Missionary Information & Support

First United Methodist Church gives many opportunities for persons to be involved in both mission giving and hands-on mission involvement.

Missionaries we support:

• Kendra Enright serves as our missionary in Zambia. In addition to pasturing a rapidly growing church, she helps lead a greatly needed and highly successful Pastor’ School. Students come from Congo, Zambia, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Senegal, staying right on the campus of the Kafakumba Training Center. She has two married sons, John and Nathan. 
• Dr. Laura Alexander Elliott is our missionary to Haiti. She works to develop self-help and health education programs as well, as evangelism. A big emphasis is in the area of AIDS awareness. She continues to find homes for rescued children, organizes gardening efforts, helps volunteer groups build housing for local families, teaches English and a multitude of other ministries. In addition several of our members help support a family in Haiti – a widow with 4 children.
• Neal and Shirley Hicks is our missionaries to the Japanese in Tennessee. He is a member of our church and considers it to be his home. Neal is a pastor who works in evangelism, organizes prayer efforts, and works ecumenically with other Christian pastors here. He has two sons, Neal-Hideo and Philip. 
• Mark and Rebecca Smallwood are our missionaries at Red Bird Mission in the mountains of Kentucky. Mark teaches band and choral music in grades K-12  and Rebecca teaches 5th grade at Red Bird Mission School. They have two grown children Leah and Nate. Click here to read an update from the Smallwoods