Commission to Every Nation

Sarah Agee

Sarah’s passion to see excellent Biblical materials produced in Spanish and in indigenous languages of Latin America began by observing her parents’ ministry and has grown into a life calling. She grew up in Oaxaca, Mexico, where her parents, Dan and Peggy Agee have been Bible Translators with Wycliffe for over 25 years. In 2008 Sarah graduated from Wheaton College with ...

Mark and Kim Agrellas

Mark and Kim Agrellas have been serving in Guatemala since 2005, where they minister to the impoverished or abused as well as children of missionaries.  Their children: Amanda (17), Megan (15) and Zachary (8) attend the Christian Academy of Guatemala (CAG) where Mark serves as principal and Kim teaches.  CAG’s mission is to provide a US-accredited, quality education to children ...

Sherry and Javier Alvarez

Sherry and Javier both currently serve at Christian Academy of Guatemala (CAG).  The 2011-12 school year will be Sherry's fifth year working as the director of the school's Reading Program. The program is in place to assist elementary students who demonstrate difficulty with early literacy skills, and generally serves about 20 students per year.  Javier will be entering his third ...

Julia Arreaga

Julia felt the calling for the mission field since she was a little girl.  She grew up watching her parents doing missions all over Guatemala and knew her country was the place God wanted her to begin service to Him.  When she was a teenager she was invited to translate for a mission trip and it was a life changing ...

Jon and Elaina Barron

Jon and Elaina Barron and their two children Lauren and Jack are a family committed to missions and serving the Lord.  Jon and Elaina met and married at Seminary and knew immediately that they wanted to work with students.  Elaina is also passionate about teaching teen girls and Moms. Their family has been serving in full-time ministry and taking world-wide ...

Carroll Bishop

Carroll is the co-director and co-founder of “Shadow of His Wings” which is a Home for needy children located in Monjas, Jalapa, Guatemala.  Her ministry is to children who may be orphaned, abandoned, sexually or physically abused, or in any number of negative situations that puts them at risk for their safety and their life in general. Carroll originally came to ...

Nate and Erin Brady

Nate and Erin Brady, along with their daughter’s Mylee and Selah, are partnering with Fontaine and Paula Greene, of Catalyst Resources International (CRI), in Mixco, Guatemala.  God recently changed Nate and Erin’s focus from youth ministry, where they had been serving for over 7 years, to the international mission field.  Nate will be helping facilitate short-term mission teams, doing community ...

Ryan Burger

James and Ellie Carr

James and Ellie Carr have committed to serving as house parents for boys from impoverished and broken homes in Guatemala City. The Carrs are originally from Athens, Georgia.  James worked as a Firefighter/Paramedic for a metro-Atlanta fire department, and Ellie has worked as a Registered Nurse at a local hospital.  After going on several short-term mission trips through Watkinsville First Baptist ...

Oscar and Karla Chiquito

Oscar was born into a very poor family in Sumpango Guatemala, and accepted Jesus into his heart at the age of 12. Despite beginning with literally nothing, Oscar got a BA in Business & Finance and a Masters in International Economics & Development through scholarships; he also got work experience in the economic development field working with well known institutions ...

Caroline Coil

Caroline provides teacher training, materials, transportation and financial support to make possible exciting presentations that lead children to Christ. Working with local men, women and youth Caroline’s goal is to enable them to present a Bible lesson that not only tells a story but also applies Biblical truths to the lives of the saved and the unsaved child. Other activities ...

Edgar and Laura Cojon

Laura came to Guatemala in the spring of 2004 as a student teacher at the Christian Academy of Guatemala. During this time she saw the impact that the teachers at CAG had on the students and the great need for more teachers on the mission field. After graduating from college, she felt the Lord’s calling to return to CAG. She ...

