Wil Bailey is a North Carolina Conference Missionary.  He received his Master of Divinity degree from Duke University Divinity School in May of 2003 and has been commissioned as a United Methodist Volunteers in Mission Individual Volunteer.  His wife, Yolanda, is an active, life-long member of the Evangelical Methodist Church of Costa Rica.

Wil went to Costa Rica for the first time when he was 15 years old with a United Methodist Volunteers in Missions youth work team.  He went back every chance he got, and by the time he moved to Costa Rica in 2003, he had been 14 times.  The majority of those trips were mission work teams.  Wil says, "I have known since that first trip that doing mission work in Central America would always be a part of my life."  Wil has also been on work teams to Honduras and Belize and spent the Summer of 2001 working with the Methodist Church of Southern Africa in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Wil spent the Summer of 2002 back in Costa Rica living with a pastor and his family in San Isidro.  It was over the course of those three-and-a-half months that God showed Wil that there was a ministry for him in Costa Rica.  The week before he left to come back to the States to finish seminary, Wil met with Bishop Fernando Palomo in San Jose, and the Bishop invited him to come to work full-time as a part of the Evangelical Methodist Church of Costa Rica.

Wil and Yolanda note that they have been blessed with the opportunity to facilitate the construction of church facilities and the building of relationships within the Body of Christ, and they are looking forward to seeing how, with your help and participation, this ministry will continue to grow.