Andy and Lizet Bowen
This year’s missionaries are Andy and Lizet Bowen from World Gospel Mission.
Both grew up in families that loved and served Jesus. Lizet was born in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, where her parents pastored in local churches and taught at a Bible institute. Her parents were sent as missionaries to Paraguay when she was a teenager. Andy was born at Tenwek Hospital in Kenya, where his parents worked for 30 years as missionaries.
They both believed in Jesus from a young age and sensed a call to Christian service. Following studies at Asbury University (Kentucky), Andy was sent as a missionary to Paraguay by WGM. Returning there for a second term following graduate school studies, he met Lizet. They were married in Asunción, Paraguay, in 2002.
The couple began the Guarani-Jopara Institute for Missionaries in 1999 to help missionaries learn Guarani, the heart language of over 80 percent of Paraguayans. We have also been involved in one-on-one discipleship and using biblical storying methods to teach Scripture to Paraguayans.
Their three sons—Lucas, Timothy, and Joseph—were all born in Asunción, Paraguay.
