Our Team
JAIR CAMPOS - EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Jair is the founder and Executive Director of Missions Connex. He has been a missionary kid since he was nine years old, living in Portugal, France, and as a career missionary from Brazil to Portugal. He has planted and pastored churches in Brazil, Portugal, and the United States. He has a passion for evangelism and equipping young adults to plant churches. Jair has a bachelor's, an MDiv, and a ThM in missions and evangelism from SWBTS. He is currently finishing his DMin also from SWBTS. He has served as a missionary from the Brazilian Baptist Convention to Portugal, as a church planter in the DFW, and worked as a church planting consultant for Texas Baptists. During his tenure at TxB, he started and directed the Church Planting Center, the Missionary Adoption Program, and the eTraining for churches.
SHIRLEY MCDONALD - BOARD CHAIR AND SECRETARY
Shirley McDonald was born in Texas and grew up in eastern New Mexico, where her dad pastored. She received her associate's degree in general secretary from Eastern New Mexico University and worked for several years in that field. She later graduated from Tarleton State University with a degree in education. Shirley enjoyed teaching ESL and reading to students for 31 years. Shirley has been actively involved in Woman’s Missionary Union all of her life: leading G.A.s (Girls in Action), Mission Friends, and Youth on Mission, serving on the Erath Associational WMU Leadership Team, and participating in mission trips. She served as president of WMU of Texas from 2014-2019 and is now Recording Secretary for National WMU. Shirley enjoys reading, singing, writing, and laughing.
ALAN ARMSTRONG - TREASURER
Alan, his wife Candice, and children Tate and Olivia have called Conroe home for over ten years. During that time, Alan served as Student Pastor, Pastor of Assimilation and Church Life, and now Associate Pastor of FBC Conroe. Alan loves the local church and its role in equipping the body of Christ to do God's work locally and globally. Alan has a BBA in Management from Baylor University, a MACE in Student Ministry from Dallas Baptist University, and is currently in the dissertation phase of a Ph.D. in Leadership at Dallas Baptist University. In his free time, what little there is right now, Alan enjoys spending time with his family, coaching his son's baseball team, watching his daughter learn and grow as a dancer, and pretending he's a good golfer.
CARLOS ALEXANDRE VIEIRA
Born in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Carlos Alexandre Vieira moved to the United States in 1998. He married to Elaine R. Vieira in 2001 and from this union the Lord gave them two wonderful children: Raphael Vieira and Leticia Vieira. The Lord gave him the opportunity to attend Calvary Theological Seminary of Lake Charles, LA where he graduated in Arts of Religious Education and since then, have been helping other pastors to plant different churches in the Houston area. But only in December 2015, he was ordained pastor and since then, he has been actively working for the Kingdom of God. Having understood the calling, he developed a passion for mission and was one of the founders of the Brazilian Church where he attended and worked as Mission Pastor. During his ministry there, he had raised funds for missions in Niger, poorest African Country, India and Brazil.