Gary Locklear – Home missioner living out the Love of Jesus – 10-Fold
Posted under: Local Outreach, Missions
Today, through 10-Fold, we journey with our Missionaries serving in the U.S. One serves here with us in the North Carolina Conference. Read more of his story below, but before you do, please register at 10-Fold. Today’s sponsor will donate $1 on your behalf toward the wondrous ministries of our U.S. based missionaries.
Gary Locklear is a General Board of Global Ministries Church & Community Worker and Home Missioner. Gary is assigned to the Rockingham District Native American Cooperative Ministry in Robeson County North Carolina. Robeson County is one of the poorest counties in the US. Gary works with the thirteen Native American churches in the North Carolina Conference.
His primary responsibility is in the broad area of mission, living into the life of Jesus through Native American interpretation and communicating the story of the ministry. Gary host’s numerous work teams during the year providing renovation to homes and churches in the community around Robeson and adjoining counties. In such ministry, the lives of participants are transformed into a greater likeness of Christ, as they reflect on these acts of love and compassion, as they reach out and touch their neighbor, and as they discover Jesus reaching back to them. It is disciple-making in the fullest sense. And of course, Read more »
