Elaine Wilburn

Elaine Wilburn, from Athens, TN, has been in central Mexico as a Missionary since January, 1985. Her ministry has been evangelistically oriented, based on social ministry (meeting needs). She has spent her time in hundreds of successful evangelistic campaigns, church planting and construction. The first 16 churches that Elaine helped to plant are now 57 churches, including missions of the churches. She invites churches and individuals to help her plant and construct these churches where only 8% of 2 million people know Jesus Christ as Savior. She primarily teaches in churches and conferences, and has organized 17 city-wide Pastors’ Leadership Conferences since 1999. She organizes a yearly Medical Brigade for a doctor in Texas who funds it and the medicines, and Elaine trains a staff of 9 volunteers, to hold with pastors in their villages. For 29 years she administrated a Christmas Toy Project for 700 needy children and taught pastors how to win new families to Christ with this project. She organized Morelia’s first Aglow International chapter in 2002, involving helping and evangelizing women. She became area president and served as national vice-president over leadership development for 7 years. She organized and held two of Aglow-Mexico’s national conventions in Morelia. For several years she has taught a course for young people on Perspectives for World Missions that she took at Regent University, and has taken 23 students on five short-term mission trips from Guerrero to the state of Michoacán to present structured evangelistic programs with songs, dramas, and testimonies, with pastors in different villages. She says she's had very dedicated and talented teams each time. The last one was in February 2020, with an historical event in the main plaza of Morelia with more than a thousand attending and making decisions for Christ. She gives God the glory as He leads and says these are her best years.