Enviados is the name of our ministry. Enviados means «those sent«. We recognize that God has sent us to different places, always with the purpose of serving a local church, and the Spanish speaking church at large. Enviados Ministries provides articles, books, conferences, leadership training, mediation, and counseling among other resources within Spanish speaking church contexts.

Monthly Giving

We are supported, and backed up by Hispanic Leadership Initiative. Hence, we use the same platform they use: Keela! You may securely give through that platform—be aware that the platform charges a 2.2% + $0.30 rate per transaction.

PayPal is a great alternative for recurring donations. In addition, each bank has its own policies and procedures for setting up recurring gifts. We would be glad to help you sorting these through!

Annual & Single Gifts

If you’re considering annual gifts or single gifts, we strongly encourage you to send a check to HLI for the Paredes Amador Family at PO Box 42933, Charlotte, NC 28215. Direct bank transfer and cash donation are also available. 

We’ve now also included Zelle, Venmo, and PayPal!

All these may have a donation receipt for tax purposes from HLI.

Monthly giving is the approved amount for the cost of living in Cambridge. This amount, includes mainly housing, food & groceries, transportation, telecommunications,  and other living expenses.

Special needs are things that we need to either pay upfront (like healthcare and tuition), or other needs that do not necessarily imply a monthly amount—like ministry and homeschooling. A big need here is Cambridge University tuition for Alberto’s PhD. Other major special needs include travel expenses for teaching hispanics in the US or in Latin American through various Seminaries and educational institutions.

There are three main ways to give, and it will all depend on what’s easiest for you.

1. Set up a monthly Bank Transference with your own Bank App or Website. This, of course, varies from bank to bank, but has the advantage that it is often free to set up. If this is something you’d be interested in, please do not hesitate to contact us and we’ll guide you through the process for your specific financial institution.

2. You could write a monthly check and send it to the name of Alberto Paredes at HLI (The Hispanic Leadership Initiative–our sending agency) to PO Box 42933, Charlotte, NC 28215. Similarly, you can Zelle it (dr.paredes.alberto@gmail.com), Venmo it, or transfer it to Paypal through monthly transactions. 

3. Keela is our online giving platform. Its benefit is that it is very easy to set up and it would get your monthly payments automatically for as long as you wish. The downside is that Keela charges a 2.2%+$0.30 transaction fee.

Hence, it depends on what you want to do. Some like to maximize their gift, and prefer the first option. Others prefer to commit to a monthly exercise of actively sitting and making the transaction while praying for us. For them option 2 would be best. Some others would be more comfortable with the ease and safety of using an online platform, that’s option 3. 

Whatever you choose, we would love to help you through the next steps—we want to make everything as easy and comfortable for you as possible. 

This is a tough question! Monthly supporters are vital—these gifts are what will keep us going in a day-to-day basis.

However, we also need people who are committed to giving at large, or to specific needs like Cambridge Tuition, the kiddos’ education, or the actual ministry (teaching-related expenses).

Special needs will vary through the four years of study. Moving Expenses are only needed in the first and last year. Our healthcare insurance needed to be paid even before the visa was issued! Cambridge Tuition is paid at the beginning of each academic year (October). Homeschooling is more flexible. When ministry expenses are associated to an external institution, the dates depend on the dates of the lectures I’d be teaching.

UPDATE: RESOLVED. Keela platform problems have been solved. (August 1st, 2023)

Please report if any further issues arise.

If you’re considering a monthly gift, setting up a recurring bank transfer is perhaps the best option. Plus, a bank transfer will not charge any extra rate! However, people also have been confortable sending monthly checks. So, many options are available.

Yes. The Hispanic Leadership Initiative, will issue a receipt for those who partner with us financially and ask for one. Once your gift has been received, along with the request for a receipt, this shall be sent to you electronically. If there’s no request, a receipt shall be automatically sent to you on early January 2026 for the total 2025 annual amount.

Yes. As with last year’s budget, the Hispanic Leadership Initiative (our sending agency) has reviewed and authorized our 2025–26 budget and has the prerogative of following up financially at any point during the academic year.

This is an excellent question—and one of my favorites to answer. My research project is entitled: «Medical Language in the Greek Pentateuch.» On the surface, it seems like an overly specific and a rather obscure topic. It is difficult to imagine that something like this could serve the church in any way. However, the topic was chosen carefully and with just that specific objective in mind. Let me explain.

First, it is helpful to establish what the general objective of studying a PhD is. For some, the PhD is a vehicle to earn yet another degree. For others, a way to become an expert in a (very) specific area. Yet others might take it as a necessary step of advancing their professional careers. But there is a third way of looking at the degree. 

A Research PhD is an educational process that helps one learn at highest academic levels without depending on lectures or teachers. The philosophy doctorate through research, in other words, is a path through which the student begins acquiring tools that will serve them for life. These tools are both general and specific.

In general terms, a doctoral student learns to research topics of interest in depth. Here, one learns to analyze arguments and to critically but respectfully dialogue with people with whom one may disagree. These tools are significant for ministry. They not only will help the student resolve problems and controversies that the church may face in the future, but to do so with respect, rigor, and humility. On the other hand, the long and challenging path to the doctorate nourishes godly character and virtue. In other words, it helps in sanctification and maturity of those Christians whom God has called to walk through it. The doctorate requires perseverance, humility, discipline, self-control, faith, etc. Although the doctorate per se will not bring this out in the heart of the student; many times, the Spirit uses its circumstances for a believer to grow into the image of Christ.

Specifically, the nature of my project allows me to delve into several subjects closely related to the Bible and Theology: Greek, Hebrew, Biblical Translation, Textual Criticism, Early Christianity, History of the Inter-testamental Period, Topics of Faith and Science, Old Testament, Theology Proper, Covenant Theology, Biblical Anthropology, Use of the Old Testament in the New, Exegesis, Canon, Papyrology and Codicology, and more. These are all themes with which biblical Christianity is closely related. Diving into these topics will give me better tools to not only serve at a local church level, but to train others who desire to do the same for the glory of God.