Directors and Staff
Founders: Wayne Cramer – President and Susan Cramer – Secretary and Treasurer
Wayne and Susan Cramer ventured to Rubio, Venezuela for the 2000-2001 school year to serve as teacher and office administrator in a Christian school after Wayne took early retirement from his job in the nuclear power industry. Wayne also served in the business office handling Venezuelan employee payroll, as member of the TEAM Venezuela housing committee and rewrote the contingency and emergency plan for the school. Susan organized a reunion celebration for the closing of the school. During their stay in Venezuela they grew to love the Venezuelan people and culture and were touched by the immense poverty they witnessed there. After leaving Venezuela Wayne solicited funding in support of a Christian school in Rubio and in October 2003 Andean Aid was formed for charitable, religious and educational purposes to help meet the need of the poor.
Wayne earned a bachelor degree with majors in both business administration and economics and has held the positions of Training Manager and Senior Financial Analyst in the electric utility industry. He also served as Director of Development for an international Christian school in Caracas, Venezuela and most recently has provided consultation in database application development and process improvement.
Susan has utilized her administrative skills as office manager for both a home builder and a plastic molding manufacturer. She has also served as deaconess at church where she organized a community outreach that attracted thousands of people to have fun and see what our church was all about.
Kerry Bauman – Director
Kerry Bauman is the Pastor of Chain of Lakes Community Bible Church (CLCBC) in Lake Villa, Illinois. After graduating from Slippery Rock University in 1980 Kerry worked with Campus Crusade for Christ. He worked for two years in Chattanooga, Tennessee and then spent the next seven years directing a team in Katy, Texas. While on staff, he participated in three missions trips – one to Freeport, Bahamas, one to Guyana, South America and the last one to Guam and Micronesia.
Kerry received a Master’s of Divinity Degree from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in 1993 with an emphasis in evangelism and missions. Kerry went on to pursue a career in sales. The call to return to ministry led him to join the staff of CLCBC in 1998 as Pastor of Student Ministries and in 2003 he became Senior Pastor. During his tenure as Pastor of Student Ministries Kerry became friends with Andean Aid founder Wayne Cramer. He and Wayne established a ministry to poor children in Nuevo Almaguer, on the outskirts of Monterrey, Mexico.
When asked why he makes time to serve on the Board of Directors, Kerry says,” Andean Aid takes seriously the exhortation from the book of James to ‘look after widows and orphans in their distress.’ I cannot think of a better way to demonstrate pure and undefiled religion to children than to provide the opportunity for a quality education in an environment where they can experience first-hand the love of Christ.
I consider it a privilege to support the work of Andean Aid and the vision of Wayne and Susan Cramer. I am confident that the Lord will bless this effort by permitting us to start more Help and Hope Centers throughout the Andes region.
I pray that God will move many families in the states and around the world to join us by giving of their resources to this Godly and noble cause.”
Ana Carillo
Ana Cleotilde Rangel de Carrillo was born in Merida, Venezuela. She completed her primary and bachelor studies at eighteen years old and entered the Ministry of Education as a classroom teacher. The light of evangelism reached her home when she was four years old and grew under the teaching of the evangelical church “Belen” where she served as teacher of children, president of youth ministries and superintendent of the church school. She studied courses in the Universidad Pedagogica Experimental Liberatador where she graduated as Educationist and went to the Universidad de Pamplona – Colombia where she obtained the specialty for teaching language and literature.
Later, she joined her husband Rodolfo Carrillo attending three years in the Seminario Bautista de Preparacion Ministerial a Distencia and graduated in Christian Education with the equivalent of a Masters Degree. Ana and Rodolfo pastor the Christian church La Familia de Dios in Rubio in Tachira state and have two beautiful children Angel Rodolfo 9 and Annie Rebecca 8.
She produced and executed two radio programs on the community radio station Tropical in the last year and a half – “Esperanza Viva” (Living Hope) focusing on the spiritual edification of the church, and “Aprendiendo a Ser Familia” (Learning to be Family) for social evangelism.
Ana works in rural and urban schools and has completed the time requirements for the Ministry of Education. She collaborates with a Christian association of educators bringing to the public schools evangelical teaching under the program “Sembrando Valores para un Tachira Mejor” (Spreading Values for a Better Tachira).
Ana assisted in setting up the Help and Hope Center facility and helps with teaching duties there as well as her duties as President of Una Sonrisa Para Todos. She is responsible for evaluating the Center documents to ensure that we are complying fully with Venezuelan law.
Gaby Andrade
Gaby Zulay Andrade Caceres studied in the Universidad Catolica del Tachira (Catholic University of Tachira) where she obtained a Bachelors degree in Social Sciences. Later she studied at the Universidad de Pamplona (University of Pamplona) where she obtained the title, Specialist in Educational Methods, equivalent to a Masters Degree.
She studied English in Trinidad and Tobago and went to Costa Rica in a preparation program to assist Young Life Venezuela. Gaby has worked in schools as both teacher and director. She has served as Professor of Sociology of Education teaching the course Methods of Research in the university. Gaby is married to Ruben Dario Garcia, who gives her much support and feels a great sensitivity for her work with children. Gaby Andrade serves as the Director of The Help and Hope Centers and is the principal contact for Andean Aid in Venezuela.
Pastor Adolfo Santamaria
Ruben Garcia
