Called to be a Missionary?
// Jeanne DeTellis Loudon
Being a missionary does not require a certain age, education, or location.
But it does require a heart that has a love for God’s people. I felt this desire at the age of 11 and began sharing my faith. At 12, I was teaching a Sunday school class for immigrant children, and then played the piano at a church plant in East Boston. While engaged to a Bible school student, I shared in the work of founding a church in Medford, Massachusetts.
Jeanne DeTellis in 1983 pioneering New Missions while living in tents.
Jeanne and Wildania Liriano from our Bombita school are thankful for God’s life-changing love.
Missionary work was in my heart from the time of salvation in 1954, and I was ecstatic to go to India in 1977. Finally, my heart was satisfied when we moved to Haiti in 1983. In 2000, God called George and me to the Dominican Republic. He had an aggressive cancer and passed in 2008. God gave me a second husband in 2010, Dennis O’Connor, who passed from cancer in 2015. In 2017, God gave me Ted Loudon and together we love missions.
Thank you, Jeanne DeTellis, for 41 years of missionary service and empowering others in Christ.
At our senior ages, we still love to travel. We also have energy and enthusiasm to work in a local church, and deliver food to people. Feeding people in Haiti was perhaps one of my greatest joys. But, sharing the Word was my highest calling. You can be a missionary anywhere...anytime...when you share God’s love with others. ~Jeanne DeTellis Loudon