McKinney Report

                                                                                                    by David McKinney       Beliza first met the church in 2009. Along with her came her little brother Kauã. He was two years old at the time. He has had the privilege of growing up in the church. This means that God has used many people to influence him in the process of his conversion.       He has participated avidly in Sunday School, VBS, tagged along with big sister to all kinds of youth devos and retreats, studied the Bible with Joseph and myself, and so forth.       Kauã is only thirteen years old, but has had a rough life. His mom died when he was little, his dad is distant. His dad remarried and his stepmother, unlike certain fairy tales, loved him as her own. However, she got cancer, was cured, then it came back and finally ended her life four years ago.       As we talked about him giving his life over to Jesus, I told him that something very new and different was about to happe

  These are our AME students. We are preparing these young people for mission work. When Joe McKinney, our father, came for a visit, we of course asked him to share his experiences of over forty years working as a missionary, minister, and elder with them.  He was worried at first that his mind wouldn’t remember things, but once he got started, he had stories, and more stories, that map out how to deal with the difficult situations in sharing the Good News with a lost world. The AME students learned a lot and loved him.