I joined the Faulkner University faculty in 1995 and I direct the missions program.  I also serve as an elder at the Fort Deposit Church of Christ.  Before coming to Faulkner, I was a missionary in Meru, Kenya for over ten years.  My wife and I worked among the Meru tribe on the northeast slope of Mt. Kenya.  The tribe numbered about one million in size.  We worked with several other missionary families.  We and one other family founded the work in Meru in 1984.  Our ministry was a church planting ministry which required us to learn the local tribal language to proclaim the gospel message in the heart language of the Meru people.  During the ten years on the mission field we were blessed to see thirty-two congregations planted that continue to this day with new congregations also being started by the national churches.  There are currently forty-five congregations among the Meru and Maasai that border them.  We also have a Bible and vocational training center, Kambakia Training Center (KTC), in the central town where Christians are able to receive more formal education.  KTC offers Bible courses year around for church leaders, Christians and anyone desiring to learn.  The vocational training assists people in developing more skills for earning a living.  More information is available at merumission.org.