Chapters

This is Shane and Sarah Boyd along with their 3 kids Cash, Presley, and Jovi.

In the beginning of 2022 we felt the call to become missionaries to these rapidly growing campsite communities. Since then we sold everything, bought an R/V, and prepared our family for whatever God had next. In 2023 this ministry God’s given us, called Gathering of Nomads, will travel to at least 20 campsites all over the United States. We are beginning in our home region of Northern California where we plan to spend an average of 14-21 days in each campsite we visit, and immediately begin to form relationships, inviting campers and residents into a weekly meeting made up of Food, Fellowship, and Faith. At these weekly nomadic gatherings we will identify, train, and send out those that the Holy Spirit is calling us to partner with!!! This model will be intentionally kept simple, so that anyone with a call or desire will easily be able to start a new gathering of their own.

The Schraffenberger's have been on the road for almost 3 years. We lived in the Florida Keys for a decade before we hit the road. We have 2 girls (Georgia 6 and Delta 3). We obviously enjoy traveling and we sure love Jesus! We opened a campground in Manton, Michigan and will be hosting Discipleship Training in the summers for the foreseeable future. We are parked in Michigan for the time being while we volunteer/lead worship at a local church.

Hey everyone! We are Thad and Kaila DeBuhr, two happy, Jesus-loving adventurers living life to the fullest wherever we are. Our full-time RV journey started this past August 2022 and there's been no stopping us since. We sensed God calling us to take a leap of faith and sell it all, hit the road, and launch an online church to reach people everywhere. But don't think for a second that it's all ministry for us - we love nothing more than exploring everywhere we go, on mountain bikes, kayaks, hiking, or cruising on our Honda Ruckus scooters! Along the way we create some pretty awesome videos to help bring the Bible to life, connecting the lessons from Scripture with the amazing places and people we encounter along the way. We are excited to meet you somewhere along the way and God willing, share some campfires and adventures together! Until then - don't hesitate to reach out and say Hi, we're so glad you're here with the rest of us Nomads!

Hi 👋 I’m Barbara, I travel fulltime with 3 of my children ages 20, 14, & 11. We went fulltime in 2017 in a 24’ travel trailer. It was initially a one year grand adventure. But God… God really placed on our hearts to keep going after that first year and here we are now in our 6th year of full time rv travel and living. We learned early on that one has to be intentional creating community and relationships on the road. You don’t see the same people every Sunday at church or at your weekly Wednesday Bible study. So I learned to host campfires, potlucks, Bible studies and more to make those intentional connections in my RVing community. Today, I am blessed to be a chapter leader in Gathering of Nomads and looking forward to connecting with many of you in our travels. I am always willing to pray with/for you, help you host a campfire or Bible study, encourage you and connect you to others in the community.

Hey y’all! We’re Ben and Erika Grimm. We started full time traveling in August 2021. We decided to sell our house while the market was hot and hit the road. We have 2 kiddos (Elliott & Rylee) & started the homeschool journey as well. Our mission is to empower families to enjoy life’s adventures & serve others for God’s kingdom. We’re so excited to get to connect with others through Bible study, potlucks, & building community. We cannot wait to see where God leads us! You can follow our adventures @grimmsideoftravel (Grimm Side of Travel) and we hope to meet you along the way!

Hey there, we are Carl and Kristian Diebold.  Along with our 2 daughters Delta and Eden, We set off from the Nashville, TN area on our nomadic journey back in October of 2021.  We enjoy grilling out and creating community with the people we meet along the way.  The best way to share Jesus is with food, meaningful conversation, and through His word. It has always come naturally for us to connect with people quickly and love to connect people to Jesus. We love sharing our story and how God has worked in our lives and hearing the same from others.  We look forward to doing what God has called us to do and hopefully get to meet you all along the way.

You can follow us @ourOOAKlife (One Of A Kind)

Hi we are the Deuter family. I am Dani I travel with my 2 children ages 16,7.

Kyle is 16 has a spiritual gift for shepherding and evangelizing. He is putting together a teen program called “Outside and Outloud”. This ministry is about gathering teens together outside while adventuring and sharing Jesus.

Anastasia is a 7 year old girl who loves people, Jesus and making friends.

Dani is a redeemed woman of God through Jesus, and has nearly 20yrs of sobriety with the help of Celebrate Recovery. She loves helping people see the love of Jesus while helping them through their struggles of everyday life.

