She loves Jesus and she loves people. And she serves God in the heart of Africa, where many people have seldom seen a white person.
Sheri Jones is athletic. She is a gifted evangelist, using her sports skills as a way to build relationships with people in a nation where the median age is 16.
I knew Sheri when she was a little blonde girl, smiling and playing with her two older sisters. The Jones family were a part of our fellowship at Damascus (Maryland) Wesleyan Church in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
The Joneses stood out in a crowd. They were on fire for Jesus. In the 90s they moved from USA to Zambia to live as missionaries in a remote location. They began a new life on a new continent, learning new languages and becoming cross-cultural in their way of looking at the world.
The Jones family shared the love of Jesus as they cared for orphans and developed a farm providing employment and provision for needy Zambians.
That was over 15 years ago, and in those years the three Jones girls have grown into godly young women, powerfully affected by their missionary experiences.
Over two years ago Sheri went to the Democratic Republic of Congo, a troubled country still coping with the after-effects of a long civil war. This is a much more difficult environment for Sheri, where French is the official language, and various dialects of Swahili are spoken. Sheri spoke neither French nor Swahili. (Read more about the Democratic Republic of Congo here.)
I don't know a lot about what Sheri does in Africa, but I've been delighted to discover her blog, where she posts an update several times a month. (Check out Sheri's blog here.) Today I'm making a commitment to begin to pray regularly for Sheri, and for her dad and mom (website here), who still serve the Lord in Zambia, faithfully in a relatively hidden place.
Forget Brad and Angelina. These are my remarkable everyday heroes.
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