Senior Staff
About Doug & Abby
Doug and Abby Vinez have been serving churches and parachurch organizations together since their marriage in 1978.
Doug first experienced the power of the Gospel when he was seventeen years old. His sense of being chosen by grace has been at the center of his walk with Jesus ever since. He has been an ordained pastor and church planter since 1986. Doug’s passion is Zambia where Abby and he work with Zambian pastor, Percy Muleba, to raise, equip and release a mission-minded generation to reach those in Zambia and beyond. Their ministry has now multiplied to the fifth generation and has an impact throughout Southern Africa. Doug is a graduate of Wake Forest University (B.A.) and Princeton Theological Seminary (M.Div.), and is an ordained Teaching Elder in the Evangelical Presbyterian Church.
Abby was called to full-time ministry while serving a mission in New York City in high school, and God reaffirmed that call at the Urbana ’76 Missions Conference. With a heart for pastoral care, urban ministry, and working with the marginalized, Abby has served for many years in youth, preschool, educational and pastoral care ministries in various churches, hospitals and mission organizations, and most recently for nine years as the Chaplain of a large Presbyterian children’s home system in North Carolina, providing pastoral care and training for staff, children, youth and families in diverse programs there. Since 2012, she has trained chaplains, pastors and leaders alongside Doug and Percy in Zambia and beyond. Abby is a graduate of Wake Forest University (B.A.) and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (M.Div.), and is an ordained Teaching Elder in the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian.
Doug and Abby have two amazing daughters, Jen and Emily, with their husbands, James and Andrew, and three terrific grandsons, Isaac, Luke, and Zachary. Abby and Doug have made their home in Mooresville, NC for 26 years, and have been full-time GTN staff since 2014.
For more information about the Vinez’s ministry with GTN, please visit their website: www.DougandAbby.org.