Joy Akkermann

God began burdening my heart for missions as a young child as I listened to visiting missionaries at my church. I attended Faith Baptist Bible College from 2004-2008. During my senior year of college, I participated in the ARRIBA program in Peru. God used the ARRIBA program to burden my heart to return to Peru full-time. I joined BMM in 2012 and served in Peru as an assistant church planter, sharing the gospel, discipling, and teaching children, teens, and women. In 2021, the Lord led me back to the United States to serve with Editorial Bautista Independiente (EBI), the Spanish literature ministry of Baptist Mid-Missions. In 2024, I received a MDiv degree from Faith Baptist Theological Seminary. It is my prayer that God will use me and EBI’s Spanish resources to lead people to Christ, to be discipled, to be theologically trained, and that through these God may be glorified.