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Ministry Description

We have been serving as full-time missionaries since 2003. Currently, as of January 2025, I have the privilege of serving as Field Director for Word of Life Bolivia.
My greatest challenge as director is to provide leadership, vision, and guidance to a wonderful missionary team. Together with my wife, we are responsible for the training and preparation of both the missionaries who are already actively serving and the volunteers who are in the process of joining the ministry. I am also responsible for securing the necessary resources so that the ministry can operate effectively and fulfill the work God has entrusted to us.
Our ministry in Bolivia rests on three fundamental pillars:
EVANGELISM
We have a variety of impactful tools and resources designed to mobilize believers to reach those who need to hear the gospel. This provides us with ministry opportunities in schools, universities, prisons, orphanages, military bases, and many other places where people need hope in Christ.
MINISTRY
We seek to integrate with the spiritual reality of each local church, offering ministerial consultation for leaders through the presence and accompaniment of the missionary alongside the church. We dream of seeing a generation that reaches out to their friends with the Gospel and continually grows in their walk with Christ.
TEACHING
We have a Ministerial Training Center where hundreds of young people from different regions of Bolivia come to study the Bible on our campus. Our focus is on promoting a correct interpretation of Scripture and developing a character that reflects the life of a true child of God.

Learn more about the ministry in Bolivia.

About Isaias

I was born in Cochabamba Bolivia. Thank God I was born into a Christian home. My father was a leader in my local church, and my mother was a very devout woman. I always considered myself a good, obedient, and moral child. I think that’s why it was easy for me to believe that, in some way, I deserved to go to heaven.
However, at the age of 10, I attended an AWANA Clubs camp, and through a missionary story, I realized that I was truly separated from God. I realized that my standing before a holy God was that of a guilty sinner, deserving of judgment. That day, I not only asked Christ to be my Savior and cleanse my heart of all sin, but I also told Him:
“Lord, someday I would like to be a missionary and bring Your Word to the lost.”
But as the years went by, I started making bad decisions. That led me to fall in with the wrong crowd, and a huge void began to form in my heart. I felt like every bad decision was dragging me deeper and deeper into a dark pit.
Until, in my senior year of high school, I attended a WORD OF LIFE camp. Every time the preacher opened the Bible, I felt God speaking to me very directly. My heart resisted: one part of me cried out for urgent change, while the other constantly reminded me that I was too dirty and damaged by sin to believe that Jesus Christ could still restore my life.
After much inner struggle, the last night of camp arrived, gathered around a campfire. I could no longer resist. The Lord brought to mind that day when I had not only made a decision for Christ, but also the promise I made to Him to serve Him one day.
I remember the prayer from that night as if it were yesterday. I said to Him:
“Lord, if You still want to do something with someone like me, here I am.”
That was the beginning of my beautiful walk with Christ.
The Lord enabled me to study at the Word of Life Bible Institute in Argentina. There I met Jesica, who was faithfully serving at her local church. Later on, she also enrolled at the Bible Institute. We got married and began serving together in youth ministries, camps, musicals, and various other areas of ministry. God also blessed us with two beautiful children: Sebastián and Luana.
Now, after 23 years of full-time service, we have been called to take on the leadership of the ministry. This is a great challenge for our family, and we pray that the Lord will equip us each day with love, patience, vision, and a right heart to serve our mission team.
We are convinced that, with God’s grace and the prayer support of people like you, this will be possible.

About Jesica

I was born in Buenos Aires into a family that was just beginning to come to know Christ. My parents were very young: my mom was 15 and my dad was 20.
Salvation through Jesus Christ had come into their lives and brought about a true transformation. Their greatest desire was to build the home that neither of them had ever had. The wounds of alcoholism and abandonment had deeply scarred both their childhoods and their adolescence.
For as long as I can remember, Sunday school and every church meeting were part of my life. I participated faithfully, memorized verses, competed with other children, and always tried to do my best. I was also an outstanding student in school.
When I was 10, we went to a young cousin’s birthday party. Amid the conversations, some people were discussing a news story that had shocked the neighborhood: a young man had committed suicide on the terrace of his home and had left a very disturbing letter related to Satan.
That news deeply troubled me. I couldn’t sleep that night. I wondered where that boy’s soul might be. For the first time, I realized that heaven and hell were real.
Despite all the verses I knew by heart and having heard the gospel many times, I had no real assurance of my salvation or of the Holy Spirit’s presence in my life.
A great struggle began within me: to carry on as if nothing had happened, or to admit that I was lost and needed to resolve the doubts in my heart.
While my younger sisters slept, I gathered my courage and went downstairs to seek help. I confessed to my parents that I felt lost and that the sins hidden in my heart were tormenting me.
They told me about the Good Shepherd, who had not only given His life for me but also offered me eternal life, and that no one could snatch me out of His mighty hand (John 10:27–30).
In February 1994, I accepted Jesus as my Savior. From that moment on, I began to experience the forgiveness of my sins and the real presence of God in my life.
But not every day was easy. As a family, we went through many changes: new neighborhoods, new schools, new friends, and new influences. Little by little, my heart began to stray, drawn by the novelties of the world and the desire to live far from God.
When I was 15, almost 16, a student from Palabra de Vida Argentina visited my father’s workshop to promote the summer camp in San Miguel del Monte.
Once again, a battle began within me. I knew the Lord was calling me with bonds of love, but my mind told me not to go, to keep living as I had until then.
The day before camp started, I decided to go. It wasn’t too late for God’s plans.
At first, I didn’t connect with anyone or anything. I didn’t want to talk to my counselor, but God used her to show me how far I was from Him.
On the third day of camp, during a workshop on youth conflicts in my cabin, I completely surrendered my life to the Lord. I told Him I was willing for Him to use my life for His purposes, however He wanted. I ended a romantic relationship and decided to stay on as a volunteer at the camp. I was happy to start a new chapter.
I knew I wanted to serve God full-time, even though to many that might seem like madness or a waste of time and prestige.
I understood God’s calling more clearly as I read the book The Spiritual Secret of Hudson Taylor.
When I finished high school, I prayed fervently to be able to study at the Palabra de Vida Bible Institute in San Miguel del Monte.
Those were two wonderful years during which I could see God’s hand at work in many areas of my life and also in my family. There I met a great man of God who became my husband and ministry partner for nearly 23 years in Bolivia: Isaías Rocha.
God blessed my life through him, and together we took on the challenge of coming to Bolivia as official missionaries for Palabra de Vida Bolivia.
Our desire remains to serve God’s people through this ministry that impacts young people and families, just as God impacted our own lives.
Today I look back with gratitude and wonder at all that the Lord has done. His plans are perfect and eternal. Above all, I am grateful because He loved me and washed me from my sins with His blood (Revelation 1:5).

"that your way may be known on earth, your saving power among all nations. Let the peoples praise you, O God; let all the peoples praise you! Psalm 67:2-3

Contact Information

isaiasrocha@wol.org
isaiasrocha@wol.org

Carretera a Tarata Km.17 Angostura Palabra de Vida
Cochabamba,
Bolivia

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Cochabamba - Bolivia