Joshua C Smith

Josh operates at the intersection of business, technology, and ministry. Josh has operated a manufacturing business, developed popular fundraising software, and served since 2012 with Tying Vines, a Christian nonprofit bringing hope to disadvantaged or impoverished communities. Josh joined the Catalyst team and started Invigorate Inc., to serve as the business layer and operating entity for the group. Invigorate will build and operate manufacturing facilities to build wheelchairs and other assistive technology devices.

To learn more about Invigorate or to support Invigorate or donate wheelchairs directly, please visit: www.nvgrt.org.

Josh is currently raising personal support to be able to focus on Invigorate. Donations are processed by Tying Vines and are tax deductible. Thanks for your support!

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Jessica Tsotsoros, PhD OTR/L, is an occupational therapist, educator, and researcher. She has a passion for helping those with disabilities fully participate in meaningful lives through assistive technologies. She is the founder and President of Wings Aloft, Inc a non-profit with a focus on appropriate wheelchair provision and connecting therapists to serve internationally. She currently leads service and research trips to Kenya at Bethany Kids annually as well as looking forward to returning to Guatemala for follow up research and wheelchair clinics.

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Luke McAuley

Luke is an Occupational Therapist working with SIM and seconded to BethanyKids in Kenya. Luke and his family of 5 live in Kijabe where he is the Rehab Training Program Director for BethanyKids Kenya. He has spent over a decade working with children in under served areas both in the US as well as in Kenya. Luke has a passion for working with children with disabilities and their families, especially from the perspective of treatment using Occupational Therapy and Assistive Technology. Luke also has a passion for training others and is working on developing several training programs.

If you would like to see more about the McAuley's or are able to support them either thru financial or prayer support we would love to hear from you. You can visit their blog McAuleys to Kenya, or contact them at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Larry Raymond

Larry Raymond, DPT, MBA, CWS, directs Rehabilitation, Wound Care, Diabetes Management, and Breast Cancer Care in the Johns Hopkins Health System, but his heart is in the underserved communities of the world. Unity in the body of Christ and caring people into the body of Christ is his focus. Larry uses the clinical and administrative gifts God has given him to provide wound care, educate on rehabilitation and wound topics, encourage, empower and struggle towards a model of healthcare based on the fact that every person bears the image of God. “When Jesus stepped ashore and saw a large crowd, He had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd.” Mark 6:34.

To this end, Larry has volunteered with Joni and Friends Wheels for the World, for over 10 years including the distribution of the 100,000^th wheelchair, with Samaritan’s Purse since 2017 in the Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART), and with Christian Appalachian Project since 2018. As a wound specialist, Larry provides care and education about chronic disease and the associated complications from the use of assistive technologies like pressure injuries. After completing an excellent Christ-centered MBA at Asbury University with a focus on non-profit management, Larry is excited to build bridges with mission hospitals, witnessing how caring for the disabled crosses all language and cultural boundaries and prepares hearts to join the body of Christ.

Ryan Propst

Ryan is a Certified Prosthetist Orthotist working out of Texas. Having grown up in Kenya, Ryan has an ingrained passion to serve in different cultures. Ryan is involved in prosthetic work in Zambia, and has also worked at Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare as a custom seating practitioner serving adults with complex wheelchair seating needs. "I'm excited to work with the Catalyst Project to consult and collaborate for sustainable solutions. I believe that providing people with a prosthesis, orthosis, or functional seating is a practical way to empower people by restoring mobility, opportunity, and dignity."