Though I was raised in a pastor’s home, I did not accept Christ as my Savior until the age of sixteen. Over the next two years as I grew in my faith, I knew God was calling me into the ministry. I visited the mission field for the first time during the summer before my freshman year at Crown College. That month in Mexico sealed God’s leading to foreign missions and planted a love for the Spanish-speaking people in my heart.

I met and married my wife, Lori, in college. Lori accepted Christ as her personal Savior at 14 and surrendered to serve the Lord in foreign missions at 19. While finishing my degree, I received the opportunity to intern in Peru for six months. During those months, God called Lori and I to the neighboring country of Chile.

Since 2001, we have served as church planting missionaries to Chile and have seen God continue to bless with open doors to start new churches and train men and women for ministry. Our main focus is to train Chilean nationals to reach their own people. When God began to raise up men for full-time ministry, we founded the Chile Baptist College (also known as the Seminario Chileno Bautista). Since 2008, the college has prepared future pastors for ministry. What started with 3 students has now expanded to nearly 200 young men and women serving in and impacting churches, families, and vulnerable communities across Latin America!

In addition to leading the Chile Baptist College, our family is also involved in mentoring pastors, pastors’ wives, future church planters, and leaders and serving in local church plants. In the over 20 years we’ve worked in Chile, we’ve seen God do tremendous things through changed and surrendered lives. There is no limit to the potential of these young Chilean believers. Only God knows how many more churches will be started and communities and families impacted as a result of their labor.

God has also given me the opportunity to serve as the Latin America Director for Vision Baptist Missions since 2020. This role allows me to serve, encourage, and support other church planters and missionaries throughout Central and South America. While our family continues to live in Chile, lead and teach at the Chile Baptist College, train Chilean nationals, and plant churches in Chile, God has allowed our scope of influence and service to expand from Chile’s borders to all of Latin America. It is a privilege to see all that God is doing in this region, and we look forward to how He will continue to work!