BRIAN & ELLYN DUBBERLY
Brian and Ellyn Dubberly are members of First United Methodist Church in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Brian’s connection to Central America began in 1996 during a summer sustainable development internship while attending Appalachian State University. In spring 2010, he founded Salvadoran Mission Projects to support the Evangelical Methodist Church in El Salvador in growing its community of faith through partnerships with U.S. churches. Today, Brian serves as a United Methodist Volunteers in Mission (UMVIM) long-term volunteer, a North Carolina Conference missionary, and the VIM Coordinator for the Methodist Church in El Salvador.
Ellyn is a missionary with the General Board of Global Ministries serving the Methodist Church in El Salvador in Christian Education. She develops Sunday school curriculum for use across all local Methodist churches and teaches English at the Methodist School in Ahuachapán.
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BISHOPJUAN DE DIOS PENA
Juan de Dios was born in Ahuachapán, El Salvador, and grew up in a Christian family. In January 2004, he began serving as the part-time Volunteers in Mission coordinator for the Methodist Church in El Salvador. By December 2005, he left his position as a municipal financial officer in Ahuachapán to step into the mission coordinator role full-time.
In 2007, Juan de Dios was elected President of the Methodist Church in El Salvador, continuing to host national and international mission teams throughout his leadership. He was consecrated in 2019 as the first Bishop of the Methodist Church in El Salvador. Guided by a deep passion for service, Bishop Juan de Dios works to center the church as a place of spiritual hope while actively addressing hunger, poverty, illiteracy, and systemic hardship across El Salvador.
