Below are the missionaries and their ministries we support here at the Granny White church of Christ.  We ask that you look over the list, pray for them, and if you know someone who lives in the areas served let them know about our mission efforts.  We would love to put you in contact with them!

Adam and Melanie Barr,  Cumbernauld, Scotland:

The Barrs’ work with the Graham McDonalds in a challenging, working-class area out from Glasgow: Cumbernauld. The congregation is extremely active and has a vibrant youth group meeting during the week that brings in parents to the worship services. Summer camps and area-wide meetings perpetuate great communication. Plans include a preacher-training school and a new building at a better site needed for growth that has already taken place.

Ron and Georgia Freitas,  Continent of Great Cities:

Ron and Georgia Freitas serve at Continent of Great Cities missions ministry(www.greatcities.org). Ron is the Associate Director and Georgia serves as the Director of Missionary and Women and Children Development. Ron and Georgia also nurture the team members through regular visits and retreats. Great Cities’ Mission is sharing Jesus with the Latin world! To achieve that mission, carefully trained teams are trained for six months and then sent to plant churches in the huge metropolises of North, Central, and South America. Great Cities is committed to assisting teams in whatever is necessary until the goal of establishing a 300-500 member church, meeting in its own building on a main avenue of the targeted city has been reached. Congregations are to also be led by nationalelders, deacons, evangelists and ministry leaders and should be able to fully support at least two full-time ministers upon completion of the mission.

Mark and Carolyn Hagewood, Joe and Linda McKinney, Joao Pasoa, Brazil:

Mark and Joe share a unique full-time ministry in Brazil, where they have both worked for over 20 years. Their purpose is to train native leaders in the area and to develop a strong youth following through the new program Right Step (www.RightStepBrazil.org) using soccer teams as a tool to evangelize youth and their parents with the concept of teaching them the Bible and moral values through molding the body, mind and heart. Their children are married to each other and work in the same area. Whichever couple is not in Brazil services as the regular minister for the Joelton Church of Christ and they swap houses and cars when transferring.

Bill and Faye Johnson, Springfield Gardens, New York:

This church began in the heart of Queens in 1985, where it me in an old house, and has grown to around 165 regular worshippers with a wonderful, serviceable building that interacts with the community to provide care in the form of spiritual and physical food. Table fellowship and numerous regular programs in this warm and loving group of Christians reach out to those who need the Lord. On January 1, 2012, the first elders and deacons were installed in an inspiring midnight service.

Charles and Pam White, Lyon, France:

The Whites team with the Hendrix family to develop and nurture the church in France. The Whites have been in France for 35 years (Lyon is the second city they have lived in) laboring to instruct from the basics the word of Christ. This work is closely interconnected with French-speaking congregations in Belgium and Switzerland who meet at an annual conference. During 2012 the church in Lyon hopes to appoint their first elders.

Billy and Chris Miller, Nashville Inner City Ministry:

The Millers work in the trenches of our Nashville projects to captivate the disadvantaged youth with the power of Jesus Christ. This ministry began over 30 years ago and reaches around 800 children for weekly Bible classes on Monday night, as they travel in the 27 buses to the classes. Counselors are provided, like Billy, that work in the projects nightly to show an alternate to the gang-style wreckless life of the streets. Annual events like the March catfish dinner and the August Conqueror’s Luncheon for business contacts help perpetuate this vital service for troubled youth. Youth counselors in the program are now in their third generation in some cases (their grandparents were once participants).

Edward and Salina Ho, World Christian Broadcasting:

A unique Chinese ministry extends from Nashville to all parts of the globe through the Ho’s work. The Natchez Trace church provide a building in which a Chinese congregation has formed near Vanderbilt and meets on Friday nights and Sundays for regular services. Around 50-70 participate. Ho works for World Christian Broadcasting as a Chinese correspondent, and they look to open the big transmitting station in Madagascar just after the beginning of 2012.

Alexander and Eleni Melirrytos, Athens, Greece:

The Jerusalemesque Omonia congregation, dating back into the 60’s, owns one floor in an office building in the heart of downtown Athens, a melting pot city drawing myriads of Eastern cultures into this gateway city that interfaces easily with the West. About 125 meet in three groups according to language of the service: Greek, Bulgarian and English. The Russian congregation meets with Greeks and electronic translation booths provide communication as needed. Around 10 languages are spoken in the diverse but exceedingly close group that experience intense weekly Bible study, joyous table fellowship regularly and annual family retreats at Cenchrea, ancient Corinth, and the ladies’ event Philadelphia.

Emmannuel Adeoye and Hembaor Ephraim, African Christian Schools:

Willie Cato, father of three of our Granny White members and first husband of Maxine Hunter, and several forward-thinking church leaders started this foundation in the early 60’s that led to the establishment of Nigerian Christian Bible College in the east of Nigeria and West Nigeria Christian College in the West where literally hundreds of preachers have been trained over the years. There are more Christians in Nigeria than in the U.S. now thanks in part to this amazing organization. Seewww.africanchristianschools.org. Emmanuel and Hembaor are Bible teachers at WCBC whereBiodun Owolabiis the chief administrator. Preachers are educated here and return home to reach thousands that worship every Sunday according to the New Testament.

Eastern European Missions:

EEM is famous recently for distributing hundreds of thousands of Bibles in the school systems in Russian and Ukraine, including youth camps advertised through “Million Dollar Sunday.” www.eem.org. Since 1961, EEM has been providing Bibles and Biblical literature in the languages of the nations of Eastern Europe. For many years, until God brought communism down, EEM had to find ways to smuggle Bibles through the Iron Curtain. Today, EEM supplies Bibles and Biblical literature in 20 languages, free of charge, to the people in the nations of the former communist bloc. Whether it is to one person who asks for a Bible or all of the public schools in an entire state, EEM provides God’s Word to people who want it.