Vicente Garcia is a graduate of the Peru Baptist College. He trained for ministry in Peru and was an assistant pastor for two years. He and his wife, Gabriella, are church-planting missionaries with Vision Baptist Missions International. They arrived on the field of Burkina Faso in 2009, are enrolled in French language school, and are working hand-in-hand with veteran missionaries Keith and Rebecca Shumaker.
Lorenzo Laura and his wife, Victoria, are graduates of the Peru Baptist College. Lorenzo pastored a church for 8 years in Arequipa, Peru before moving with his family to the northern jungle city of Cobija, Bolivia in 2004. In Cobija, Lorenzo was able to start Iglesia Bautista Jireh (Jireh Baptist Church), as well as a Bible institute. He continues to work faithfully in the ministry and train young men to follow in his example. Lorenzo and Victoria have two children, Mark & Stephanie.
At the age of 17, Wayne Cooke went on a missions trip to Guatemala where he first felt the call to the mission field. He graduated from Bible school with a missions degree and came to Vision Baptist Church as a church planter and missions advocate. He has partnered with Vision and served as a teacher in an adult Sunday School class and worked with Pastor Ronald Tubillas in the Spanish ministry of both Vision and Trinity Hill. Currently, he and his wife, Lina, and children, Alex, Jordan, and Abby, are on deputation as missionaries to the South American country of Columbia.
Pastor Miguel Murillo is currently Pastoring two churches. He is the administrator of the Christian school located at Hunter Baptist Church and is the administrator of the Seminary as well.
November 22, 1991 at the age of seventeen Pastor Miguel received Christ as his Lord and Savior. It was the following year that Pastor Miguel went to Macedonia Baptist Seminary and prepared for ministry. In 1999 he co-pastored the church in Hunter, learning under Missionary Austin Gardner for four years. In 2003, Pastor Miguel took over as head pastor of Hunter Baptist Church. He has currently been in the ministry for eighteen years.
Pastor Miguel and his wife Liz have three children Andria, Miguel, and Gabby. I ask that you pray for this man of God as he continues faithfully in his work and pray that God might raise up more men as faithful and loving to their Lord and Savior as Pastor Miguel.
Jason was born into a Christian family but did not accept Jesus as His own Savior until he was 16 years old. He grew in his faith with the help of a good friend Josh Ewing, now missionary to Indonesia, and by the age of 18 he surrendered his life to the Lord.
Jason started his training in Bible college where he met his wife Lori as well as studied under Pastor Austin Gardner in Peru. After finishing college and deputation, Jason and Lori went to Peru for Language school with their newborn baby, Katie. They now have three children including their two boys Josh and Andrew.
The Holts arrived in Santiago, Chile in February of 2005. After a few months they were able to start Iglesia Bautista Fe, Faith Baptist Church. As people came to know Christ as their personal Savior, Jason and Lori worked hard at grounding them in the truths of God’s Word and teaching them how to reach others with the gospel. The Lord really blessed the Holt’s ministry, and in two years the church grew to where they would have over one hundred people attending.
At this time Jason believed that there was a need for a Bible college there in Chile. Today there are eight students studying the Bible and learning practical applications to the ministry such as preaching, soul winning and discipling.
In 2010 the Holts were able to start two new churches with some of the young men out of their ministry. These two churches are actually located in areas that had absolutely no gospel witness previous to their arrival.
In the next few years, Jason would like to start at least four more churches while continuing to train the men in the Bible college.
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