Formal Board

We promise you that we have a board that oversees our ministries and we are accountable to them.

These are the members of our Board of Directors and Officers:

Servant Leadership Team
(Officers)

Joaquin A. Vargas

Joaquin A. Vargas

Founder / Chief Operations Officer

Joaquin has been involved in leadership and community development for over three decades. He has worked and ministered in over 20 countries, where he has empowered many leaders committed to transforming communities through faith-based and community development projects.

Joaquin was born in the Dominican Republic and grew up in Santo Domingo.  In 1978, he accepted Jesus as his savior at a local church. In 1979, God called him to full-time ministry. He left his comfortable community and moved to an impoverished neighborhood to start a new church.

1981 he married Oneida, who grew up in a Christian home.  They have three adult children and four grandchildren.

In 1985, he was appointed by Missions Door to work in church planting, leadership development, and as country coordinator in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

In 1992, he returned to the United States to study for a Master of Arts in Cross-Cultural Communications (Missions) at Denver Seminary.

In 1995, Joaquin and Oneida moved to the border town of Nogales, Mexico, where they planted a new church, started a social development nonprofit, and worked in leadership development.

In 2003, they moved to Denver to be part of the Executive Leadership Team of Missions Door. Later, he became Vice President of Ministries, giving him overall responsibility for the leadership, supervision, and pastoral care of all the missionaries and ministries under the Mission.

In 2006, he graduated with a Master of Arts in Public Administration with an emphasis in nonprofit management from the University of Colorado at Denver.

In November 2016, he resigned from Missions Door to launch Global One80. A Christian nonprofit that empowers leaders to transform communities with the gospel of Jesus.

In 2019, he moved to Arizona to continue working with Global One80 and got involved in church planting among Latinos.  He started Iglesia Experimenta Vida in Mesa in 2020.  Together with other leaders has started Ncuentro Network, a ministry that empowers Latino church planters. Also, he works for NAMB as a church planting catalyst.

Victor H. Arias

Victor H. Arias

Treasurer

Victor is originally from the Dominican Republic. He accepted the Lord through the ministry that was started by Joaquin A. Vargas. For years he served in various leadership positions in three different churches where he served as Sunday school teacher, Director of a Christian school, church planter and pastor.

He was the first leader that was helped with a program to help young students to go to the University through Missions Door. He was able to graduate with a bachelors degree in Psychology.

He has served as the Country Director in the Dominican Republic of Compassion International. Also, served in in Human Resources for World Vision.

Now, he serves as the President of the Board of Global One80 as a volunteer.

Solomon Worden

Solomon Worden

Secretary

Solomon is currently the Family Pastor @ Iglesia Ncuentro Church in Mesa, AZ and Vice President of Operations for Blue Water Capital, Private Equity Group. He serves on the Board of Directors and enjoys working with families, teaching and sharing the word of God here in the United States and in Mexico. Solomon has been in ministry for 22 years now; he is a licensed and ordained minister, graduate of Arizona Christian University, who has concentrated his efforts in multi-ethnic, cross-cultural ministry opportunities. Bilingual, with a heart for the Latino community he has worked in a variety of settings from organizing Outreach Events, to Planting Churches, Preaching & Teaching, to Missions, to Teaching Music, to Leadership Training and Individual Mentorship.

Solomon was born in Nashville, TN in 1976 and later he moved to Phoenix, AZ in 1986. At the age of 15, he accepted the Lord in Hume Lake, CA. in the summer of 1991. One of his most treasured experiences as a Christian came just 8 months later when he went on a short-term mission trip to Mazatlan, Mexico in 1992. Upon returning to the USA, he began learning Spanish in order to share the Good News of Jesus to those he had met in Mexico. Later he returned on several occasions and shared Jesus in Spanish where many believed and gave their lives to Christ.

Upon graduating High School and completing some Community College courses he then attended Arizona Christian University to finish his studies, both for Biblical Studies and Business Administration, graduating in 1998. This same year he began his full time ministry journey at Pilgrim Rest Church in Downtown Phoenix as the Latino Pastor where he served for 10 years, planting a Multi-Campus Hispanic Church, organizing Outreach Events & Concerts, opening a rehab center, working with Prison Fellowship, Cornerstone Youth Outreach, and networking with many other ministries prior to transitioning to the Celebrate Recovery Ministry @ Cornerstone Christian Fellowship in Chandler, AZ.

Solomon is married to his wife Nadia along with their children Joseph (21), Asael (19), Kimberly (17) and Lani (5)

Aldo Gonzalez

Aldo Gonzalez

President

Pastor Aldo was born in Navojoa, Sonora, Mexico. He accepted Christ when he was 8 years old at a family Christian camp.

