Dr. Perry J. Hubbard
Nancy R. Hubbard
John P. & Val Hubbard
Jeffrey P. Hubbard
Jessica P. Hubbard
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Perry J. Hubbard
1952 Born to Stirling B. and Viola M. Hubbard in Minneapolis, Minnesoat.
1963 While attending Junior camp at Camp Hickory he felt called to be a missionary doctor.
1969 Helps work at the coffee house ministry of Youth for Christ in Racine, Wisconsin. It is at this time he begins to write poetry.
1971 Perry and Kerry Frese present the possibility of starting a coffee house in Kenosha. His father and a group of church leaders raise funds and the Natural High Coffee house opens its doors. Perry leads a new believers bible study that grows to 100 people.
1972 Perry changes schools and attends Bethel College in St. Paul, Minnesota.
1973 His mother signs him up for a short term missions program with World Gospel Missions. He accepts and spends ten weeks assisting missionaries in a variety of areas. While there his grandfather Fay Hubbard dies. God uses this event to remind him of the call to missions. Perry senses this and recommits himself to missions.
1974 He graduates with a BA in Pre-Med. Unable to gain acceptance into medical school he returns home to work and lead the youth choir with his mother.
1975 Perry is accepted at Bethel Seminary in the Masters of Arts of Theological Studies program.
1976 He applies for and is accepted in a short term missions program with CBFMS and spends three months in the Philippines.
1977 Graduates from Bethel Seminar with a MATS. Still unable to enter medical school he returns home to work and again helps with the youth program at the church.
1978 Sensing that medical school is not the road he is to travel Perry reapplies to Bethel Seminar for the Master of Divinity program and is accepted. He serves as assistant pastor at the Robbinsdale Baptist church for the next year.
1979 June - While involved in a church recreational softball team he meets Nancy Smeby, his future wife.
August Nancy is involved in and accident and that night Perry proposes to her. She accepts.
September Waite Park Wesleyan asks Perry and Nancy to work with the childrens program and bus ministry. Perry will also serve as the worship leader.
December 15 Perry and Nancy are married at Waite Park Wesleyan. This is the church his parents attended when he was born.
1980 August Perry and Nancy are asked to take over as youth directors at the church. He is also asked by the district to lead the LifeCorp youth ministry program. Over the next 5 years five musical groups will travel across the district, six ministry teams will travel across the US to help in VBS and door to door contacts and four teams are sent to various missions fields for ministry and work.
1981 Perry graduates with an MDIV from Bethel Seminary.
1983 April John is born.
June - Perry and Nancy are the team leaders for a youth ministry team to Puerto Rico.
August Perry accepts the call to be the pastor of the Oskaloosa Wesleyan Church.
September Perry joins the Metro Move team for two weeks of ministry in Manila, Philippines. He helps in church planting work in Section Seven, playing basketball with youth of the community and doing door to door contact work. The church grows from 20 to over a hundred in the two weeks.
1985 Jeff is born. Perry and Nancy send in their application to Wesleyan World Missions.
1986 Spring They receive word that they have been accepted and are giving three choices of places to serve, Sierra Leone, Papua New Guinea and Brazil. The choice is to go to Sierra Leone.
Fall The family moves to Gbendembu, Sierra Leone to take up duties of the Gbendembu Wesleyan Bible School.
December Perry visits Bafodia and is asked to conduct the baptismal service. Over 130 people, including he chiefs grandson are baptized that day.
1987 Perry makes a presentation to several missions regarding the new program and proposes the building of a new facility. Approval is given and the new program and plans for new campus are initiated.
December Perry contracts hepatitis and is in bed for six weeks.
1988 Fall We learn that we have been laid off by the missions department due to shortage of funds.
1989 March After completion of the student dormitory we head back to the states as a result of the lay off. Perry finds work for the next 18 months in construction.
1990 April Missions recalls us to active service.
May Perrys father dies and we move in with his mother. Missions has asked to delay returning by a year to do home ministries.
1991 August we return to Sierra Leone. Besides running the school Perry is involved in the development of a lay leadership program which grows from 12 to over 200 in attendance over the next three years.
1993 We are evacuated back to the states for three months due to a coup in Sierra Leone.
1994 We return home and Perry is accepted into the Doctor of Ministry program at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.
1995 We are asked to transfer to Papua New Guinea because of the rebel war in Sierra Leone. Perry will serve as the principal of the Wesleyan Bible College of Papua New Guinea. He will develop and start a pastors training program and assist in construction of the new campus.
Fall He goes on a fifty mile trek to visit four remote villages where we have churches. Over the next three years four men from these villages will come to bible school for training as pastors.
