The Stones

Professors, Lima Baptist Theological Seminary

International Training Consultant - Baptists For Life

David and Evelyn joined ABWE in 1978, and have invested the past 33 years in church planting ministries in Coastal Peru. For nearly 12 years they worked in the provincial coastal desert city of Ica. Their ministries included leadership training at the Ica Baptist Bible Seminary; overseeing the Springs in the Desert Bible camp; and establishing the Living Hope Baptist Church in Subtanjalla.

Following God's leading to the capitol city of Lima in 1992, they opened their home to begin and build the "Chapel on the Rock" in La Capilla, a fast-growing new development of Lima. The Chapel continues to grow and reach out under the leadership of a Peruvian pastor. In 2005 the Stones teamed up with their son and a Peruvian pastor to begin the Living Hope Baptist Church, this time in an old, elite section of the city, San Isidro.

Baptist Theological Seminary has been established in Lima to train pastors, missionaries, teachers and counselors for these and other churches. David is the treasurer, Evelyn directs the department of Biblical Counseling and both serve on the faculty.

In 1999, Evelyn established the New Life Prenatal Center in Lima, Peru, that reaches thousands of women in crisis each year. This unique dynamic evangelistic compassion ministry has grown to 7 centers in Peru. Pastors and missionaries in other countries have been watching the growth of the pregnancy care center ministries in Lima. As a result, Evelyn has been invited to travel to various countries to train others to reach the lost in similar ways. As International Training Consultant for Baptists For Life, Evelyn has traveled to Ecuador, Colombia, Chile, Mexico, India, Kenya, Liberia and the Philippines. She has an active conference ministry, speaking in churches and schools on the sanctity of life and sexual purity.

David and Evelyn have three children and five grandchildren. Jonathan and Angela Stone are ABWE missionaries in Peru. Lisa and Matthew Leahy work in Ohio. Christina is a teacher at a Peruvian Christian School.

LATEST NEWS

Summer is coming to an end in Peru.  Special events are past, such as our daughter, Christina’s beautiful wedding to Julio Orue on January 14th.  Summer conferences and camps are giving way to the routine ministry of a new academic year.  March 19th is the first day of classes at Lima Baptist Theological Seminary; there are 80 students registered.

Thirty students began the year studying a mission module “Mission Impossible: Reaching the Unreached” taught by a local pastor who has a dynamic world vision.  We are preparing students to go into all the world and preach the gospel.

David is teaching “Analysis of Daniel and Pastoral Epistles”.  Evelyn is teaching “Self Confrontation and Biblical Applications of Counseling”.  Pray for wisdom and skill for our son, Jonathan, who has been named the new rector of the seminary. 

Our classrooms are crowded, and we are in urgent need of a new campus.  Please pray for God’s provision.  At the same time that we are experiencing limited physical classroom space, we are also enjoying unlimited outreach through distance education.  Evelyn is again offering her courses on the Internet through a virtual classroom and video conferencing.  This semester there are students registered via Internet from five different cities in Peru.  Yesterday concluded an Internet course in Crisis Counseling taught to six students in Ecuador as well as two students in Peru.