Brazil, Eduardo Campana

Dr. Eduardo A. Campana, a public health missionary with the Board of Global Ministries of the United Methodist Church, is serving in Latin America and the Caribbean with CIEMAL - Consejo de Iglesias Evangélicas Metodistas de América Latina (Council of Evangelical Methodist Churches in Latin America and the Caribbean). CIEMAL binds together Methodist churches of 19 nations of Latin American and the Caribbean (with two united churches) in vital relationships of mutual support, mission and service.

As a medical doctor, Dr. Campana has served with the Latin American Council of Churches as coordinator of the health program. He also has vast experience, 18 years, with crises intervention, especially during times of natural disaters.

He has supported communities and churches in crisis and consolation, developed materials and events to increase awareness of sexual and reproductive issues and led consultations on the subject of HIV/AIDS and integral health.

After completing medical school, Dr. Campana was obligated to one year of service in the rural areas of Ecuador. However, after seeing the need for medical care in the regions where he traveled, he remained for two years. It was during this time of serving the poor and marginalized that he more clearly understood his call to mission service. “The sense of life is the service with and through the churches towards suffering communities of Latin America and the Caribbean.”

Dr. Campana and his wife, Eluzinete Pereira, also a GBGM missionary, are the parents of four children, daughters Isabel and Alejandra, and sons Andre and Emilio.

Eduardo’s home church is the United Methodist Evangelical Church of Ecuador in Quito.

For information on CIEMAL – http://gbgm-umc.org/latinam-caribbean/ciemal.html  

Additional Information:

• Missionary Support Code: 15171Z
• E-mail Eduardo Campana: educame1942@yahoo.com