Meet Our Missionaries in Residence

Ken and Brenda Massey

Missionaries to Kenya, Africa

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Our current missionaries are Ken and Brenda Massey. They will be staying in our missionary residence through December 2011.

Ken and Brenda Massey are WJBC members serving in Kenya, Africa with Africa Inland Mission. They are on staff at Rift Valley Academy, in Kijabe, educating missionary kids. RVA is a boarding school for MKs from over 70 different mission organizations serving in over 20 countries. The school educates around 500 students, K-12. The school year consists of three, three-month terms separated by one-month vacations with their families.

Ken and Brenda have three daughters: Erin - who recently graduated from Union University with a bachelor’s degree in social work, Rachel - a freshman at Union with plans to study nursing, and Jessica - currently a junior in high school.

Since Africa Inland Mission is an independent, faith-based mission organization, the Masseys are required to raise 100% of their financial support. If you are interested in joining their support team, you may contact them for information via email at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or by visiting http://www.aimint.org/usa/give.html.

Meet the Masseys

Past Missionaries in Residence

Jeff and Kathy Deasy

Missionaries to Kenya, Africa

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Meet Jeff and Kathy Deasy. They will be staying in our missionary residence from June 5 through August 24^th, 2010. Jeff and Kathy have served with the International Mission Board since 1995 ministering in Brazil and now in Kenya. They have worked as Music Missionaries, Business Administrators, and Strategy Coordinators before transferring to Kenya in 2006. In the recent past they have both been teaching in the music department of the Kenya Baptist Theological College outside of Nairobi. When they return in August, Kathy will continue to teach in the college and Jeff will be the Logistical Coordinator of Kenya for the Baptist Mission of Kenya. Jeff and Kathy have two children both currently living in the Jackson area. Their daughter and her husband (Jackie and Brian Bullman) are expecting their first child in June and their son and his wife (Justin and Holly Deasy) are moving to California this summer.

Stan and Debra Owens-Hughes

Missionaries to Bogota, Columbia

Meet the Owens-Hughes family. They will be staying in our missionary residence from July 15, 2009, through May, 2010. Stan and Debra Owens-Hughes have served with the International Mission Board since 1988, ministering in Brazil, Aruba, Venezuela and Colombia. They have worked in the areas of Christian Social Ministries, Church Planting and Chronological Biblical Storying. The Owens-Hughes family has lived the last four years in Bogota, Colombia where they reach out to Colombian Indigenous refugees who are in and around Bogota. Stan is originally from Stillwater, Oklahoma and Debra is the daughter of IMB emeritous missionaries Carlos and Myrtice Owens who served 36 years in Africa, where Debra grew up. Stan and Debra have four children, Mikaela (21), Carlos (18), Sierra (16) and Zachary (15). Missionaries currently serving in IMB, Kenya, Africa, will be coming back to stay in our missionary residence for the month of November 2010. (They were in our residence May and June 2009.)