Heidi Van Dyke

My path into missions was not direct. I did not receive an obvious calling to missions as a child. I wanted to be a teacher, so I studied education at Bible college. After graduation, I agreed to work for two years, teaching children of North American missionaries in Perú. It was at the end of that short-term commitment that God led me to join Baptist Mid-Missions as a career missionary. After raising support, I served for a few years in a creative access country. After some time, my visa was not renewed there, and I moved to the Dominican Republic. Since 2007 I have served in various ministries (primarily education-related) in a provincial church under a Dominican pastor. Dominican Baptist churches have more than sixty years of history and are faithfully multiplying themselves. As BMM missionaries, the goal of our team is to assist the Dominican Baptist churches in preparing the next generation of spiritual leaders