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Dec. 18, 2000 News media contact: Linda  Bloom·(212)870-3803 New York
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By United Methodist  News Service

  
A diverse group of 36 missionaries are being assigned internationally by the
United Methodist Board of Global Ministries after being commissioned Dec. 10
in Atlanta.

Hailing from six continents, the missionaries are members of the United
Methodist Church, United Church of Christ, Presbyterian Church USA and
autonomous Methodist Churches in Ireland and South Korea.
   
The missionaries, their home annual (regional) conferences and places of
assignment are: David and Linda Armitage, Methodist Church in Ireland,
assigned to the East Belfast Mission, Northern Ireland; Vicky M. Bigony,
Florida Annual Conference, to Imanuel Methodist Church School and Wesley
School of Theology, Jakarta, Indonesia; and the Rev. John A. Calhoun, New
York Annual Conference, to the Moscow Protestant Chaplaincy, Russia.

Also, Helen L. Camarce, Philippines Central Conference, assigned as area
financial executive in Manila; the Rev. George B.M. Carew, North Georgia
Annual Conference, to GCNN Theological College of Northern Nigeria; Nancy A.
Carew, North Georgia Annual Conference, to the Women's Leadership Training
Center, Zing, Nigeria; and Eun Ha (Grace) Choi and Jae Hyoung Choi,
Presbyterian Church in Korea, assignments pending.  
    
Also, the Rev. C. Dale and the Rev. Kelly A. Clem, North Alabama Annual
Conference, to the Lithuania United Methodist Church; Ariel D. Robledo
Collins and the Rev. Michael W. Collins, Western North Carolina Annual
Conference, to Phnom Penh, Cambodia; the Rev. Matini Niponi and Milika P.
Finau, California-Pacific Annual Conference, to Fiji; the Rev. Jeffrey A.
Hassell, Western North Carolina Annual Conference, Lithuania United
Methodist Church; and Peter S. and Maria Estela V. De Hudy, West Michigan
Annual Conference, to Rio Colorado Agricultural High School, Bolivia.

Also, the Rev. Barbara Smith Jang, West Michigan Annual Conference, to
Mokwon Methodist University, South Korea; the Rev. Dr. Norman C. and Sue C.
Kao, Illinois Great Rivers Annual Conference, to the Methodist Church in
Taiwan; Anne A. Kolbe, Western North Carolina Annual Conference, to Phnom
Penh, Cambodia; Emelia and Joshua Kofi Kyeremeh, Danish United Methodist
Church, to Copenhagen, Denmark; and the Rev. Dong Su and Woo Hee Lee,
Wisconsin Annual Conference, to the Korean Christian Church in Japan.

Also, Vilmar Villa Martinez, Middle Philippines Annual Conference, to the
Evangelical Methodist Church in Bolivia; Suzanne E. Porter,
Baltimore-Washington Annual Conference, assigned as a pediatric nurse
practitioner in Central Asia; the Rev. Jose Orlando and Yolanda Rivera,
California-Pacific Annual Conference, to the Argentine Evangelical Methodist
Church; the Rev. Chung Suk Song and Hyung Ran Song, Korean Methodist Church,
to the Methodist Church in Kenya; the Rev. Chris and Martha
Stockwell-Goering, United Church of Christ, to the Argentine Evangelical
Methodist Church; Dr. Kalindi Thomas, Church of North India, assigned as
Coordinator of Community-Based Primary Health Care, Asia/Pacific Region; and
Devorah Umipig, Philippines Annual Conference, to Kotobuki Chiku Center,
Japan.
 
      
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