| The Amity Foundation is a social
welfare and development organization started by Chinese Christians
in 1985. Amity’s Education Division helps place foreign
teachers in rural teacher-training colleges that would otherwise
not be able to afford their students the educational advantage
of a native English speaker. Students in these programs will one
day be middle-school English teachers in some of China's less
developed areas. Amity hopes that better English training will
result in a higher percentage of rural students being able to
take fuller advantage of their tertiary education, perhaps making
some small dent in cycles of poverty that affect those poorer
areas.
Don began to feel the call to ministry in China when he did pro
bono work for the Political Asylum Project of Austin, working
with immigrant women who had been abused by the citizen or legal
permanent resident husbands. “I believe that in whatever
place or circumstance we may be,” writes Don, “God
draws us toward the work of peacemaking, justice, and reconciliation.
I have witnessed lives being transformed as women with limited
English ability, few resources, and little or no family for support,
escape from abusive situations, heal from their physical and emotional
injuries, and become independent women as they struggle to regain
their dignity and live their lives in peace and safety.”
Prior to their appointment, Don was an attorney and managing
partner for Richards Lindsay & Martin, LLP, in Austin, Texas.
While going to law school and while practicing law, Don was also
a part-time minister at Central Christian Church in Holland, Texas.
Throughout most of the 1980s Don was a businessman and franchise
owner at the same time serving as part-time pastor at First Chirstian
Church of Lexington, Texas. He has been the pastor of churches
in Texas, Kansas, and Kentucky.
Prior to her appointment, Kate was a clinician at Seton Medical
Center in Austin, Texas, supervising and coordinating staff for
three operating rooms. During most of her long career in nursing
she worked as an operating room nurse.
Don holds a bachelor’s degree in religion and philosophy
from Phillips University in Enid, Oklahoma, an M.Div from Vanderbilt
Divinity School in Nashville, Tennessee, and a J.D. from the University
of Texas School of Law.
Kate is a registered nurse with a nursing diploma from Fort Sanders
Presbyterian Hospital, with additional college credits from Lee
College in Baytown, Texas, and the University of Houston, Houston,
Texas. She is a certified operating room nurse and has national
board certification in perioperative nursing.
Don is ordained to ministry by the Christian Church in Kentucky.
His last pastorate was in the Central Christian Church in Holland,
Texas, in 2000. The Lindsays are members of Shepherd of the Hills
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Austin, Texas.
They are the parents of three adult children, Jose Lindsay of
San Antonio, Texas; Rachel Lindsay of Fort Worth, Texas; and Victor
Lindsay who lives in New York City.
Birthdays:
Don – December 25
Kate – December 3
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