It was while he was a student at the Peru Baptist College in 2005 that R Z attended a class on Muslim Evangelism taught by a missionary to North Africa. God used that class to give him a burden for the Muslim people. Since then, R has been faithful in the work of the ministry. He has planted and pastored a church and trained young men for the ministry, one of whom is now pastoring the church he started in Arequipa, Peru.
R and his wife, A, and their baby girl arrived on the field of North Africa in April 2011 and are currently in language school to learn Arabic. They are sent out of Vision Baptist Missions International. R is praying about starting a business and house church in the southern Moroccan city of Marrakesh.
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.
