ALTECO - Meet our Board Members

Meet us

The Board

Robert Hardin - Treasurer

Bob is a retired Maytag executive and currently serves as an adjunct professor at Lee University in Cleveland, TN. He is a member of the Board of Directors for Vermeer, Inc. and serves as President of the Board for The Caring Place in Cleveland, TN.

Bob and his lovely wife, Mary Jane, have been married for over 40 years and have two wonderful daughters, Christi and Rebekah.

Robert Hardin

Chairman & Treasurer

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Doug Baughman - Director

Doug Baughman and his wife Ruth joined Wycliffe Bible Translators in 1983 and began serving in Brazil in 1985. Doug served as a pilot/mechanic for his first 10 years and had the opportunity to visit diverse areas of the large country of Brazil. Then for the next 10 years, Doug served as Director of SIL in Brazil, supervising the Bible translation efforts there. Currently Doug is Associate Director for the Americas Area. Doug has been an active part of ALTECO since 2005, serving on the Alteco Executive Committee and Board. He is passionate about coming alongside the Indigenous leaders of the Amazon Region.

Doug Baughman

Director

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Joe Brewster - Director

Joe and his wife, Megan, have served on the mission field since 2003 in the jungles of Peru with brief stints also in Bolivia and Brazil. Their ministry has been focused on taking the gospel to the least reached tribes of the Amazon Basin, and they have worked to complete that task in partnership with existing tribal believers. Joe and his team focus not only on discipleship and evangelism but also on small business initiatives geared towards facilitating tribal partners as they seek to fulfill God’s missionary call in their own lives. They currently live in Colombia, where they are also raising their three children: Susanna, Caleb and Isabel.

Joe Brewster

Director

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Irma Espinoza

Director

Phil Goddard - President

Phil grew up among indigenous people groups in the Chaco region of Paraguay as the son of a family engaged in pioneer missions. After graduating from Bible College in Waukesha, Wisconsin, Phil married Charlene; and together they attended candidate school with New Tribes Mission. However, instead of returning to Paraguay, God’s course for their life took Phil into the business world. After many years of experience in the field of construction and building code inspections, he began his own company, Code Consultants International, in Denver, CO in 2001.

Phil Goddard

Director

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Paul Johnson - Director

Paul was born in Canada but raised in the virgin jungles of Bolivia, where God impassioned him for Amazon tribes. The stone-age Araona tribe became his intimate childhood friends – teaching him the “science of the jungle.” After serving on many survey teams, looking for unreached tribes, he returned to the U.S. to earn B.A. degrees in both Psychology and Intercultural Ministries, using soccer as a means to pay for his education. He has also played soccer professionally and coached various teams.

Married to Robin for over 40 years, they have focused their ministries on holistically empowering and equipping the indigenous tribes of the Amazon region, as well as promoting and strengthening partnerships between the indigenous, national and western church. Paul and Robin have three married children and eight grandchildren.

Visionary founder of Alteco, Paulo continues to function as a catalyst for change, and a promoter and advisor for indigenous groups and organizations of the Amazon Region.

Paul Johnson

Vice Chairman

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Javier Mayorga

Director

Greg Stuckey

Greg comes to ALTECO with 30 years in missions experience. He and his wife, Jamie, have served with Pioneers, Amazon Focus, Church at Sandhurst, and now with Reliant Mission. While their service has been primarily in Latin America, in recent years it has expanded to Asia and Europe as well. Greg has served as a field missionary, missions executive, and missions pastor. Currently, he and Jamie primarily serve equipping indigenous missionaries and leaders through teaching biblical courses, mobilization efforts, and trauma care training. Greg received his B.A in History from Francis Marion University and his M.A. in Intercultural Studies from Columbia International University. The Stuckeys also serve with Here’s Life Ministries in areas of teaching and Microfinance Development.

Greg Stuckey

Director

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Henrique Terena - Director

Henrique is a member of the Terena Tribe in Brasil. At nine years of age he became a Christian in his own village. He and his wife, Corina, have two children, Elianai and Eliel. Together they serve among indigenous people, training and empowering tribal leaders.

Currently, Henrique has a dual role of working as Associate Director of a Bible School that prepares young indigenous leaders for ministry, as well as the National President of CONPLEI (National Council of Evangelical Indigenous Pastors and Leaders), which is a consortium of over 100 ethnic groups and 1,800 pastors and leaders in Brasil.

From the inception of ALTECO, Henrique has been a staunch supporter and facilitator of the movement. Recently accepting an invitation to join the Board, he adds depth from the perspective of a tribal leader.

Henrique Terena

Director

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The Executive Directors

As Co-Executive Directors, Chris and Tina Ferry serve and directly support tribal networks on the ground across South America. They proactively foster and maintain critical connections between ALTECO, its existing leadership and partners, and the key players of the Three Waves Movement. The Ferrys’ strength of experience, understanding of the context, and language proficiency greatly increase ALTECO’s efficiency and broaden our impact.