Staff
Cara Strauss Contreras
- cara.strauss@wordmadeflesh.org
- Country
- Bolivia
Cara grew up as a daughter of missionaries in Ethiopia. She was blessed to be the oldest of three children in a family that explored Christ deeply and cross-culturally. She attended Christian boarding school in Kenya which solidified a theological and social foundation of Christ and missions in her life. When she moved to Arkansas to attend John Brown University, she began to fully pursue Christ as her primary purpose in life. At JBU she was first exposed to Word Made Flesh and was impacted by their focus on the poor and commitment to an incarnational lifestyle.
After teaching middle school English for two years in Charlotte, North Carolina, Cara heard God's call to return overseas. Through an internship in Bolivia, she was discipled into a deeper understanding of God's heart for the poor and a love for women caught in prostitution. Cara serves in El Alto, Bolivia as the Servant Team Coordinator.