Zion supports the work of Jeff and Heather Vaughn as church planters with Las Tierras Community Church through MTW’s Border Evangelism and Mercy Ministries (BEAMM).

Jeff grew up in Arizona as a child of the Covenant. His family has been planting churches in the Southwest for four generations. Ralph Hall, Jeff’s great-great uncle, was a Presbyterian missionary in West Texas. His maternal great grandfather and grandfather ran a dry goods store in El Paso. Later Oscar Black, Jeff’s grandfather, sold farm equipment on both sides of the border. Oscar helped plant University Presbyterian Church and promoted the work of BEAMM. Jeff’s paternal grandfather worked at White Sands Missle Range, and Jeff’s father attended high school and one year of college in El Paso during the “Glory Road” days. Jeff ‘s parents were charter members of a church plant in Phoenix, and Jeff grew up with the highs and lows of church planting. God confirmed Jeff’s calling to cross-cultural ministry through short term mission trips in high school and a year of service with MTW in Chiba, Japan.

Heather, from Atlanta, became a Christian through the witness of a friend in grade school. She has a heart for the poor and for broken families. Jeff and Heather met at Covenant College where they were both involved in a ministry to inner-city children in Chattanooga.

Jeff received his masters of divinity at Covenant Seminary while serving as a youth pastor at a Korean-American church in St. Louis. After seminary, the Lord called the Vaughn’s to Wichita, KS where Jeff was ordained in the PCA. Jeff served Heartland Community Church (PCA) for five years as assistant pastor of youth and outreach. In Wichita he started an English as a Second Language outreach to Hispanics.

God has called Jeff and Heather to facilitate church planting movements in strategic border cities through evangelism, theological education, and community development. They desire to see a movement of God’s Spirit along the border that will spread throughout Mexico and the United States and bring revival to all of North America.

Follow the Vaughn’s Blog here: Borderlines
The BEAMM web site is here: BEAMM