Mozart Adevu
Mr. Mozart M.K. Adevu is a missionary with the General Board of Global Ministries of the United Methodist Church serving in Accra, Ghana, West Africa as the Africa Regional Coordinator for the Sustainable Agriculture and Development Program for the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR).
Mr. Adevu's main focus is providing leadership in training of farmers identified by local churches and conferences in six African countries. Training is in subjects appropriate to local needs for improved food production reduction in hunger and malnutrition, and economic development of communities.
"God's
mission of feeding the hungry and the poor has been
the hallmark of my work. Through God's divine grace, the program has already
improved the lives of over 3000 destitute families in Africa over the last
four years of service."
Working extensively in the planting/cultivation of moringa trees. (See Moringa Miracle Tree) Mozart briefly shares that several families returning home after the war in Liberia found that the moringa trees survived, and many families avoided severe malnutrition. In the Kamina area of the DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo), where health facilities are scarce, the moringa tree has become a wonderful and free source for treatment of several diseases.
Elma Jocson
Dr. Elma Jocson
is a missionary with the General Board of
Global Ministries of the United Methodist Church and is a general surgeon
assigned to the Tansen Mission Hospital under the United Mission to Nepal.
Tansen is a 136-bed rural hospital located 300 km. southwest of Kathmandu. Aside from her general surgery responsibilities, Dr. Jocson's scope includes obsterics/gynecology as well as some orthopaedics. She is head of the hospital's burn unit, and serves as the Foreign Medical Student Coordinator.
"Jesus
didn't just preach the kingdom of God. He ministered to the sick, healing
both the body and the spirit. I'd like to follow Jesus' example." Elma
says of her call to mission service, \b "I hope to mirror God's love
to people through the work I do. Here in Nepal where open evangelism is
against
State laws, we have the opportunity of introducing our Saviour by the way
we live. We witness not only to patients but also to other hospital staff
and young Nepali doctors. In Tansen hospital, we belive that 'We serve,
Jesus heals'."
Lori and David Persons
David and Lorene ("Lori")
Persons are at Mulungwishi Station in the Democratic Republic of Congo and
also Zambia, Africa. David is Dean of the Mulungwishi Theological Seminary
at The University of Katanga at Mulungwishi. Lori is director of the Doris
Bartlett Women's School, which provides training for the wives of seminary
students.
