Our Leadership Team
At YWAM Richmond, we are committed to community. Our staff is composed of about 45 members between our two locations, with a recent growth in the number of families. We are from many nations all driven by the desire to Know God and Make Him Known!
Our staff are highly involved in both community life on campus as well as serving in various areas of the city. Whether it’s working at the local community center, being active in the Civic Association, team-building with Richmond Ropes, distributing from our neighborhood food pantry, or teaching English to refugee children, we say that we love Richmond!
As a staff we are also very committed to the nations. Every year, we send teams all over the world to share the love of the Jesus in the nations. Recently, we have been sending teams to Brazil, Bolivia, Tanzania, Kenya, Chile, Japan, the Philippines, Thailand, Cambodia & Scotland!
We are always looking for people to join our team at YWAM Richmond! Please fill out this simple application and someone from our team will be contacting you shortly.
Base Director
Hailing from Michigan and North Carolina, God showered Chris with favor in his business career. By the age of 28 he had managed thousands of people with a well known Fortune 500 Company. In 2001 God spoke to him to “leave it all” and commit his life to full-time missions. Since then Chris has championed young spiritual leaders in over 20 nations.
Kara grew up in YWAM. She holds a Bachelors of Science in Urban Studies and a Masters Certificate in Nonprofit Management from VCU. She is a key community leader in the East End of Richmond Virginia and develops YWAM staff as the Personnel Director for our staff team.
In 2006 Chris and Kara were married. Chris became the Director of YWAM VA in 2008 expressing the vision to “Passionately Follow God & Champion Young People.” Together they love to pastor young spiritual leaders and to pioneer cutting edge ministries with their son Isaac and daughter Hannah Grace.
Richmond Campus Leader
Fauger Baptista

Virginia Beach Campus Leader
Fauger and Ana have been married since 2001 and serving together with YWAM since 2003. Fauger did his DTS in Contagem – Brazil , in 1999. Ana also did her DTS in Contagem – Brazil ,in 2000. They served together in Adelaide – Australia from 2003-2009. After that they helped Pionner YWAM Curacao in the Caribbean and lived there for almost a year. During that time they were asked to Re-pioneer YWAM US Virgin Islands where they served as base directors from 2012 to 2016. Fauger and Ana are both from Curitiba Brazil. They have 2 kids, Nicholas, born in 2008 in Australia and Olivia, born in 2013 in St.Croix USVI.
Ministry wise, Fauger has served YWAM in the area of worship/prayer, evangelism, teaching, counseling and maintenance.Ana has served YWAM in the area of arts(dancing), leading small groups, accounting, prayer/intercession, evangelism and counseling.
They joined YWAMVA February 2017 and their passion is to see families and individuals engaging in a deeper and healthy relationship with God through Worship/Prayer/Healing and Counseling.They also love pioneering new visions, help and guide young people to find their calling, dreams and purpose. And also serving full hearten in any area of need.