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CBC holds a major commitment to world missions. From our earliest days, we asked God to make us not onlya supporting agency for the cause of world missions, but also a sending agency. The Lord has honored this request! Most of the missionary families we support call CBC their church home.
Take a look at our current missionary support roster:
Cliff & Judy Anderson - This dynamic couple met and married at the age of 40, had a baby at age 41, and headed to the mission field at age 42! Serving with Wycliffe Bible Translators (WBT) in the Philippines for several years, Cliff used his IT expertise to support the translators there. Cliff and Judy now serve on the team at JAARS Center (Jungle Aviation and Radio Service) in Waxhaw, North Carolina, an arm of Wycliffe that provides equipment, training and high-tech services to Bible translators in field locations around the world.
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Dick Beller – Also with Wycliffe Bible Translators, Dick, along with his late wife, Pat, has worked tirelessly for nearly 40 years to bring a complete Bible to the Aztec people of Mexico. Along with his team, Dick created three regional translations – eastern, western and central – for the difficult (and unwritten) Aztec language, an almost unheard-of accomplishment. |
| Everett & Susan Bracken – Everett serves as director of the Parkview Christian Learning Center, a Gwinnett county Released Time organization that offers religious courses to Parkview High School students. This exciting program has really taken off - nearly 90 Parkview students attend Everett's Comparative Religions class every day at CBC. He is also the director of Core Foundations, the organization that oversees all Gwinnett County Released Time programs. Everett and Susan live in Lilburn with their two children, Lauren and Daniel. |
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Boyden & Lois Donmoyer – Another longtime WBT couple, Boyden and Lois served 21 years in Peru before returning to Stone Mountain to work in the WBT Southeast Regional Office for another 20 years. Now retired, they serve in various ministry roles for both Wycliffe and CBC. Boyden also serves on the CBC Board of Elders. |
| Juanita Goodall – Though now retired, Juanita and her late husband, Harold, are remembered as trailblazers with Wycliffe Bible Translators. After serving in Peru for several years, the couple returned to Waxhaw, NC, where Harold established the JAARS (Jungle Aviation and Radio Service) Center. He also opened the WBT Southeast Regional Office in Stone Mountain, GA. Juanita has served with Wycliffe for more than 50 years. She lives at JAARS with her daughter, Tricia and husband, Dan Miller (see below), who also serve with Wycliffe. |
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Dick & Betty Kay – Longtime missionaries, Dick and Betty are involved in church planting and evangelism in Kingston, Jamaica, with IMS International (formerly Island Missionary Society).
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| Don & Ruth May – Another dedicated WBT couple, Don and Ruth are assigned to Americas Group and Eurasia Group, respectively. Working from their home base in Mountain View, AR, Don teaches leadership training seminars, while Ruth, a financial and computer whiz, Ruth handles accounting for the Eurasia Group via the Internet. Don and Ruth have four children: Daniel, Becky, Sarah and Deborah. |
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Dan & Tricia Miller – With JAARS in Waxhaw, Dan serves as the chief instructor in the aviation division. Tricia works in administration. Prior, Dan and Tricia served a number of terms in the Philippines where Dan, a helicopter pilot, would fly Bible translators to their assignments in remote regions. |
| Gene & Martha Purvis – This energetic couple served 12 years in Costa Rica before returning to Lawrenceville in 1998. Currently, Gene and Martha work with CAM International planting Hispanic churches in the Southeast. |
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Mike & Jan Rogers – Longtime members of CBC, Mike and Jan serve at the JAARS Center in Waxhaw in a variety of roles. |
| Paul & Kathy Schmidt – Currently based in Dallas, Paul serves as a WBT consultant to the translation project of Batembo, the native tongue of eastern Congo. While travel to Congo is currently prohibited, Paul is set to attend a final workshop in the bordering country of Uganda for the production of the book of Genesis in six Congo languages. Paul and Kathy have four daughters: Lydia, Anna, Grace and Kathryn. |
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Mary Ann Steffy – Located in Dublin, Ireland, Mary Ann serves with Greater Europe Mission. Beginning as a church planter, Mary Ann moved into full-time Christian counseling after earning her master’s degree in 1991. In 2000, she was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer. As monthly chemo treatments keep her cancer in remission, she continues her work as a Christian counselor, lay-counselor trainer and discipleship leader. |
Lawrence & Barbara Trumbower – Together, this hard-working couple runs a daily radio ministry (WCGB 1060 AM “The Rock”) and manage three local radio stations in Juana Diaz, Puerto Rico, through Grace Ministries International. Lawrence serves as the stations’ engineer and Barbara helps with programming, computer and administrative work. Their daughter, Tirzah and her husband, David, are missionaries serving in the former Soviet Republic of Kazakhstan.
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Chad & Becky White – The daughter of Don and Ruth May (see above), Becky grew up in CBC. When she was 16, her parents made the decision to become full-time missionaries with Wycliffe, taking support staff positions. Becky knew then her life would follow a similar path. Meeting Chad at Columbia International University, they decided to marry and become WBT missionaries. After graduation and a missionary stint in Asia, the couple was assigned to the Indonesia group. Chad supports the translation project tere as a linguistics specialist via his home computer in Loganville. Currently, he is earning his master’s degree in linguistics from the University of Georgia. Becky home schools their three boys: Josiah, Micah and Ethan. |
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Every February, CBC honors its missionaries by hosting an annual Missions Conference at church. All CBC-supported missionaries are invited to attend. The event, which usually takes place the third weekend in February, starts with a covered dish banquet on Friday night, followed by a worship service in the sanctuary. Saturday morning starts early with a men’s prayer breakfast in the Fellowship Hall. A women’s luncheon is held at noon. An evening youth dinner, a panel discussion with CBC missionaries and a worship service are held Saturday evening. A Sunday morning Sunday school visitation gives everyone a chance to meet our missionaries, learn what they do and ask questions. The event concludes with a final worship service.
Each year, a guest missionary is invited to serve as head speaker for the conference. For the 2008, CBC's guest speaker was Tom Lin, InterVarsity's regional director for the central U.S.
A brilliant student, Tom graduated from Harvard in 1994. Choosing missions over business, Tom served with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship as a team leader for Harvard and Boston University, pioneering new Asian-American Christian Fellowships at both schools. In 2002, he felt led to move to Mongolia – a country with NO believers – and launched a national InterVarsity movement there called Fellowship of Christian Students. When he left in 2006, 25,000 people openly declared themselves Christians; churches were not only sprouting but flourishing.
A second-generation Taiwanese American, Tom authored a book for InterVarsity Press called Losing Face, Finding Grace. A dynamic seminar speaker, Tom travels and speaks extensively. He serves on the advisory board of Leadership and Legacy Foundation, as well as on the Board of Directors of Wycliffe Bible Translators with our own Dr. Doug McIntosh.
Tom is married to wife, Nancy, and they have two small daughters, Abby and Olivia. They live in St. Louis.
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