Cyndi Cope

Cyndi felt the call of the Lord on her life to serve Him in missions when she was just 13 years old. In the summer of 2004, she took the first steps of obedience towards that call when she led a team from her church on a one-week trip to work at Shadow of His Wings Orphanage in Guatemala City, ...

Randall and Jackie Darby

In December of 1992, Randall & Jackie moved to Mexico in order to begin an intense study of the Spanish Language and moved directly to Guatemala after graduating.  For the next eight years, they directed and facilitated a home for orphaned/ abandoned teenagers. They have also served in leadership over the many years, and have networked with on-going Guatemalan ministries ...

Levi and Jackie Davis

Levi and Jackie are Sharing HIS Plan in Guatemala. Since 1998, the two have served in various ministerial capacities together in their separate spiritual gifts in Florida and Indiana. In 2004 and 2005, Levi traveled to Guatemala on several short term mission trips. After the first trip, he was strongly called by God to strengthen and build His kingdom in Guatemala ...

Linda DeVault

Linda is serving the Lord in the city and department of Huehuetenango, located in the mountains of northwestern Guatemala.  Her primary passion is to disciple women and school-age children in small group settings.  Linda's ministry goal is to be Spirit-led, loving and consistent not only in teaching but in living the life of a disciple in front of her students, ...

Amy DeYoung

Amy has been serving the Lord in Guatemala for over 6 years. She works at New Life With Education school for handicapped children. Home Church: Crete Reformed Church, Crete, IL

Jason and Nissi Dolan

We are Jason and Nissi Dolan of Denton, Texas. Along with our three children we are moving to Guatemala in January 2014. Sent out from The Village Church via Commission to Every Nation ministries, we will be working to establish a vocational training & transitional program for the teenagers at Fundaninos Children’s Home in San Jose Pinula, Guatemala. We feel ...

David and Kathy Doss

Since coming to Guatemala in 2001 David and Kathy have focused on ministry to English speakers and to the poor. Their ministry to English speakers includes; Hosting medical and dental teams. Directing a coffeehouse with an emphasis on serving westerners in the city of Quetzaltenango. Providing spiritual and social support to individuals in the transient and expatriate western community. Their ministry to Guatemalan’s includes; Church planting ...

Vivian Douglas

Vivian works at Casa Bernabe, an orphanage in Guatemala, teaching, discipling and preparing children for ministry outreach. Vivian Douglas first became interested in missions through attending the Urbana Missions Conference in 1990. After a series of unfruitful attempts to go into missions, she put it on the back burner. Then in January 1995, God spoke to Vivian very clearly that He ...

Kenneth and Joy Eisner

Kenneth and Joy Eisner and their three daughters: Abigail, Emma, and Sara serve at Christian Academy Guatemala. Kenneth is the Computer Systems Coordinator and Joy teaches secondary (6-12) choral and general music and is the coordinator for the Department of the Arts. Their mission focus will be Third Culture Kids (TCKs). CAG is an American accredited school that serves 225 children ...

Ed and Mary Fox

Ed and Mary Fox have lived and worked among the Maya K’iche’ people of Guatemala for 24 years, helping provide the K’iche’ people with the Word of God in their heart language. Ed was born in Guatemala, where his parents were translators among a larger group of K’iche’ speakers. At Wheaton College he majored in Cultural Anthropology, later serving as ...

Jessica and Emanuel Gormley de Perez

Since graduating from Grove City College in 2004 with a B.S. in Elementary Education, Jessica taught middle school Spanish and Language Arts at her alma mater, Pittsburgh Urban Christian School for three years. She has lived in Chichicastenango, Guatemala since the fall of 2007, when she moved to Guatemala to teach missionary children. Jessica and Emanuel got married in August of ...

Nathan and Claudia Hardeman

Nathan and Claudia serve the children of Guatemala City. Nathan is a Missionary Kid (MK) and Claudia is attending seminary. Nathan was born in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala to Southern Baptist Missionaries. He spent his entire life there until moving to Athens, GA to attend the University of Georgia. He has a Bachelor's degree in International Business. In 1996, Nathan felt a strong ...

