Meet the Staff

VMI has an in-office staff of four in Oklahoma City consisting of Drue Freeman, Director of Publications; Charlie Stillion, Director of Ministries; Marilee Stillion, Office Manager; and myself, CEO.

Bret Nazworth
CEO
Bret Nazworth graduated in 1982 from New Tribes Mission Institute, where he first met Wanda who would become his wife. They served as missionaries in Venezuela for nearly 18 years, which were mostly dedicated to church planting among the Yanomamo Indians. After returning to the United States in 2000, he spent two years working with GoodSeed International as the lead Spanish translator of John Cross’ wonderful book, The Stranger on the Road to Emmaus. In 2003, Bret was called to pastor Harlingen Bible Church where he served for more than seven years. Bret has worn several hats in ministry including; Scripture translator, missionary, evangelist, disciple maker, language and culture consultant, cross cultural church planter and pastor-teacher.

Charlie Stillion
Director of Ministries
Dr. Charlie is a veterinarian who sold his practice in 2004 so that he and his wife Marilee could move to Oklahoma to become part of VMI.  He previously served in a purely volunteer capacity as regional director for Africa where he made many mission trips. Charlie’s responsibility is to maintain contact with all of our missionaries in order to find out their needs and encourage them.  He has an essential role in planning short-term mission trips and has led teams all over the world. He loves to teach others the Word of God.

Drue Freeman
Director of Publications
The Great Commission involves making disciples as well as evangelism, and very early in this ministry, it became apparent that there was a need for a book to educate Christians in the fundamentals of the faith and give them the necessary tools to study and interpret Scripture. To meet this need, Foundations was written by Drue Freeman, with valuable input and assistance from Dan Hawkins and Jody Brown. Translation work is either underway or has been completed in about 30 different languages with over 80,000 copies printed and distributed worldwide. Drue now maintains contact with those who are led to translate Foundations and follows the task through the process of proofreading and printing in each country, while also serving as pastor of Trinity Bible Church in Oklahoma City.

Marilee Stillion
Office Manager
Marilee  is the glue that keeps things together. She handles the basic accounting, assures that monthly support gets to our missionaries and oversees the volunteers. Marilee also puts together the monthly newsletter that so many of you appreciate.  In addition to these things she keeps track of all of the team and staff itineraries and assures that copies of Foundations, information folders, and the gospel coins get sent to the right places.

Sharon Delaney
Accountant
Sharon Delaney has done VMI’s accounting for several years, from wherever her motor home landed. In 2007 she made Oklahoma City her permanent residence, but continues to travel. Sharon assures that all funds received by VMI are recorded correctly and spent as designated.  She sees that the payroll is handled correctly and that the required IRS forms are accurate and filed on time. Sharon also volunteers as backup office manager. In addition she painstakingly checks the formatting of the translation work and edits Bible study materials prior to publication.

Volunteers
God continues to provide volunteers to assist the operations of VMI. These volunteers are valuable in that they help with mailing books, coins and brochures to those who have requested them. Many others have helped on an as-needed basis, including the back-breaking work of getting 280 cases of books up to the second floor office. There are also mission-minded people all over the country who tell others about the mission to which VMI has been called.