Five missionaries with Alabama ties were among recent appointees by the North American Mission Board (NAMB).
Sammy and Joyce Campbell were appointed in church and community ministries in Birmingham, while Rick and Kelda Brenny and Jeri Entrekin are serving in other states.
Campbell is dually employed by Dawson memorial Baptist Church, Homewood, and Birmingham Baptist Association as executive director of M-Power Ministries. A native of Memphis, Tenn., Campbell is a graduate of Stillman College in Tuscaloosa; Western Illinois University in Macomb, Ill., and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. From 1990 to 1991, he served as a mental health counselor for the Salvation Army in Fort Worth, Texas. He served in community ministries at College Avenue Baptist Church I Fort worth 1990 to 1993. From 1991 to 1993, he was mental health counselor at All Saints hospital and then at Harris Methodist Hospital, both in Fort Worth. He served in church and community ministries with the District of Columbia Baptist Convention in Washington, D.C. He has served with Dawson since 1997.
Mrs. Campbell is a native of Thibodaux, La. She is a graduate of Southern University in Baton Rouge, La., and Mary-Hardin Baylor College in Belton, Texas. She is a schoolteacher and has taught in Alabama, Louisiana, Texas and Maryland. The Campbells have two children, Cameron and Calen.
The Brennys serve in church and community ministries in Louisville, Ky. Brenny is director of Jefferson Street Baptist Center in Louisville. He considers Fairhope his hometown and is a graduate of Auburn University and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY. He served 1991 to 1993 as a US/C-2 missionary in Phoenix, Ariz., with what is now NAMB. From 1993 to 1995, he served as youth minister of Carlisle Avenue Baptist Church in Louisville, Ky. From 1994 to 1995, he was an intake worker with Highland Community Ministries in Louisville. From 1996 until this year, he served as assistant director of Jefferson Street Baptist Center.
Mrs. Brenny, also a graduate of Auburn, considers her hometown Peachtree City, Ga. She has worked as a speech pathologist, special education teacher and nanny. She served alongside her husband as a US/C-2 missionary in Phoenix, Ariz., from 1991 to 1993. The couple has three children: Rebekah, Joel and Isaac.
Entrekin is a ISC-2 missionary in Oklahoma City, Okla. The US/C-2 program provides college graduates under the age of 30 with opportunities to serve for two years in North America missions. During her term of service, Entrekin is serving as weekday ministries director with Trinity International Baptist Church, which includes Korean, Laotian, Chinese and English congregations. She is working with such projects as the food bank, computer lab ministries and other benevolence ministries.
A native of Cullman, Entrekin is a graduate of the University of North Alabama in Florence. She served on the staff at Shocco Springs Conference Center in 1995. In the summers of 1997 and 1999, she served as a volunteer summer missionary through the Baptist Campus Ministries to Pitman and Cape May, N.J., and Green River, Wyo. Entrekin’s parents are Gerald and Alice Entrekin of Cullman. Her home church is North Village Baptist Church, Florence.
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