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Prayer as a Path to Restoration
In Latin America, our God-given vision is to participate with Him in the restoration of our region. Latin America is a region experiencing significant change in all realms of life: social, political, economic F so it permeates each leader because leaders who pray produce followers who pray. A growing number of volunteers serve as a prayer network, standing in the gap for the Free Methodist Church (which goes by the Spanish acronym IML). Praying, seeking, crying out for God’s direction and the complete restoration of Latin America!
We are seeing God answer our prayers. More than 1,000 community churches were planted, and nearly 9,000 people came to Christ in the past three years. But we celebrate many other answered prayers – supernatural protection from devastating fires in Chile, provision of travel visas in seemingly impossible circumstances, and miraculous healings. One group recently prayed without ceasing for the presence of God in the Paraguay Leaders’ Retreat. The results were renewed commitments, encouragement, unprecedented unity and fresh new leadership in a conference that was growing stagnant.
Forty-five volunteers from 17 countries form our regional Prayer Network, allowing people to connect quickly and pray in common accord for specific and general requests. They hold monthly prayer gatherings via Zoom so anyone in the region can attend. Those gatherings have specific prayer circles whose primary focus is to “hold up the arms” of national and area leadership.
But prayer isn’t simply relegated to a group of volunteers. The laity and leadership at all levels are coming together – on our knees, in private and corporate prayer, pleading that God will “do it again” and bring lasting restoration in Latin America. Will you join us?
Ricardo and Beth Gómez, Latin America Area Director
Jardy Castro, Area Prayer Coordinator
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YO SOY UNO (I am One)
Missionaries
Guy & Betsy Crawford
Guy and Betsy Crawford provide pastoral care and support to FM missionaries in Latin America. Their role includes encouragement and spiritual nurture via emails, phone calls and field visits; special care in emergencies or times of crisis; and organization of prayer networks.
J.R. & Becky Crouse
Based in Quito, Ecuador, the Crouses assist the Free Methodist Church in Ecuador and the Latin America Area (LAA) through leadership development, education and transformational development.
Daniela DaCunha
Daniela DaCunha is passionate about Community Church Planting (CCP). As a successful CCP trainer in Paraguay, she moved to Maldonado, Uruguay, in 2021 to form and train new CCP teams. She is a mentor for the CCP network leaders in the southern cone.
Kay Stotts Godoy
Kay Stotts Godoy serves as Latin America regional coordinator for International Child Care Ministries (ICCM). Based in Santiago, Chile, she works alongside ICCM national coordinators with their teams of FM children’s workers and elementary school teachers.
Ricardo & Beth Gómez
Based out of Medellín, Colombia, Ricardo Gómez serves as area director for Latin America. He oversees the U.S. missionaries and national leaders in 17 countries as they implement the shared vision to participate with God in the restoration of Latin America by developing healthy leaders, multiplying committed disciples and empowering transformational churches. Beth serves alongside him in the areas of administration and communication.
Shane & Katie Jewell
Shane Jewell was called to full-time missionary service as a young boy. He and his family are now preparing to transition to Bogotá, Colombia. They hope to deploy to Colombia in August 2022.
John Jairo Leal & Susana Castro
John Jairo Leal and Susana Castro are ordained pastors in the Colombian Mission District and have served as pastors and church planters in Medellín. Currently, John is director of Community Church Planting with Impact Latin America. Susana is the pastor of Camino de Vida church and facilitates pastoral care in Latin America.
Dennis & Kyle Leon
Dennis and Kyle Leon moved to Esterillos, Costa Rica, with a vision to see everyone in every community have access to a living church by multiplying disciples, workers and churches. God has used them to lead to Christ and disciple many new believers, resulting in a multiplying network of churches and home groups now called the 360 Mission District. They also help communities improve their physical wellbeing through counseling, job training, microfinance, tutoring, scholarships, medical assistance, emergency aid, work opportunities and children’s centers
David & Ginegda López
David and Ginegda “Yeya” López are international missionaries who relocated to their home country last year. David is an ordained elder with a successful track record of multiplying disciples, leaders and churches. He is the coordinator for multiplying committed disciples in the Free Methodist Church of Latin America and promotes church planting throughout the region.
Wendy Lorenz
Wendy Lorenz serves the Latin America Area as the care coordinator for Third Culture Kids (TCKs), working with missionary kids and parents throughout Latin America. She also gives direction to the Free Methodist TCK global team. As an additional responsibility, Wendy serves as a member of the team contextualizing the Roots curriculum for use throughout Latin America.
