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Alan DesJardins

Now, faced with the end of commercial working life but never really wanting to “retire,” TWR presents the next challenge for Alan.
Asia, Engineering, Guam, Short-term (3-12 mo.)
Alan DesJardins

Alan grew up in Standish, Maine, with his sister Holly in a small family of four. Fascinated with all aspects of radio and electronics at an early age, it led to attending the Westbook Regional Vocational School in the Electronics program. Upon graduation he served in the US Air Force working as a Ground Radio Communications technician for fourteen years. It was during the first assignment at Osan Air Base in South Korea in 1985, maintaining a room full of high-power high frequency (HF) transceivers, that the early foundations were laid.

It seemed that everywhere he looked on paperwork the name Sergeant Scott Blink appeared. He had long left for another assignment—but the name of this person not yet met was everywhere and remembered. Flash forward to 1987, and an assignment to RAF Greenham Common in England, where Alan finally met Scott and a lifelong friendship was formed. Scott pastored a small church that met in the housing area where he lived, and it was his life and modeling of the Christian walk that dropped those early seeds that would later take root in Alan’s life. Alan married his wife, Doreen, at that assignment in England.

After the US Air Force, Alan worked as a Wide Area Network technician (WAN) for State Farm Insurance, in Bloomington, Illinois. After that as a Wireless Engineer at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange in Chicago, IL. And finally for the remaining 25 or so years working as a Sales Engineer for companies like Proxim Wireless, Motorola Solutions, Cambium Networks, Redline Communications, and Aviat Networks.  

Alan has also worked for the past 17 years (and is currently on the Board) with a Christian charity called Hebron USA. They minister with the Mayan Tzeltal population in Chiapas, Mexico, by operating a medical clinic and radio station in Ocosingo, Chiapas.

Now, faced with the end of commercial working life but never really wanting to “retire,” TWR presents the next challenge—helping make sure God’s Word is available to as many people as possible. 

Alan and Doreen currently live on the campus of Gordon Conwell Seminary, where Doreen is working on her Master of Divinity. Alan is planning short-term deployments with TWR (mainly to the transmitting site on Guam) to both serve the mission, and to not be a distraction for Doreen during the more challenging academic periods.

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