Darin and Laura Arnott

In December of 2012, our family went on our first short-term mission trip. Little did we know that would change the trajectory of our lives! It was during that trip that we experienced first-hand God’s heart for the nations and His desire that all people would know Him and receive salvation.  

After serving on several more short-term trips both globally and locally, we knew God was calling us into full-time mission work. We began serving full-time with World Gospel Mission in 2015 and relocated to southern Arizona in March of 2016. There we served in Native American Ministries, primarily on the Tohono O’odham Nation, until September 2025.  

Through those years we grew in our understanding of serving cross-culturally and seeing God at work in spiritually desolate places. We also had the joy of hosting many short-term mission teams. It is exciting to watch a team come together, beginning with God’s prompting on an individual’s heart and their responding in faith with a “Yes, Lord, send me!” to watching a team unite for one purpose of making the name of Jesus known! 

We serve as short-term mission team coordinators. In this role we meet with individuals navigating God’s calling in short-term missions and coordinate sending short-term mission teams to various WGM mission fields worldwide! In addition, we also lead new team orientations to help teams be prepared for serving cross-culturally with WGM.