Rebeca (name changed) will join the VMMissions Launch Team in a capital city in Central Asia. She will initially invest most of her time in language learning at a local university. She is a dentist who sees her profession as a way of blessing and sharing the gospel with others. She serves with United Brethren Global, in partnership with VMMissions.

Rebeca comes from a United Brethren Church in La Ceiba, Honduras. As a pastor’s daughter, she grew up in the church and testifies of having a powerful encounter with Jesus at age 12. Her church has a long history of connections with mission ministries and received missionary teams regularly. That exposure nurtured her own sense of call to missions. She has served in various capacities in her home church: as worship leader, youth leader and during her college years she served in a campus outreach ministry called Intervarsity.

In 2021, Rebeca served in Sierra Leone with UB Global, where she worked in a clinic as a dentist and engaged in the local culture as a Christian. She has also recently worked in a dental clinic among the Garifuna and Miskito people groups in Honduras. This hospital-based Christian outreach is located in a remote area of the country, where there is no accessible medical care within a day’s travel. These experiences have shaped her identity as a missionary to other cultures and have helped her grow in her ability to connect across cultures and languages.