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Missionary of the Week
Randall
Studdard is from Alabama and graduated
with a degree in forestry from Auburn
University in 1973. After working in the forest industry for 10
years, Randall felt called to the ministry.
He attended Bob Jones
University and graduated in
1989. Bonnie is from Arizona
and graduated from Bob Jones
University with a B.S. in nursing
in 1973. She served four years as a
missionary nurse in Suriname,
South America.
Randall
and Bonnie were married in 1980. They
finished deputation and language school in 1995 and began work in the Extreme
North of Cameroon. They lived and worked their first five years in the market
town of Kousseri, moving later to their present location of Makary, a large
village of about 3,000. This region is 99%
Muslim. A few of the small communities
are made up of Protestants who have moved here for work purposes.
Their
time in the Extreme North has been a pioneering work among small Arabic
villages which dot the landscape for many miles all around. On Sundays, they
preach and teach in a small church located about an hour from their home. About
15 to 20 persons attend each Sunday.
These people are from a Protestant background. Bonnie teaches the ladies
and children Sunday school classes. On Sunday afternoons Randall helps his
co-worker, Zane Bachman, teach a men's Bible course that was started in 2006.
Bonnie has two ladies' sewing classes where she gives Bible instruction. Each class is well attended and averages about
8-10 Muslim ladies from their home village
of Makary.
The
Lord has blessed them with seven children, John, James, Sam, Mark, Joe, Grace,
and Hannah.
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