About Our Directors

The STMnetwork is led by two national Directors:

Matt Janes, Director for Eastern Canada

Matt has been leading people on short-term mission trips since 1994. While on staff at a church in Toronto, Ontario, he led over 10 STM teams in 10 years. It was here that Matt was bitten by the short-term mission bug!

In late 2006, Matt became the Director of The STMnetwork. In this role, he is using his gifts of networking and training to mentor and mobilize thousands of Canadians on short-term mission. It is Matt’s responsibility to ensure the resourcefulness of the network, as well as to continue developing and maintaining it’s mission, values, and targets.

His passion is to help people within the local church discover their place in the Great Commission, then equip, train, and mobilize individuals and teams into the world to fulfill their calling – and to support missionaries serving in long-term mission work on the field.

Matt, his wife Heather, and their kids Emma & Ty live in Pickering, Ontario.

E-mail Matt here: mattATstmnetworkDOTca

Mark Crocker, Associate Director for Western Canada

Since 1991, Mark has taught thousands of people the cross-cultural lessons he has experienced in over 40 international destinations.

Mark is passionate about providing people with the keys to understanding cross-cultural realities. His goal is to prepare people to break cultural boundaries in pursuit of wider and deeper community.

Through experiential learning, guided discussion, original video, and on-field training, he is focused on developing people of inter-cultural insight.

Mark began working as the part-time Western Coordinator for The STMnetwork on January 1, 2009. His focus is on providing training for STM teams and receivers/hosts, as well as facilitating our mid-term missionary deployment process.

Mark and his wife Supriya live in Vancouver, British Columbia.

E-mail Mark here: markATstmnetworkDOTca