Administration

Miguel & Rose Terrero

Country Directors


Miguel joined FCA DR in 2013 as one of the first three staff members. In the fall of 2016, he moved almost 2 hours east from Boca Chica to begin FCA ministry in the city of Higuey, and in 2020 he was offered, and accepted, the position of country director for all of FCA DR ministry. 

 

Rose partially grew up on the mission field and has extensive experience working with non-profit ministries. She moved to the DR in 2015 and met Miguel at a training conference in January of 2016. After getting married in 2017, Rose joined the administrative team of FCA DR to assist in running the behind the scenes work - a role that has since expanded into Director of Administration and Communication.

 

Together, they are passionate about making an impact in the lives of people everywhere and eagerly follow their calling to go and make disciples of all nations.

They welcomed their first son, Malakai, in 2019, and their second, Ahdriel, in November 2021.


Rhyann MacKay

Admin Assistant


Rhyann joined FCA DR in August of 2022, coming on board to help out in the area of administration and hosting teams. After working with FCA DR and their teams previously through YWAM, she fell in love with the ministry and what God was doing. When the need for an admin assistant presented itself, she jumped at the opportunity to join in on what God is doing through FCA DR.


Rhyann has lived on and off in the DR for 8 years. She has a heart to see Dominicans come to know God and find their true identity in Christ.


She and her husband, Titi, got married in 2019 and welcomed their first born, Jace, in September 2020 and a beautiful baby girl, Lina, in June of 2022.

Area Directors

Williams Martinez

Boca Chica




Willy joined the staff of FCA DR in 2012, as one of the first members, and has played a key role in growing the ministry in the area of Boca Chica. In addition to leading Boca Chica, Willy also runs our 3Dimensional coaching workshops and annual sports camps. He has also started and FCA Sports girls basketball team. There is nothing Willy loves more than to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ and he is passionate about impacting coaches and athletes through discipleship. 

 

In addition to FCA ministry, Willy has the opportunity to minister through a local Christian cable show twice per week, sharing Jesus and presenting the sports ministry to all of Boca Chica and beyond. He also serves as an elder in his local church.

 

Willy is married to his beautiful wife Alex. They have been blessed with two daughters, Alexa and Rocelin, and a son, Williams Jesus.


David De La Cruz

Santo Domingo




David has been working for FCA DR since 2013. He is passionate about sharing the love of Jesus Christ with others and has played a vital part in growing FCA in the capital city of Santo Domingo. Since accepting Christ as his Savior through the influence of his brother, Maicol Guerrero, he says he knows that God can do great things in the lives of the coaches and athletes in the same way that He did great things in his life and the life of his family. 

 

David travels from Boca Chica to Santo Domingo on a weekly basis to disciple coaches and athletes and raise up ministry volunteers. A third of the Dominican population resides in the greater Santo Domingo area, and there is much need for discipleship there.

 

David is married to Dulce, whose name literally means "sweet". Together they have three children - twins Abisail and Nellis, and little Eliezer.

Alvis Santana

La Romana & San Pedro de Macoris


Known to most as Pomponio, his friendly smile and heart for people has opened many doors for discipling coaches and baseball players. Alvis came on board with the Boca Chica staff in 2014, and 2018 he made the move to La Romana to further develop and grow the ministry that had been started there by several other staff members through commuting from other towns.


Alvis also assists as one of our main translators for short term mission teams that serve with FCA DR, and recently has stepped into overseeing the SPM area ministry, as well.


Alvis exudes the love of Christ in all he does and is grateful for the opportunities that God has given him to share the hope of Jesus Christ through the ministry of FCA DR.

 

Cesar Ortiz

Dajabon & Northwest




Former big league player, Ortiz, as he is called on a regular basis, had been working as a coach in Santo Domingo, while working alongside David De La Cruz, before joining FCA DR in May of 2017. In 2018, he and his family moved to Dajabon to help with a church plant in that area. From there, Ortiz and his family expanded the FCA ministry into other areas in northwestern DR, including Santiago and several other towns.


Ortiz loves to share Jesus Christ with every coach and athlete he has the opportunity to mentor and disciple and to minister the Gospel through the platform of sports.


Ortiz is married to his sweet wife Indira. Together they are raising their daughter, Genesis, son, Diostyn, and Ortiz' oldest daughter, Cery-Ann. 

Field Staff

Maicol Guerrero

Boca Chica


Maicol has been serving in ministry with FCA DR on the basketball courts and baseball fields of Boca Chica since 2014. The kids at the basketball courts are usually the poorest and most probable to get into trouble, and many basketball coaches don't make a living from coaching. They all love coming to the local courts because it's a safe space to create community and listen to the Word of God. 

Maicol previously played on the Dominican national basketball team and has been very influential in helping other staff implement basketball into their ministry activities throughout other areas. His love for people and passion for Jesus shine vibrantly in all he does.

 

Maicol and his sweet, gracious wife Soluz, have a daughter, Nisi, and a son, Justin.

Victor Sanchez

San Pedro de Macoris


Victor joined the FCA DR team when the ministry was expanding to San Pedro in 2015. Born and raised in Boca Chica, Victor had connections to other FCA staff, such as Miguel and Ariel, through playing baseball together as kids. For a short time, Victor served in the role of director for SPM area, but needed to take a step back for his family to heal when they lost their 2-year-old daughter, Jesiah, in 2021.

Victor's love for Jesus and energy for life spill into the lives of the coaches and athletes he disciples on the baseball fields every week in the communities in and around SPM. 

 

Victor is married to his beautiful wife Aracelis, and they have two sons, Victor David and baby Abdiel. Together, they are also the couples' ministry directors in their local church.

Ariel Benitez

Boca Chica


Ariel joined the FCA DR team in 2013 and has since been sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ on the baseball and softball fields of Boca Chica. He played a key role in the beginning stages of expanding ministry to La Romana, traveling an hour there twice a week before Alvis Santanta took over full-time. 

 

He loves sharing the Word of God with youth and discipling coaches to make an impact in the Dominican Republic for Jesus Christ. Ariel and married his amada Wendy in December 2020. In 2022 they welcomed their first son, Ilay.

Emilio Silvestre

San Pedro de Macoris


Emilio was the first one of FCA DR staff to meet Mike Shaheen in 2011 while he was commuting to Boca Chica from San Pedro de Macoris for his job as a groundskeeper. A few years later, Mike moved his family to SPM to start another region of FCA DR ministry and brought Emilio on board to assist in those efforts. Emilio works alongside coaches and athletes in the large baseball complex of SPM every week to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ that has become very real in his own life. 

 

Emilio is married to his lovely wife Clara, and they are blessed with two beautiful children - daughter Rosanjela and son Enmanuel.

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