Kent Parks leads Beyond (formerly Mission to Unreached Peoples), an organization which focuses on catalyzing church planting movements which transform Unreached People Groups (UPGs). He and his wife Erika, (Beyond’s Director of Training), served 20 years as missionaries among Muslim UPGs in Southeast Asia. He also serves as Co-Facilitator for the Ethne Global UPG Initiative (www.ethne.net), and as Catalyst for Least Evangelized Peoples for the Lausanne Movement. He holds a PhD in missions strategy.