OPERATIONS TEAM

THAI LAM

Thai serves as Founder and Executive Director of Revival is Family Foundation. Over the past 15+ years, he has given leadership to RIF CAMPUS, a campus prayer movement that is equipping college students to be praying leaders, and to COLLEGIATE DAY OF PRAYER, a movement that mobilizes the Body of Christ to unite in prayer for revival and spiritual awakening on college campuses. Thai is passionate to see churches catalyzed in prayer for and empowered in mission towards the college campus down the street from them. He has pioneered and led campus ministries at UC Berkeley, UCLA, Stanford, San Jose State, KU, and UMKC. He came to faith in Jesus as a freshmen at UC Berkeley, graduated in Religious Studies, and then studied Cross-Cultural Missions at Fuller Seminary.

YALE KIM

Driven by a passion for prayer and revival, Yale serves as a worship leader, strategist, and servant leader. His journey began with a radical encounter with Christ in the mid-90s, leading him from church staff roles into IT consulting and work with enterprise clients like Tenet Healthcare, Kaiser Permanente and British Petroleum. In 2008, he bridged these two worlds, bringing his corporate expertise into full-time ministry and large-scale ministry events. Today, Yale holds dual leadership roles as COO/Global Ambassador of COLLEGIATE DAY OF PRAYER and CFO/Senior Advisor of Leading Leaders Collective. He brings strategic insight, relational warmth, and a deep commitment to uniting believers through prayer, equipping leaders, and making Jesus famous. Yale resides in North Texas with his wife, Annie, and their three sons, and carries a deep-seated dream of serving the mission field in Japan.

ANA MONTOYA

Ana joined REVIVAL IS FAMILY in the fall of 2025 and serves as the Director of Operations. With a background in youth and young adult ministry, she has a deep passion for discipling the next generation and ministry among young adults who are hungry for Jesus. She loves teaching and preaching the gospel and has pursued a call to college campus missions to see students’ hearts turn to and know Jesus. Ana’s desire is to see the next generation abandoned for The Gospel of Jesus Christ. Ana graduated from Bible college in 2023.

FERNANDO GARELLA | Support this Missionary

Fernando has been serving with RIF CAMPUS and the COLLEGIATE DAY OF PRAYER since 2022. After graduating in business management at Kansas Christian College, Fernando pursued a call to college campus missions, to see college students’ hearts turn to Jesus. He seeks to inspire college students to love God, through evangelism, discipleship, and leadership intensives.

JOEL KING

Joel joined REVIVAL IS FAMILY in spring of 2026 and serves in Finance and Accounting. Since coming to Christ at a summer camp with his youth group in 2012, Joel has been deeply committed to college and youth ministry. This passion has led him across the globe on mission trips to Peru, Taiwan, France, Switzerland, Kenya, Mexico, and Nigeria. Graduating from UMKC with a Master’s of Accountancy in 2025, Joel is eager to leverage his professional skills to share the Gospel in business and global contexts. He has been able to teach accounting at a trade school in Kaduna, Nigeria with Heartland International Ministries. Though he has spent most of his life in Kansas, Joel carries a profound calling to minister to Islamic nations and a heart to see men set free from sexual addiction. Ultimately, his mission is to go to the world and serve the next generation, helping youth come to know and love God personally and intimately. Joel has also volunteered in anti-human trafficking evangelism with Exodus Cry, serving to reach women caught in modern-day slavery on the streets of KC, MO and been able to lead worship for Exodus Cry and at his home church in Kenya, continually seeking to steward his musical talents for God’s glory.

DEWAYNE COOK

DeWayne joined the RIF team in spring 2026 as a Development Specialist. A Detroit native and Davenport University graduate with a master’s in management, he brings nearly two decades of fundraising leadership across healthcare, faith-based, and global nonprofits—including as Senior Director of Global Relationships and Resources at Corus International where he helped lead a $125+ million campaign for world hunger endowment and Chief Development Officer at WMU’s Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine. His prior leadership roles span the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, PULSE Movement and the Reformed Church in America. He has built deep expertise in donor relations, campaign management, and team leadership to align generosity with student and community impact.

