Tom and Susan Canady served as missionaries in Honduras for 30 years, helping to plant more than 400 churches in this mountainous Central American country, and North Carolina Baptists have been a part of their ministry from the beginning…actually, even before that.
“My first real exposure to missions was in Royal Ambassadors,” said Tom, who grew up in Wilmington. “The RAs welcomed me in unconditionally, to basketball, baseball and summer camps. They adopted me into everything. It was a real strong influence on me.”
Susan has an equally rich heritage of Baptist missions education. When her family joined Wrightsville Beach Baptist Church, a strong Woman’s Missionary Union group emphasized missions through the WMU programs and missionary guest speakers. Both Baptist Men youth programs such as RAs and WMU groups are funded by your gifts to the North Carolina Missions Offering.
During Ridgecrest’s annual foreign missions week at summer camp, Tom and Susan received their call to Honduras.
"Missions education is very, very important,” said Susan. “If you talk to missionaries, especially missionaries who have spent any length of time on the mission field, a majority of them will tell you they first saw the need and felt God tug at their heart strings during missions education as children."
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