| Meet the Missionaries |
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| Written by Kevin Gaskell | ||||
| Sunday, 29 June 2008 19:11 | ||||
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Ronald W. Greenwich Southern Baptist Missionary to South America (Appointed December 1983) Born: July 13, l948, in Memphis, Tennessee, and considers Monticello, Arkansas, his hometown. Education: Received the Bachelor of Arts degree from Ouachita Baptist University, Arkadelphia, Arkansas; the Master of Religious Education degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas; and the Master of Social Work degree from the University of Houston (Texas). Married: Alana Ichter, born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Daughter of missionaries to Brazil, she grew up in Brazil. Children: Four grown children. Prior Experience: Social worker at Methodist Home in Waco, Texas, a family service agency in Fort Worth, Texas, and Arkansas Baptist Home for Children in Monticello. Resident counselor at Christian Child Help Foundation in Houston, Texas. Program supervisor at Southeast Arkansas Human Development Center, Warren, Arkansas Alana Ichter (Mrs. Ronald W.) Greenwich Southern Baptist Missionary to South America (Appointed December 1983) Born: May 20, l950, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Daughter of Southern Baptist missionaries to Brazil, she lived in Amite, Louisiana, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She considers Monticello, Arkansas, her hometown. Education: Received the Bachelor of Arts degree from Ouachita Baptist University, Arkadelphia, Arkansas Married: Ronald Greenwich, born in Memphis, Tennesee Children: Four grown children. Prior Experience: Resident counselor in Houston, Texas; therapy assistant at Methodist Home, Waco, Texas; director of the preschool program and later a teacher with Community Education in Monticello, Arkanas Current assignment: Church and home outreach evangelism in Brazil. Hobbies/special skills used in work and witness: Teaches English, cross-stitch and electric keyboard. The Greenwich Family Ron’s family is from Little Rock. He received a BA in Psychology and Sociology from Ouachita Baptist University, an MRE from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and an MSW from University of Houston. Alana grew up in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where her parents served as IMB missionaries for 35 years. She received a BA in Sociology from Ouachita Baptist University. They were married in 1972 and have four children: Jason, a missionary in Italy; Jeremy, in Nairobi, Kenya teaching in a mission school; Jana, a social worker for Gladney Center for Adoption in Fort Worth, Texas; and Joel, a recent graduate of Ouachita Baptist University. He served at MFuge International Camp in Ecuador and Canada this summer. He will be attending Fuller Seminary in the Fall. Ron and Alana were appointed by the IMB in 1983 and have been serving among the urban poor of Greater Florianópolis in Southern Brazil since that time. They have been involved in church planting and social ministries including two orphanages, two drug and alcohol treatment centers, two community centers, and several community development projects in poor areas. They have worked with many volunteer teams who have built churches throughout the state of Santa Catarina and done impact evangelism projects to boost new church starts. Ron and Alana Greenwich on their work in Florianopolis: “Our main work is with the urban poor communities of Greater Florianopolis, the capital of the state of Santa Catarina in southern Brazil. We work directly with Brazilian churches encouraging them to look around their neighborhoods and see the needs, and proceed to help them study ways of meeting those needs as well as preach the Gospel. We also work with our state Baptist convention in targeting priority areas both for evangelism and construction of buildings for existing congregations. On an ongoing basis, we can always use medical teams, evangelism teams to do prayer walking, visiting public schools and homes, family seminars, Bible clubs for children, sports evangelism, etc.”
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