GLOBAL TRAINING NETWORK - DOUG & ABBY VINEZ
Doug and Abby Vinez have been serving churches and parachurch organizations for the last 35 years of their marriage.
Doug
first experienced the power of the Gospel when he was seventeen years
old. His sense of being chosen by grace has been at the center of his
walk with Jesus ever since. He has been a pastor for 27 years, and for
the last 15 years he’s served Lake Norman Fellowship in Mooresville, NC,
a church he planted. Doug’s passion is the Western Province of Zambia
where he has co-founded the Inyambo Mission Center (IMC) with Pastor
Percy Muleba. IMC’s mission is to raise, train and equip a
mission-minded generation to reach those who do not know Jesus in the
Western Province of Zambia and beyond. IMC currently has standing
invitations from six of the 12 districts in the western Province to
provide training, and has recently been invited to begin discussions
with Youth for Christ in Namibia, as well. Doug is a graduate of Wake
Forest University (B.A.) and Princeton Theological Seminary (M.Div.),
and is ordained in the Evangelical Presbyterian Church.
Abby
was called to full-time ministry while serving a mission in New York
City in high school, and God reaffirmed that call at the Urbana ’76
Missions Conference. With a heart for pastoral care, urban ministry, and
working with the marginalized, Abby served for many years in youth,
preschool, educational and pastoral care ministries in various churches,
hospitals and mission organizations, most recently for nine years as
the Chaplain of a large Presbyterian children’s home system in North
Carolina. Providing pastoral care and training for staff, children,
youth and families in diverse programs there, she has now been invited
by indigenous leaders in Zambia to teach at the new College of
Chaplaincy, training chaplains for military, police, hospital and
educational settings and will also assist Doug and Pastor Percy Muleba
with training at IMC. Abby is a graduate of Wake Forest University
(B.A.) and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (M.Div.) and is in the
process for ordination in the Evangelical Presbyterian Church.
Doug
and Abby have two amazing daughters, Jen and Emily, two wonderful
sons-in-law, James and Andrew, and one terrific grandson, Isaac. Abby
and Doug have made their home in Mooresville, NC for 15 years, and plan
to keep North Carolina as their home base to be near their children,
grandchildren and friends.