Missionaries

By the time she was in sixth grade, Dawn Anderson knew what she wanted to do with her life. As a child, she didn’t dream of becoming a ballerina or a teacher or a princess. Dawn had a bigger goal in mind. “In sixth grade, I told my parents I was determined to go to the mission field,” Dawn said. At the age of 21, she accomplished her goal when she and her husband, the Rev. Steve Anderson, traveled to the jungles of Brazil to minister to native people. “We both grew up in Christian homes.

“Enter through the narrow gate. For … small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.” - Matthew 7:13-14 Ashley Wingate thought her internship in Haiti would be about working with children. Prisoners and prostitutes hadn't entered into her plans. But God had other plans. The 23-year-old graduate student from Winchester returned home in June from working with Northwest Haiti Christian Mission after she earned her teaching degree.

Dear Editor, We read a great deal about the missionaries who sacrifice all of the things we take for granted in order to spread the gospel to remote places to those who don't know it or who haven't had the opportunity to hear it, while at the same time working to improve many other aspects of their lives. I want to tell you about the missionaries who are right here in Danville. These missionaries may not be living in a hut with less than desirable conditions, but they are spreading the word to those who have never heard it and educating those same people in reading, writing and arithmetic.

Bobbie and Larry Womack, missionaries of Taclaban, the Island of Leyte, Philippines, presented the program at the June 19 meeting of the LLL Club held at Central Baptist Church. The Womacks showed slides and a movie of the students in school and the feeding program that they worked with in the Philippines. Billie Pace was the program chairman and announced that the club would go to the Depot Restaurant in Glendale on July 3. The meeting was conducted by Marsha Chasteen, president, who gave the invocation.

Bobby and Larry Womack gave members and guests of Chapter 1828 a glimpse of their life in the Philippines. Jane Larkey introduced her daughter and son-in-law to the chapter on Tuesday at A Taste of China. The Womacks are missionaries in Tacloban City on the island of Leyte. Their work includes supplemental feeding programs for children, health classes and clinics, and discipleship classes. They are funded through the Hope Foundation for the Womacks. The meeting was called to order by Gayle Rees, chapter president.

Tim Dickerson is planning to study primatology in college. But after spending the last several months in Kentucky, the 21-year-old Utah native might want to change his zoological major from studying primates to learning about turtles. Dickerson sampled a Kentucky delicacy, fried turtle, not longer after moving to Danville, and he can't get enough of it. "I was around when they caught the first one (turtle) I ate and I even helped clean it," he said. "I've had fried turtle five times and really love it. " Fried reptiles is just one of many lessons in Southern cuisine and culture that Dickerson has learned since coming to these parts.

MIAMI - Step off the airplane in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, and soon after a missionary is likely to be thinking, "What am I doing here?" The second day they'll think, "If I ever get out alive, I'll never come back," and on the third, "I'll never get out, they'll have to bury me here. " Finally on the fourth day the shock wears off, and they say to themselves, "When I come back next year. " Joe Mobley attempted to prepare a group of Bluegrass and Indiana missionaries for the culture shock that begins today when their plane touches down.

Missionaries from across the globe will visit Nicholasville United Methodist Church Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 24 and 25. Chuck Long, a long-term missionary, has experience in Colombia, Hungary and Japan. He will speak to the men's breakfast at NUMC at 7 a.m. Long's wife, Luci, an accomplished vocalist, will share her talents at the women's brunch at 10 a.m. at the church. The speaker for the morning will be Rachel Coleman, a missionary to Ecuador, currently serving as an adjunct professor at Asbury College.

A Danville missionary stuck temporarily in Haiti is expected to come home Sunday. Eddie Arnold was expected to fly home today, but his American Airlines flight was canceled because of threats of violence following Haitian elections. Arnold called his wife, Susan, Thursday on a satellite phone and told her he was in good spirits, safe and plans to continue working until he can come home. Arnold is in Ranquitte, Haiti about 100 miles from the capitol of Port-Au-Prince, where protests are expected to calm after Rene Preval, a favorite among the poor, and president from 1996 -2001, was announced as the winner of the Feb. 7 elections.

Highland United Methodist Church will hold revival services on Oct. 19-22 at 7 p.m. each day. Rev. Bill Moore will be the guest evangelist. He is a past Wesley Foundation Director having served students at the University of Kentucky, has led many retreats and training events for youth, college art students, and adults across the country, and is currently the senior pastor of the Southern Hills United Methodist Church in Lexington. Rev. Moore's mother, Mrs. Margaret Moore, a missionary to South Korea for 39 years will share about her ministry during the Sunday worship service at 11 a.m. She is the daughter of missionaries who served in China and South Korea.

