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Our volunteers come to us in various ways and from various places. They receive no salary or other earthly compensation for their time spent here. (Though we do offer Tylenol or Ibuprofen.)
ESD Volunteers complete an application process, must agree with the ESD/WMD Doctrinal statement, and adhere to the ESD Staff Conduct Guidelines while serving with the mission.


Carlos Motta - (left) is a local deaf ministries interpreter and Bible teacher who comes every Friday morning to present a Bible lesson to our students.  Carlos is married to one of the first students of ESD, Lydia.


If you are interested in a short or long term missions experience, please go to our CONTACT US page and send a message.  Without our volunteers and our God we would not be able to continue.here,

Fran Wells recently retired from Corning Community College is working with us in  our school office for her second winter Jan - March 2009. In addition to getting the office back in order, Fran is cooking for the staff and dorm students and visitors, helping with study time (see pic below) and assisting her parents (Norm and Earlene) as needed. We greatly appreciate the help that Fran is - someone said recently, "It's nice to have a friendly person answering the phone rather than our machine."




Sonia Ramos (below) joined us in September 2009 as a volunteer. A recent graduate of UPR, she was unable to find a fulltime job. To learn sign language and improve her teaching skills, she comes daily to help in the classrooms.



Pam Mowbray (formerly Pam Eadie, or Miss Eadie) continues to work with us as a volunteer helping with grade reports, financial questions and afternoon knitting lessons for Adriana.

Pam and Alan Mowbray pictured to the above.


Monica Linville volunteers as our ART teacher  with the older kids.   We appreciate her time and talent.




Bob Landvater (a.k.a. Spiderman- not pictured) served as the E.S.D. webmaster at esd.faithweb.com from 2001 - 2008. Since our reformatting of the website, he continues as our web adviser.


Laura Atwater  joined our volunteer workforce in August 2009. Laura's experience in many offices has prepared her to take on the ESD Office and variety of tasks that need addressing. Praise God along with us for this talented and faithful servant.


Patti and Carla are local ladies, members of the Newcomers' Club of San Juan, who volunteer regularly by helping with tutoring and cooking meals. The Newcomer's Club of San Juan has supported our school financially and through practical means for the past 6 years.  We praise God for their friendship.



Jim O'Brien (above) is our on-call maintenance man. He comes to the island regularly to do this and that around the school. Additionally, he confers with visiting work teams to organize the work efforts of skilled and unskills laborers to ESD. 


How Jim Came to ESD


Jim O’Brien, a retired police officer, has been our E.S.D. work coordinator for the past few years.  Jim lives in California and is from Jen Johnson's home church. He came along with Jen on her first visit to E.S.D. and has since returned to help with regular maintenance and to coordinate the efforts of work teams coming to E.S.D.