Cary Perdue

A couple posts ago I mentioned the blessing we have here at PIU of the interaction and ministries of our resident faculty and staff. Another big blessing is being able to interact with interesting visitors who come through Guam. Recently, we experienced this as we hosted Cary Perdue for a couple weeks in April. Cary is a Mission Mobilizer who works with SEND International. Cary lives in Indiana now, but has lived all over the world and started, or worked in, seminaries in Asia, Europe and the USA. He is a friend of our PIU Board Chair, Howard Merrell, who made the connection for us to have him come. Cary is a fellow ThM alumni of Dallas Theological Seminary, although he graduated about 25 years before I did.

  Cary stayed about two weeks and helped us quite a bit. My main motive in inviting him was to pick his brain about building up a seminary and getting his advice about administrating a Christian college. He sat in on our faculty and admin meetings and, most important to me, sat with me in my living room and just talked about his experiences. We also had some good talks about how PIU might cooperate with SEND in the future. Cary also spoke in chapels, classes and student devotions encouraging the students to listen to their call from God and follow it. Several of the students told me that God gave them real direction from his ministry.

Of course, as with most visitors, Cary got the island tour from Joyce and Anne Stinnette, got to enjoy our beautiful sunny beaches and an evening at Chamorro Village. He was also able to minister at Faith Church (pictured above).We really appreciate him coming here and working with us. I am hoping to see him again.