Missionaries
Missionaries With Supporting Churches in Troy Conference
Donna Kay Campbell (#982907) serves as a church and Community Worker in the Syracuse Westside Urban Mission in Syracuse, New York.
Donna explains the Syracuse Westside Urban Mission as a cooperative ministry with several churches, schools, and community organizations working together to improve the quality of life in a very diverse and poverty ridden area of central New York.
When asked how she gets into the schools, Donna says, “I walk in like everyone else. It is really not hard to get into the schools; schools are very open to church and community based partnerships.”
Belinda A. Forbes (Advance #12109Z ), Accion Medica Cristiana, Managua Nicaragua
Dr. Belinda Forbes is assigned to work with Accion Medica Cristiana (AMC or Christian Medical Action), a Nicaraguan Christian ecumenical organization specializing in community health and development in impoverished, rural communities, many of which are indigenous. As AMC's International Liaison for Community Health, Belinda serves God by coordinating a community-based, primary dental health program as well as interfacing with AMC's international partner organizations.
Terry D. Henderson (#05281Z) and
Muriel A. Henderson (#05282Z) serve with the “Give Thee Them to Eat” program in Mexico.
Terry is an agricultural missionary and is founder and director of the “Give Thee Them to Eat” program. This integrated develop-ment program is sponsored jointly by the Methodist Church of Mexico and the United Methodist Church through the Advance program of the General Board of Global Ministries. Terry says of his work, “This social outreach program complements the evangel-istic work of the Methodist Church of Mexico.”
Muriel serves as the program coordinator, fundraiser and teacher for the “Give Thee Them to Eat” Advance program. She also organizes leadership training events in Christian Education on the local, district and conference levels in the Southeast Annual Conference of the Methodist Church of Mexico.
Miguel Mairena (#12877Z) and
Nan McCurdy (#10801Z) serve in Nicaragua.
Miguel works with the Women and Community Association in San Francisco Libre, a county in the northwestern section of the country that was especially devastated by Hurricane Mitch. He facilitates reconstruction work for the Women and Community Association, including the construction of 400 houses and the installation of a major potable water system complete with household latrines. Most of the funding for this work was provided by UMCOR. He also counsels local men in the areas of reproductive responsibility and the prevention of intrafamily violence.
Nan also works for the Women and Community Association and facilitates community-based development and the empowerment of women in this impoverished region. She also serves the Antonio Valdiveso Ecumenical Center in Managua, where she develops initiatives designed to foment integral human development and ecumenism and solidarity. The children shown are Daniel and Nora.
Dr. Sylvia Reimer (#12925Z) serves in the Wellness Program of the General Board of Global Ministries.
Sylvia is a medical consultant in the Wellness Program which is based in Atlanta, Georgia and works in cooperation with Emory University to provide medical, psychological and spiritual care for General Board of Global Ministries mission personnel.
Sylvia says of her work, “I welcome the chance to continue missionary service by working with others in the Wellness Program to ensure quality health services for our missionaries overseas, thus helping them to serve more effectively at their place of assignment. I also hope to witness to God’s love and care during my interaction with other health care providers in the course of my work.
Theodore Warnock (#13030Z)
Carla Warnock (#13031Z)
Ted is serving as Missionary for Special Projects for the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR), Foremost among his responsibilities is his work with UMCOR’s land reclamation and building programs around the world. One of these is the Land Mine Removal Program in Mozambique, which aims to rid this African country of the many unexploded anti-personnel land mines that remain after thirty devastating years of war.
Carla serves as the Coordinator of the General Board of Global Ministries Wellness Program. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, and working with Emory University, the Wellness Program provides medical, psychological and spiritual care for GBGM mission personnel. Prior to this assignment Carla and Ted served as Coordinators of the United Methodist Volunteer in Mission Program in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Meridith Kay Whitaker (#982994) serves as a Church and Community Worker. She is the Director of Cookson Hills Center, a mission project to the Cherokee Indians in Cookson Hills, Oklahoma.
Meridith administers a thrift shop, craft shop, cottage industries, food-cooperative, summer work camps, counseling and health programs, special projects and other programs that focus on child and health education issues. She was appointed to the World Methodist Council in 1996 and in her spare time she pastors a 12-step Church (for people in recovery from drugs and alcohol) in Vian, Oklahoma.
Dr. Mark D. Zimmerman (#10908Z) is assigned to Kathmandu, Nepal to the United Mission to Nepal (UMN).
Mark is the Medical Director of Patan Hospital. He divides his time between clinical work and keeping the 300-bed facility running smoothly. He says about his work, “Because of extreme poverty and geographic isolation in Nepal, decent medical care is not available to many people. I have been blessed by the Lord with skills for healing. I feel that I should put these skills to use where they are most needed.”
Mark is married to Deirdre Zimmerman, a former GBGM missionary and a native of Ireland. They are the parents of one son, Zachary.
Full biographical information on any of these missionaries is available at the General Board of Global Ministries web site.
