Nathan and Amy Schmidt, missionaries to Bolivia with World Gospel Mission, will speak at Sweet Home Evangelical Church, 1347 Long, April 22, at 9:30 a.m.
Nathan was born and reared in Kansas. He attended Tabor College (Kansas) and graduated from Vennard College with a B.A. in Bible and pastoral ministries. He is an ordained minister and served as a youth pastor in Nebraska and as a Volunteer in Action for three years in Bolivia where he taught at Santa Cruz Christian Learning Center and at Bolivian Evangelical University.
Amy is a native of Indiana. She attended the University of Tennessee where she studied music. She received a B.S. in elementary education and special education at Indiana Wesleyan University. Amy served with Habitat for Humanity for several summers and as dean of women at a Salvation Army music camp for two summers. She was a Volunteer in Action participant in 1999 in Bolivia.
After a period of deputation ministries, the Schmidts will have a church-planting ministry and will be based in Tarija, Bolivia.
Much of WGM’s ministry in Bolivia takes place in the eastern lowlands near the city of Santa Cruz. The work consists of church planting and nurturing, evangelism, a medical ministry, airplane evangelism (Wings of Peace) into remote jungle areas and education through Santa Cruz Christian Learning Center, Berea Bible Seminary and Bolivian Evangelical University.
World Gospel Mission is an interdenominational missionary organization with approximately 350 missionaries and support staff serving on five continents. International headquarters is in Marion, Indiana.