Petersen Family

Doug Petersen:
Doug grew up on a farm in Minnesota. He moved to Denver, Colorado with his parents when he was 15 years old. After finishing high school, he attended Colorado University. He received a degree in chemistry, with a minor in education. Doug taught in the Denver Public Schools for nine years.

In 1972, Doug was involved in helping to establish a Christian high school in Denver. Doug was the high school principal and a teacher in this school for eleven years.
Doug joined the staff of Teen Missions International in 1984 and has been serving in Africa.

Barb Petersen:

Barb also grew up on a farm in southern Minnesota. She met Doug when they attended the same junior high school. After high school, she attended two years of college and completed two years of training in x-ray technology. She graduated from Fairview Hospital as an x-ray technologist and worked for a short time in that field after marrying Doug.

Barb and Doug Petersen:

Doug and Barb were married in 1963. They lived in Denver, Colorado. They have two children. Steve Petersen and Sarah Codding.

Steve and his wife, Gay, have two children, a son named Timothy and a daughter named Faith. They are both on staff of Teen Missions International, working out of the home office in Florida.

Sarah is married to Rob Codding. They met while working on staff at Teen Missions. He is currently an administrator of a church in Sioux Falls, SD. They have four children.

Doug and Barb took their first team to the Philippines as volunteer leaders in 1981. They took a second team to Papua New Guinea in 1983. In 1984, they felt the Lord leading them to join the staff of Teen Missions. They began to run Boot Camps in Zimbabwe in 1985 and started the Teen Missions Bible, Missionary & Work (BMW) Training Center there in 1991. In 1998, they moved to Zambia to run Boot Camps and a Bible school at the Teen Missions base near Ndola. Ndola is in the Copper Belt, located in the northern central part of the country.

Throughout the years they have led many North American teams to many different countries.

At present they are still working in Zambia with the Bible School, Boot Camps and AIDS Orphan Rescue Units.

Doug and Barb are very grateful to the Lord for allowing them to serve with in the Teen Missions ministry. They are very grateful also for the faithful prayer and financial support that they have received.