January Women's Luncheon--Pam Markey

I wanted to write you all a quick note about this coming Saturday's Womens Luncheon. It starts at 11am at the church and Pam Markey will be teaching us on "TheTale of Two Women". I am excited that she has decided to come and share with us separately from her time that she will be sharing about missions.

Pam is a dear friend to me and nearly a 2nd mother to me! I have known her for over 30 years. Pam is currently serving the Lord at Calvary Chapel Bible College Europe in Hungary. She is the head of the missions training at the college. Her experiences as a missionary kid in Zimbabwe, Africa from the age of 7 as well as her years of ministry here in Crawfordsville as a pastor's wife and then 15 years of ministry in Ukraine have allotted her wisdom from the Lord and discernment regarding marriage, children, women's ministry, and missions.

We encourage you to come and fellowship with other sisters in the Lord and glean from the Lord through Pam's teaching. It will be a wonderful time of food, fellowship, worship, and teaching! If you know you are coming please send me a quick reply if possible. It is not necessary to reply, of course, but we are just trying to get a general head count for food.

If you need childcare, please reply or call me (366-4617) with the number of kids you will have.

I hope to see you all there and I am excited as to what the Lord has
in store for us! May the Lord bless you this week!

In Him-

Cindy Ellingwood
 
Bio for Pam Markey:
Pam spent the years of her life from age 7 to 17 on the mission field with her parents in Zimbabwe, Africa.
At 17 she returned to the States to attend college. She enrolled in Kentucky Christian College, then in 1970 she graduated from Indiana University with majors in zoology and allied health sciences.

After graduating she married George Markey, who became the pastor of the first Calvary Chapel in the Midwest before they moved to the former Soviet Republic of Ukraine as missionaries in 1992 with their eight children.

In 1999 they adopted their ninth child. During the fourteen years that they spent in Ukraine, the church that they planted in Kyiv resulted in many daughter and granddaughter churches being planted in other cities of Ukraine.

In 2006 they moved to Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, a Muslim country in Central Asia that was also part of the former Soviet Union, to do church planting work.

George was taken ill in Bishkek in January 2007 and went to be with the Lord in February. Pam is currently on staff at the Calvary Chapel Bible College in Vajta, Hungary.

Here is a link to an interview with Pam:
http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hischannel.com%2FBackQ%2F2000%2F2509%2F.php&h=7126dm96KEsq14XVtVZk7ltFiCw