Staff
Brian Langley
- brian.langley@wordmadeflesh.org
- Country
- Peru
Brian and Rachel's story together began when Brian found enough courage to tell Rachel about his feelings for her. Rachel, then only 15, had already heard God calling her into a life of foreign missionary service. When Brian was 18, God approached him with a similar charge: "Will you follow me anywhere?" Both of their families attended a Christian and Missionary Alliance Church in Columbus, Ohio, where Brian and Rachel were able to grow in friendship and love for each other through the discipleship of their parents and leaders at the church. Like every young couple in love, they started to make plans together: they talked of serving God in new places, of starting a family and of adopting children.
Attending Asbury College in Wilmore, Kentucky, Brian and Rachel came to know and love the newly forming Word Made Flesh community. Two trips to India on WMF Discovery Teams, first in 1995 and then in 1997 as team leaders, were life changing and affirming for their now shared conviction of God's desires for them. They married in June of 1996, living in Wilmore while finishing their degrees, Brian in Sociology, and Rachel in Nursing. In March of 1999 they traveled to Lima, Peru, to explore serving with WMF in Lima. On May 18, 2000, their first daughter, Sarah Isabel, was born; in October of that year the new family moved to Lima to begin service with WMF as Servant Team Coordinators.
The Langleys served one term as Servant Team Coordinators, one term as Field Staff, and assumed the role of Field Directors in 2004. They have shared together in community difficult times of loss and want, and have seen the community in Lima grow in love and purpose because of God's faithfulness.
In May of 2006 the Langleys began the adoption process through the Peruvian government. Although unknown to them, their soon-to-be daughter was born that same month. After six months of legal process, on December 11, 2006, they brought their second daughter, Natalia Marie, into the family. Isabel had already told many of her friends at school that God was going to bring her new sister into the family for Christmas; they were filled with joy and wonder because of God's timely blessings. The Langleys currently serve in the Lima community as Field Directors.