After six years of serving in Latin America, Wendy’s husband, Glenn, began serving as the Africa Area Associate Director in October 2022. His role focuses on recruiting, onboarding, training and coaching missionary teams for Africa. Glenn and Wendy continue to base in Costa Rica.
Dan & Hope Owsley
Dan and Hope Owsley have served in four major regions of Brazil over the past three decades, helping to start churches and organize conferences. Their ministry has included teaching Bible and theology to church leaders, mentoring men and women in ministry, sharing the gospel, and discipling new believers. In 2020 they moved to the state of São Paulo to help restructure the Free Methodist seminary. Both Hope and Dan are teaching there, and Dan acts as academic coordinator. They are both involved in their local church and are mentoring church planters (Free Methodist Venezuelan refugees) in northwest Brazil. Hope leads several Bible studies and is also part of a team adapting the Roots curriculum for Free Methodist Sunday schools throughout Latin America.
Juan Carlos Rodriguez & Yaneth Aguirre
Pastor Juan Carlos and Yaneth have faithfully served the Free Methodist Church in Mexico in various roles, including church planters and pastors. Juan Carlos also served as conference superintendent for eight years. The Lord has now stirred their hearts to serve at an area-wide level by joining the Latin American team. Based out of Santa Cruz, Bolivia, Juan Carlos will coordinate mentoring throughout the area, particularly to leaders in Bolivia, Guatemala and Creative Access Country-X. Yaneth will serve as a part of the “Empowering Transformational Churches” team while also pouring into local and regional ministry.
Casto Rojas
Dr. Casto Rojas is a pediatrician by trade who has served the FM Church for over XXX years. The church he pastored became the largest and fastest-growing church in Latin America. Pastor Casto has a track record of training, mentoring, encouraging and empowering leaders, resulting in the birth of more than 20 new churches within his own country. Now he serves as conference superintendent in his home country and as a mentor for the superintendents in Puerto Rico, Chile and Paraguay.
Thad & Nikki Roller
The Rollers live and minister in Cajicá, just outside Bogotá, Colombia. They are passionate about seeing leaders, disciples and churches multiplied in their community and throughout Latin America. Thad’s primary role is to help train, mobilize and support pastors, leaders and church planters in Colombia, Guatemala and Mexico. Nikki’s main objectives include infusing the church-planting movement with a culture of deep prayer and working on multiple teams, including Third Culture Kid care and the translation and adaptation of the Roots curriculum for the Latin American context.
Rodrigo & Tanya Rosado
The Rosados live and serve in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where they lead a new project – The Harbor. The Harbor seeks to be a vibrant international community where there is biblical transformation and student leaders are empowered through holistic strategies leading to the multiplication of committed disciples. Their responsibilities include pastoring a multicultural church, overseeing university housing for emerging leaders in collaboration with ICCM and developing a Community Church Plant network in the city. In addition, Rodrigo serves as mission district leader for Argentina, and Tanya serves as transformational church coordinator for Latin America.
Rich & Laurie Sheriff
Rich and Laurie serve in San Pedro de la Paz, on the edge of Concepción, Chile. Rich is an elder in the Keystone Conference. After years of pastoring in the U.S. and leading short-term mission teams to various parts of the world, the Chilean Conference of the FMC invited the Sheriffs to come full time and plant bilingual churches. Along with church planting, they work in leadership development and encouraging local FM pastors, families and churches.
Dan & Dee Ann Snyder
Dan and Dee Ann Snyder currently serve as associate missionaries to Haiti. While involved in a Michigan medical practice, Dan raises funds and annually makes several trips to Haiti Claire Heureuse Hospital in Dessalines. Dee Ann works in support ministries
Andrea Tinsley
Andrea Tinsley lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina, serving on staff at the Harbor as the resident director. The Harbor provides dorm-like housing for emerging Christian leaders from Latin America who study at the University of Buenos Aires. Students receive pastoral care, spiritual formation, leadership training and hands-on ministry experience to connect career and ministry. Before moving to Argentina in early 2023, Andrea lived in Medellin, Colombia, where she studied Spanish and worked as the Latin America Area communications liaison. She is an ordained elder in the New South Conference and a veteran youth pastor. Andrea utilizes her passion for youth and young adults as a resident director while continuing to serve the area in communications and through the Latin America Area Third Culture Kid (TCK) care team.
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