Caroline Smith

Current SMOi missionary in southern Peru until July 2010
SWO servant team 2006, summer staff 2007, 2008, 2009
Birthday: October 28

History:

Caroline can't remember a time she wasn't involved in ministry. Raised in a Christian home, she regularly attended church with her family and received Christ at the age of 8 and shortly afterwards, she was baptized. While she remembers seeing her parents read the Bible and even having family devotions, she doesn't remember ever being challenged to grow in discipleship until she was older and in the youth group. Her youth group began attending Snowbird each summer and it was there that she realized that she must grow in her walk with the Lord.
During high school, a lot happened, including the death of her best friend, that challenged Caroline's faith, and it was during that time that she began to sense a call to ministry. Although she had only begun to sense the Lord's call on her life, she began to see it play out in her life, and it was during her time at North Greenville University that the Lord began to confirm more and more in her mind the call to ministry.
Caroline is on the leadership team at her school's BCM, and she coordinates local teams to go out in to the Greenville area and minister in various churches, downtown with the homeless, and in various after-school programs. For Caroline, the call to ministry and missions has been made obvious over time as the Lord has shaved and removed any other desire to do anything else. Caroline has served in Hungary and China on short-term mission trips, and it was while she was in China that she heard about the Barnabas Team in Peru. Immediately her interest rose and when she returned to the States, she began pursuing the team. As everything seemed to fall into place for the Barnabas Team, Caroline began preparing for her summer in Peru.

Contact info:

635 Harper Road, York, SC 29745 (Don't mail me anything in Peru.)
Skype: cs4jc89
Twitter: carolmsmith3

Strategy:

Mission dates: May 24-July 15, 2010

As the church begins to "send" missionaries, she must also understand that this support does not end with merely financial support. Emotional and spiritual encouragement both play a huge role in the church's responsibility to its missionaries. This is exactly what Caroline will be doing while in Peru for the summer of 2010.
ReapSouth (www.reapsouth.org), the organization Caroline will be working through, works with churches from the U.S. to "adopt" the mountain villages of Peru. ReapSouth then sends out summer teams to do anything from teaching ESL to researching the needs and culture of the people groups in order to aid the church's long-term relationship with the people. Through the ReapSouth organization based in Lima, Caroline, along with two others, will be traveling to each of the ReapSouth teams for the purpose of encouraging and ministering to the team members as they work in the mountain villages of Peru. The name of her team is called the "Barnabas Team."

Support:

Caroline already has all the financial support she needs.  Thanks for giving.