Mike Arnold — Chief Outfitter

             Mike is the founder and Chief Outfitter of Cross Trail Outfitters—Youth Hunting and Fishing Club. He is the pioneer of hunting and fishing discipleship youth ministry, and has run countless wilderness youth outings over many years, including taking a team of teenage boys to a remote jungle village that had never before been visited by an outsider. He is a visionary leader and gifted teacher and evangelist. Mike has spent considerable time in impoverished nations around the world and provides a depth of experience to our Missions Team.

Jesse Easley — Expedition Leader

             Our staff leader on this trip will be Jesse Easley. He and his wife are owners of CTO’s Texas summer camp ranch, Stillwater Refuge. Jesse went on his first trip to Haiti in 1997 and felt a very unique call from the Lord about his future with that country. He continued going on one or two trips a year until his last trip in the Summer of 2007 which was his 14^th trip to Haiti.

             In 2000 Jesse and his wife Amy took two trips to the country — one for three weeks and one for six — looking and praying for the Lord to show them the location they should live as missionaries.

After much prayer and fasting, they felt that the Lord was not leading them to move permanently, but instead that they were called to uniquely serve the missionaries and people of Haiti.

             Most of Jesse’s trips have been Hiking Evangelism trips into the remote villages of the mountains with no vehicle roads. He has also lead construction trips (building a school), Medical Clinic trips, Auto Mechanic Trips, and Evangelism Crusades with preaching, drama, and the “Jesus Film”.

He has lead trips consisting of all adults, all college aged team members, and teams that were college-aged and teenaged members.

                                            

Dr. Carmelito “Sonny” Arkangel — Expedition Advisor: Health, Safety and First Aid

There is, quite literally, nobody on the face of the earth better equipped to advise aggressive wilderness expeditions like CTO Missions. Dr. Arkangel is a top medical and safety consultant to the US Special Forces. In this capacity he has trained and equipped Special Forces teams for all variety of missions. He is a professor of emergency medicine and he recently retired as the top Level One trauma care physician for the busiest emergency room in the San Antonio region. Before going to medical school, Dr. Arkangel served two tours in Viet Nam and was highly decorated as an Airborne Ranger.

We have assembled what we believe to be the finest team in the world for our style of mission trips.

CTO MISSIONS — STAFF LEADERS

CTO MISSIONS — ADVISORY LEADERS