Pastor Skip Preston and Gabby Navarro-Preston

Pastor Skip Has lived in Costa Rica since 2012, following God’s call to move here as a full-time missionary. Prior to moving to Costa Rica, Skip served as the Senior Pastor of a Church in Lansing, Michigan for 13 years and he served as a youth pastor and a pastoral assistant prior to doing formal studies in Seminary and planting the church he pastored in Michigan. In 2015 he moved from Alajuela to Guanacaste to start a mission base and internship program. That eventually led to him founding Mission Activation Charity in 2018 where Skip continues serving as the President and Executive Director.

After Skip was widowed, God brought Gabby and him into each other’s lives. Gabby is a native Costa Rican who has also lived, studied, and/or worked in 6 different countries. They were married on December 29, 2020. Gabby has her PhD. in Education with a minor in Women’s Studies from New Mexico State University, where she also taught for 5 years. After working for five years at the National Women’s Institution of the Costa Rican government where she helped create policies to protect and empower girls and women, she is currently the Community Program Outreach Director for Mission Activation Charity where she is overseeing and developing various community education and empowerment programs for children, youth, adults and seniors from vulnerable communities in Carrillo, Guanacaste and beyond.