We are Greg & Debby Wiley, career missionaries whose experience in missions and training has extended to over 33 nations spanning the last 48 years, with a focus on training, mentoring, and prayer.
Our heart and vision is to equip believers to step into their God-given purpose so they can impact their world with the Good News of the Kingdom of God and be a part of seeing Jesus’ Great Commission fulfilled both locally and internationally. |
The Early Days |
Both of us met Jesus in 1970 at the beginning of the “Jesus Movement,” Greg at Calvary Chapel in Costa Mesa, California, and Debby in the California mountains. After being match-made (that’s a whole story in itself!), we got engaged and married in 1972. Though we were young in our faith, we covenanted with God that, “We will go anywhere and do anything, as long as we know it’s You!” Well, He has taken us up on our word and the adventure began by His thrusting us out into the nations to be involved in seeing the Great Commission fulfilled in our generation! Missions became our DNA!
We discovered a fledgling missions organization called Youth With A Mission (YWAM), and what began as an exploratory year of service in 1973, turned into a career of overseas ministry for more than 33 years. This journey launched in France, then Switzerland, and eventually landed in Amsterdam (Netherlands), working for 13 years with Floyd McClung, Jr., as part of the leadership for an inner city outreach focused on reaching marginalized youth, including many prostitutes and drug addicts. |
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our Family Expands
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While living in Amsterdam, we experienced multiple supernatural miracles in the journey of adopting our two amazing kids, Nicholas (1985) and Kimberly (1986)! In 1988, we returned to the U.S. to re-connect with our families, most of whom had become Christians during our years in Europe. We continued to serve YWAM Amsterdam and the YWAM International Director’s office with Floyd for about five years in California. And it was during those years that we linked hearts and vision with several great missions-minded church congregations in Orange County and Idyllwild who have become life-long partners and friends.
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AND Then INDIA
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Out of the blue, this Hindu mecca of India became home to our family for 11 years. Beginning in 1994, we headed up national prayer events for YWAM India, including a major international intercession thrust focused on reaching the Hindu world. Using the Hindu Kumbh Mela Festival as a platform for rallying prayer for spiritual breakthrough in the region, our teams, along with many other Indian and international believers, invaded the largest (and strangest) religious festival in the history of the world, with upwards of 80 million devotees coming from all over the world to dip in the Ganges River in hopes of their sins being forgiven! For the five years leading up to, and throughout, the festival, we joined together with many praying Indian believers and mobilized about a half million people to pray for north India and the infamous Hindu-belt, with the result being an ‘open heaven’ with huge advances of the gospel! We’ve seen multiple thousands of house churches planted, and thousands of workers released into this fertile, ripe mission field. We then followed up the festival outreach by serving several church-planting movements in teaching, training, mobilizing prayer, including 18 months in India’s capital city of New Delhi, working with a movement that was birthed during the KM outreach.
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learning
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During this season, we led or co-led a half dozen 3-month Schools of Intercession in India, Sweden and Bangladesh, that have targeted unreached people groups. Our passion has been strategic intercession assignments, teaching on prayer, hearing God’s voice, character of God, with both of us teaching extensively for YWAM schools, pastors conferences, etc.
We have each authored our first books: Greg’s is Beholding the Beauty of God, an in-depth study resource on the character and nature of God. Debby’s is called Ears to Hear, a disciple’s guide to learning how to hear God’s voice. Both have been published in English and Hindi, being used most extensively in India. Greg's has also been translated and published in Korean. Then, after eight years of effort, Jesus inSync was birthed during the 2020 Covid-19 Pandemic. All three books are available on our BOOKSTORE page as well as via Amazon.com in paperback and Kindle editions. |
2005 & beyond
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After serving for 33 years with Youth with a Mission, spanning three continents and nine locations, we returned to the U.S. in July 2005 to help our children get established after finishing high school in India, and to set up a base of operations in the US. We arrived with one question burning in our hearts:
“Is it possible to see the marriage of the local church to God’s heart for the nations?” We quickly found ourselves unexpectedly assisting Harvest Outreach one of our supporting churches through a leadership crisis, and we were eventually asked to step in to the pastoral leadership role of the church in 2006. We served there for two and a half years, and then transitioned back into full time missions and our vision to equip the local church to reach the nations. Presently, as we continue to travel, teach and serve leaders internationally with training and mentoring, we are plugged in to a great nations-minded church, Heritage Fellowship, in Jefferson City, TN. Heritage has provided a wonderful platform for us to continue our international work while serving as their Missions Pastors. We host a continual flow of international leaders and missionaries, as well as leading teams overseas several times a year. We also prepare and send out local missionaries around the globe! |
dsm
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Since 2010, we have pioneered and lead a ministry equipping training school called Destiny School of Ministry. This school is designed to train and equip believers to discover their destiny and impact their world, whether it’s in the marketplace or in the nations! As of November 2020, we have run 12 DSMs, and we have trained over 600 workers globally. We have run 6 local schools, 3 international schools (Kenya and Uganda) and 3 schools where we gathered international leaders stateside.
Check out our DSM website at: www.destinyschoolofministry.us |