Elizabeth Lopez

Elizabeth Lopez (Lovejoy) was born and raised in North Kingsville, Ohio. During her time in college, she was given a few opportunities to travel abroad and knew God was calling her to live outside of the United States. After graduating from Mount Vernon Nazarene University with two degrees in Education, she applied to work in a bilingual school in Honduras in 2013. She worked at this school for three years before she started to consider other ministry opportunities. Elizabeth first heard about Nueva Esperanza when Carlos and Barbara came to her home church in Ohio in 2012 to speak about their ministry, and during her time teaching at the bilingual school, Elizabeth got involved with the ministry. In 2016, she talked to Barbara about joining Nueva Esperanza. In January 2017, Elizabeth started working full-time as the Child Sponsorship Coordinator for the ministry. Since then, she has met and married her husband Jose Lopez, and they now have two children together.