Duvon McGuireDuvon McGuire received his B.S. degree in Chemistry/Bio-Pre-Med from Asbury University in 1981. Following graduation, he worked as a “broad generalist” in the thermal insulation industry where he served in ASTM and ISO. In 1998, he felt a compelling call to take the tools of industry into the non-profit world.
His expertise in producing safe water in the developing world spans over 25 years. Since 2004, he has been President of New Life International, the 501(c)3 non-profit founded by his parents, Byron and Yvonne McGuire. Duvon is the visionary of off-the-beaten-path innovations and strategies to help where helping helps and never hurts. He delights in bringing well-being to life.
Duvon and his wife Victoria have two children Cierla and Isaac as well as an adopted daughter, Sanga, in Nepal… and over a dozen children who have adopted them as grandpa and grandma.
Mark EstesMark Estes started his professional career in sales and operational leadership in the logistics sector in the USA. After an encounter with Jesus in 1997, he began volunteering for an inter-urban housing program and later left his ‘American Dream’ for God’s Calling overseas. He loaded a backpack and moved to Oceania. There he began applying his business skills in developing and growing humanitarian and community transformation capacity across Asia and in Sub-Saharan Africa until 2010 when he returned to the USA with his family to be with his parents during the final months of his father’s life.
In early 2011, after a clear Calling to return to Asia with his young family, Mark served as Asia Area Director for World Concern from Bangkok Thailand before moving to the USA Head Office in an expanded role in 2015. Mark shaped global and country level strategies and focuses on tactical decisional processes to reach strategic ministry targets, primarily strengthening national mission teams and partners through quality & growth initiatives by empowering leadership to serve the unreached and underserved poor and vulnerable, as part of building God’s Kingdom “on earth as it is in Heaven”.
Mark has a BS in Nutrition/Foods and completed a MA in International Non-Profit Organizational Leadership with Eastern University. Mark has resided and worked in 11 countries and has traveled extensively to support various mission partners in Oceania, Mozambique and across Asia in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam. His program, operational and development bandwidth has served in various leadership roles at country, regional and corporate levels in strategy development, operations, resource acquisition and organizational and team capacity building. Mark’s budget oversight ranges from $10 - $30 million with staff levels up to 500.
Mark met his wife Marcia (Brasil) while overseas and have been blessed with 2children: Jonathan (17) and Hannah (15).* Mark and Marcia desire to continue to serve the local Church as speakers and teachers as well as hosting home group fellowships as they settle in the Southeast USA, where they are nearer to family and able to care for Mark’s 95-year young mother. Mark is settling into his hybrid role as the Director of New Life International Ministries, working from his home and regularly traveling to its’ southern Indiana Global Headquarters. Mark loves to visit the field, especially traveling with Church, Corporate, School, and others to see the International impact and serving those along the way as an expression of God’s relentless Love and what Jesus has done for him.
Please pray for Mark in his new role with NLI.
*as of June 2025
Paul GimsonPaul has extensive experience in Asia, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Central America, and Africa. Primarily his work these past twenty-five years has been relief and development where he has had the opportunity to direct and be actively involved in emergency response programs as well as developmental programs in over forty-six countries.
Paul continues to provide his talents as a global delegate with the International Federation of The Red Cross (IFRC). He has served on various NGO forums in both Africa and Asia where he has played a significant role in addressing humanitarian responses to some of the most catastrophic natural disasters and conflicts recorded in history.
Paul is passionate about bringing the latest technologies and the culture of innovation to his work in order to meet community needs for safety, security, dignity, mobility, connectivity, sustainability, and resilience.
Paul holds an MBA in International Business as well as a Bachelor's Degree in Photojournalism.
Paul SchneiderPaul has been connected with New Life International since meeting Duvon McGuire at a missions conference in 2016. Shortly after this meeting, Paul began volunteering with us at the Underwood Campus working in the research and development area. Since that 2016 meeting Paul has been brought onboard and continues working in the Innovation Center as the Director of Engineering. Paul also travels globally with the ministry installing automated water and hypochlorous systems.
Paul has Bachelors and Masters degrees in Chemical Engineering from the University of Dayton. He worked for 35 years in the chemical process industry and joined NLI after his retirement. His professional experiences are primarily in process engineering, process control, project management, and plant maintenance.
His desire for the mission’s ministry comes from completing the “Perspectives on the World Christian Movement” course in 2011. This course opened his eyes to the call for all believers to be a part of the Great Commission.
Paul and Linda have been married for over forty years. Their two sons are married and have blessed Paul and Linda with three grandsons.
Pramil AruldossPramil Aruldoss was born and brought up in India and has a keen passion for transformational development and holistic impact. He has come on board the NLI team as Regional Manager of South Asia in order to expand our work in the region.
He has a Bachelor's in Civil Engineering and a Master’s in Intercultural Studies with an emphasis on International Development. It was during his engineering days that he felt a strong call to missions and development and has not looked back since.
Pramil has experience working with NGOs in India, Tanzania, Nepal, Cambodia, Greece, Ethiopia, and the USA in communities that are disaster affected, poverty stricken, or worn torn and has led large-scale programs and operations during these assignments. Pramil and his wife, Neha, who got married in 2017, currently live in Australia as Neha is in the process of pursuing her Ph.D. in Melbourne. They are animal lovers and are loving parents to a beagle doggo named Brooklyn.
