Apr 10, 2024
BWIM NC Podcast
"Gathering at the
Well"
Ka'thy Gore Chappell, Executive Director, Baptist
Women in Ministry of North Carolina
interviews
Rev. Stella Lail Perrin, Cooperative Baptist
Fellowship Field Personnel to Cyprus
Rev. Stella Lail
Perrin
Cooperative Baptist
Fellowship Field Personnel in Cyprus
"working with asylum
seekers to build beloved community"
In this episode, Stella Lail Perrin, CBF Field Personnel in
Cyprus, introduces us to an international ministry in the country
of Cyprus, located in the European Union. With a mission to work
with asylum seekers in order to build a beloved community, Stella
will be living in a place that is considered an island country in
the eastern Mediterranean Sea and the third largest and third-most
populated island in the Mediterranean. Cyprus is also considered a
transportation hub and, currently, described as a country that
receives more asylum seekers than anywhere else in the world.
Stella, an ordained minister, divorced, mother of three has now
relocated to Cyprus and is beginning her first year of ministry in
a different culture. Courageously, she is making herself available
to people where they are and experiencing life out of her comfort
zone by listening to God's call on her life. Stella is a graduate
of Gardner-Webb University and Gardner-Webb School of
Divinity; her areas of study include psychology,
counseling and theology. Professionally, Stella has
served church congregations in North Carolina in full-time
ministry; she describes herself as a person who is committed to
missions, an explorer of different cultures and a world traveler.
In this podcast, Stella tells her story of her call to global
missions, the soul searching that accompanied her missions
training, the opportunity to partner with CBF Global as well as a
local organization in Cyprus. This Baptist woman in ministry is
eager to do kingdom work in Cyprus as she engages asylum seekers
through her genuine people skills and in-depth pastoral care. With
hope and her life in Christ, Stella seeks to minister to the whole
person; her scripture verse is John 10:10. For more information on
Rev. Stella Lail Perrin, click
cbf.net/perrin.
Don't forget BWIM NC will host our annual "Symposium"
celebrating the 60th anniversary of the ordination of Addie Davis
on Thursday, September 12, 2024, 9:30 AM-2;30 PM, at Watts Street
Baptist Church, Durham. The first Southern Baptist woman to be
ordained, Addie Davis, actually celebrated this milestone event at
Watts Street. So, please join us on this special day to connect
with other Baptist women in ministry, be challenged by women
proclaiming God's Word as well as celebrating this momentous
occasion. Find us on Facebook (Baptist Women in Ministry of North
Caroina), Instagram (BWIMNORTHCAROLINA) and Twitter (@bwimc). TO
support the work of BWIM NC, click
bwimnc.org/support.html for online giving OR mail a
check to Esther Soud Parker, 7913 Ocoee Court, Raleigh, NC 27612.
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