| One of the purposes of conference
is to recruit and encourage young people to serve Christ on the
mission field. Hundreds of young people have accepted the challenge
to minister in the United States and overseas, both to short term
and to career mission assignments.
Sue also works with the World Mission Initiative (WMI), a fellowship
of Presbyterians founded in 1996 dedicated to developing mission
vision, nurturing missionary vocations, and cultivating missional
congregations. WMI is supported by Pittsburgh Theological Seminary.
Sue Anne has been under continual appointment as a mission co-worker
since March 1998. Until November 2004, she ministered in Kenya
with then-husband Tim Fairman, who worked with Daystar University.
Sue Anne used her home in Kenya as a base for ministry with the
Daystar University students.
Sue Anne spent much of the 1970s and 1980s working with the Presbyterian
Church of East Africa in youth ministry and urban ministries,
church planting, and leadership development. From 1985 to 1998
Sue Anne nurtured and trained youth leaders in Africa under Young
Life International. Beginning in 1990, Sue Anne was a frequent
volunteer in one of Mother Teresa's homes for the destitute and
dying in Huruma, a Nairobi slum.
Sue Anne graduated from Westminster College in New Wilmington,
Pennsylvania. She is a member of Bethany Presbyterian Church in
Mercer, Pennsylvania. She has two adult daughters, Julie Ward
and Joy Neeson.
Birthday: October 5
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