LOCATION: Latin America & The Caribbean
TRANSFORMATIONAL IMPACT: My vision is to help train and send cross-cultural workers from Latin America, especially Cuba, to restricted access nations.
MINISTRY FOCUS: The church in Latin America is over 612 million strong and has begun to send missionaries to other countries over the past 30 years. Nevertheless, being new to world missions, the Cuban church has been sending out their own missionaries only since 2015. They face a challenging road ahead to develop sustainable international outreach.
As a Canada-based worker, I currently work alongside five Cuban church leaders who are in turn training 27 approved candidates for missionary work. I also work with 15 Dominican Republic church leaders, to further develop their mission programs. I teach, translate, and interpret from English to Spanish the Light for the Nations program to equip these leaders for cross-cultural ministry.
I also seek to oversee and contextualize Global Works’ Business As Mission (BAM) programs to prepare Cuban and other Latino cross-cultural workers to go to restricted access nations.
YOUR IMPACT: You will help empower the Cuban church, as well as the overall Latin American church, to develop their own mission programs, to send out workers all over the world.
MINISTRY HISTORY: Liz and I have served in the Latin American and Caribbean regions in various capacities since 2010. We have led a Spanish Bible college and have trained and led volunteer teams through NEXO International Ministries, a ministry we founded, to connect individuals with God’s mission. I have also served in lead and associate pastor roles in Spanish and English communities throughout the Greater Toronto Area and the Waterloo region. I have a Master of Divinity from MacMaster Divinity College, while Liz is working on her Master of Intercultural Studies at Fuller Seminary.
PRAYER REQUESTS:
For the Lord of the Harvest to call Latinos, especially Cubans, to bring the gospel to the world.
For God to grant His wisdom and provide the resources to equip Latino cross-cultural workers, through the development of their own national mission agencies.
For God to help Liz and I to transition into full-time empty nesters as our adult daughters pursue their own life assignments.
