Virginia District Missionaries
Rod & Sarah Reed
Nairobi, Kenya
Africa Region
Birthdays:
Rod: August 30
Sarah: September 12
Rebecca: October 27
Katie: March 15
Hannah: April 25
Jaaz: April 21
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Anniversary: August 12
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Shannon Smith
Cambodia
Asia/Pacific Region (Sponsored)
Birthday:
April 4th
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Facebook: Shannon in Cambodia​
Instagram: smsita
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Email:
The Domroes
Curacao
Mesoamerica Region
Birthdays:
Jim: August 29
Angela: February 15
JJ: January 28
Grace: December 15
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Anniversary:
September 5
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Facebook:
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Email:
jimangdomroes@protonmail.com
Nikolaj Sawatsky
Germany
Eurasia Region
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​Languages:
English, German, Russian
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Rod and Sarah are currently serving in Kenya. They met at Olivet Nazarene College. Rod and Sarah have three adult daughters, Rebecca, Katie, and Hannah and a son-in-law, Jaaz.
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Rod is Deputy Chancellor of Academic Affairs (Academic Dean) at Africa Nazarene University in Nairobi. Rod has also engaged in research and publication projects.
Sarah is the Nazarene Children's Ministries Coordinator for the East Africa Field. Sarah has encouraged effective children's ministries in the Nazarene Church. She has also developed a children's Nazarene membership curriculum called My Church for the Africa Region.
Shannon has served as a missionary in Cambodia since 2018. She spent her first two years learning the Khmer language to be better able to communicate with the Cambodian people.
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Shannon works to support Nazarene pastors in Cambodia. She has also participated with medical teams and helped with food distribution.
Shannon's prayer is that God would use her to share Christ's love and hope with the Cambodian people.
Jim and Angela are currently serving as missionaries in Curacao. They serving as missionaries in Paraguay for 4 years.
Jim was born in Buffalo, NY. He worked as an engineer prior to his calling as a missionary. Jim is an Ordained Minister. Jim and Angela went on several short-term mission trips to Central and South America.
Angela was born and raised in Bogota, Colombia. She came to the United States in 2002 to study for a Master's Degree. She is a Licensed Minister.
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They have a son, JJ, and a daughter, Gracie who like math and different cultures. J.J. loves technology, volleyball, table tennis, soccer and fencing. Gracie loves swimming, art, reading and baking. The kids miss their home country sometimes but are conscious that people need Jesus and that as a family they must obey their call to the mission field.
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Nikolaj was born in Kazakhstan, a part of the former Soviet Union, to which his family of German Mennonite descent was banned to during the Communist regime. The family was able to leave the Soviet Union in 1978 and moved to Germany where Nikolaj completed his school and a professional education as a surveyor.
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Nikolaj and his late wife, Lydia, got involved in mission work with the Navigators and Trans World Radio and were blessed to be able to use their knowledge of Russian culture and Russian language skills. They soon felt a call to full-time ministry as missionaries and went to study at European Nazarene College (EuNC) in 1987.
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Nikolaj's current responsibility is the development of literature in all of the Eurasia Region which includes more than 30 main languages of the region.
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He has four children: Denis, Sophie, Tabea, and Lukas.
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