Our Story
In 1997, the Drum family was looking for a new church home.They visited a congregation who happened to be celebrating missions and showing a slide show from their recent mission trip to Mexico. Laurie and Billy were hooked!They sat in the pew and cried – and they KNEW that this was what God was calling them to do with their lives.
They began going to Mexico to build homes and work in a relief capacity and conduct children’s bible school in the colonias in 1998.What began as a weekend commitment, soon turned into weeks, and then months of time spent serving the people of Mexico. Eventually, Laurie and Billy became short-term project coordinators, leading mission teams from different churches into Mexico and teaching others how to become servants for Christ. The Drum children have grown up serving others on the mission field.“It’s a way of life for us,” says Laurie.“It’s what our family lives for.” Sarah, the youngest Drum, was even baptized on the mission field. She thinks that Jesus Loves Me is supposed to be sung in Spanish – she gets upset if you try to sing it in English!Ryan and Miles spent every summer of their school years serving in Mexico... they are fluent Spanish speakers and can build a house on the border faster than most people can cook dinner!
In April 2005, Billy attended a Global Focus mission conference – a weekend that would soon change the course of the Drum family’s service in missions.God was calling the Drums to step out and go into full-time missionary service. Laurie and Billy had heard God calling them in this direction for a long time.He began speaking louder and clearer than ever before. After much discussion and prayer with their bible study group, they applied to The Mission Society to become career missionaries. The Drums were accepted in July 2006 and assigned to full-time mission service in Peru.
In 2007-08 in preparation for service in Peru, the Drum family spent a year in Costa Rica learning Spanish and serving Nicaraguan refugees in the community of La Carpio just outside of San Jose, Costa Rica.
They began going to Mexico to build homes and work in a relief capacity and conduct children’s bible school in the colonias in 1998.What began as a weekend commitment, soon turned into weeks, and then months of time spent serving the people of Mexico. Eventually, Laurie and Billy became short-term project coordinators, leading mission teams from different churches into Mexico and teaching others how to become servants for Christ. The Drum children have grown up serving others on the mission field.“It’s a way of life for us,” says Laurie.“It’s what our family lives for.” Sarah, the youngest Drum, was even baptized on the mission field. She thinks that Jesus Loves Me is supposed to be sung in Spanish – she gets upset if you try to sing it in English!Ryan and Miles spent every summer of their school years serving in Mexico... they are fluent Spanish speakers and can build a house on the border faster than most people can cook dinner!
In April 2005, Billy attended a Global Focus mission conference – a weekend that would soon change the course of the Drum family’s service in missions.God was calling the Drums to step out and go into full-time missionary service. Laurie and Billy had heard God calling them in this direction for a long time.He began speaking louder and clearer than ever before. After much discussion and prayer with their bible study group, they applied to The Mission Society to become career missionaries. The Drums were accepted in July 2006 and assigned to full-time mission service in Peru.
In 2007-08 in preparation for service in Peru, the Drum family spent a year in Costa Rica learning Spanish and serving Nicaraguan refugees in the community of La Carpio just outside of San Jose, Costa Rica.
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After the time of preparation, Billy, Laurie and Sarah shared Christ’s love with the people of rural Peru from 2008 to the end of 2012. Having both spent many years as teachers in the USA, Billy and Laurie have a heart for education and were called to help children and families and communities who did not have the ability to obtain an education in Peru. In 2009 they founded the Kuyay Talpuy program, which means “sowing seeds with the love of God” in Quechua. Through the Kuyay Talpuy education centers, the Drums were able to touch the lives of children, their families, and their communities. Laurie & Billy were also active in community development, community health outreach and discipleship programs. They also served as short-term mission project coordinators and lead hundreds of people in service in Peru. By the end of 2012, over 200 children had been served by the Kuyay projects, as well as countless families and community members in the villages of Iscos, Patarcocha, and Tinyari - Peru.
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Today, Laurie and Billy serve global leaders and ministry workers in Spain and around the globe. Their work is centered on training, care, and leadership development. To learn more about their current work, click here.
