Michael Miller is an Eagle Scout and a graduate of Horseheads High School, Horsheads, NY and the B.O.C.E.S. program where he learned carpentry. He is also a 2016 inductee in the GST B.O.C.E.S. Hall of Fame, honored for life-time achievement. Being a builder and a doer was the way of life for Mike and it comes natural. He owned his own construction business for years, but God had other plans. He became active in his church, Horseheads First United Methodist Church, and got involved in Kairos Prison Ministry as well as Short-Term mission trips to Central America. It was on a mission trip to Honduras and helping to reconstruct things after Hurricane Mitch of 1999, that Mike and Glenda were both touched by the need of the people. God called them to sell the business and most of their possessions, leave family, home and job and move to Tegucigalpa, Honduras to live as full time missionaries. They fulfilled that call beginning in February 2004 and have been faithful ever since. 

Michael's life verse is from Proverbs 3:5-6. Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.

Glenda Miller is a native of Tegucigalpa and lived there until age 12 at which time she moved to New York City with family. She is a graduate of Elmira Business Institute, and it was while she and Mike were both working a part-time job at the same place that they met and fell in love. The rest is history. Together they form quite a partnership that has taken them into some very challenging situations in the prisons and in the barrios, yet because of their love for Jesus, they are blessed to share the gospel and bring healing to “the very least of these”. They love working with youth in the barrios, with the parents of the youth, with incarcerated men and women, and their reward is to see miraculously changed lives.

Harold was a missionary to Honduras for many years and brings enormous insight to us culturally and spiritually. He and his wife Joyce now live in our area and as members of the Southside Alliance Church, they find working life and church life very fulfilling. Harold also serves as Assistant Pastor for Southside Alliance. As Spiritual Director for Border Buddies, he teaches, leads, exhorts and corrects the Board as needed as we start each meeting focused on God, stay focused throughout the meeting and close the meeting focused on God. They have a daughter and son-in-law who are international workers in Nepal.

My Life Verse:  2 Corinthians 5:20  We are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making an appeal through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

Mark is a retired United Methodist Local Pastor who also served as an Associate Pastor, Worship Arts Pastor and Celebrate Recovery pastor, after a career in a manufacturing business. It was through Mark’s starting a Kairos Prison Ministry unit, that Mike got involved in prison ministry. Their friendship grew and he has been a supporter of Border Buddies from the very beginning of this venture. Mark first traveled to Tegucigalpa with Dale Cleveland in the summer of 2004, and they went into Honduras prisons with Mike and Glenda and ministered to incarcerated men and women. Since then he has been co-leader of numerous BBM Construction Teams starting with Team #1 in 2005; served on 2015 Medical Team #2 as “Gopher” and most recently on Team #50 in May of 2018. Mark and his wife Anne sponsor a child in the School Sponsorship Program. They have two sons.

My life verse: “He has shown you, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of you but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?” Micah 6:8