Working with our missionary partners is important for sharing the love of Jesus to the world.

Our Missionary Partners

Suraj serves as Team Leader for CBM’s ministries in India, helping to develop integral mission strategies in CBM’s priority areas of Andhra Pradesh and Orissa. He manages CBM’s field staff and church partnerships, and is engaged in a variety of ministries including children and youth at risk, food security and community development, leadership training, evangelism and church planting, as well as AIDS and health care initiatives. Suraj is committed to shaping a more contemporary and contextual approach to church-based transformational ministry in India. He initially joined CBM’s India Strategy team in 2008 as a Theological Education Consultant. He lives in Hyderabad with his wife Prasanna, and two daughters, Selina and Mounica.

The Bustins joined CBM in 2002 to teach at the Kalimantan Theological Seminary in Pontianak, Indonesia, where they helped to train and mentor future leaders for the local church. They moved to Rwanda in August 2012 to work with CBM’s church partner, the Association of Baptist Churches of Rwanda.

Darrell’s primary focus is in pastoral training and church leadership development. He works both with pastors, as well as those studying to be pastors and church leaders. Laura Lee is responsible for overseeing the administrative details for the short-term mission (SENT) teams that come to Rwanda.

Darrell is from Moncton, New Brunswick. Laura Lee is from Pugwash, Nova Scotia. After attending CBM’s Conference on Overseas Ministries in January 2002, Darrell and Laura Lee felt that God was saying “now is the time” to move toward fulfilling the call to overseas ministry that both have felt since childhood. The Bustins have two children, Bronwyn and Caleb, who are both studying in Canada.