Lori Bryan (Lori), a native of Lakeland, Florida, was raised in a Christian farming family that valued God, community, and family. At age 21, she committed her life and the right to determine her path to God. That decision took Lori on a journey that she could not have ever envisioned. Lori has traveled to more than eighty countries, worked long-term in nine, and lived almost fifteen years of her life outside the United States. She has worked in both the corporate world and with multiple international humanitarian/mission-oriented organizations in a variety of roles—including teaching Vietnamese refugees in the Philippines; participating in and/or leading multiple short-term mission trips for World Changers and CRM; serving as an IT consultant and program manager in the Middle East, North Africa, Italy, South Sudan, and the West Bank; and teaching and serving as a dorm parent at the Rift Valley Academy in Kenya. During her career, Lori has created and overseen multiple programs benefiting various marginalized third world people groups, including leprosy village residents, the physically disabled, the elderly, students, survivors of genocide, persecuted Christians, the deaf community, internally displaced persons, war refugees, T1D patients, and African refugees. Lori has over 300 hours of concentrated trauma/first responder/critical incident stress management training from the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation (ICISF) and other local and international organizations. She has utilized this training to create a 3-day debriefing program for an international humanitarian organization employing aid workers. Her current focus is teaching war victims and refugees about the effects of and healing from trauma. When in the United States, Lori is based in Boone, North Carolina. She is an active member of Christ the King, a fellowship of Christians that worships God in the Anglican tradition.