Gene and LuAnn Bowman BEAMM Coordinator El Paso, TX

Gene and LuAnn Bowman 4856 Cuartel Lane El Paso, TX 79912 Home Phone: (915) 838-3747 Gene Cell Phone: (915) 892-4778 LuAnn Cell Phone: (915) 892-5178 FAX: (915) 838-3747 (call first) Gene: glbowman@beamm.org LuAnn: luannbowman@beamm.org To Support Them Financially, please send your gifts to: Mission to the World Box 116284 Atlanta, GA 30368-6284 Account #: 10589

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Gene and LuAnn grew up in Lancaster, PA. They both came to know the Lord in their late teens. They met on a blind date and were married a year and a half later in August 1974. They have been members of Westminster Presbyterian Church (WPC), Lancaster, PA, since 1981. The Bowman's have had a variety of careers: Gene has been a car and small engine mechanic, a carpenter and concreter, a computer programmer for twenty years, and was short-term missions coordinator for WPC for four years. LuAnn worked in a church office, drove school bus, worked in a confectionary shop and a bakery, and was missions secretary for WPC for four years. Gene and LuAnn first became involved in missions when they helped to lead a short-term missions trip to Jamaica in 1988. They also have been part of teams to Mexico, Chile, and Philadelphia, PA. In 1998, Gene was asked to come to the Jamaica Deaf Village of Caribbean Christian Center for the Deaf to serve as Industry Coordinator. They were approved as Mission To The World missionaries in June, 1999, and served in Jamaica from May 2001 until March 2002. Mission to the World then asked the Bowman's to take on a leadership role with BEAMM.

Gene and LuAnn moved to El Paso in August, 2003, to begin serving as the BEAMM Coordinator. Since their arrival in El Paso, Gene has worked hard to unify the work of BEAMM all along the border as well as with border Presbyteries of both the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) and the National Presbyterian Church of Mexico. He has also begun a partnership among PCA churches and the BEAMM team to help expedite the work on the border and to Hispanics throughout the U.S. Gene also oversees all of the church planting and mercy ministries activities of the team, develops all of the BEAMM publications, and maintains the BEAMM web site.

LuAnn has been busy getting to know the ladies of the team as well as serving as the Administrative Assistant for Christ the King Presbyterian Church in El Paso, where she and Gene attend. Both Gene and LuAnn have been involved in teaching English at Tierra Prometida Church and in Calzado del Rio in Juárez, Mexico. The Bowmans have three children: Jennifer; Sara; and Mark; and four grandchilden, Allison, Sean, Jr., Ryan, and Haley.