San Juan Baptist Association

Eric Frye accepted the call to serve as Associational Director of Missions for San Juan Baptist Association beginning in March 2013.   He and his wife C J moved here from Utah, where Eric served as a missionary for Ethnic Church Planting & Church Development in the Utah-Idaho Southern Baptist Convention.  Eric began serving in full-time ministry in 1965 and has served churches in Alabama, New Mexico, Wyoming and Utah in addition to serving as an SBC Navajo missionary  in the Teec Nos Pos, AZ/ Four Corners Area. 

Eunice began her employment with SJBA on June 8, 2015, and comes to the SJBA team from the Administrative Staff of Rehoboth Christian High School in Gallup, New Mexico.

Eunice is very familar with the communities of the San Juan Baptist Associational area, and the Navajo Nation. She is originally from the Farmington area; and her husband, Andrew Begaye, is from Shiprock and serves as the SJBA volunteer coordinator for American Indian church revitilization.

Monty is serving in his second year as Moderator of SJBA. He and his family came to New Mexico from Indianapolis, Indiana where his church was active in church planting and church revitilization. He is a North American Mission Board Ambassador to the pastors of New Mexico, and is the senior pastor of the First Baptist Church of Bloomfield . 

Pastor James is the pastor of the First Baptist Church of Flora Vista. The Mahan's came to this ministry afrer serving in Hawaii. They are a military family; James' wife Talisha is actively serving in the United States Army.

Karen serves as a volunteer; and works full-time with the Walker Insurance Group in Farmington. She is also an administrative assistant with the Independant Community Bankers Association of New Mexico.