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Roy & Margaret Lytle

Mailing Address:
Postbus 1903
Paramaribo (Zuid)
Suriname, South America

Roy & Margaret Lytle have served with World Team in the country of Suriname, South America for over 29 years, 1970 - 1988, & 1996 - present.

Roy was born & raised in Tampa, Florida. After graduation from high school, he enlisted in the Navy. Roy accepted Christ as his personal Savior while at the Naval Training Center of the Great Lakes in 1960. After discharge from the Navy in 1962, he returned to Tampa, was married to Margaret, & began working for the Coca-Cola Company.

Margaret was born in Wayne, Ohio. Her family moved to Florida when she was in the seventh grade. After graduation she worked for Dun & Bradstreet. Margaret received the Lord as her Savior in 1960 with the help of her pastor & his wife.

Roy & Margaret were challenged to serve God through missions during a missionary conference at their church. They resigned their jobs & began attending Trinity College in Dunedin, Florida. While attending Trinity, Roy pastored the First Community Church of Highland City, Florida, for three years. After graduating from Trinity, Roy & Margaret resigned the church to go with World Team to Suriname.

They were assigned to the Wayana Indian village of Lawa on the S.E. border of Suriname, doing general missionary work... preaching, teaching, Sunday school, youth ministries, Bible study groups, counseling, river evangelism, & expeditions to reach out to un-reached tribes. They traveled to other established villages across the interior where World Team had started churches to teach & encourage the leadership of these churches.

In 1984, Roy was appointed Field Director which necessitated a move to the city, which in turn gave a broader ministry to the divergent cultural, ethnic groups that make up Suriname, i.e. Chinese, Bush Negroes, Creoles, Javanese, & Hindustani.

Roy & Margaret returned to the U.S. in 1988 to facilitate the education of their children (Tammy, now married with two children; Susan, now married, no children; Tim, now married with one child.). For three years, Roy served with World Team Associates, an affiliate association with World Team that seeks to promote the work of World Team involving laymen from the local church. Then he pastored the First Baptist Church of Terra Ceia, Florida for three years. In 1996, the Lytle’s returned to Suriname to continue their ministry of training emerging leaders among the tribal churches in the interior.