they are needed. Sherry and Steve have adopted a song from the Christian recording artist, Steven Curtis Chapman, “The Great Adventure”, as their life’s theme song. The chorus of that song expresses the vision and passion for their future calling together, “Saddle up your horses. We’ve got a trail to blaze, through the wild blue yonder of God’s amazing grace. Let’s follow our leader into the glorious unknown. This is the life like no other. This is the great adventure.” Steve and Sherry invite you to join them in this great adventure through becoming a prayer partner as well as through financially assisting them with their travel expenses and by joining them on a short-term mission trip. Come saddle up your horses. You’ve got a trail to blaze!
Sherry serves as the Mission to North America, Short-term Missions and Disaster Response Facilitator for the Presbyterian Church in America. Sherry began as a volunteer immediately after Hurricane Katrina crashed into the Mississippi and Louisiana Gulf Coast in 2005. By building an administrative office through which the PCA was able to respond to the storm by mobilizing thousands of volunteers and receiving and managing the donation and distribution of massive resources, Sherry proved herself to be an invaluable member of the team of first responders. In 2008, Sherry joined the full-time staff of MNA’s Short-term Missions and Disaster Response team. This work continues and has grown to include coordinating short-term teams and resources to assist church planters throughout the North American continent and the Caribbean. In her very small amount of free time, Sherry is a popular speaker and teacher at women’s retreats and conferences. She has served on the PCA National Women’s Ministry Team as a Regional Advisor and served as an advisor to the PCA Permanent Committee on Discipleship Ministries. She has served on many local ministry boards and currently is serving on the Board of Directors of Mission First, an inner-city joint ministry outreach of First Presbyterian Church and First Baptist Church of Jackson MS. Her foremost passion is to facilitate the spread of the Gospel in both word and deed ministries.
Steve and Sherry have been blessed by God with a wonderful daughter and son-in-law, Doctors Mandy and Brad Bailey, and two grandsons, Hayden and Brett, along with a number of other adult children and ‘surrogate grandchildren’, who either lived with them and/or were closely discipled by them over these many years. Together, Steve and Sherry have served in gospel ministry for almost five decades, sharing and showing the love of God in Christ Jesus to thousands, and they are trusting the Lord for many more years of service into the future now with Deeper Still Missions, as they walk alongside domestic and foreign missionaries and church planters, pastors, and church leaders with wisdom, compassion, encouragement and works of service as they are needed. Sherry and Steve have adopted a song from the Christian recording artist, Steven Curtis Chapman, “The Great Adventure”, as their life’s theme song. The chorus of that song expresses the vision and passion for their future calling together, “Saddle up your horses. We’ve got a trail to blaze, through the wild blue yonder of God’s amazing grace. Let’s follow our leader into the glorious unknown. This is the life like no other. This is the great adventure.” Steve and Sherry invite you to join them in this great adventure through becoming a prayer partner as well as through financially assisting them with their travel expenses and by joining them on a short-term mission trip. Come saddle up your horses. You’ve got a trail to blaze!