Terry and Kathy Waller
Founders
Terry and Kathy Waller are the original founders of WFA. They have spent over twenty-five years serving the rural poor in Central Africa and South America as agricultural missionaries. Among many of their accomplishments through WFA, Kathy started Hope Bolivia, a village cottage industry that has helped generate more than $30,000.00 in income for 50 women in the village. Today, Terry is a member of Southland Baptist Church and is a WFA board member. Terry and Kathy have five children and reside in their home in Paint Rock, Texas.
Colin and Veronica “Ronnie” Rosser
Executive Directors
Married in 2008, Colin and Veronica served as WFA missionaries in Uganda from 2012 to 2023. When they returned to Texas, Colin stepped in as Executive Director at WFA. In 2011, Colin was working for Texas A&M University at an agriculture experiment station in addition to a successful prescribed burning business. Is what around that time when God used Experiencing God by Henry Blackaby and Radical by David Platt to shift the Rosser’s thinking from self-focused to thinking outside themselves and stirred a desire to serve others. They left their life and jobs behind to pursue a life overseas drilling water wells.
They departed from Texas as a young couple and returned several years later with four beautiful children - Silas, Aggie, Corrie, and Sunderlin. Ronnie is originally from upstate New York and has a background working with troubled young girls and teens, and that work is what brought her to Texas where she met Colin. God used that skillset and her love for others to develop a thriving children's ministry in their village church in Obulle, Uganda. Colin used his background in agriculture to start a farm in the village to assist rural subsistence farmers to utilize what they had on hand to increase yields and farm smarter and more efficiently. Their time in Uganda was fruitful with approximately 800 water wells drilling, scores of children coming to Christ and getting baptized, and numerous discipleship groups that are still multiplying and bearing fruit.
Kim Edlund
Spiritual Formations & Training Coordinator
Kim Edlund is a U.S. Veteran, Missionary and Pastor. He and his family have lived and served in Bolivia and Africa for many years as IMB missionaries. He was the Senior Pastor at Marshall Ford church in Austin, Texas where he has successfully pastored and counseled many people back to Christ. Kim and his wife enjoy their beautiful property in Reisel, TX. Today, Kim is the Spiritual Formations and Training Coordinator at WFA.
Teofilo Belmonte
Well Club Leader
Teofilo Belmonte is a WFA leader in the homestead village of San Julian, Bolivia and oversees many local programs. Originally from Rual La Paz, Teofilo speaks Spanish, Aymara and Quecha. Tragedy occurred when his home was flooded, and his brother passed away of Malaria. He has since then committed his life to helping others through these ministries. He has drilled hundreds of water wells and helps local families drill thousands more.
Cayo Cesped
Missionary
Cayo is a recent graduate of the Bolivian Baptist Seminary in Santa Cruz and is a missionary of the Bolivian Baptist Convention. WFA is financially supporting his position as he pastors and disciples in the newly formed first Baptist Church in San Julian started by WFA.
Other stuff you might want to know: Cayo grew up on a Bolivian homestead like Teofilo. At the time, he became a Christian as a young man and was rejected by his family because of his new faith and kicked out of his home. As of today, they are now all Christians. Cayo speaks Quechua as well as Spanish, likes to play soccer. He drove a taxi and bus for a living while attending night classes in Seminary. He and his wife Neli have three kids.
Rob and Almaz Glahn
Missionaries
When Rob was very young, he drew a picture and wrote, “When I grow up, I want to be a hole digger.” Rob’s Ethiopian wife, Almaz, declared that she would marry a “white guy” – a ludicrous idea, they thought. One might presume it a coincidence that both ideas came true.
Rob wants to express here his gratefulness for God’s unquestionable care in placing him with Almaz and Water for All. Due to his and Almaz’ combined mix of passions and gifts, God designed them for the roles they now fill. Since the year that Rob turned to Christ for salvation, he has been called and committed to sharing the message of Jesus to the rural poor in Africa.
In this mission, he has lived deeply rooted in Ethiopia for well over a decade. Rob met and married Almaz early in that time. Almaz is dedicated, daring and generous. As an Ethiopian, she vitally helps Rob navigate through the culture and avoid pitfalls. Rob and Almaz have three delightful daughters. Rob has a B.S. in Economics from James Madison University and an M.A. in Theological Studies from Columbia International University in Columbia, SC. He loves studying and discussing the Lord and His work. He preaches on a rotation with others at his volunteer-led local church in Addis Ababa. Rob is also now traveling frequently to establish a long-term Water for All program in Tanzania. You can follow the ministry here: WFA Ethiopia.
Hannah and Aaron Mason
Missionaries
Aaron and Hannah met in Tanzania in 2008 and moved to Uganda with WFA in 2016. Aaron is a jack of all trades and can fix just about anything. He is running the Uganda project and continues to successfully drill wells all around the region.
Hannah’s gifting is in her ability to connect and build deep relationships with the young ladies and women of where they live. They would choose to live in a hut near a bush over living in a nice city. One of their greatest joys is being an auntie and uncle to a host of children all over the world.