Florent Toirac

After 28 years as a missionary to Cuba, Haiti, France, and Spain, Florent Toirac, a Cuban national, well aware of the difficulties of reaching the masses in remote areas, and convinced that radio was a way to reach them, established Spanish World Gospel Broadcasting with the radio program, El Camino de la Vida (“The Way of Life”).Initially it was broadcasted from Tangier (North Africa) into Spain, and later taken to Latin America where an expansion of the transmissions began to take place.

To accomplish the discipleship process, national missionaries were added to the ministry. These were supported through ministry partners in the USA, and were periodically supplied with literature, New Testaments, and Bibles to assist them in their evangelistic efforts. With expansion of nationals and literature, the ministry’s name was then changed to Spanish World Gospel Mission .

Mr. Toirac died in 1989 and Cornelius Rivera became Executive Director in 1991. Rev. Rivera has continued to expand the radio outreach by assigning to the national missionaries the responsibility of finding the radio stations for airing the broadcasts, duplicating the programs, distributing them, and monitoring their transmission in their countries. The missionaries are also representatives to the local churches, seeking to interest them in becoming ministry partners by sponsoring the broadcasts in their local radio stations, and giving them an opportunity to evangelize and follow up the people in their own communities.
A hurricane that devastated Honduras in 1998, became the opportunity for a humanitarian work which has resulted in establishing a small community, a church, a medical clinic, and a missionary training center.The construction project has almost been completed, but the facilities are currently operated on a limited basis only, until such time as the necessary funding for a more regular operation becomes available. In addition three other congregations have been established in Honduras, and the national missionaries have been instrumental in planting a congregation in Chile, and another one in Argentina. The mission is now known as Spanish World Ministries , reflecting our multi-faceted global outreach.

The missionary team has grown to 20 couples, ministering in 16 countries. We reach Cuba through radio from Bon Aire in the Netherlands Antilles, as well as with correspondence from Mexico, and a national missionary on the Island itself, who visits those who have written in response to the radio broadcasts. The radio outreach, however, is present in every Spanish speaking country. As the mission begins its fiftieth year, the original 15 minute program, and a short 3 minute broadcast (Reflexión Para Hoy) introduced in 2004, are heard in over 1,100 stations, approximately 9,000 per week, in all the Spanish speaking countries. The plan for the immediate future is to add national missionaries in the countries where Spanish World does not currently have representatives. These are: El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Puerto Rico, and Ecuador.

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