-About the author

Ian Kristofer is a normal guy and man of unique spiritual gifting to exhort others to action and obedience to their calling in Christ and creating disciples who make disciples. Born and raised in Southern California, and the comforts of a sunny life in a big city did not make him immune to some physical challenges. Breaking his femur from a bone cyst and spending three months in a full body cast while in grade school began his journey of dependence on God and realization of God’s healing power in his life. His passion for writing in High School won him a journalism contest that brought with it a trip to Washington, D.C. Shortly before that Ian found his world turned upside down when his parents moved the family from Riverside, California to a cold, and very small town in Alaska. Little did he know that the vast differences in temperature, population, and even the culture of these two West Coast states would prepare him well for a life in the mission field. It was here in Alaska that Ian experienced two personal encounters with the living God, and a call to missions that would change the course of his life. It would be 20 years before that call would come to fruition. Ian went to college in Phoenix, Arizona chasing after a dream of playing baseball. What he would find instead was the opportunity from Jesus to lay that dream down and chase after the perfect dreams God had already prepared for him. In Phoenix he would meet his wife and begin a family and ministries in local churches. Here his giftings within the Kingdom of God began to flourish. During those essential 20 years of waiting to be sent out Ian’s spiritual growth included, hearing the voice of God, signs and wonders, prayer, dreams and visions, and seeking the greater things Jesus talked about with His disciples. Writing worship songs and leading worship became an on-going gifting and passion for the next 2 decades. Here too, his original call into a life of missions while in Alaska began to take sharp focus. That focus was on Africa. God was calling Ian and his family out of their ministries in Phoenix into the beautiful and challenging land of Africa. This is the reason that Ian and his wife Carla founded the Compelled Ones Mission. Compelled Ones is a team of missionaries focused on reaching the oral-only unreached communities in Mozambique through health care, education, community development, and making disciples that make disciples. Ian never dreamed of all the places God would send him after saying yes to going into the mission field. His family has been all over the world now! Ian, Carla and their three sons currently reside and serve the people of a small village in Mozambique. From early 2015 to the present day, they are witnessing and part of a rapid growth of disciple-making disciples in the central and Northern region of Mozambique, Africa. Now with eight years of missionary service in Mozambique behind him, Ian has taken the journals of his experiences with the oral-only communities of the Yawo, and placed them into a memoir and practical guide-book to inspire others to hear from God, obey, and follow Jesus’ example of love and discipleship. Their dream is to see the Great Commission completed in their lifetime.