Brad and Rachel Wells

Brad and Rachel met in their senior year at Iowa State University when they both joined a ministry that shares the love of Jesus with international students. Brad majored in software engineering. Rachel majored in global resource systems, and was (and still is) deeply interested in anti-trafficking work. After graduating and moving to Omaha, Nebraska, in 2015, Brad found work as a corporate software developer while Rachel served refugees in the area at a nonprofit. As they discussed marriage, they decided together that Brad would continue his corporate work for five years, and then they would move overseas. In those five years, they got married, traveled, had a daughter (Petra, born in 2019), and Rachel switched to another nonprofit. In early 2020, with the five-year mark approaching, Brad Googled “Christian software company.” Within a day, by God’s grace, Rachel and Brad were in contact with LJI, who could use both Brad’s technical skills and also Rachel’s management skills and God-given passion to fight one of the world’s greatest injustices. After applying and starting to plan, COVID hit, and everything got turned upside down! Brad, Rachel, and Petra moved to Nepal in August 2021.