Steve & Wilma Bailey, Latin America
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Both Steve and Wilma had accepted the Lord as their Savior early in life: Wilma was led to the Lord in the fifth grade by one of her Sunday School teachers, and Steve was twelve years old when he was saved under the ministry of the Christian Service Brigade.
In addition to her experience overseas as a child, Wilma had spent a summer working with SIM in Niger while in college. After college, Steve worked as an administrator and teacher at a Christian school and taught in a lay-Bible institute. Realizing his need for further training in the Word, Steve enrolled at Grace Seminary in 1982, and it was at this time that God moved Steve and Wilma to become involved in ministry overseas. The land of Argentina caught their attention, and they began preparing to go.
The Baileys went to Argentina in 1987, and they are working in a church-planting ministry in Buenos Aires, the capital city. They are members of the Warsaw Community Grace Brethren Church, Warsaw, Indiana. They have three children. Wilma is active in discipling women and youth, and Steve is the Regional Director for Latin America for Grace Brethren International Missions (GBIM). He sees his role as three-fold:
- To pastor/mentor/shepherd U.S.-sent missionaries and national church planters through periodic visits, phone calls, and emails. (This aspect takes up the bulk of his time, and requires a lot of travel.)
- To actively recruit missionaries from the U.S. and in Latin America to plant churches in Latin America and from Latin America. (There is an exciting and growing missionary movement among their Latin American churches that is wonderful for them to be a part of and help facilitate.)
- To pray consistently for the work in and from and to be a model and example of prayer for their staff.
Contact info:
Steve & Wilma Bailey
Guamini 6489
(1875) Wilde
Buenos Aires, Argentina
