Four missionaries with ties to Alabama have been appointed by the North American Mission Board.
Dianna Cagle serves in Lexington, S.C., where she is director of the Batesburg-Leesville Christian Ministry Center. She also works with the Lexington Baptist Association, doing public relations and helping with outreach ministries. She was appointed under the US/C-2 program, in which young adults complete two years of missions service in the United States or Canada.
Cagle, an Alabama native, is a graduate of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. She previously worked as an assistant news editor for the Birmingham Post-Herald and as a copy editor/staff writer for The Alabama Baptist. Earlier she served as a copy editor/page designer for The Decatur Daily and for the Union Recorder in Milledgeville, Ga. She is a member of Shades Mountain Baptist Church in Vestavia Hills, Birmingham Association.
Jeannette Macias serves in Clayton (Ala.) where she is a Nehemiah Project church planter. In helping to establish a Hispanic congregation in the Barbour County area, she ministers through English-As-a-Second-Language classes, home visitation, children’s ministry, translation services and home Bible studies. She also is planning Vacation Bible Schools in three communities during the summer.
Macias, a native of Managua, Nicaragua, is a graduate of Leavell College in New Orleans. She previously has served as a semester missionary at Baptist Friendship House in New Orleans, a house parent and teacher for Christian Deaf School in Managua and an accountant assistant for a grocery story chain in Managua.
David W. “Wayne” and Alice L. McMillan serve in Bismarck, N.D., where Wayne McMillan is associational missionary for Central and Badlands Baptist associations and church planter strategist for the western two-thirds of North Dakota.
McMillan is from Uriah (Ala.) and is a graduate of the University of Mobile and New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. He previously planted churches in Wolsey and Watertown, S.D., and served as pastor of several churches in Alabama.
He served 10 years as a missionary church planter in Africa through the International Mission Board.
Alice McMillan, also an Alabama native, previously served as a high school paraprofessional in Summit, S.D. She also served with her husband as a missionary in Africa,. She has held a number of leadership roles in local churches, including GA leader, Sunday School teacher, youth director and WMU director.
The McMillans have two children: Rachel, 15, and Staci, 12. (NAMB)
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