Steve and Bev Hebert

Steve and Bev will be joining the missionaries at Shadow of His Wings Orphanage in 2013.  Steve, who currently works as a missionary in Vermont, went on a one-week mission trip to the orphange, with his church in 2007.  The orphanage is a home for abused children in Monjas, Jalapa, Guatemala.  During that week of serving, he felt the Lord ...

Tabitha Heth

Tabitha Heth serves with the Christian Academy of Guatemala (CAG) teaching 5th grade. She has had a passion for missions since childhood, going on short-term mission trips to Chicago, Houston, and South Africa. As she served with Barnabas Ministries, a Christian youth mentoring program, and Camp Manitoqua, a God-centered summer camp, Tabitha knew for a long time she’d be working ...

Jennifer Hoines

As a physical therapist and founder of Therapy International, Jennifer will focus full-time on TI’s goal of rehabilitation in Chichicastenango, Guatemala. "Isn't there more to life than being a physical therapist?" That thought plagued Jennifer just months after finishing graduate school. She longed for a fulfillment evading her in her job. But God was at work beginning her journey, and after ...

Eric and Jessie Larimer

Eric Larimer serves at the Christian Academy of Guatemala (CAG). Eric teaches 6th, 7th, and 8th grade science and pre-algebra. He also coaches the cross country team and junior high boys’ basketball. Jessie volunteers at CAG and also serves on the board of the Weaving Hope Ministries, which runs a shelter for abused women and their children. CAG is a non-profit, ...

Greg and Gail Malczewski

Greg will be taking a sabbatical for the 2012-2013 school year. This will give him the time and focus needed to study Spanish intensively. The goal is to use weekends teaching Bible to rural pastors at a new school being set up in Chichicastenango. So his ministry is expanding to include teaching adults attending a Bible college. Gail will continue ...

Betty Merida

Betty was born and raised in Guatemala. She accepted the Lord in June of 1997 through the testimony of a short term missionary. She is a physical education teacher and holds another degree in Teaching English as a Second Language. She has served the Lord for 11 years now, training teachers, pastors, women and serving short term missions. She shares ...

Drew and Cindy Metcalf

Lisa & Rolando Monterroso

Lisa and Rolando will begin their ministry together in Guatemala in early 2013.  Rolando felt God’s call when he was a teenager to minister to kids, especially orphans, in Guatemala.  He has been working with children through several ministries and orphanages since that time.  He is passionate about illustrating the love and hope of Jesus to kids.  Rolando plans to ...

Janet Moutray

Janet has sixteen years experience in full-time ministry. She served over six years in Guatemala. Her work has included administration, teaching, worship, prayer, church planting, discipleship, oversight of children’s feeding programs, and correspondence work. Besides the U.S. and Guatemala, Janet has served in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Haiti, Spain and Israel. Since 2004, Janet’s primary focus has been intercession, worship and developing ...

LynnAnn Murphy

Huehuetenango, a city nestled at the base of the Cuchumatanes Mountains in northwestern Guatemala, has been home for LynnAnn and her daughter Jessie since June of 2010.   LynnAnn’s primary passion is working with women—especially those in small outlying villages scattered throughout the ridges and mountains of this beautiful area.   Her goal is both to bring the message of the gospel ...

New Life With Education

New Life with Education is a primary school for children with special needs. The school is located in Santa Maria de Jesus, a Mayan village high on the side of a volcano above Antigua Guatemala. Judy Kerschner is the founder and administrator. The Goal of New Life with Education is for children with different abilities to see themselves in God’s eyes, ...

David and Lindsey Owens

David and Lindsey Owens were married in the summer of July 2011 and immediately after moved to Guatemala City, Guatemala to teach at an International school. After many months of questioning whether a life as missionaries was God’s plan for their future, they decided to put all else aside and simply obey. Since this time, God’s desire for their lives ...

