Don was born in Havana, Cuba, in January 1947 to missionary parents, Rev. Hugh P. & Gertrude Jeter. Don has an identical twin brother, Doug, who has been a missionary to France for over twenty-five years and is now serving as a professor with Global University based in Springfield, Missouri. He has his earned PhD. from the University of Paris, Sorbonne, France. Don has two older brothers, Stan and Robert Jeter, and one sister, Betty. Stan is the director of the weekly TV news program, “Christian World News”, affiliated with CBN in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Robert is a flight instructor with American Airlines. Betty is married to Robby Jernigan and they are national Home Missionaries as Emergency Services chaplains based in Marshfield, MO.
Don graduated from Southwestern A/G University with an A.A. in Communications and a B.A. in Bible and Missions in 1968. He graduated from the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary in Springfield, Missouri, with an M.A. in cross-cultural communications in 1979. Don was first credentialed as a minister with the Latin American District of the Assemblies of God and started pastoring a Spanish church in 1966. He was ordained with the North Texas District Council of the A/G in 1970.
Upon graduating from college, Don went to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he ministered among the Spanish-speaking in evangelism and drug rehabilitation work Teen Challenge with the ministry to drug addicts and gang members founded by Rev. David Wilkerson, where Cyndie was volunteering her time as a student nurse and counselor. That is where Don & Cyndie met. Don later moved to Miami, Florida, where he and Cyndie ministered after getting married in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1969.
Don & Cyndie were first appointed as foreign missionaries with the Assemblies of God in the class of 1972. Their first assignment was establishing the Bible Institute in Lisbon, Portugal, and later ministered in Spain for 15 years. Don chaired the Missions Department at Trinity Bible College and then served for 14 years with the Latin American Theological Seminary and 12 of those years ministering in Cuba teaching theology and sound Biblical doctrine. He has ministered in Mexico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Cayman Islands, Belize, Guatemala, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Venezuela, Peru, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina, and in various countries of Europe.
It is a delight now to be able minister in Spain teaching and training leaders and ministering to the church in preparation for and with the expectancy of heaven-sent Pentecostal revival soon to descend on the country of Don Quixote and the Holy Inquisition. Besides serving as a professor at the Centro Superior de Teología Superior Asambleas de Dios (A/G Bible College Spain) Don and Cyndie minister in leadership at a church plant El Hogar Cristiano in the city of Alcalá de Henares, Madrid. Don also serves as coordinator of SETS, the European Seminary of Advanced Theology, based in Madrid.
Don enjoys stamp collecting, swimming, tennis and racquetball. He enjoys playing with his grandchildren. He is a fan of the Real Madrid soccer team and the Dallas Mavericks, Texas Rangers and Dallas Cowboys.
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