2012 Young Adult Missionaries

2012 Young Adult Missionaries


2012 YAMs after our commissioning service with the Core Team Members and Thomas Kemper, the general secretary of Global Ministries

Mission Interns


Faida Bahati is from Kamelie, a city on the western shore of Lake Tanganyika in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She is initially serving with the World Student Christian Federation (WSCF) in Geneva, Switzerland.

Brittany L. Browne was raised in Columbus, Ohio. She is initially serving with the World Student Christian Federation (WSCF) in Geneva, Switzerland.
http://britbrowne.wordpress.com

Christian Love B. Daroy is from Little Baguio in the South Cotabato Province on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines. She is initially serving with GRENCODA, the Grenada Community Development Agency, on the Caribbean island of Grenada.
http://christianlovedaroy.wordpress.com

Katie Davis is originally from Arlington, Virginia and will be initially serving with the Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants in Hong Kong.

Rebecca L. Dean is from Moores Hill, Indiana and will be initially serving with the Evangelical United Methodist Church of Ecuador.

April English has most recently lived in Dallas, Texas and will be initially serving with the CLAVES Program of Youth for Christ Uruguay in Montevideo.
http://mulattomusings.wordpress.com

Sarah Frazier is from Haleyville, Alabama and will be initially serving at Africa University, Mutare, Zimbabwe, within the Faculty of Health Sciences, to support community programs focused on the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

Anna Gill is from Canal Winchester, Ohio and will be initially serving with GRENCODA, the Grenada Community Development Agency, on the Caribbean island of Grenada.
http://annajo08.wordpress.com

Jacques Kambol is from Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of Congo and will be initially serving with the Shade and Fresh Water Project of the Methodist Church of Brazil.

Brad Kenn is from Phoenix, Arizona and will be initially serving with the Shade and Fresh Water Project of the Methodist Church of Brazil.
http://bradkenn.blogspot.com/

Emma Kerr-Carpenter is from Elk Grove, California and will be initially serving with the Shade and Fresh Water Project of the Methodist Church of Brazil.
http://giveagirlapassport.wordpress.com/

Esther Ji-Eun Kim is from Seoul, South Korea and will be initially serving with Theological Education by Extension in Zambia (TEEZ).

Albert Longe is from Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and will be initially serving with the Kapatiran-Kaunlaran Foundation, Inc., a community-development agency, in Manila, Philippines.
http://albertotshudi.wordpress.com/

Beth McRill is from Streamwood, Illinois and will be initially serving in the research and advocacy program of the Mission for Migrant Workers in Hong Kong.

Rebecca Nolte is from Hays, Kansas and will be initially serving with the Cameroon Mission in Central Africa, based in Yaoundé.

Erica Oliveira is from South Carolina and will be initially serving with the Youth to Jesus ministry of The United Methodist Church in L’viv, Ukraine.
http://exclusivelyerica.wordpress.com

Whitney Peters is from McKinney, Texas and will be initially serving in the areas of communications and volunteer coordination with Acción Médica Cristiana in Nicaragua.
http://whitney-p.blogspot.com/

Rebekah Phillips is from Charleston, South Carolina and will be initially serving with the childcare ministry office of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa in South Africa.
http://theoheretic.wordpress.com/

Kelly Schaefer is from Kalamazoo, Michigan and will be initially serving with the Asian Rural Institute in Japan.

Annie Solis-Escalante is from Lima, Peru and will be initially serving as a junior consultant with the Health and Healing Program of the World Council of Churches in Geneva, Switzerland.

Hillary Taylor is from Columbia, South Carolina and will be initially serving at Seth Mokitimi Methodist Seminary in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
http://therebemethodtomadness.wordpress.com/

Tiffania L. Willetts is from Lehigh Acres, Florida and will be initially serving in the Latin America and Caribbean Regional Office of the World Student Christian Federation (WSCF) in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
http://tiffaniaw.wordpress.com

Laura Wise is from Texas and will be initially serving as a peace advocate associate with Initiatives for Peace in Mindanao on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines.

Michelle Wood is from Fate, TX and will be initially serving with the childcare ministry office of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa in South Africa.
http://missiodeiwwc.blogspot.com/

Nazar Yatsyshyn is from L’viv, Ukraine and will be initially serving with a special peace project of the National Council of Churches in Korea, based in Seoul.
http://faithjourney.posterous.com

Christian Zigbuo was raised in Liberia and will be initially serving as a peace advocate associate with Initiatives for Peace in Mindanao (InPeace) on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines.


US-2 Missionaries


Nson Syntiche (Tish) Agre is a native of Côte d’Ivoire who has lived in the United States for several years. She is serving at Community Development for All People in Columbus, Ohio.

Jerrica Becker is from Fairview, Oklahoma and she is assigned as assistant chaplain for the Murphy-Harpst Children’s Centers, Inc. in Cedartown, Georgia.
http://lifeofageorgiapeach.blogspot.com/

Allen Bower is from Birmingham, Michigan and he is serving as assistant to the executive director of the Albany United Methodist Society in Albany, New York.
http://uneducatedchristian.blogspot.com

Elisabeth Danielsons is from Hannibal, Missouri and she is assigned as coordinator of curriculum and community engagement at Project Transformation in Dallas, Texas.

Elaine M. LaVan is from Fairfield, Iowa and she is assigned as an advocate at the Women’s Shelter at the Navajo United Methodist Center in Farmington, New Mexico.

Darlene J. Logston is from Sodus, Michigan and she is assigned as garden coordinator at the Primavera Foundation in Tucson, Arizona.

Sarah McKay is from Apex, North Carolina and she is assigned as campus and community liaison for mission and justice at the Wesley Foundation serving Florida International University and Miami-Dade College in Miami, Florida.

Tara Miller is from Williamsburg, Virginia and she is assigned to Mary’s Place and the Church of Mary Magdalene in Seattle, Washington.

Brandon Powell is from Indian Trail, North Carolina and he is assigned as a caseworker and donations coordinator of the N.O.A.H. Project, a mission of Central United Methodist Church in Detroit, Michigan.

Mistead Sai was born in Ghana and now lives in Great Mills, Maryland. He is assigned to Interfaith Worker Justice in Chicago, Illinois.




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