MINISTRY TEAM

ANGELA LAM

Angela has served leadership with RIF CAMPUS, equipping college students to be praying leaders. Angela has served as a short-term missionary to Argentina, China, Guatemala, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Mexico, Namibia, and Panama and has been on staff with various missions organizations including Teen Mania Ministries, NewGenerations International, and Harvest Evangelism. She attended William Jessup University where she studied Management & Ethics and Biblical Theology and completed the Impact School of Ministry in San Jose, CA.

ANNA RIFFE | Support this Missionary

Anna has been a part of RIF CAMPUS since 2011, when she was a sophomore in college. She oversees our KC campus ministries and outreaches and has been praying for revival on college campuses for over 10 years. Her heart is to see students grow in love for Jesus and desire to contend for His Kingdom on their campus. Anna has been a professor of mathematics at Metropolitan Community College, Avila University, and the University of Missouri, Kansas City.

JASMIN PATTERSON | Support this Missionary

Jasmin has served with RIF CAMPUS since 2015 and gives leadership to our training programs and worship + community initiatives. Her fascination with performing arts, the music industry, and a deep desire to minister through Christian music and media led her to pursue a degree in Music Industry at University of New Haven in Connecticut. She was an active student leader in her campus ministry serving in worship, prayer, discipleship, and preaching. It was during those years that her passion to invest in the spiritual growth of young adults was forged. As she approached graduation, God highlighted an emphasis on worship and prayer that would forever mark her ministry. Following that call, she moved to Kansas City in 2014, completed an internship and joined staff with LUKE18 PROJECT. Jasmin is also a blogger and singer-songwriter with a passion to help both seekers and believers discover and grow a genuine relationship with Jesus. To that end, she runs her own blog, Everyday Walk, serves as a staff writer at NewReleaseToday and Marked Ministry Magazine, and released her debut EP, All For You, to music streaming services in June 2021.

MACHAELA MOORE | Support this Missionary

Machaela serves as a missionary with RIF CAMPUS and COLLEGIATE DAY OF PRAYER since 2022. She wants to see cities transformed through intercession and worship. She encountered the Lord in college while studying at the University of Texas in Austin, where she received her bachelor's in Studio Art. She has a passion for artists to fulfill their calling in the earth and to make art their worship. Machaela gives leadership to art direction and social media.

JOSHUA + EMILY ALDY | Support these Missionaries

Joshua is a husband, father, worship leader, and disciple maker based in Kansas City. He first felt the Lord’s call to worship ministry as a young teen in his hometown of Mississippi. In 2012, he and his wife, Emily, moved to KC to serve at a house of prayer where they poured into the lives of many children and youth. Joshua also dedicated himself to supporting worship musicians in their callings as he served on worship teams in the prayer room for over 12 years. Joshua comes alive in times of worship, prayer & fellowship with other believers. In 2024, the Lord transitioned Joshua to serve on staff with REVIVAL IS FAMILY. He carries the same father’s heart for worship musicians into his ministry of reaching college students at UMKC and beyond. He also serves with various mobilization and marketing efforts for COLLEGIATE DAY OF PRAYER. In all, he is grateful to lead his family and serve the Lord by giving himself to make disciples, reach the lost, worship Jesus, gather people to pray, and to build faith communities that love each other like family.

BRENNAN BROWN | Support this Missionary

Brennan joined REVIVAL IS FAMILY after graduating from Bible college in 2023. When he was seven, his father answered one of his Bible questions by drawing a connection between the books of Daniel and Revelation. Brennan's little mind blew. He became captivated by the glorious return of Jesus. To his surprise, this fascination instilled a deep stability in his heart. Brennan's mission is to teach others the unshakeable joy that comes from knowing Jesus and His plans for the end of the age. He serves as a writer and editor for COLLEGIATE DAY OF PRAYER.