Juan Carlos & Penny Marcés

Penny has served the small Peruvian Anglican Church in Lima, since 1985. Husband Juan Carlos (m.1990) serves full time as an (unpaid) ordained minister in the church since 1992. They have 3 adult children.

Currently, Juan Carlos is a floating minister, working towards facilitating occasional English-speaking services in Arequipa (700 miles south of Lima), and helping where needed in Lima churches.  March to September 2024 he will minister in San Juan Evangelista (Lima) during clergy absence.

Penny (a Lay Minister) leads Jesús el Nazareno Church (south Lima poor area), but also helps during the current interregnum in the English-speaking congregation in Good Shepherd Cathedral.  

At Diocesan level, Juan Carlos is involved in the discipleship programme whilst Penny oversees Diocesan children´s ministry and writes children´s materials.

 As associate mission partners with CMS they are supported by donations from individuals and churches in the UK, including St Paul’s.