Bob and Bobbi Snyder
2723 Horseshoe Rd
Westfield, NC 27053
Email: Bob and Bobbi Snyder

The Snyders are ending their term of service in January 2006. They are willing to speak when their schedule permits. See the Mission Speakers' page for information about how to contact them.

Bob and Bobbi Snyder were appointed to mission service in January 2001 and were commissioned in absentia by the 213th General Assembly of the PC(USA) in Louisville, Kentucky, in June 2001.

The Snyders work with a number of PC(USA)’s partners in southern Africa—especially Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia, and Madagascar. Their work has a dual focus on building churches and schools and nurturing leadership development. The joint project also ministers to groups of people that have not previously been exposed to Christianity.

For the Snyders, this is a return to Africa. From 1983 to 1992 they were mission workers for the Africa Inland Mission in Kenya. "We are eagerly looking forward to returning to Africa," the Snyders write. "During our previous years of service in Kenya, we grew to love the African people, and we’re excited about being ambassadors for the church in that part of the world."

Bob was in charge of pharmacy and central supply at Kijabe Medical Centre in Kijabe, Kenya. He also taught youth ministry at Moffat Bible College, training leaders for youth work in high schools. Bobbi taught home economics classes at the Rift Valley Academy and early childhood education classes at Moffat Bible College, both in Kijabe, Kenya. For her last two years in Kenya, Bobbi was head of the home economics department at Moffat Bible College.

Letters from
Bob and Bobbi Snyder Snyder

• December 2005
• June 2005
• May 2005
• February 2005
• December 2004
• August 2004
• July 2004
• May 2005
• February 2004
• January 2004
• December 2003
• November 2003
• September 2003
• July 2003
• June 2003
• April 2003
• January 2003
• November 2002
• Tete: July 4-8, 2002
• July 2002
• April 2002
• March 2002 (2)
• March 2002 (1)
• February 2002
• December 2001 (2)
• December 2001 (1)
• October 2001
• September 2001
• August 2001
• July 2001
• June 2001
• March 2001

Immediately before accepting the call to ministry in Zimbabwe, Bob was associate pastor of the Highland Presbyterian Church in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Prior to that, he had been an associate for evangelism and mission at First Presbyterian Church of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, from 1992 to 1997. Bob was the area director for Young Life in south central Pennsylvania from 1972 to 1982. Prior to that, he was pharmacist and assistant manager of the Park Avenue Pharmacy in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.

Bobbi was a teacher in the Cumberland County and Forsyth County, North Carolina, public schools from 1996 to 2001. Prior to that she was the director of the Pine Grove United Methodist Weekday School in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, from 1993 to 1996. She taught at the Falling Spring Presbyterian Church Pre-School from 1972 to 1983.

Bob holds a master’s in theology from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California, and a bachelor’s degree in pharmacy from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was ordained to the ministry of Word and Sacrament in March 1997 at Highland Presbyterian Church in Fayetteville, and is a clergy member of Coastal Carolina Presbytery.

Bobbi holds a master of arts degree in human resource leadership from Azusa Pacific University in Azusa, California, and a bachelor of science degree in home economics education from Penn State University, State College, Pennsylvania. She is a member of Highland Presbyterian Church in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and has been active in the church throughout her life.

The Snyders are the parents of two adult children, Bryan Snyder and Mrs. Kristin Moltz.

Birthdays:
Bob - June 8
Bobbi - August 1