Lynn Thomas - Life Of A Missionary, Intercultural Ministries, And Global Missions

05/02/23 • 97 min

Lynndon (Lynn) Thomas is currently the Director of Global Missions for the Missions Ministry Team of the Cumberland Presbyterian denomination. Lynn's introduction to the mission field took place in his teenage years. He later attended Bethel and then Memphis Theological Seminary. After seminary, he married Nona Young Thomas, and they moved to Colombia, South America as missionaries. They returned in 1998 to the USA after eleven years on the mission field, where Lynn assumed the position of Director of Cross-Culture Missions USA. He facilitated planting churches in the USA among immigrant populations. He then took the position of Director of Global Missions and worked with Cumberland Presbyterian missionaries and mission fields outside the USA for twelve years. Lynn will leave his position at the end of June, 2023 and assume a new role as the Director of Program Development for OptIN, the trade school for Christian formation (Scottsboro Cumberland Presbyterian Church).

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You're listening to The Cumberland Row, and I'm your host, TJ Malinowski. The following is the faith journey of Reverend Doctor Lynn Thomas, the director of Global Missions for the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Lynn is a former missionary and the first to hold the position of Intercultural Ministries for the denomination. In this conversation, Lynn shares his early introduction to mission work, his calling into ministry, and areas of hope for the ch