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How did this all begin?
Who would have imagined that we would make a move like this at our age?, We love the idea of working in Latin America with local pastors and leaders! 
Here is Jim's explanation of our new adventure:

Following God is seldom easy. At times He’s hard to figure out, and at other times He asks us to make difficult decisions.  I’ve been teaching that we have a natural passion for comfort and predictability. The problem is that God doesn’t often cooperate with that. Comfort and predictability are not the fields in which trust takes root and flourishes.

Now, I get to swallow a dose of my own medicine and practice what I’ve been preaching. God has opened a door of opportunity for Melanie and I and we are confident He is leading us to walk through the door. God has given us an opportunity to have a strategic and hopefully significant ministry in Latin America. This opportunity involves a move to Central America where Melanie and I will live and serve.

This passion for cross-cultural ministry has been growing for more than a decade. It will be difficult to not live close to family and friends, but God’s call is clear.

God has blessed and equipped me with a good theological education, almost three decades of pastoral experience, and a good measure of cross-cultural involvement. I will be using all this to continue the Bible Institute ministry and expand it through establishing new Bible Institutes and mobilizing other churches to duplicate what we have been successful with. I will also write and teach in other theological education settings. 

I will also focus on Latin American pastors by investing in a mentoring and coaching relationship with them. Melanie will have opportunities to develop relationships with wives and explore a wide variety of opportunities to serve in her gifting.

God is not only not easy to follow, God also has a sense of humor. When I graduated from seminary, I thought there were two things I would never do: Plant Churches and Be A Missionary. Well, after seminary I planted two churches and now I’m going to be a missionary. Unpredictability and Irony make God fun to follow even if it’s not easy or comfortable.