Our Leadership
Jonathan Smith, Missionary Bishop
Founder of Reach North America
The Rt. Rev’d. Dr. Jonathan G. Smith is a husband, father, and man on a mission – to see lives transformed through the liberating power of Jesus Christ. He has been the pastor of Redeemer Church Casselberry (redeemerorl.org) for the past ten years and co-founder of Reach North America.
Dr. Smith has been involved in local churches throughout his life. Raised in a large suburban evangelical church, he received the gospel of Jesus early in life. At the beginning of his career, Jonathan worked for eight years as a sales professional and trainer for the pharmaceutical giant, Merck & Co. During this season, Jonathan earned his business degree in management and finance.
In early 2008, he sensed a call to vocational Christian ministry. He and his wife agreed to pursue this calling together, and Dr. Smith left his career. He entered seminary to begin formal ministry training. Upon graduating from seminary, he was offered an opportunity to become the founding Dean of Distance Education at Knox Theological Seminary in Fort Lauderdale, FL. While serving at Knox, he pursued advanced studies in theology and ministry, culminating in doctoral studies.
It was during this time that he felt called to pastoral ministry. He was ordained as an Anglican minister 2011 in the Church of Rwanda. In 2022, Archbishop William Mikler of Communio Christiana and Archbishop Robert Gosselin of the Continuing Evangelical Episcopal Communion consecrated him as a missionary bishop to launch and lead Reach North America.
Dr. Smith holds multiple degrees from three evangelical seminaries and a doctorate from Knox Theological Seminary in Fort Lauderdale. He most recently serves as the Executive Vice President of Aidan University. He has served as a missionary in Central America and Africa. He and his wife, along with his three kids, live in Orlando, Florida. You can follow his blog at mygracenation.org.
Brian Bethke, Missionary Bishop
Co-Founder of Reach North America
The Rt. Rev. Brian Bethke is a pastor and missionary in New England. As a California native, Brian moved to New England in 2017 after retiring from twenty-one years of active duty military service in The United States Marine Corps, where he concluded his officer career.
Stateside, Brian has planted and pastored churches in California and Massachusetts, with his experiences encompassing a variety of pastoral responsibilities. He has also held leadership roles in several parachurch ministries. Brian is a Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary graduate and is currently working on his Doctor of Ministry degree at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary with an emphasis on ministry in New England. He is a Harold J. Ockenga Fellow, a group focusing on the intersection of faith and culture. Brian’s passion is to develop, equip, empower, and release Christ-centered missional disciples to have Kingdom impact in all of life.
Brian has three adult children and one granddaughter. He enjoys Brazilian jiu-jitsu, playing bass guitar, riding his Harley Road King, and “adventuring” with his wife, Erica.
Page Brooks, Missionary Bishop
Founder of Missio Mosaic
The Rt. Rev. Dr. Page Brooks is a pastor-theologian, non-profit catalyst, and the Missional Lead/Bishop for Missio Mosaic: A Missional Society (missiomosaic.org). Originally from Alabama, he has lived in New Orleans for over 20 years where he ministers in the urban core. In 2011, through a re-plant and merger project, he became Senior Pastor of the historic Canal Street Church (canalmosaic.org) (through which Dr. Brooks is licensed with the Evangelical Covenant Church). Since that time, several ministries have been birthed from the church, including church plants and a non-profit community development ministry. Page has a passion for biblical teaching, mentoring leaders, and initiating justice projects for the good of the community. He is the author of several books and articles and regularly publishes in the areas of theology and culture, Christianity and Islam, ethics, and chaplaincy. Dr. Brooks has served for over 20 years in the Army National Guard and currently serves as the state command chaplain for the Louisiana National Guard where he oversees spiritual care to over 11,000 soldiers and airmen (https://geauxguard.la.gov/chaplain/).
As the Missional Lead/Bishop for Missio Mosaic, Dr. Brooks provides vision for the missional society that includes churches, ministries, chaplains, community-development non-profits, and an educational institute. Missio Mosaic and its ministries are dedicated to engaging the culture by cultivating reconciling relationships through the Gospel of Jesus.
First ordained by his home Baptist church in 1999, Dr. Brooks took on holy orders in 2013 as a deacon and in 2014 as an elder. In 2021, he was consecrated a missionary bishop with the Province of St. Peter, a relational, apostolic, and multi-racial communion of churches and ministries across the world. Later in 2022, Dr. Brooks was commissioned as a missionary bishop with the Anglican Mission Society Global (Church of Congo) to provide oversight and training to chaplains and church plants.
Dr. Brooks earned a Masters of Theology at the University of Stellenbosch (in South Africa) and an M.Div. and Ph.D. at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. His first dissertation studied the Anglican theologian Alister McGrath and Islamic Scholar Seyyed Hossein Nasr. He is currently writing for his second Ph.D. at the Vrije University of Amsterdam in just war theory. He also conducted additional studies at Wycliffe Hall (the Anglican college at Oxford University) summer school; Northpark Theological Seminary, Chicago (Evangelical Covenant Church); the Anglican School of Theology (now under Trinity School of Ministry); and the Anglican Studies Course by the Jurisdiction of the Armed Forces and Chaplaincy (ACNA). Dr. Brooks formerly served as Associate Professor of Theology and Culture at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. Dr. Brooks taught theology and cultural studies for 14 years at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. He currently serves as a Professor and Chair of the Theology Department at the School of Urban Missions Bible College and Seminary (sum.edu). He is a member of the Society of Pentecostal Studies and the Evangelical Theological Society. He was also selected for and is currently studying for a masters degree in strategic studies at the United States Army War College, which provides graduate-level training to senior military officers.
Dr. Brooks lives in New Orleans with his wife, Dr. Ashley Brooks, who serves as the founder and a counselor at Restoration Counseling, a ministry of Missio Mosaic. They have three adopted, multi-racial children.
