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Reici and Karen Acevedo Withers

Reici and Karen Acevedo Withers

Missionaries to Paraguay

Ministry Description

I am the National Coordinador of Word of Life Paraguay. We serve the team and invest in the next generation's leadership. We look to promote and create gospel movements in all of the 254 district nation wide. We do this with our tools and programs partnering with the local church. We are Advancing the Gospel!

About Reici

I was born in Paraguay in a Christian/missionary family, I got saved when I was 6 years old in a Word of Life camp.

When I was eight years old I decided to be a US. Marine and through the years I prepared myself to accomplish that goal when I finished high school. But God had other plans for me. I went to the Bible Institute in Argentina for three years, and there God called me to be a missionary in my country and there I met my beloved wife. And we both now serve him in Paraguay.

About Karen

I was born in Ecuador, in a non-Christian family, with a conflictive background and at the age of 13 I trusted Jesus Christ as my Savior, but I wasn’t discipled. By the age of 14, I got involved in the modeling world and in a social-political context, so this became my dream and my priority. Until I met the first missionary in all my life, and she discipled me. I got to the understanding that God is first, so I give my life to Him. I went to the Bible Institute in Argentina for three years, and there God called me to be a missionary in my husband's country. And we both now serve him in Paraguay.

Life Verse

"Now I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that what has happened to me has actually served to advance the gospel." Philippians 1:12