A team of families and missionaries poses smiling in a bright room

YWAM Leticia

Our team

All of the staff at YWAM Leticia are volunteer missionaries who live day by day seeing God’s provision so they can remain on the mission field. They are committed to what they do, not so much to what they receive: they are 100% dedicated to missionary work, yet they continually need financial support.

Would you like to be part of the support for these families so they can continue their missionary work in the Amazon?

Meet the families

Founding directors

Jaime Useche and Lori Useche

Husband and wife, founding directors

They married in 1987 and continued their training at the University of the Nations. In the year 2000 they took a step of faith: starting JUCUM Leticia. Today their missionary journey spans 46 years, and their two children, now married, live in the United States.

Jaime and Lori Useche, founding directors of JUCUM Leticia, embracing in front of a jungle mural

Jaime Useche
Founding director · Colombia
Born in Bogotá, Colombia. As a boy he moved with his parents and eleven siblings to Leticia, capital of the department of Amazonas. At 19 he came to know Jesus through YWAM and, four months later, God called him to missions. He earned his bachelor’s degree at Ecclesia Bible College (Arkansas, USA) and was ordained a minister. He has preached in Colombia, Central America, Mexico and the United States, among other places, and is the author of the book “Leave Your Land” (Sal de tu tierra).
Lori Useche
Founding director