Members of the Board

Dr. David J. Hoyte is an evangelist, teacher, and author. He has been a pastor for the last 40 years, working extensively in the area of prayer and personal devotion, holding seminars, prayer retreats, and teaching on prayer and spirituality. Dr. Hoyte has read and studied with great interest the spiritual development of the church and individual believers throughout the ages, and is convinced that every believer can have the privilege of knowing God in a deep and intimate way. He holds advanced degrees in Theology, Psychology, and Education from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Ashland Theological Seminary, and Liberty University. He is the founding president of Regional Christian University in Edinburg, Texas.

Debbie Deremiah was born in the mid-west and raised a Mennonite where she learned the Bible very well. The Scriptures were very important for them to memorize. Her education includes some college courses in Computer Science. After her marriage to a Lutheran man, she attended the Lutheran church. In 1985 at 35 years of age, she discovered that there was much more to the Holy Spirit than they knew. They joined a Charismatic, non-denomination church, where they were taught the importance of the Holy Spirit baptism the Gifts of the Holy Spirit. She has been part of a home cell group for over 30 years. Debbie and her husband have been coming to the Texas Valley for 25 years as Winter Texans, and have been supporting Area Evangelism Ministries International for the last 8-10 years. Debbie has participated in cooking, painting, hosting dinners, and teaching sewing at the ministry’s Sanctuary Christian Academy for needy children, and served as a member of the Board for several years. She supports the ministry financially through her organization “Missions R Us”, a non-profit that she created in 2007, raising money in Illinois to bring down to the Texas Valley. She is also part of a team that finalizes the construction of new houses for poor and needy people through the acquiring and donation of bedding, curtains, kitchen equipment, etc., so that the family could move into the new house. She is also in involved in taking food and clothing to the border regions of Mexico.

​Eva Arechiga was a marketing consultant for 20 years with National Mailit, but stepped down 2 years ago to start her own company, RGVPlus TV Network. She is a graduate of McAllen Memorial High School, after which she attended Pan American University. 

She was saved in 1999 at Abundant Grace Community Church and continued under the ministry of Pastor Jim Vinita for 22 years. Happily married with 3 daughters, she has now been attending Vital Church in McAllen for the past 5 years, where she is involved in the prison ministry.

She is a key person in the ministry of Sanctuary Christian Academy in Edinburg, Texas where her desire is to fill up that Christian Boarding School with children from all over the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. 

Sister Eva has joined the Board of Regional Christian University at a pivotal time in its history, and her vision is to recruit students from the Rio Grande Valley who would go forth as lights to win one million souls for Christ, and put godly mayors and council members, and godly doctors and professional people into the workforce throughout the Rio Grande Valley.