Current Board of Trustees

Current Board of Trustees
Carlos Scott
Carlos Scott, Argentinean, is currently President of COMIBAM International, he also was the Director for the South Cone for the period 2000-2006. He also was the President of the World Missions Network in Argentina. He was part of ACIERA’s Executive Committee (which stands for Christian Alliance of Evangelical Churches in Argentina in Spanish), and is member of the Missions Commission of World Evangelical Alliance (WEA). Carlos served as Pastor at Puerta Abierta Church in Buenos Aires. He is a Business Administrator and has a degree in Insurance Organization and Techniques (both from UADE). He also has a degree in Ministry, specialized in missions from IBBA. Carlos is married to Alicia and they live in Buenos Aires. They have two sons: Jonathan married to Carol, and Daniel. They have a grandson: Lautaro.

Rubén Suárez
Rubén Suárez is from Puerto Rico. He is COMIBAM’s director for the Caribbean region. He also serves as secretary of the Board of Directors. Rubén has been General Pastor at Iglesia Cristiana El Sembrador in San Juan, Puerto Rico for the last nine years. He also coordinates the cooperation missions network from 2000. Rubén is married to Miriam and they live in San Juan, with their two daughters: Nicole and Natalie.

Luis Martí
Luis Martí is from El Salvador. Currently he is COMIBAM’s coordinator for the Central American Region. Since 1993, Luis has been the Senior Pastor at Iglesia Bautista Miramonte. He was a missionary with his family in Spain from 1982 to 1991. He has been coordinator of the Salvadorian Missionary Cooperation (COMISAL) for six years and is president of the Central American Missionary Cooperation (COMCA). He also works with the Board of Directors of Pueblos Musulmanes Internacional (PMI). Luis is married to Patricia and they have two children: Luis David and Rebeca and they all serve in different ministries in their church.

Jose Luis Ramirez
Jose Luis Ramirez, Mexican, 54 years old, married to Lety, they have 3 kids: Jose who is married to Indira, Daniel and Adriana. He is currently the new President of COMIMEX ( Cooperacion Misionera de Mexico ). He has been working mobilizing churches for missions since 1995 and has been President of the Missionary Society of Mexico from the Norcentral Methodist Church for 6 years. Nowadays he is the Legal Representative of the “Hospital Mision Tarahumara” which provides free medical assistance for the Indians located at the Sierra Madre mountains. He developed the program of Missionary Mobilization for kids and also he is the coordinator of ministries at Shalom, the Methodist Church where he assists with his family in Chihuahua, Mexico.

Jason Carlisle
Jason Carlisle is COMIBAM"S Director for North America. He is the president of COMHINA which is the US version of COMIBAM. Prior to moving to the US in 1997, Jason planted churches in Uruguay. He served in various capacities in the Uruguay Baptist Convention, including President of the Evangelism Board and of the Convention. During this time he led the convention to found Desafio Mundial, the Baptist mission agency of the Uruguay Baptist Convention. On a broader front, Jason was co-founder of Avance-Uruguay an interdenominational missions agency and served COMIBAM-Uruguay as board member and President. He was a co-founder of Cooperacion Uruguay 2000 the church planting network and of the National Intercessors' Network, both of which have played a mayor role in the change in the spiritual context in Uruguay.

In 2000- 2001 Jason served as Pastor or Missions Mobilization at Saddleback Valley Community Church. Since then he has been serving as Hispanic Church Strategist for the International Mission Board, SBC. Jason received his Mdiv from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Ky. He is married to Susana and lives in Richmond, Va with his children Eva and Nathan.

Daniel Bianchi
Daniel Bianchi is the current director for COMIBAM in the Suthern Cone of Latin America (serving Argentina, Paraguay, Chile and Uruguay) and thus a memeber of the Internatiopnal Board of COMIBAM. He is director of the International Mission Agency (AMI) , a national mission organisation that serves over 36 missionaries crossculturally. He is member of the International Board of Directors of Wycliffe Bible Translators ando also has a memebership in the Mission Commission of the Worldwide Evangelical Fellowship. Previously, Daniel, served with Operation Mobilisation for 18 years in different countires. Since 1989 is an ordained pastor and combines his international ministry with serving in the Olivos Baptist Church. Daniel did studies on Bible, leadership and missions. He is married with Fabiola and has two small children: Sofía and Marcos. The Bianchis lives in the north part of Buenos Aires.

Víctor Ibagón
Víctor A. Ibagón is from Colombia and currently is COMIBAM’s director for the Andean Region. He is the President of the Board of Directors of Colombian Centre for World Missions. He also served there as Executive Director. He and his wife Yolanda are coordinators for the Latin American Base of Frontiers, as well as directors of the Sending Base in Colombia. He is an ordained pastor for the “Vineyard” church movement and they are involved in the development of the movement both locally and in Ibero-America. He and Yolanda live in Bogotá, Colombia with their three children: Felipe, Mateo and Emily.

Marcos Agripino
Marcos Agripino Castro de Mesquita, is from Brazil and currently is the director for the Brazilian region. He is an executive from the Cross-Cultural Presbiterian Missions Agency (APMT), from the Brazilian Presbiterian Church (IPB). He coordinates their projects in 27 countries. He is also vice-president of Cross-Cultural Brazilian Missions Association (AMTB) where he also served as president during the period 2002-2005. He was a missionary from Alas de Socorro (MAF) for nine years, and coordinated the project “Tools for Leaders” which developed work in Brazil, Angola and Mozambique. He was the first pastor at Capela Presbiteriana in Anapolis, from Goias, Brazil. He is a lecturer in biblical colleges and seminaries in Brazil and also a speaker. Marcos is married to Monica and they live in Sao Paulo with their two daughters: Jessica and Isabela.

Jesús Londoño
Jesús Londoño is from Colombia and is COMIBAM’s Executive Director since 2001. He worked as Executive Director for the Colombian Centre for World Missions in his country and was director of the missions project of the Colombian Evangelical Council for seven years. He has been lecturer of theology and missions in biblical colleges in Colombia. Jesús has been a missionary from 1989 and founder of a missionary agency (Avancemos) and a church (Torre Fuerte) in Colombia. He is member of OC International — SEPAL (for Latin America). He has a bachelor’s degree in Theology from Vision Bible College and is doing a master’s degree in cross-cultural studies at Columbia Bible University. He has a diploma in linguistics and anthropology and another in administration for higher education. He is married to Mireya and they live in Spain with their two daughters: Sarai and Julieth Alejandra.