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Rucker to Speak at Carroll Missions Week

Tuesday, March 2, 2010
by Rhonda Hufty

Hannibal, MO—Roger Rucker, missionary in Northern Africa, will be the featured speaker for the seventh annual Carroll Missions Week at Hannibal-LaGrange College, March 15-17.

Each year HLG celebrates their global vision through a week of emphasizing missions on campus.  Missionaries from all over the world travel to the HLG campus to interact with students.  From Africa, Asia, Central America, Europe, and South America, HLG students have the opportunity to not only listen to these missionaries speak, but to sit down one-on-one and discuss their experiences and potential opportunities to serve. This year, Carroll Missions Week will feature Roger Rucker, IMB missionary to the desert peoples of Northern Africa and the Middle East.

Rucker has spent thirty years serving with the International Mission Board (IMB) of the Southern Baptist Convention as a field evangelist/church planter, a strategy leader for the desert peoples, and now the IMB Northern Africa and Middle Eastern Peoples Affinity-Cluster Strategy Leader. During the 2009 spring semester, HLG student, Zebulon Auxier, worked with Rucker through an internship agreement with the International Mission Board.

Rucker plans to address issues related to the call of ministry in the lives of believers.  His messages from scriptures in Matthew and II Corinthians entitled “Whose Ministry Is It?” “As You Go,” and “Where’s Waldo?” which details Rucker’s personal call to ministry, will inspire and challenge the campus community.

The schedule for Carroll Missions Week includes services on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday (March 15-17) mornings at 10:00 a.m. in the Parker Theatre of the Roland Fine Arts Center, and evening services on Monday and Tuesday at 7:00 p.m. in the Carroll Missions Center.  Guests representing several missions organizations will also be on campus during the college’s missions emphasis week. The public is invited to all services.

On Wednesday, March 17, at 10:00 a.m., the missions department at Hannibal-LaGrange College will hold its annual Summer Missions Commissioning Service.  During this service faculty, staff, and students will be commissioned for summer missions all over the world.  “This is a wonderful opportunity for the HLG community to encourage and pray for these volunteers as they serve in varied ministries in diverse cultures,” said Dr. Tom Hufty, vice-president for collegiate affairs at Hannibal-LaGrange College.  Volunteers from HLG will be traveling throughout several continents this summer, partnering with a number of missions organizations as they endeavor to spread the love of God.

Carroll Missions Week is a result of the vision and generous resources of Rheyma and the late Kenneth Carroll of Monroe City, MO.  Before his death in 2008, Mr. Carroll said he wanted to do something that would make a difference in eternity.  Through the establishment of the Carroll Missions Week and the building of the Carroll Missions Center, Mr. and Mrs. Carroll are touching eternity through the lives of thousands of HLG students.  Mrs. Carroll continues this vision by supporting student missionaries who go out from HLG and impact the world for Christ.  “The humility, authenticity, and generosity of the Carroll family is a model for all Christians and we are delighted to have been impacted by their lives,” continued Hufty.  “For years, the Carroll’s have demonstrated a heart for missions and HLG. Through their generosity, many students have been exposed to missionaries from all over the world.  Many of these missionaries come to HLG directly from the field and are experiencing cutting-edge ministry in a foreign culture.”

For more information on HLG missions opportunities, contact the Carroll Missions Center at (573) 629-3195.