August Speaker: Jerome Cabeen



Jerome Cabeen served as a Catholic Missionary in Honduras, Central America from 2004 until 2008. During his time in Honduras he made missionary visits to Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Bolivia and Colombia. He married Clarisa Chavarria-Lara in Tegucigalpa, Honduras in June of 2008 and shortly there-after the couple embarked upon a journey as missionaries to Liberia, Africa from 2008 until 2010.

While in Africa Cabeen and his wife made stops in Sierra Leone, Ghana, Ethiopia, Egypt, South Africa and Swaziland.

Jerome Cabeen is a native of Houston, Texas and graduated from Sam Houston State University in Hunstville, Texas in 1990 with a degree in Fine Arts. He taught and coached basketball in Houston and Orlando, Florida for twelve years before hearing the call to become a missionary in 2003. “Memoirs of a Reluctant Servant” is Cabeen’s first book.

Jerome and Clarisa reside in Beaumont, Texas with their cats “Hendrix” and "Ginger."


Make sure to visit Jerome and “Memoirs of a Reluctant Servant” on FACEBOOK as well as at : www.readreluctantservant.com