I grew up on the mission field with missionary parents, and my wife, Kim, comes from a missionary family, too. This desire to share the life of Christ with those who don’t know the Savior is, literally, in our DNA. But I know it’s a desire shared by millions of believers, all over the globe, and I’m so grateful for that.

When my father founded the ministry that was to become OneHope, back in 1987, I was serving as a youth pastor in California. I was connected with my dad’s ministry, of course, because our church supported it. And a couple years later when the Book of Hope was going to many different nations of Latin America, I led a short-term missions team of youth from my church to distribute the Book of Hope to the children and youth.

What I saw on this trip changed my life forever. I met a young Latin teenager, a gang member, who had no hope for the future, no joy in his life, no plans of finishing school and becoming a doctor or a lawyer or a teacher. Hopelessness and violence were all he knew. But the simple presentation of the Gospel, and the knowledge that there was hope in Jesus Christ … it changed everything for him.

I came home convinced that with the leading of the Holy Spirit and the conviction to remain pure in our hearts and motives, we could make the same kind of life-transforming difference for millions in the next generation.

The vision has expanded from there. We would welcome your partnership in a movement that I believe is destined to change the world!

I’ve witnessed the power of God to transform lives … all my life. I am, and have been for decades, a missionary. I traveled the world as a young man with this one thought: people need the Truth, the Truth of salvation. The first home I shared with my wife Hazel was a mud hut with a wooden floor, on the mission field together in Africa … where we continued to witness to the power of Christ to transform. We began our family in the Middle East where we discovered the power of the printed page and the media to bring hope to the hopeless … and we returned to the United States to be part of an amazing Gospel publishing outreach that continues to provide Bible translations and study materials around the world.

But OneHope is a new thing, the product of an astounding vision God gave me back in the late 1980’s, a vision for reaching the children and youth of the world with the power of His Word. A vision for reaching out to ministries and churches that share this same compelling desire, and placing into their hands the kind of resources that will speak the story of salvation in a relevant way to boys and girls and teenagers, to students in school and to those who may never attend school or learn to read.

This is the vision of my lifetime, and I see it so clearly now. Will I live the next 20 years to see the first stage of this plan completed, according to Vision 2030? I may, I believe I will, if that’s God’s plan for me. But if I do not, I know I’ve planted the seeds for wondrous trees in whose shade I’ll never sit …and done it with a joyful heart and a sense of humble gratitude that God would allow me to be a part of something that can send His Gospel all over the world.

Marwan was born and raised in Lebanon, (which is where he met the Hoskins family over 45 years ago). At the time, the Hoskins were missionaries to Lebanon and Marwan, as a young boy, became involved in the Hoskins family ministry in Lebanon. He immigrated to the United States in 1975 when the civil war started. In 1978 he married his wife, Sue, and they now have three children, Christina, Danielle and Matthew.

After arriving in the United States, Marwan became a very successful business executive at a young age, and went on to become one of the presidents for EDS, then one of the world’s largest Information Technology companies. At the height of his career, Marwan left the corporate world in 2002 to become the executive vice-president of the OneHope ministry, where he is responsible for all organizational, financial and administrative matters.

Marwan strives daily to create and maintain an atmosphere of strong, biblical stewardship to enhance the effectiveness of and fulfill OneHope’s mission. Though difficult, he knows his challenges are possible and is grateful for the opportunity to affect destiny in so many children around the globe. “It is by far the most fulfilling and rewarding job that I have been involved with,” said Marwan, “Even when compared to the top executive corporate positions.”