PAULETTE AND GREG DEHART | ATLANTA, GEORGIA
LOVE IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE
By Mickey Noah Y
early, thousands of immigrants come to the Atlanta metro area—fleeing poverty, famine, disease, civil war, persecution and even death. If Paulette DeHart has her way, they’ll learn English and meet Jesus Christ—not always in that order. Paulette, a North American Mission Board (NAMB) mis- sionary, has served as the Georgia Baptist Convention’s Literacy Missions Consultant since 2003.
“What’s so neat is that so many people come to the United States to improve their financial lot in life, but as one student said, they find the greatest treasure of all, the Lord Jesus Christ,” says Paulette. As a Pleasanton, Calif., native who earned her B.A. degree in urban planning at California State University, literacy and teaching English to immigrants were not on Paulette’s radar screen early on. She accepted Christ at 21 and prior
to becoming a NAMB missionary, she worked as a personal financial analyst. How she got into literacy and teaching English as a second language could only be called a “God-thing.” Having moved to Snellville, Ga., east of Atlanta
where husband, Greg, worked for BellSouth, Paulette was preparing to teach her children’s Sunday School class lesson one Sunday morning. On her way to the
What’s so neat is that so many people come to the United States to improve their financial lot in life, but as one student said, they find the greatest treasure of all, the Lord Jesus Christ.”
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PHOTOS BY JOHN SWAIN
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