He grew up in Mexicali where he was a member of a local Baptist church and where he served as youth leader, Sunday School teacher and worship leader.

In 1993, the Lord called him to full-time ministry, so he moved to Nogales, Sonora, Mexico to attend a bible seminary where he studied a degree in Pastoral Theology and Bible. Upon graduation, he started a new church in the same city, together with a missionary.

He met his wife at a local church and they got married in 1996. Then, the Lord opened the door for them to serve in the United States at a Christian camp in Prescott, Arizona.

In September 2002, they started another new Spanish-speaking church in Mesa, Arizona as part of Trinity Church. The church grew to about 300 people.

In September 2013, they felt the need of starting another Spanish-speaking church and they planted Iglesia Ncuentro.

Pastor Aldo has a passion for excellence and encourages new believers to grow on their faith by becoming a true follower of Jesus Christ.

Pastor Aldo and his wife Gloria have three children: Jonhnathan, Jennifer and Jeffrey

Board Members

Michel Duarte

Michel Duarte

Pastor Duarte was born in Brazil and is currently the Director of Local and Global Hospitality at Redemption Church in Tempe, Arizona.

Attended Arizona State University for B.A. Journalism, Covenant Theological Seminary for M.A. Missional Theology

He has vast experience in cross-cultural ministries, serving in Paraguay, the United Kingdom, and Turkey.  He has been living and serving in the ministry in Arizona since 2006.

Also, he helps with Daniel Initiative, a program of Surge Network (www.surgenetwork.com)

Josiah House

Josiah House

Josiah House grew up in a small city outside of Denver, Colorado, called Castle Rock. There, I was involved in youth ministry throughout middle school and high school. He has a Bachelor of Arts in Biblical Studies and Ministry from Grace University in Omaha, NE. Now, he works for Verizon where he is responsible for the software behind the employee sales experience in the retail stores.

Throughout his life he has been on many different international mission experiences, including Mexico, 8 times working with pastors and children’s ministry; Costa Rica where he studied abroad at a Bible/Missions school for a semester in college; Ecuador, leading missions’ trips for a ministry group; and other countries like: Brazil, Bolivia, Dominican Republic, and Haiti.

Also, Josiah is passionate about discipleship. He served in the youth ministry with my home church in Castle Rock, Colorado for 3 years. During his time in college he had the opportunity to be a Resident Assistant. These experiences have brought great joy and it has been by the grace of God that He used me in these ministries.

His long-term goal is to be involved in missions through an International Retreat Center for pastors and leaders.

Yolanda Barquera

Yolanda Barquera

Yolanda lives in Monterrey, Mexico. She has worked for years as a professional coach to ministry leaders and business. She has also served as translator of many of the books, materials and letters written by various Christian ministries and authors, such as Natural Church Development and CoachNet, among others.

She is Director of Talent Development at a business school where she loves to teach others and learn from them developing new generations to reach their full potential.

She and her husband, Walter Sierra, also serve as pastor of a local church in their city, passionate about reaching others for Christ with a practical and relevant faith.

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Before choosing the type of leader you can read below what each one means.

These leaders with experience join us to receive supervision for their ministry or initiative from a Ministry Coordinator. They can raise support through us, and their financial accounts are accessed ten (10) percent administrative fee.

These leaders are just starting a new ministry or initiative and commit to having a mentor to oversee them. They can raise support through us, and their financial accounts are accessed five (5) percent administrative fee.

These leaders from established organizations or ministries partner with us, but their own board supervises them. They can raise support through us, and their financial accounts are accessed five (5) percent administrative fee.

Each church is independent and autonomous and must be free from interference by any ecclesiastical or political authority; that, therefore, Church and State must be kept separate as having different functions, each fulfilling its duties free from the dictation or patronage of the other.

We believe that a visible church is a company of believers in Jesus Christ, buried with Him in baptism and associated for worship, work and fellowship.

We believe that to these visible churches were committed for observance “until He comes,” the ordinances of baptism and the Lord’s Supper; and that God has laid upon these churches the task of persuading a lost world to accept Jesus Christ as Savior and to enthrone Him as Lord and Master. We believe that righteous living, good works and proper social concern are essential products of the gospel.

We believe, therefore, that those who accept Christ as their Lord and Savior will rejoice forever in God’s presence and those who refuse to accept Christ as Lord and Savior will be forever separated from God.
We believe in His bodily resurrection, His ascension into heaven, His high priestly intercession for His people and His personal, visible return to the world according to His promise.