TOMMY and LINDA RALEY

MISSION DIRECTOR

 

Tommy and Linda Raley were both saved as teenagers through the ministry of the Trentman Avenue Baptist Church in Ft. Worth, Texas. They were teenage sweethearts who grew up in the church together. Tommy is a 1962 graduate of the Bible Baptist Seminary in Arlington, Texas. He and Linda worked with the youth at Trentman Ave. for several years, the last two as a full time staff member.

In 1969 they felt the call of God to the mission field and were approved by the World Baptist Fellowship in 1970. After completing deputation and language school Tommy, Linda and their four sons arrived on the field in Colombia in August of 1972.

Due to the illness of two of their sons they were forced to return to the States at the end of 1976 and in February of 1977 Tommy was called as pastor of the First Baptist Church in Pleasanton, Kansas. After a successful five year ministry in Kansas, the Tabernacle Baptist Church in Arlington, Texas called him as pastor.

In 1984 they returned to the mission field of Mexico where they worked until the World Baptist Fellowship Mission Committee asked Tommy to accept the position as Mission Director. Tommy and Linda have served in this ministry since 1990.  Linda also serves as Financial Secretary of the Mission. As Director of the Mission Agency, Tommy spends a great deal of time in mission conferences and other special mission emphasis services in churches while Linda oversees the work in the office.

They are happy in this present ministry which gives them the opportunity to serve the missionary families around the world as well as the supporting churches.

Their home church is the Pleasantview Baptist Church in Arlington, Texas.

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