Ministry
For ten years Juan and María served as church planters in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. The Lord then sent them to the Anglican Church of Perú for their next missionary assignment. Bishop Bill Godfrey invited them to join the Diocese of Perú to help with church-planting, discipleship of leaders and mentoring of pastors. María also ministers in one of the shantytown churches. Juan and María have three sons: Bernardo, Sebastian and Tomás.

Call
Juan describes their call to missionary service in this way, "God used for his glory and for our good the contact we had with the Rev. Tom Prichard (former Executive Director of SAMS) while he was a SAMS missionary in Colombia in the late 1980s. We heard God's call while striving to be faithful to the Episcopal ministry in difficult circumstances first in Colombia and then in Ecuador. María Isabel and I heard the call to become missionaries as a couple. It took us almost three years before we could take the first steps to join SAMS. This call and our response has been the most exciting event in our lives. Praise HIM!"

"And now we can say that the call of our lives is Jesus, who has called us to continue to be faithful and to join our children in that call too. Our intent is to stay in missions wherever the Lord wants us."