MISSION STAFF

The Outreach Foundation employs several mission consultants who serve in geographic areas with which they are familiar. Many years of field experience make our mission staff experts in a variety of ways. They help facilitate specific projects in these regions, guide groups to visit with our international partners, and provide information and other assistance to congregations seeking to become more involved in mission.

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STU AND LINDA ROSS
East Africa

Stu and Linda Ross are The Outreach Foundation’s eastern Africa consultants, based in Kikuyu, Kenya. They are responsible for a wide variety of building projects, including schools, churches and orphanages, as well as managing projects that provide clean, safe drinking water.

A typical pastor in the Presbyterian Church of East Africa (PCEA) serves about six congregations. The church is growing rapidly, and there is a critical shortage of ministers and church buildings in east Africa. Stu and Linda work in close cooperation with the PCEA on all of the construction projects they manage in Kenya.  They also arrange for volunteer church groups to come and work on projects that they have helped fund. This gives U.S. churches an opportunity to not only help financially, but also work side-by-side with their Kenyan partners. The Ross' spend about six months in Kenya and six months in the U.S. each year. While in the U.S., they travel to speak with a number of Presbyterian Church(USA) congregations about their work. 

Stu has a degree in chemical engineering and retired from a 28-year career with Novartis Pharmaceutical. Linda, who holds a master's degree in education, retired after 29 years of teaching in Texas.

Stu and Linda are both elders at St. Andrew Presbyterian Church in San Antonio, Texas. They went to Kenya in 1997 after their retirement, where Stu worked as a project manager for the construction of Kikuyu Orthopedic Rehab Center. After the work at the hospital was finished, they began assisting with construction of churches and schools through The Outreach Foundation.