A Casey County man, who moved out of the country with his family to work and live as missionaries, is being fondly remembered. John Lello, 46, was killed last month in Papua New Guinea.  “It was kind of heartwrenching,”¿said Randall Morris, a neighbor and fellow church member of John Lello.  Lello died as a result of a tragic accident while felling trees with local villagers, according to the Adventist Frontier Missions website....

Wilmore missionaries Stacie and Sergio Silva are embarking on another adventure. Though the young couple has traveled the world, shared their love for God in Brazil and returned to Kentucky, they feel called to go back, this time with a new mission -  to strengthen families. “Before, we were more focused on just the children,” Stacie said. “But when we returned, we felt God calling us to minister to the family unit as a whole.” Their new calling also came with a blessing of their first child, KayleeAna, who at 2 is already learning Portuguese, English and even knows a little Norwegian.

Wilmore's Jennifer Riggs has many passions. First and foremost is her passion for Jesus Christ; a love for children is not far down on the list. In May 2011, Riggs, 29, a 2005 graduate of Asbury University, took a leap of faith to help satisfy her passions by moving to Ecuador to become a missionary with OMS (One Mission Society) International. Since arriving in Loja, Ecuador, Riggs established Ricon de Aventuras, Adventure Corner in English. That ministry also developed an in-home church in August 2011.

Stacie and Sergio Silva went to Brazil a year ago to help youth in the slums from living on the streets. This month, they will return to the states to share their journey and prepare for God's next step for them - learning how to minister to families of the youth. Stacie grew up in Wilmore and went into mission work in 1999. She met Sergio while working with children who lived on the streets of Belo Horizonte in Brazil in 2003. The two married three years later and had their first child, daughter KayleeAna, in early 2010.

“Enter through the narrow gate. For … small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.” - Matthew 7:13-14 Ashley Wingate thought her internship in Haiti would be about working with children. Prisoners and prostitutes hadn't entered into her plans. But God had other plans. The 23-year-old graduate student from Winchester returned home in June from working with Northwest Haiti Christian Mission after she earned her teaching degree.

A new festival that is geared toward being an outreach to the community will be held at Christ The Head Missionary Church, located at 845 E. Main St. The “Community Back to School Festival” will be held 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday. Jessica Key, chairman of the festival committee said the mission of the festival comes from The Bible’s New Testament, Matthew 25:35-40. Those passages read: “For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’ “Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink?

By the time she was in sixth grade, Dawn Anderson knew what she wanted to do with her life. As a child, she didn’t dream of becoming a ballerina or a teacher or a princess. Dawn had a bigger goal in mind. “In sixth grade, I told my parents I was determined to go to the mission field,” Dawn said. At the age of 21, she accomplished her goal when she and her husband, the Rev. Steve Anderson, traveled to the jungles of Brazil to minister to native people. “We both grew up in Christian homes.

Editor’s Note:  Kevin Osbourn and his teenage daughter Savannah were members of a central Kentucky mission team to Haiti last early this month with Christian Flights International of Richmond. This first installment of Osbourn’s account of the trip was sent from Haiti Nov. 8. They returned last week. Other installments will follow over the next several days. With Hurricane Tomas threatening Haiti and one million people still living in tents, nine people from Winchester and other parts of Kentucky arrived in Port-au-Prince Tuesday for a mission to Ranquitte, a community of 22,000 in Northeast Haiti.

With Hurricane Tomas threatening Haiti and one million people still living in tents, nine people from Winchester and other parts of Kentucky arrived in Port-au-Prince Tuesday for a mission to Ranquitte, a community of 22,000 in Northeast Haiti. Our team came to install solar panels at the Calhoun-Spady Missionary School and to repair computers, deliver medicine, as well as toothbrushes and dental supplies from Kentucky. A spreading cholera epidemic increased the chances of disaster for an already hard-hit Haiti.

The pastor of the Wilmore Community Missionary Church resigned in September, leaving the church without a leader a month before its 50th anniversary. But just two months later, it had a new pastor with 11 others ready to step in and preach as WCMC and Wilmore ministry GO InterNational entered a new, partnership. GO is a 40-year-old Christian ministry that coordinates short-term mission trips to foreign countries. Bert Jones, GO's president and CEO, was voted in Nov. 15 as pastor at WCMC, where he will be the primary preacher.