As a family we share the redemption of Jesus while seeking adventure. We have been on the road for 4 years. We are so glad to be aligned with Gathering of Nomads to help reignite our campfire ministry for Jesus and people.

If you would like to hear our goals for this year feel free to connect with us.

We're the Meyers family: Joe, Tara, Aden, JJ and our dog, Mickey Mouse. Our corporate careers brought us all over the globe, where we experienced firsthand many impoverished communities in need. We sought out opportunities to serve while traveling, but as a family with young kids, we saw a gap in the opportunities to serve in a way that was simple, impactful and that we could do together as a family. As a result, we established World Share in 2018 to make serving simple by removing barriers and equipping people with tools and resources to use their time, talents and treasure for God’s glory. 

We've been traveling fulltime in our RV for three years sharing the hope of Jesus and hosting turnkey, family-focused opportunities to serve, across the U.S., Mexico and Caribbean. To date, we have shared hope and encouragement with 8,500 kids through the distribution of World Share Impact Kits, and with your support in 2024, we have a goal of reaching 37,000 people with Impact Kits and ongoing community outreach. 

We believe that we all have an opportunity to make a difference in this world and can live out our purpose in all that we do, all of the time.

We are TheCampinDantins!  Danny, Marilyn have been married since 2005 and have been blessed to raise up a son Christian born in 2006. We have served in the church in many areas over the years but when we sold our home and started full time RVing in 2022 we got to see Gathering of Nomads in action and knew we wanted to be a part of it! We are mostly stationary at the moment, but we hope to begin full time travel soon! We love to feed people both spiritually and physically.  We do this primarily by just gathering people together around a campfire or sharing a meal with people and looking for ways we can share the love of Christ! Can’t wait to meet y’all on the road! 

Troy and Melody were both blessed to grow up in Christian households that emphasized missions and service to the body of believers. We both accepted Christ at young ages and met in college at The Master’s University. According to the world’s standards we had “made it.” Troy was working full time at Fox Sports 1 while Melody was able to stay home with their three girls: Kaylee, Aliya, and Jordyn. But that “traditional” life of 40-50 hour work weeks, limited family time, and urban life in Los Angeles just didn’t seem to “fit.” With a leap of faith directed completely by God, they sold their things, bought an RV, quit Troy's job, and followed God's leading!

The Rankin’s mission is to impact the next generation for Christ by serving and supporting Christian camps around the country. It is the goal that there would be no obstacles distracting anyone from focusing on the message of God that they hear at camp. Keeping the emphasis on Christ, not the flickering light bulb or malfunctioning heater is the objective. To that end, we have been serving at camps around the country for over 4 years by fixing toilets, painting, building, cooking, and generally doing any and every thing that camps need done to be able to serve the campers well and give God the glory!

@RambleWithReason 

Hi, we are the Jager family: Matt, Tiffany, Lex (18), and Brycen (16). We have had an inner healing and deliverance ministry for 14 years; reaching the lost, traumatized, sick, diseased, and tormented as means of doing the works Jesus did. These works are preaching the Gospel, binding up broken hearts and setting the captives free (Luke 4:18).

In October of 2021, Matt Jager contracted Covid-19 and was hospitalized for fifty days, on a ventilator for eleven days, and died three times. One of the times his heart stopped, he had an encounter with Jesus. He was given less than a 5% chance to live, but glory to God he survived!

After his miraculous healing, we felt we had been given a mandate from Heaven to declare the works of the Lord (Psalm 118:17). So, we took our ministry and Matt’s testimony on the road for two years. We helped start a church at a campground in Arcadia, Florida, and ran our ministry there for a year. Everywhere we went, and whoever we came across, we shared the father heart of God and witnessed God bring healing and freedom to countless wounded hearts and bodies. 

We are now back in our home state of Michigan working at a faith based campground and partnering with a local church, The Well. Currently, we run our ministry, Reconcile To Father Ministries out of their sanctuary on Wednesday nights. We also meet individually, on the phone, or online for individual prayer appointments.

We are Kenny, Jen, Cash, Hank, and Jewell Clara Ridenour. In the summer of 2021, we felt God calling us to sell our home and material things and hit the road in our RV to follow Jesus wherever He led us. We had already been  part of online and in-person ministry for several years, but we knew this would be different. We launched at the beginning of March 2022 and set out on our mission: “To be the hands, feet, and mouth of Jesus wherever we go.”

