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8 Texans among IMB appointees
___Eight Texans were among the 69 people appointed as International Mission Board missionaries July 13.
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Margie Drane will work as a media specialist at the Caribbean Baptist Communication Center in Hollywood, Fla. She will develop and produce media resources to reach those who haven't heard the gospel. Most recently, she was a video production professor at Southwestern Seminary and a member of North Pointe Church in Hurst.
___ Kurt and Janna Holiday will live in Johannesburg, South Africa, and serve on an evangelism team. He will reach out to youth in several suburbs through a baseball ministry. Holiday took his first sports evangelism mission trip to Zimbabwe in 1998 and returned on another trip to the continent the next year with her, and a calling to Africa as missionaries was confirmed. Among the churches they count as influential in their spiritual growth are Southcliff Church in Fort Worth and Westbury Church in Houston. He considers Waco his hometown, while she considers Houston as hers. They have one daughter, Ruth Anne.
___ Lorri SeGraves will be a part of a student-ministry team in Valencia, Venezuela. The team's goal is to give every university student in Venezuela the opportunity to hear and respond to the gospel. More than 42,000 students live in Valencia alone. She was a teacher at Irma Marsh Middle School in Fort Worth and is a member of Birchman Church in Fort Worth. In 1997, she began her service with International Service Corps. For more than two years, she worked as a missionary-kid teacher and youth minister in Guatemala.
___ Mike and Jeana Tabor will fill a media strategy position in Peru. Tabor will develop media outlets necessary for expanding the gospel in Peru. She will disciple Christians in her home. They are members of Wedgwood Church in Fort Worth. They have two daughters, Samantha Kathryn and Lauren Elizabeth.
___ Wendell and Carrie Webb will serve in Germany as strategy coordinators for the Hochsauerland people group. Webb is associate pastor and music minister at Oak Grove Church in Burleson. Sheis a secretary at Southwestern Seminary. The couple considers First Church in Alvarado to be among those influential in their spiritual growth. Webb's father is a former pastor of Abbott Church in Abbott. She is the daughter of Henry Blackaby, the author of "Experiencing God."
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