Ken and Kay Burgess began serving in Global Missions in July of 1989 as AIM workers in Paraguay and Argentina. After twenty-seven months on the AIM program, they were appointed as Career Missionaries to Argentina in October 1991, where they served for twenty-one years in various capacities. Bro. Burgess served as Director of Education, District Superintendent, and President of the National Work. Sis. Burgess taught in the Bible School, led the National Choir, served on the National Ladies Board, and founded a National Ladies Prayer Group. In 2010, they were appointed to the nation of El Salvador, where they served as Missionary Supervisor and Director of the Department of Education. Sis. Burgess restructured the National Book Store and founded a National Prayer Group among the pastor’s wives. During this time, they were also instrumental in completely restructuring the Bible School system, opening many new satellite schools throughout the country, and overseeing the purchase and remodel of the new National Headquarters and Bible School Facility in San Salvador, which was dedicated in March of 2015.
In February 2015, they were appointed to the nation of Spain, where they began their sixth term as Career Missionaries. Since their arrival in Spain, they have pastored Tabernáculo de Vida Madrid (Life Tabernacle Church Madrid), served in various national leadership roles, have overseen the establishment of nine daughter churches throughout the greater Madrid area, along with supporting Regional Missionaries in Romania and Switzerland. Currently, they serve as Missionary Supervisors of Spain, President of the UPCI of Portugal, and as Area Coordinators of the Mediterranean Area.