Staff and Partners

Landers Family

Bill and Teresa Landers, both from the suburbs of Atlanta, GA, met during their first semester of college and were married the summer after graduation. They have been in full time Christian ministry for 30 years now, with Bill having served as the Senior Pastor of three churches. Teresa has been a 5th grade math and science teacher for the past 17 years. The Landers’ have two grown sons, Jonathan and Jeremy.

A very active couple, Teresa played basketball in college and plays tennis with the USTA, while Bill is a runner, having completed 28 marathons. They have enjoyed traveling around the Caribbean getting to know the people in the various island cultures. They also enjoy kayaking and snorkeling when they have the opportunity. Both of them have a love for the homeless community in their adopted hometown of New Orleans, LA where they go a couple of times each year to serve in various homeless ministries.

During the summer of 2014, God began speaking to them about the possibility of moving to the mission field. At the end of this year, Bill and Teresa will begin to transition from the pastorate in Lindale, GA to the island of Eleuthera, a largely undeveloped island in the Bahamas, to serve as international missionaries with the Caribbean Ministries Association. Their ministry will include training local pastors and church leaders, developing a Biblical disciple making strategy for the island, sharing the Gospel, and hosting mission teams who come to the Eleuthera Bible Training Center.  Visit their blog site at: www.foreleuthera.com

Luttrell Family

We are Bill and Joy Luttrell and the Lord has blessed us with eight children – Savannah, Holland, Kassie, Katie, Joshua, Sophia, Zeke and Eli. We are currently serving with CMA and leading the Bible Training Institute on the island of Abaco in the Bahamas. The Lord has grown our faith in many ways over the years and has given us a desire to be involved in what He is doing around the world. We have served in many different capacities in our local church over the years in the areas of children’s ministry, small groups, and discipleship.

Our lives were changed as we went through a leadership training program at our church where God’s Word came alive to us as we learned to study the Bible for ourselves. Through this leadership program, the Lord gave me (Bill) a heart for discipleship and equipping other men and women for service in God’s Kingdom and I served as an instructor in this program for many years. Joy spends most of her time homeschooling and discipling our children in God’s Word.

The Lord has shown us the importance of missions and equipping national Christians to reach their own people and we are excited to be a part of the work He is doing in the Caribbean through CMA.

MOst Family

Carl & Kathy Most are a cross-cultural family.  Carl, was born & raised in New Zealand, and Kathy was born in the USA and raised in several countries as a missionary child.  After training and serving for several years in ministry, in New Zealand, the Lord called the Most family in 1995 to serve Him in full time missions.

One of their greatest delights was being able to serve the people of Nicaragua for 19 years. It was an amazing journey over the years! They were blessed to work in a wide variety of areas: short term teams, orphanages, discipleship classes etc.

In January of 2005, they began serving with Caribbean Ministries Association, whose main focus is to equip church leaders for the work of the ministry.  This miraculously led to a 13 yr partnership between CMA and the Nehemiah Center, in Nicaragua. God blessed Carl and Kathy with the opportunity to initiate a Youth Leadership Development Program.  This program primarily equipped church leaders and their members to better serve at-risk youth and their families, challenging them to step outside their church walls with the love and hope of Christ for all.

More recently God has begun a new and exciting chapter in their lives. Asking them to leave Nicaragua, God is leading them to now focus on an ever-growing ministry opportunity CMA has in Cuba. This begun with them, and some of their Nicaraguan pastors who had graduated from their courses, going to Cuba to share the course and personal stories of transformation and impact in the churches and cities of Nicaragua.

Now having been trained, many Cubans are inspired and raising up to take this training through out Cuba, seeking to see more incredible stories of God’s amazing grace redeeming lives both inside and outside of the walls of the church.

For Carl and Kathy, it is an honor to get to be a part of this new vision and movement of God in Cuba. They are looking forward to being a greater part of CMA’s ministry, not only in Cuba, but also in the other Islands of the Caribbean where our mission serves.