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Claudio and Kelly Valencia
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Our mission is to give everybody the opportunity to know God, His great love and plan for them.
Tabo will be serving in the Family Life ministry as Global Missions Director, igniting vision and passion for global missions and mobilizing families to be the hands and feet of Jesus all over the world.
Kelly provides leadership within Latin America and the Caribbean (nearly 400 staff) specifically with respect to Leadership Development & Human Resources, an essential area to help run an agile and effective organization that brings the Gospel to the ends of the earth.
We continue to trust the Lord for ministry partners to come alongside of us prayerfully and financially, with faithful monthly gifts, so that we can carry on serving in Latin America & the Caribbean and the world.
Thank you! We greatly appreciate your prayers and support.
Read below about our more complete story...
Claudio "Tabo" and Kelly Valencia have been serving with Cru in the Campus Ministry since 2003.
When Tabo became involved with the organization in Argentina there was no one serving in his hometown (Comodoro Rivadavia) with Cru. By God's grace he had the great opportunity to be a part of starting a ministry with Cru there and in five other cities in southern Argentina.
Kelly first arrived in La Plata, Argentina in October of 2003 to work with college students on a short term international missions trip - or so she thought. Fourth months into her time there, she met Tabo at a Cru national conference in Cordoba, Argentina. In 2006, we were married and together started serving on full-time staff in Tabo's hometown.
In 2008, we were transferred to work in Buenos Aires at the National Office with Cru Argentina. During these few years we were able to complete Argentine staff training while working with college students in the capital city and assisting at headquarters. During our time in Buenos Aires, we also had the privilege to lead some missions projects to Central Asia and Haiti, as well as some wonderful in-country projects reaching out to poorer regions of Argentina. Then in 2010, we began serving as city directors in La Plata, a city with over 100,000 college students.
We have tried to remain open to His calling in our lives and ministry and in February of 2014 we moved to the U.S. to join U.S. Cru Staff and for training and experience that have been vital to our continued adventure with Cru. Ours two sons, Enzo and Max, and our daughter, Tessie, now join us in the continuous adventure of winning, building and sending for the Kingdom of God, wherever that may take us. In July of 2017, we moved to San Jose, Costa Rica in order to serve along with the Area Team for our region.
After serving for 3 years in Costa Rica, we felt the Lord calling us to find a place to settle for some crucial years as our children are growing and our oldest was to begin Middle School. In March of 2020, a few months prematurely due to the global pandemic, we re-settled in Orlando, Florida. In 2021, amid a global restructure of the organization, we each began exciting new roles as our kids have thrived in our current location.
We are so grateful for these experiences and those to come in serving the Lord with Cru in Latin America & the Caribbean.
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