Jonathan and Miriam Case have been serving in Australia as Go-Net volunteers since 1997. In May of 1999, they were appointed as career missionaries to Australia. Jonathan teaches theology, world religions, and biblical studies at Kingsley College, Melbourne. Kingsley is the only Wesleyan school of theology and Bible college in Australia. Miriam works with a variety of support/discipleship groups for ministers and their spouses. She also leads craft and handiwork classes and tutors people in English.

Jonathan was born and raised in upstate New York. He grew up in a family with a strong evangelical foundation. He received his call to ministry while in his teens and began to sense a call to missions in graduate school while studying several of the world’s religious traditions. Jonathan has studied at several educational institutions including Nazarene Theological Seminary and Luther Seminary where he earned a Ph.D. in systematic theology. He has also done graduate studies in theology and ethics at The University of Iowa. He has served as a pastor of churches in Oklahoma and as a lecturer in theology and history of religions at Augsburg College (Minneapolis). He was a research staff member at the Church Innovations Institute. Jonathan has authored several articles and reviews for various theological journals.

Miriam was born in Washington and raised in Texas. Her family has a long history with the Free Methodist church. She discovered her call to missions while she was a teenager. She earned an A.A. from Central College and a B.S. in Christian education and home economics from Southern Nazarene University. Miriam has served on the editorial staff for adult Christian education with the Church of the Nazarene at the International Headquarters. For several years she was educational programming manager for the Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians.

Jonathan’s passion as a theological educator in the South Pacific is to train faithful leaders who are able to serve in a variety of religious and cultural contexts. Miriam’s passion is to work with small group discipleship and friendship evangelism.

The Cases have one daughter, Carolyn (’96).