David Joannes is the Founder/CEO of Within Reach Global, a Christian mission organization committed to reaching unreached people groups in the 10/40 Window with the gospel of Jesus Christ. He has been involved in cross-cultural mission work for over 20 years, serving as a career missionary in China for fifteen years and now in Thailand for the last eight. He currently leads a growing team of full-time foreign and indigenous missionary staff located in Thailand, China, and Myanmar. David is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and proficient in Tagalog and Thai. David is the author of The Space Between Memories, The Mind of a Missionary, and Gospel Privilege. He is also the host of Missions Pulse video podcast on YouTube. He presently lives in Chiang Mai, Thailand, with his wife, Lorna, and their two daughters.