Lisa Anderson-Umaña

Lisa Anderson-Umaña has served as a missionary with Latin America Mission (currently called United World Mission) for almost 40 years living in Mexico City, Honduras, El Salvador and Costa Rica and traveling throughout other cities of Latin America. She presently resides in Honduras with her husband, Alfredo Umaña. Her daughter, Valerie, teaches at a bilingual school in Tegucigalpa and her son, Victor, currently attend Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA. Her work in Christian Camping International has entailed developing teams of instructors in ten different countries of Latin America who are dedicated to training camp and church leaders how to be counselors, program directors, recreation facilitators, and Bible study curriculum writers. Currently, she is focused on forming a multicultural team of writers, editors, and designers to create new camping materials for the CCI members in Latin America. Her undergrad degree was in Physical Education and Sports Medicine from Penn State. She graduated from Wheaton College Graduate School in Educational Ministries and has a PhD in Educational Studies from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, near Chicago.