
Ben & Kathleen Struss
Country/Region: Indonesia
Mount Hope Supported Since: 2018
Since 2014, Ben & Kathleen have been serving in Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim nation, with over 220 unreached people groups. For two years, their focus was reaching university students by serving at an English center in Yogyakarta, the nation’s university capital. Currently, they reside in Bogor, West Java, a city of over one million people and home to the world’s largest Muslim unreached people group, the Sundanese people. Their current focus is planting an International Church that will reach the Sundanese people by planting churches and sending workers to restricted areas in Indonesia.
Ben was born and raised in Pennsylvania and Kathleen grew up in the suburbs of Chicago. They met while studying at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. Ben and Kathleen have lived in Indonesia since 2014 and love rendang, sambal, reading, working out, and drinking good coffee. They have a desire to share the life transforming message of Jesus in Bogor and beyond. Ben and Kathleen have two fun-loving and energetic boys, Caleb and Levi.