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 from WPC 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 and accelerate 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 the BEAMM Partnership among PCA churches, Mission to the World, Mission to North America, 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 serves as Gene's Administrative Assistant and the BEAMM Team Treasurer. The Bowmans have three children: Jennifer; Sara; and Mark; and six grandchilden, Allison, Sean, Jr. (Jr), Ryan (RJ), Katelyn, Haley, and James.
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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