Europe Regional Directors
Meet our team of Regional Directors across Europe. If you’re interested in needs in a specific region, please feel free to reach out!
Keith Knowlton
United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Northern Ireland)
Europe International Director
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Keith, a native of Lakeland, Florida, and Rachel, a native of Birmingham, Alabama, met at Furman University and married in 2008. From 2009–2010, they served as short-term missionaries in East Asia before returning to the States for Keith to enter law school. Upon completing law school, Keith practiced law in Greenville, South Carolina for seven years.
Through God’s providence, their family was called to serve with Mission to the World in Edinburgh, Scotland. Since 2020, they have partnered with the Free Church of Scotland and have served at Buccleuch Free Church located in the heart of Edinburgh. They serve their local church and community through teaching, discipleship, and evangelism efforts with a particular focus on university students and internationals. Keith also serves as the MTW Regional Director of the UK and Ireland and is responsible for serving the MTW families located throughout the UK, strengthening and expanding national partnerships, and assisting in the recruitment and placement of new missionaries. Please pray that God will use them for the advancement of his kingdom throughout the UK.
Daniel Brink
Belgium, France, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain
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Daniel and Katy both grew up in the PCA, met through Reformed University Fellowship (RUF) at Mississippi State University, and married in 2004. Their first term with MTW was on a church-planting team in Madrid, Spain, and since 2016 they have been in Brussels, Belgium, to develop new church-planting works for MTW in collaboration with local partners.
Daniel and Katy love the diverse people of Brussels and desire to see gospel-based churches multiplying in the capital city and throughout Belgium.
They serve at Hope International Church, started in 2023, in the International Presbyterian Church denomination, and seek to minister to Belgians as well as the large international community in Brussels.
Daniel also serves MTW Europe as a regional director for Belgium, France, Spain, Portugal, and Italy. Daniel and Katy’s desire is to see faithful, Christ-exalting churches planted throughout Western Europe and for MTW’s missionaries in this region to be encouraged and equipped in their ministries.
Brian Moore
Germany, Poland
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Brian and Megan met at church in middle school where God began calling them into full-time ministry. In high school and college, they were active in short-term missions, which God used to mold their hearts to serve overseas. They married in 2010 and Brian began seminary. Following ordination, Brian and Megan began seeking the Lord’s guidance on where He would have them serve, and their hearts were drawn to Germany.
After spending their first term in Berlin, the Moores have been sent to the Freiburg-area in southwest Germany. There, they have come alongside the ERKWB: a Reformed, German-speaking, Presbyterian denomination with churches in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, in an effort to assist, serve, and encourage the churches, however possible. As a part of this, they are now also planting a church in Freiburg. Christ Church Freiburg longs to see all people in Freiburg hope in Christ, as the body of Christ, while on mission with Christ. The Moores hope and pray that God will save the lost and make disciples through His Church in Freiburg.
Jon Eide
Finland, Latvia, Norway, Ukraine
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Since 1997, Jon and Tracy Eide have served MTW living and planting four churches in Ukraine. Those churches came together with 11 other churches to establish the Evangelical Presbyterian Churches of Ukraine and began a seminary. As the regional director for MTW’s work in eastern Europe, Jon leads and coordinates efforts to support and serve the EPCU churches in Ukraine and partner with churches and mission teams in neighboring countries.
Jon’s present responsibility is to raise awareness and support to meet the immense needs for the EPCU churches in Ukraine, and to coordinate that support with MTW teams and neighboring churches as they minister to thousands of Ukrainian people and other refugees who are impacted and displaced by the war. By God’s grace, at present no EPCU pastor has left his church and all 15 churches in the EPCU continue to exist and serve the people of Ukraine.
Please pray for the war to end, for God to continue to protect and provide for pastors and churches in Ukraine, for the Lord to use the outcome of the war for His glory, and for the mobilization of the American church to pray, give, and go as the Ukraine team prepares for the future.
Philip Kirkland
Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Greece, Romania, Slovakia
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Philip and Joy and their three kids have been serving with MTW in Athens, Greece, since 2012. In partnership with local pastors and church planters, they are supporting the church-planting vision of the Greek Evangelical Church in various ways. Their heart is to see the nations come together in joyful worship of Christ.
Philip is MTW’s regional director for Southeast Europe and is currently leading a Greek speaking multicultural church plant in central Athens. He is also involved locally in developing the next generation of church planters. In addition to supporting the local church plant in different ways, Joy is involved in meeting counseling and trauma training needs and provides weekly counseling support for local anti-human trafficking ministries.