Meet a Missionary Monday!

Lynette Moran, wife of our previous Monday missionary, also knows a thing or two about local mission work. As mentioned previously, Lynette and Dan worked together in a variety of settings, including in the projects of South Boston and here in Texas, mostly with adolescents from challenging home environments. Here in Texas, she too was a house parent at a cottage with eight beds, working primarily with teenage girls removed from their homes due to abuse and neglect.

She has also enjoyed the experience of mission work at other locations in Texas and Pennsylvania through Habitat for Humanity and other church relationships. Most notable, she spent time in Taos, New Mexico on the Pueblo Reserve, creating bricks from mere mud and helping a family build their home, among other activities on the Reserve.

Don't let that fool you though. She's known in her Sunday school class by her fancy high-heel shoes and loves a good time shopping for a great deal. When the wind sways just right and she has a few minutes, she also enjoys a good, long run-on sentence or two via William Faulkner. And on those rare opportunities that they can both steal away for a few days, Dan and Lynette enjoy the great middle-class comfort of a good state park for camping. Perhaps their experience constructing and taking down a campsite will be of use in Haiti!

Though born and bred Texan, Lynette is a commissioned deacon through The United Methodist Church, Western Pennsylvania conference. Though slow-going, she is continuing with the official ministry process while excitedly participating in ministry such as this mission trip to Haiti. 

After finishing with her graduate degree in theology at Boston University alongside Dan in 2006, she decided to focus her specialized deacon's field. She currently works as a teacher's assistant at Texas State University in the School of Sociology, in addition to working toward a degree in the same field.

Biblical Favorites: All of Psalm 27, ending in:"I remain confident of this: I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord (13-14)"