2010 Team Members

Rev. Deborah Dail God has blessed me with the opportunity to serve alongside eight awesome team members in Haiti. I look forward to seeing where our church’s missionaries serve and the unique challenges they face. I hope to be helpful in any ministry projects the team is assigned, to provide encouragement for the team and to encourage Bruce and Deb. I hope to come back with my worldview enlarged, my eyes opened to the needs of God’s children in Haiti and my spirit renewed as I continue to support and challenge our congregation in our ministries to God’s children close to home and far away. ---	Kester McCullough I have felt called by the LORD to Haiti for the past few years, and I am so excited to be returning with the church for their second trip! I felt God's power and work on both my previous trips there, and I look forward to seeing him change lives (the Haitians' and my own) once again. I have wonderful friends I've made in Haiti, and I would like to thank every single person who contributed for their gifts. The job is not done however, so please keep us in your prayers! ---
Mason Murawski As we have prepared to go to Haiti this year, I have worked to ask God to keep my mind and heart open to His purpose for our mission there. I strongly hope to rekindle relationships and involve myself in the community thoroughly for those ten days that we are down in Haiti. The amazing sense of the importance of emotional well-being, family and community is something that we as Americans could certainly learn from and grow in. I also look forward to watching the various team members use their gamut of God-given gifts and talents to spread His word and love. ---	Sarah Sheffield I'm a rising junior at Old Dominion University, majoring in Art Education. This past year God has really worked in my life by opening my eyes to new things around me and giving me a great campus community/family in Intervarsity Christian Fellowship, and then this amazing opportunity to go with the missions team from your church to Haiti was presented to me. I feel like this trip is part of the journey, giving me a chance to serve with an open heart and mind and also to learn from the Haitian people, as well as the other members of the mission team.  ---
Delores Fleming Ever since the first mission team went to Haiti two years ago, I have felt a call to go. When I was let go from my previous job in December 2009, I realized I now had the opportunity and prayed for God's guidance. As the current mission team came together, I knew that the Lord wanted me to be part of the team. I pray that our team will serve God with humility and grace. I look forward to seeing the face of God in the Haitian people and in spreading God's love to them. Additionally, I want to encourage Bruce and Deb who are on the forefront of our mission work and support them in whatever endeavors they have for the team. ---	Jym Newton Jym Newton is proud to making his debut performance with The Denbigh Presbyterian Mission Players! He wants to thank everyone in the cast and crew of this production, especially the stage manager, Sandi Murawski, for her tireless behind-the-scenes work has been inspiring to the entire cast. This is not Jym’s first time on stage for this show; he had a role in the same show in 1988 and is looking forward to reprising it again after 22 years. When he is not performing on stage, Jym is performing in the classroom, where he teaches middle school math here in Newport News. ---
Dan Little My name is Daniel Little. The first trip to Haiti was an awesome experience and when I was blessed with the chance to go again I couldn't turn it down. ---	Rob Seals The Lord started making me aware of His presence in the world outside of the U.S. at the Urbana '09 Conference in St. Louis, Missouri. God broadened my perspective of His power and sovereignty through the testimonies of several missionaries who had been called to different places all over the world. By the end of this conference, I felt God was showing me that there was so much of Him that I had yet to see and that His love reached the ends of the earth. I made a commitment to go on a short term mission trip to serve other people, to follow where the Spirit led me, and to pursue the Lord with all my heart. I am very grateful for this opportunity to be a servant in Haiti and I am appreciative for all of the support that has been provided along the way. Thank you. ---
Bill McCullough For my return to Haiti, I was called to help set up Bruce's amateur radio station, to write the team blog and to work in the mission field with a little more understanding this time. I consider myself blessed to be involved in these servant activities again. ---

Teamwork!