Don & Melba Exley

Don Exley, his wife Melba, and their 3-year-old daughter arrived in Argentina in June 1976 and soon began a church planting ministry. They began that ministry by opening four new churches in the city of Córdoba. They then went to Mexico City, where they planted a church that is now a large church with a Christian school. In 1990, Donald was asked to serve as the area director for the Southern Cone of South America, overseeing the ministries of Assemblies of God missionaries in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay.

At the end of December 2009, Don resigned from that position to continue his ministry as pastor of the Christian Family Center in Martínez, Buenos Aires Province. They founded that church in 1997, and after several years of living in Chile, the national church in Argentina asked the Exleys to return and pastor that church, which has a primary and secondary school and a rehabilitation center for men with addictions. Today, the congregation, under the leadership of Pastor Gonzalo Caloustian, has nearly 3,000 members.

In addition to his missionary and pastoral responsibilities, Don has frequently been the guest speaker at various conferences and meetings around the world.