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| Jack Voelkel |
Dr. Voelkel began his tenure as leader of the 76 year old evangelical ministry on October 1. He replaces Dr. David R. Befus who had served as the president of LAM since 1999. Dr. Befus and his wife Connie have relocated to Colombia where they will be serving as missionaries with LAM.
The mission currently has missionaries serving in many Central and South American countries as well as in Spain. They work in diverse areas such as church planting, seminary teaching, Christian education, writing, camping ministries, helping with street children, the deaf and others who are disabled, social ministries, evangelism and training Latin American for missionary service around the world.
Mr. Voelkel comes from a broad background in mission work. He served with LAM from 1965 in Costa Rica, Peru, and Colombia, and taught missions at the Biblical Seminary of Colombia in Medellin from 1990 until 2000. He retired from the LAM in 2001.
In retirement he has worked with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, helping to prepare for the Urbana Student Mission Conventions that draw together over 20,000 young adults every four years who are considering missionary service.
He also writes for the InterVarsity web site (www.intervarsity.org) and continues to teach yearly at the Medellin seminary.
His wife, Mary Anne, also continues to work for InterVarsity. In Colombia, she taught courses in Christian education, Bible, human relations and pastoral counseling at the seminary.
Mr. Voelkel was born in 1934 in Pyeng Yang, Korea of Presbyterian missionary parents and attended Wheaton College, Princeton Theological Seminary and the Fuller School of World Mission. He is an ordained minister of the Presbyterian Church in Canada.
As the interim president of LAM, Dr. Voelkel will be working to continue various projects of LAM throughout Latin America and representing the mission before churches and agencies in North America.
“The Lord has honored me greatly with this new appointment,” Voelkel said. “I will be preparing the mission as best I can for the coming of the next president.”
Latin America Mission works in partnership with churches and Christian agencies throughout Latin America and supports missionaries and projects in many Latin countries as well as in Spain. The U.S. headquarters can be reached at Latin America Mission, Box 52-7900, Miami, FL 33152, by e-mail at info@lam.org, or by calling
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