Linary Church of Christ: Missions

Evangelism in other locations is what the Missions ministry is all about. We are anxious to support those who are spreading the Good News, whether in foreign lands or here in the USA. We try to focus our efforts in just a few places for more impact. As our budget has grown, we have added new works.

We believe in the personal touch. Several of our members have participated in foreign missions. Modern transportation has made all the difference!

Places We Touch:
1. Montgomery, Alabama 2. Central America - Guatemala, Belize, Nicaragua 3. Guyana 4. Paraguay	5. Ghana 6. Cameroon 7. Capetown, South Africa 8. China

Missions in the Budget

Where:	Who:
Paraguay, South America	Chris & Vickie Fry Linary is the sponsoring congregation for the Frys, who left in Sept. 2003 for Asunción, Paraguay on a 5-year commitment. They were in training from Sept. 2002 until April 2003 and then spent the time until they left with us here at Linary. Web Site for the Paraguay team Photos: First Service Prepping new building Team's photo site
Ghana, West Africa	Local preachers: We support quite a number of native preachers, either fully or partially. Photos of supported preachers. Michael Ingram Travels to Ghana every year or two to teach and deliver assistance to local ministries. Linary has assisted with travel expenses. Others sometimes accompany him. Photos from trip Feb. 25 - March 7, 2001 = Michael Ingram & Scot Shanks & Aaron Ingram Scot Shanks and Jeff Freitag Traveled to Ghana in Oct. 2002 Photos
	Kathy Page, Scot Shanks, Kathy Coleman, October 2003 Traveled from the Ghana coast to the northern border doing 9 seminars for ladies. Topic: The Woman at the Well, from John 4 Photos of trip Photos of Bibles distributed as a follow-up of trip in northern Ghana (the Moslem area).
	Kathy Page, Kathy Coleman, Callie Shanks, and Scot Shanks went to Ghana in Oct. 2006. Scot recruited a team through Rotary International to provide well digging equipment and training. The two Kathy's did women's seminars. Callie visited schools and orphanages.
Central America - Health Talents International	Health Talents International sponsors medical missions to Belize, Guatemala & Nicaragua. Dr. Larry Patterson has taken a number of Linary members with him on his annual trips. Photos from Dr. Larry Patterson's trips since 1994 Article about trip in 2003
Cameroon, Africa	Jim Corner travels to Cameroon, Africa, several times a year, supporting native congregations and their preachers.
China	China Now recruits Christians to teach in Chinese universities. A former Linary member and his family has been doing this and are now stationed stateside to manage the recruitment and support of such teachers along with a former preacher from Linary.
Montgomery, Alabama	Compassion 21, formerly Montgomery Inner City Mission, in Montgomery, Alabama - Jonathan Mosby.
Thicket Road Church of Christ Capetown, South Africa	Michael Jacobs and his family (wife Gail, sons Jesse & Jordan) have returned to South Africa after Mike finished his Master's degree at Freed-Hardeman University. They worked with Linary during their summers in the USA. They are working with the Thicket Road congregation in the Cape Town area. Web site for their church

Members' Mission Trips

AIM, Albania 2008+	Dan Ruchinski Dan will be working with the Let's Start Talking program in Albania. Since he speaks no Albanian, his students will learn English quickly! This program uses the Bible to teach English.
Guyana, South America	Medical mission, gospel campaign, building a church Something for everyone! Ricky Burse goes every year. Della Flatt, Aven Chadwell and Carol Ann Chadwell, 2004 Photos - 2004 Photos - 2006
AIM, Lubbock, Texas	Melissa Covington Linary sponsored Melissa as she attended AIM (Adventures in Missions), which is a 2-year commitment to study and experience mission work. Melissa's newsletters - First
Mexico 2002	Melinda Covington - A group from the States started building a church building. Other groups will complete the job.
Tanzania 2001	Marlo Tollett for 2 months in May, 2001

Other Missions of Interest

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Honduras	Ruth Hale's daughter Cheryl leads a medical mission trip to Honduras each spring. Linary provides many of the supplies and medicines for the trip.
World Bible School	Monthly support and materials and postage for Bible correspondence lessons. We are working with students in Ghana and Nigeria.
Russia	Christian Singing School conducts week-long schools in Russia and the Ukraine to teach congregational singing using a team of volunteer singers and song directors. Not in our budget, but several members have supported this work.

Missions

Missions in the Budget

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Members' Mission Trips

Other Missions of Interest