My Family: Meet the current Wired Staff

Elijah and Sharla Scheidler
From: Billings, Montana

They arrived in El Salvador in March and are here through September 2013. Elijah is a former youth pastor and now, aside from running groups, he is in charge of discipleship at Wired.

Sharla worked as a registered nurse before coming here. She is still called upon medically sometimes for our illnesses and injuries, but she is mostly in charge of finances and also helps with groups.

They both bless my socks off! It's mind-blowing to contemplate how God brought us to Envision Wired in El Salvador at the same time. So glad He did! That goes for all the staff.

Elijah... 6' 7 1/2" ("It's the 1/2 that makes me look tall!")

Sharla makes everything more fun! Here she is with a mammoth grasshopper.

Nestor Cruz - aka Big Ness
From: El Salvador originally, but lived in

San Francisco most of his life.
Nestor has been in El Salvador for 3 years and
has worked at Wired for the past year.
This man has led a crazy life - his whole life a
testimony of God's sovereignty.
Ness is in charge of construction and is the
manager of the Wired building.

One of my favorite people in the whole world!

Nathan Hare
From: Berlin, Connecticut

Nate arrived 2 days after me this past May and is here for 2 years.
This is his 3rd time serving at Wired. I met him last summer
when I came with the ABF youth.
Nate is our resident bird man raising 4 chickens and 8 quail
that live outside the Wired facility.
He is currently in Montana helping Richard during his tour.
When he returns in October, he will resume his role of
Tech Support in the office and also overseeing interns.

Tony "Excellente" Escalante - El Jefe (while Richard is away)
From: San Salvador
Tony has worked at Wired for almost a year and, before then,
as a volunteer. He is the man in charge during these next months without the Mullinax family here.
On top of being our boss and running things, he manages Premiere Transport (a van rental service).

Sara Ortiz
From: Santa Ana, El Salvador
Sara has been at Wired since 2011. She is currently working on becoming
bilingual, like Sharla, Elijah, Nate, and I, just from the opposite direction!
Sara is in charge of many things here: setting up all of our partnerships
each year, coordinating food for the groups,  and organizing our evangelism campaigns.

Edwin Ortiz - aka Chicken or Pollo
Here he is with his look-a-like!
From: San Salvador
Edwin helps out a lot with groups that come from the States.
He works as a translator and driver, and then everything in between.
He is an inspiration to me in my language endeavors because
he learned English in only 4 months!

The Ortizes
Sara and Edwin have been married for over a year now.
They live in one the apartments in the upstairs of Wired,
as do all the American staff.

Gloria Sanchez -
From: San Salvador
Without Gloria all of our groups would go hungry!
She has been cooking and working at Wired since 2010.
She and I are about to start exchanging language classes;
I'll teach her English, she'll teach me Spanish.
Gloria is a single mom with 3 kids.

Priscila Rodriguez - aka Priss
From: San Salvador
Priss has worked with Wired for the past two summers
as a volunteer and translator. This past summer, she also
worked as a fill-in secretary in the office.
She is a good friend of all of us here at Wired!

Vlady!
From: El Salvador, but also lived in San Franciso for many years.
Vlady was the one who picked me up at the airport when I arrived
in May and we've been friends ever since!
He works with Nate as our Tech Support.

Saul Canizalez
From: Apopa, El Salvador
Meet my good friend, Saul! He drives the van
for Premiere Transports and constantly is helping me to learn Spanish. We'll be together a lot in the next week as he is going to be my driving instructor, teaching me to drive stick-shift!