FRANCISCO DE SOUZA is proactive and visionary for world evangelism. Before joining the home office team in late 1999, he and his wife, Eliane, served as missionaries in Brazil. Francisco's goal is to model true biblical burden-bearing and then to encourage and train others to do the same. To this end, he also has a graduate degree in counseling and brings not only experience, but training, to his role as Director for Missionary Personnel.

Dr. de Souza specializes in assisting churches. He helps them find, prepare, deploy, and then support and maintain their missionary in effective service. He is a very effective communicator and is available to churches as well as Bible schools and seminaries for advancement of missions and evangelism.