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Lapp relates to mission workers and international partners in the Middle East and West Asia. Periodically he travels to these locations and in his presentations he speaks about current ministry, mission workers and the local partners who seek to be missional in their contexts.  He also observes the conflicts and sitautions which make life and ministry a challenge for  Mennonite workers and partners.

Lapp and his family recently completed a sabbatical based in Nepal. 

From 1988 to 1991, he and his wife, Sandra Shenk Lapp, served with the former Mennonite Board of Missions in the Arab village of Ibillin, in the Galilee region of Israel.  There, he taught English and administered a children’s library in the community.

From 1991 to 1996, Lapp served as a country representative in West Bank and Gaza Strip for Mennonite Central Committee, supervising personnel and building relationships with Palestinian development partners and Israeli officials.

He and Sandra have three children:  Sophia, Eva and John Ethan.  He is a member of College Mennonite Church in Goshen, Ind.

Mennonite Mission Network, the mission agency of Mennonite Church USA, exists to lead, mobilize and equip the church to, together, share all of Christ with all of creation.  With offices in Elkhart, Ind.; Newton, Kan.; and Harrisonburg, Va.; the Mission Network supports ministries in more than 50 countries and 31 U.S. states.  It succeeds the Commission on Home Ministries and the Commission on Overseas Mission (General Conference Mennonite Church) and Mennonite Board of Missions (Mennonite Church).

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