The burden for missions: Around the year 2000, God began doing a work in my (Chris’s) heart regarding the work of missions. I attended a church (and still do) that has a heart that is passionate about the work of missions. Having attended a church like this, I began to grow a love for missions and missionaries.
During our years at Atlantic the burden for missions increased. Taking Missions classes, seeing Missions Presentations and being around missionaries flamed this burden that the Lord had put in our hearts. While at CBC, we have been privileged to go on differnt missions trips. These trips have been to Mexico, Honduras and Ecuador. The Lord used these trips to burden our hearts for Latin America.
Why Uruguay: My relationship with this country goes back six years to an encounter with a missionary on deputation. I met this 
missionary at a DelMar BBF fellowship meeting. His name is Barry Secrest. He had such a burden on his heart for this country, and as all missionaries do, tried to convince me to go there. I pushed it off, but this encounter never left my mind. Forwarding ahead 5 years, after going on my last missions trip to Ecuador, the desire to go to a Latin American country began to increase in my heart. I always had a heart for the Hispanic people, probably as a result of growing up in Manassas Park, but it increased greatly over these misison’s trips. I came home from Ecuador and began doing research on the different Latin American countries. I was reminded of Uruguay by reading BIMI’s 100 Nations pamphlet. They do not currently have any missionaries in Uruguay and desire to have some there. According to BIMI, Uruguay currently has 18 Independent Baptist Missionaries in the country. That is less than one Missionary per Department. As you can see from the chart above, that we need more than one Missionary per Department.
