Speaking this week- in The Great Comission Class- Will and Breanna Connor

Will & Breanna Connor are originally from southwest Michigan.  The Lord used a Gideon’s New Testament to bring Will to repentance and faith in Christ in 1997.  Breanna came to faith as a young girl with an early desire to “be a missionary”, and began to live that out during her teen years on short-term trips to the Dominican Republic and Ecuador.  Will and Breanna wed with the intent to take the gospel of Jesus Christ to the foreign mission field, and for the past thirteen years have been preparing to do so.  Together they have served as house parents for teenage mothers at both a rural maternity home and an urban transitional living facility for nearly four years, and have also been to Mexico short-term.  Will has served on a variety of short-term trips in Haiti, Rwanda, Colombia, and India.  They were appointed with Pioneers in 2010, a mission organization which “mobilizes teams to glorify God among unreached peoples by initiating church-planting movements in partnership with local churches”.  Will and Breanna will soon join their teammates (a nurse practitioner and a midwife) in north India to begin ministry among a rural Himalayan people group of about 80,000 who embrace a mixture of Hindu, Buddhist, and animistic beliefs.  Accompanied by their four children (Silas (11); Lydia (10); Ezra (3); and Asha (10 months)), they will seek to develop relationships for the kingdom among neighbors, and through business relationships and medical clinics.  Breanna has an A.S in Nursing from Truman College in Chicago, and B.S. in Microbiology from the University of Florida.  She has been a practicing R.N. for the past 7 years.  Will has been a practicing histotechnician for the past 7 years, holding HT(ASCP)QIHC licensure.  He also has a B.A. in Applied Linguistics from Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, and has been slowly pursuing a M.Div. from Columbia Biblical Seminary and School of Ministry.  Will and Breanna are members of Creekside Community Church in Gainesville, and particularly enjoy sharing life with international students in town.