Gerber, Vergil

Missionary, author, editor and teacher; born Vergil Glenn Gerber, February 6, 1916; Conservative Baptist missionary to Ecuador, Argentina, Costa Rica and Mexico, 1949-1965; first executive director of LEAL (Literatura de Evangelica para America Latina; translates Evangelical Literature for Latin America), 1955-?; Coordinator of the Congress on Church's Worldwide Mission, held in Wheaton, Illinois, 1966; Missions Secretary of the Conservative Baptist Home Mission Society, 1967-1969; Executive Secretary of the Evangelical Committee on Latin America (ECLA), a joint committee of the Evangelical Foreign Missions Association (EFMA) and the Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association, 1967-?; Executive Director of the Evangelical Missions Information Service, 1969-1981.

From the description of Papers of Vergil Gerber, 1966-1984. (Wheaton College). WorldCat record id: 51239610