In the November edition of New Horizons (published by the OPC), Danny Olinger (General Secretary on the Committee on Christian Education) wrote a article on our family joining the OPC as missionaries to Uganda. He worked his ‘magic’ and turned our almost carbon copy biographies (In our defense, we have known each other…well…most of our lives) we submitted into something a bit more eloquent and engaging. He writes…
“Travis and Bonnie Emmett, newly appointed OPC missionaries as of August 1 to serve in Karamoja, Uganda, have known each other most of their lives. They first met as missionary kids at a missionary conference their parents attended. Travis’s parents, Robert and Sharon Emmett, labored as Christian missionaries in Sri Lanka. Bonnie’s parents, Donald and Ellen Jackson, worked in children’s ministry in Pennsylvania.
Both Travis and Bonnie testify to the Lord’s goodness to them as they grew up in solid, Bible-believing families that trusted in Jesus Christ and sought to serve him. But both also testify to how God was at work in their hearts as their families endured suffering…