Pedro and Ana

Pedro and Ana are native Guatemalans of Mayan ancestry that work to bring the New Testament to the Mayan peoples of Guatemala. Pedro started translating the New Testament into his native language, Tzutujil, in 1982. He worked with an American translation team, but also received help from his wife Ana. The project was completed in 1993. Today the Tzutujil people enjoy hearing ...

Vidal and Cathy Pérez

Vidal and Cathy Pérez are working in Tectitán, Guatemala. Vidal contranslated the New Testament into Tektitek and is a native speaker of the language. He started working on the translation in 1994 and it was dedicated to the people of Tectitán in 2005. Cathy taught 4 years at a Christian Academy of Guatemala. Vidal and Cathy met at their church ...

Michael and Kambria Robertson

The Robertsons direct and operate a child wellness ministry as well as a dental outreach ministry to the indigenous people of Guatemala. The wellness center called House of Hope ministers to the spiritual needs of the children by teaching them from the Bible and sharing the gospel with them. Second, they minister to the children’s emotional needs by providing love ...

Amy and Daniel Rodas

Daniel and Amy Rodas are thankful for God's faithfulness in how he brought them together to serve in Guatemala.  Daniel has a heart for the lost and is currently attending seminary while serving in the local church as a part of the leadership team through music, preaching, and youth.  Amy fell in love with Guatemala on her first mission trip ...

Larry and Sarah Rose

Sarah and Larry are joining the team of Shadow of His Wings Orphanage in the spring of 2013.  They both have a heart for missions and Spanish speaking people and are thrilled that the Lord has opened this door. Larry will help manage grants and special project donations as well as taking on aspects of the orphanage’s Transition Programs.  He ...

Chad and Kellie Shepherd

Chad and Kellie along with their son Caleb, daughter Aleksandra, and newly adopted daughter Sterling are transitioning to San Cristobal, Guatemala to serve along with Fontaine and Paula Greene, the directors of Catalyst Resources International. Chad and Kellie have a passion that comes from James 1:27, where we are told that pure religion is taking care of orphans and widows. ...

George and Vonda Sisneros

Our missionary journey is not what we expected.  It is so much more incredible. My wife and I landed in Guatemala City in July 2012 with our 3 brave kids and have spent the last 10 months working in the village of El Rosario, about 45 minutes outside of Guatemala City. Our days are never the same.  God has asked us to ...

David and Julie Sutton

David and Julie Sutton, along with their two youngest children, Rachel and Noah, are directors of Hands of Mercy Ministries in Jalapa, Guatemala. They have been full time missionaries for over 11 years. One of their ministry focuses is medical missions. Julie is a registered nurse and has had her own medical clinic helping the poor by giving free medical ...

Michelle and Karlo Vallar

The Vallar family lives in San Cristobal, Guatemala serving the missionary kids at CAG (Christian Academy of Guatemala). Karlo, Michelle and their four kids, Elijah, Cheryl, Nathan, and Danielle have been in Guatemala since early 2011. They moved from Colorado. Michelle Vallar works full time in the nurse’s office providing basic health needs for the staff and the student body ...

Jennifer (Burleson) and Alan Velasquez

Brought together by God and mutual friends 3 years ago, Alan and Jennie were married in November of 2010.  They are thrilled to be serving the Lord together in Guatemala. Jennie is continuing to serve at Christian Academy of Guatemala for her seventh year. C.A.G. is a non-profit, non-denominational, private school, which ministers to the English-speaking missionary community of Guatemala, and ...

Viña Association

The Viña Association is a non profit ministry dedicated to empowering ethnic minorities, and all oral learners, to grow into their full potential in Christ. With Maya, Latin and North American staff, our vision is to see minority people groups advancing the kingdom of God. Because the vast majority of them are oral learners—people who either do not read or ...