1996 Perry will travel to many of the districts conducting leadership seminars during breaks from the bible school.
1997 Perry and Jeff climb Mt. Wilhelm (14,700 ft) the tallest mountain in PNG.
1999 We are asked to transfer again. They are asking us to go to Guyana to teach in the BA and masters program, to construct a new classroom building and to assist in developing a missionary training program for Latin America and the Caribbean.
December Perry visits Guyana to get acquainted and learn more about the work they want him to do.
2000
May - Perry officially graduates from Trinity International University with his Doctor of Ministry in Missions. He also completes his first book, Spiritual Powers in the Old Testament.
August We move to Guyana and begin work. Perry will be involved in dismantling the old building and constructing a new three story building. He will also teach courses for the BA and Masters program over the next three years.
2001 October Perry travels to Manaus for the fifth Latin America missions conference. This is his first opportunity to meet the leaders who are wanting to start up a missionary training program for those call to missions from Latin America.
2002
May Perry attends the Wesleyan World Fellowship meetings in Costa Rica. At this meeting the structure for training in missions is presented and accepted. Perry is made Director of the Wesleyan Center for World Missions in Latin America and the Caribbean. Plans are made for a series of seminars on missions in the local church.
September Perry attends the first Caribbean Leadership Summit in Miami.
October Perry conducts the first Missions Leadership Seminar in Puerto Rico. Thirty-five attend.
2003 January Seminar in Suriname, fifty attend.
February Seminar in Guyana, nineteen attend.
March Seminar in Brazil, over forty attend and over 300 attend the closing rally.
April Seminars in Barbados and Antigua, with over 60 in Barbados and over 80 in
Antigua in attendance. In Barbados the closing session is part of the quarterly convention with over 1200 in attendance. Twenty people come forward to make commitments to missions.
April Seminar in Costa Rica with over 40 in attendance. Four come from El Salvador, two from Guatemala and one from Nicaragua.
May-June Seminars are held in Chile, Peru and Colombia. Total attendance at all three is over 130 people.
August - Seminar is held in Haiti. Ninety pastors attend from around the island.
September - Seminars are held in the Northern Jamaica and Western Jamaica Districts of the Caribbean General conference. A total of 178 people attend the two seminars
October - Perry attends the 6th Jibacam Conference in Osorno, Chile. He presents the seminar on Evaluating and Planning for missions.
2004
September - Seminar held in Tehuacan, Mexico
2005
January - New Years Day Perry has the privilege of marrying John and Val in Worthington, MN.
January - Seminars are held in Trinidad and Venezuela
March - Missions Growth Principles seminar is presented during the Peruvian national conference.
April - Missions Growth Principles seminar is held in Osorno, Chile.
May - The first Conference on Theological Education for Latin America and the Caribbean is held on the island of Trinidad. All but one of the training programs is represented at this conference. The attendees agree to organize Association of Theological Education for the region and elects officers.
July - Missions Leadership Seminar is presented in three of the districts of the Caribeean General Conference, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, and St. Croix.
August - Perry travels to Ciudad de Valles, Mexico to present the Missions Leadership Seminar.
October - Perry attends the 7th Jibacam Conference held in Pueblo, Mexico. He presents a seminar on Communications and Missions.
2006
August - Travel to Panama and present part of the Missions Leadership Seminar for the pastoral training program.
October - Travel to Colombia to particpate in the Jibacam Assembly. Perry also speaks to the leadership group at the North Bogota Wesleyan Church.
2007
April - Perry travels to Trelew, Argentina to participate in the churches annual conference.
June - Perry and Nancy travel to Puerto Rico to present several seminars.
August - Perry travels to Panama. He is there to introduce the Christ Church Missions team, led by Bill Miller to the leaders of Panama to discuss a partnership between them. He also teaches a course on Pastoral Counseling for the church.
September - Perry and Nancy begin first trimester of Spanish at the Spanish Language institute in San Jose, Costa Rica. We live with a Costa Rican family to help us learn the language and learn more about Latin American Culture.
October - Perry and Nancy travel to Lima, Peru to participate in the 8th Jibacam missions conference.
2008
January - Perry and Nancy begin their second trimester at the language school.
February - Perry presents the seminar on Evaluation and Planning for missions at the Brazos de Amor Wesleyan Church. He has no translator and has to do the seminar in Spanish. It goes remarkably well. Praise the Lord.
April - Perry and Nancy move to Panama. We will stay with Pastor Jose and Mariquel for the first month while we look for a house.
June - We move into our new home in Panama and Perry travels to the first International Conference of the Wesleyan Church in Orlando, Florida.
July - Perry completes the preparation of new seminar on qualities of Leader and translates the material into Spanish. He begins presenting the material at two of the churches in Panama.
Last updated August, 2007
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