Although our journey has been a process, it’s one we submitted ourselves to and allowed God to work in and through us. Our first mission is our children. He has shown us what it looks like to connect with our children, teach them more about Him, and move away from traditional ideas about what serving and following Jesus is.

As we prayed God opened many opportunities for us to shine His light through Bible studies, meals, and other fellowship opportunities. When we found Gathering of Nomads in 2023 we thought they were doing something incredible, and waited for the Lord’s prompting to get involved, and after praying a lot about it, felt called to start a Chapter.

We currently spend winters in Florida, and summers in the North/North East for Jen’s job, and host Ekklesia at our campsite where we can break bread, study the word, discuss faith, and create connections within the family of God. Kenny also hosts an online sharing of the word called “Jesus and Coffee” every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 9:30 am Eastern on our Facebook Ministry page (Simple Man Ministries). We’d love to connect with you, and we’d love to pray for you. You can follow our RV Journey on all socials @enjoyintherideofficial

We are Terry and Kari Crisp.  Our shared journey began in 2013 when God brought us together in a way that was both unexpected and undeniable. Each of us had experienced deep loss and grief in previous marriages, yet in His timing, God answered our prayers for a godly partner. From the moment we joined our lives, we knew God was leading us into ministry, using our experiences to help others encounter His grace, healing, and truth.

Over the years, we’ve come to recognize that our calling is not to a single place but to a community in motion—the growing population of full-time RVers. Having built what we thought was our forever home in 2018, God asked us to surrender it all: the land, the house, and the illusion of self-sufficiency. This surrender marked the start of a deeper journey to follow His call, letting go of what held us back to embrace the Great Commission fully. In this mobile ministry, we live out intentional discipleship, helping others discover the joy of relationship with Christ and the transformative power of the gospel.

Our ministry focuses on tending to the whole person. With backgrounds shaped by personal trauma and healing, we offer a safe, judgment-free space for others to experience post-traumatic growth (PTG). This means moving beyond the pain of PTSD toward resilience, strength, and purpose in Christ. Just as Jesus called Peter to feed His sheep (John 21:15-17), we are committed to walking alongside people in their spiritual journeys, whether through shared meals, conversations around campfires, or simply doing life together in authentic community.

Guided by the heart of Luke 4:18-19, we bring the good news to the weary and wounded, striving to reflect Christ’s love in all we do. In the RV community, we’ve found a mission field filled with unique needs and opportunities to foster connections, share the gospel, and nurture faith. We believe God’s Kingdom grows not through programs but through relationships, and it’s our joy to live out His calling as we travel, meet people where they are, and invite them to experience the abundant life found in Him.

Yá'át'ééh!

We are the Weros: Darryl, Jamie and our six children - Rory, Coulter, Tempe, Rylan, Teagan and Capri. 

We have been traveling full-time for a total of 9.5 years. In 2019, God called us into ministry, working with Native American youth in the four corners region. Within two weeks of completing orientation in 2020, the world had come to a screeching halt. While traveling with friends in Kentucky. We felt the Holy Spirit lead us to host a worship night. That worship night, and many more to come, revealed a need for a gathering of believers in campgrounds across America. 

We have continued to host worship nights and campground events in conjunction with our ministry in the southwest, often bridging the two by providing opportunities for RV families to serve on short term missions trips. 

We are excited to continue serving the RV community as a part of Gathering of Nomads and we can’t wait to fellowship and serve alongside everyone down the road. 

We’re the Hyatt family: Tyson, Tara, Jonas and Ethan. We’ve been traveling in our rebuilt Airstream since October 2024. Our mission is to glorify God through the proclamation of His word and by walking in a manner worthy of our calling in the Lord God Jesus Christ.

We’ve hosted Bible studies in our stationary home over the past twelve years and Tyson has filled the pulpit several times in our former church. Ten years ago, we each felt the same calling from God to purchase a 1968 Airstream and rebuild it with the goal of serving the Lord on the road. We have diligently finished the first part of the call, and are now beginning to fulfill our goal of serving the RV community! We are teaching God’s word to those at the campgrounds we visit, praying for and with fellow campers, and providing practical needs to those we meet on this amazing journey!