Beulah Ann Missionary Baptist Church has always supported mission work worldwide.  Presently, we support American Baptist Missions in several ways.  Through budgeted amounts and freewill offerings, we give to the Retired Ministers and Missionaries Offering, the World Mission Offering, and the One Great Hour of Sharing offering, which is for aid during natural disasters.  We also give specifically for Baptist Campus Ministries, which serves students in all the colleges in West Virginia, and for the Weirton Christian Center, which serves inner city kids through after school and summer programs, and for Alderson-Broaddus college.

  There are over 140 American Baptist Missionaries, several of whom have at various times visited Beulah Ann.  Of very special interest to us are David and Leslie Turley, in Yokahama, Japan, where they both teach school, David preaches, and Leslie teaches English to adults in their home.  David's grandparents, Luther and Mary Morrison, were faithful members of this church, and while David and Leslie were on home assignment they lived in Ona, and they and their sons Shinya and Takeshi attended here.

    Our church has another connection to Wycliffe Bible Translators through Russ and Jan Perry.  Russ and Jan are stationed in Insular Southeast Asia, where Russ designs computer programs to help with translation, and trains translators to use them.  Jan works in administration.  The Perrys have three children, Matthew, Nathan, and Steven.

    We also support Pierre and Meg DeMers, translators with Wycliffe for the Quichin people in Alaska.  A few years ago a group of men from this area built a two mile road from the DeMers home to the main road (they call it the Hillbilly Highway).  The DeMers have three children, Rocky, in college, and Amy and Marie, in high school.

      With Youth With A Mission are Mr. & Mrs.  Lauvray.  He grew up in this community and is a member of Milton Baptist and  works with computers.

    For many years Beulah Ann has supported Fred and Barbara Findley, with New Tribes Missions in Venezuela. The Findleys spent more than twenty years living with the Piroa Indian tribe, translating the Bible.  For the last several years, they have been speaking in churches in Venezuela, making them aware of the need for missions in their own country.  New Tribes is now in the process of building a school for pastors, lay leaders, and those who would reach the tribes who have not yet heard the Gospel.  The Findleys' two children, Melanie and Brian, are grown and now live in the U.S.

    Don and Barbara Smith are missionaries with Biblical Missions Worldwide in Pueto Rico.  Much of their ministry is with American servicemen.  The Smiths have five children.  Their son Will is Youth Pastor at the church where they minister.

    Wayne and Mary Haynie have established Interlink Ministries, in Apple Creek, Ohio.  This ministry makes and maintains connections between various types of mission work, such as translation, evangelization, construction, communication, financial support, prayer support, etc.  The Haynies have one son, Travis, who has been on several international trips with Teen Outreach.

    Besides these budgeted amounts, usually supplemented by freewill offerings, we also have several two or three month projects, which support more local ministries.  In 1998 we have given to ECCHO, and local food and clothing bank, the Huntington City Mission, which ministers to the homeless, and toward the upkeep of the Guyandotte Baptist Association Camp, which is used by all the churches of the association for camps, retreats, Bible schools, dinners, ball games, etc.  And last project each year is always the Holiday Baskets, which contain groceries and goodies for the holidays.

    We will also participate in the Love In a Shoe box project, sponsored by Samaritan's Purse, which sends gifts to children all over the world.

    Many members of this church have gone on short term mission work tours or evangelistic tours, and the church has always generously supported these trips through free-will offerings.

Submitted by Ann Caldwell