Special Recognition
Home Missionaries Honored for 41 Years of Ministry
Roger and Terry Wall both graduated from Mult- nomah School of the Bible, but they did not meet there. At his Dad’s suggestion, Roger went to Mult- nomah to play baseball and get one year of Bible College. Although his home church, Lustre EMB Church, had no shortage of missionary presentations, Roger traces his call to missions God’s Word and Multnomah’s Missions Conference in the spring of 1969. He returned to Multnomah that fall, and in his final year met Tim Wetmore, a missionary from Elco, Nevada, with American Missionary Fellowship. Roger volunteered to teach VBS in Nevada’s tiny places. The second summer that he did this he met Terry!
Roger graduated from Multnomah in May 1973 with a Bachelor of Teology and took additional courses from Mt. Hood Community College. He and Terry were married just aſter Tanksgiving Day on November 24, 1973 and began work April 1, 1974 in Pioche, Nevada, as missionary pastor. Tey held VBS in
Panaca, Nevada and aſter-school clubs in Caliente, Nevada. Aſter four years, they became Area Missionaries in Eureka, California, where Roger and Terry served 30 years as North Coast Bible Camp Directors. During the school year they met for Bible Clubs in a travel trailer, and a borrowed Catholic church in mining towns such as Petrolia and Honey Dew, California. Roger was ordained at the Lustre EMB Church in 1983. Pas-
tor Richard Korns and Rev. Frank Wiens, Roger’s great encourag- er, participated. Roger cites John 15:5 as his favorite verse: “I am the Vine... Without me you can do nothing.” Terry was born to missionary parents who travelled to various
churches in the mining communities such as Finley, Nevada and Boyle, California. Tey lived in Steamboat, Nevada, and had a Sunday School in the community of McDermott. Friends she knew in these places now support them. Terry graduated from Multnomah School of the Bible with a Bible degree in 1967. She worked as the secretary of the Alumni at Multnomah, taking her summers to teach VBS. Her favorite verse (and most needed one) is “I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me” (Philippians 4:13). She writes Sunday School curriculum and uses card-making to reach out to women. When asked about unusual experiences, Roger and Terry both
referred to the same unique experience: Roger delivered their second daughter, Sandra, at home in Pioche, Nev., with a toddler milling around. Roger arrived home just in time to be a midwife under Terry’s directions — the closest hospital was 90 miles away. Rev. Roger and Terry Wall continue to serve two small rural
churches in Arock and Jordan Valley, Oregon. On behalf of the Fellowship of Evangelical Bible Churches, we commend Rev. Roger Wall and his wife, Terry for 41 years of faithful service, four years in Nevada, 30 years in California, and seven years and counting in the Eastern Oregon field. Tank you for being faith- ful wherever the Lord needed you.
Walls receive plaque from Commission on Missions. Left: Dwaine and Vivian Wall; right: Terry and Roger Wall.
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