Chris Brewster and Barry Schmelzenbach have several things in common. Both men pursued careers in education, and they are currently leaders of Oklahoma City metro-area charter schools. Brewster is superintendent at Santa Fe South Schools in south Oklahoma City while Schmelzenbach is superintendent of Harding Fine Arts Academy in northwest Oklahoma City. And their career paths aren't where the similarities end. Each man comes from a family of Christian missionaries and spent a stretch of his childhood overseas. Brewster's missionary parents raised him in the Philippines. Schmelzenbach grew up in a missionary family in Africa.