Woodruff Road Presbyterian Church

Missions to Latin America

Brazil

Francisco & Soria Cardoso

Francisco Cardoso, who is a pastor on staff at Woodruff Road PCA, is part of the Mission to Brazil, which is a ministry that is committed to plant reformed and Presbyterian churches in the northeastern region of Brazil, specifically Recife. After attending Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, he returned to Recife to plant a church — Reformed Presbyterian Church of Recife — where he is the pastor. This church has been serving as a biblical model for the planting of daughter churches in Limoeiro and Iputinga. There is a great need for a Reformed understanding of the Gospel in the northeastern region. This region is predominantly Roman Catholic, which condones paganism, is the poorest area in Brazil, and has a population of 49 million (3 million in Recife). It is estimated that only one percent of the population is evangelical. The church in Recife is currently praying for the ability to purchase land to build a church, which is their greatest need.

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Chile

Roger & Laura Dye

Roger Dye joined Mission to the World’s (MTW) church-planting team in Vina del Mar, Chile in 1998. In April of 2006, a mission church plant — La Iglesia Presbiteriana de Renaca — was established with a session and diaconate. The team was also involved in church planting, evangelism, discipleship, and outreach to those with disabilities through the ministry centre. Roger preaches, teaches seminary, and trains local pastors. Laura, who helps her husband with his ministry, also teaches the women. One of their passions is to teach about the Biblical family. On April 22, 2011, one of the long awaited phases of the Dye’s ministry was fulfilled, that is, the establishment of a national presbytery in the region. On that morning of April the two Presbyterian mission-status churches in Vina del Mar celebrated the official beginning of the Iglesia Presbiteriana en América, Chile. After a extended furlough in the states raising support, the Dyes returned to Chile on July 12, 2011.

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Haiti

Octavius & Marie Veronique Delfils

Octavius Delfils, a graduate of Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, is currently rebuilding a reformed and Presbyterian ministry in Haiti with help from the Orthodox Presbyterian Church’s missionary Ben Hopp and Word and Deed missionary Randy Lodder. Delfils is pastoring a new church in the Delmas section of Port-auPrince: Reformed Presbyterian Church of Haiti. This church is a joint effort between the PCA and OPC. The ministry’s primary objective is the establishment of a Reformed and Presbyterian Church in Haiti, along with a seminary to train men in the Scriptures. He's hopeful about the church's future, even while conditions in Haiti remain bleak. Delfils, who lost his home and a sister in the January 2010 earthquake, faithfully sees opportunities amidst tragedy.

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Peru

Scott & Julie Davenport

Scott Davenport, who is a graduate of Reformed Theological Seminary- Charlotte, was ordained to the gospel ministry by the Orthodox Presbyterian Church (OPC). In May of 2011, Scott and his family moved to Arequipa, Peru and joined Peru Missions. For the remainder of the year, they will be studying Spanish preparing to serve in Trujillo, which is on the northern coast. Scott has served as a pastoral intern and assistant at Matthews Orthodox Presbyterian Church. He also served as the founding headmaster of Greyfriars Classical Academy. Scott is a minister and will serve as a seminary Registrar and Dean of Curriculum at the Seminario Bíblico Reformado. In addition to working at the seminary, he is eager to participate in the work of the churches and to help develop future church leaders. Julie looks forward to participating in women's and children's ministry and providing hospitality in the churches.

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Luis & Emilia Mendoza

Luis Mendoza, who is an ordained presbyter from Second Presbyterian Church with the IEPP (Inglesia Evangelica Presbiteriana del Peru), has been going into the mountains around Cajamarca, Peru since 2006 to teach and preach to two rural groups. Second Presbyterian is a particular church that grew out of the church planting efforts of Peru Mission. Luis works under Alonzo Ramirez of Peru Missions. Even though this ministry is a strategic facilitator of urban church planting and Christian community development in Peru that plant mission churches, train Christian leaders, and develop transformational institutions, Luis Mendoza is willing to travel to the remote parts of Cajamarca on foot to reach the people in the hills. For further information on Peru Missions, which is renewing Peru through the power of the gospel, visit them at: www.perumission.org/

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Alonzo & Esther Ramirez

Dr. Alonzo Ramirez is from the north Peruvian city of Piura and is ordained in the Inglesia Evangelica Presbiteriana del Peru (IEPP). Alonzo currently lives and works in Cajamarca. Alonzo earned a degree in theology from the Free Church College in Edinburgh (1989-1992). Later, while at RTS— Jackson, he received a Th.M. in Old Testament (1998) and a Ph.D. in Intercultural Studies (2001). Upon completing his studies at RTS he went back to Cajamarca to begin Peru Mission, which is a strategic facilitator of urban church planting and Christian community development in Peru. In addition, he is a pastor at Second Presbyterian Church in Cajamarca, he directs and teaches in a seminary, oversees the university ministry at the Universidad Nacional de Cajamarca and serves as editor and translator of various publications. Esther, his wife, teaches religion classes at a public school in Cajamarca and directs the children's Sunday School at Second Presbyterian Church.

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