DownLine recently welcomed Pepper and Gabriela Horn to the DownLine family! Pepper will come along Steve Winstead in our DL International movement as the assistant global director. He will be assisting Steve in training and leading teams to other parts of the world to equip national believers in disciple-making.
Pepper was born and raised in Southern California. He came to know Christ while serving in the U.S. Air Force. During his four years of active duty he became an instructor gunner on B-52s. When his commitment in the Air Force was complete, he attended San Diego Christian College and graduated with a B.A. in Biblical Studies.
He later moved to Memphis and attended Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary. While at Mid-America, he served as an intern in the Military Ministry at Bellevue Baptist Church. During his time in seminary he began taking mission trips to Eastern Europe.
Upon graduation from Mid-America with a M.Div. Pepper served in Albania for two years with the International Mission Board. When he returned to Memphi,s he met someone who taught him how to see ministry from a totally new perspective. This person modeled how someone could intentionally build into the life of others with the goal of impacting the whole world for Christ. “When I saw it, I knew this was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life.”
In 2002, Pepper moved to Costa Rica and spent a year learning Spanish. He comes to us after having served on a church planting team in the capital city of Honduras.
Pepper has traveled to thirty foreign countries, and he has been a missionary for the last ten years. He went to Honduras as a single man and came back married to a beautiful, godly and gifted young woman named Gabriela. She enjoys investing her life in young women and her hobbies include photography and cooking.
Pepper enjoys basketball, surfing and waterskiing.
