Lucretia Meece
1678 Pounds Road
Stone Mountain GA 30087
Email: Lucretia Meece

Lucretia lives and works in Nanchang, Jiangxi, P.R. of China, but prefers to receive her mail at the above address in Georgia.

Lucretia Meece was appointed in June 2006 to serve as an English teacher with the Amity Foundation in China, where she serves at Jiangxi Normal University, in Nanchang.

Lucretia and another Amity teacher share responsibility for teaching about 50 middle-school teachers who are sent to this special university program for a semester of oral English and American and British culture.

"The teachers are chosen to come to the university from their rural schools," writes Lucretia, "because they are English teachers themselves, but they may never have spoken to a native English speaker before."

Letters from
Lucretia Meece

• May 2008
• March 2008
• January 2008
• November 2007
• September 2007
• May 2007
• March 2007
• February 2007
• October 2006

Lucretia describes Nanchang as a provinical capital and a growing industrial city of 3 to 4 million in the hot, arid corner of southeast China. Most of the province is rural and poor and is covered throughout by mountains and lakes.

Lucretia’s call to mission service began at a Bible study, which “reawakened some areas that needed strengthening—tithing, mission, focus on service.” Then, “prayerful study and meditation led me to use the next chapter of my life to continue to follow Christ, teach, lead a Christian life as a disciple, and be available to serve.”

She found her first opportunity to serve overseas with the Peace Corps and worked in the Ukraine from 2001 to 2003, where she was a teacher trainer at Volyn State University in Lutsk.

Her experience in the Ukraine made her realize the importance of community. “I became part of the community at many levels,” she writes, “from my teaching jobs to shopping at ‘my’ thrift store and bazaars, developing relationships with the bread lady, the commandant at my hostel, and my neighbors.”

Prior to enlisting in the Peace Corps, Lucretia taught English as a second language at Dekalb Technical College in Clarkston, Georgia (1994 to 2001).

She was a senior secretary at Emory Crawford Long Hospital of Emory Healthcare in Atlanta, Georgia, where she gave administrative support for pulmonary function, EKG, neurophysiology, and respiratory therapy. Prior to that, Lucretia was the subscription services manager for the Presbyterian Publishing House in Atlanta, Georgia (1981 to 1990).

Lucretia began her work-life as a teacher in Rochester, New York, where she served for 13 years in the 1960s and 1970s in the Rochester City Schools and the Gates-Chili School District.

She holds a bachelor of science in elementary education from East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, Tennessee, and has a TESOL (Teaching English as a Second Language) certificate.

Lucretia was ordained to the office of elder at Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church in Stone Mountain, Georgia, where she continues to be a member. She is the mother of three adult sons.

Birthday: August 10