The Team - Hope For Eastern Hungary

Meet the Eastern Hungary Team

Volunteers play an important role on our team...meet the 2007 summer workers here.

We are very excited to introduce the newest member of the Eastern Hungary Team, journeyman Holly McMickle, who arrived on the field in mid-October of 2007. Please be praying for her as she ministers among the students of Debrecen.

Holly McMickle grew up in Locust Grove, GA. She attended Georgia College and State University and earned a degree in Mass Communications with a concentration in Public Relations. While at college she was involved in a collegiate ministry called Campus Outreach, which has the goal of building laborers on college campuses in order to reach the world. It was during this time that the Lord was building in her not only a passion for discipleship, but a heart and calling for missions. She followed this passion and went to Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, where she earned a degree in Woman’s Studies. Now, pursuing the goal of living out the calling that the Lord has placed on her life, she has moved to Debrecen to work with college students.

Gary and Carolyn Miller, originally from Missouri and Kansas respectively, are both graduates of Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, Mo., with degrees in Religious Studies. They have two children, Danny and Jennifer; Danny graduated from SBU in the Spring of 2006, and Jennifer in 2007. Gary also holds a degree in Aviation Technology from LeTourneau University, where Carolyn worked in Data Management in the Admissions Office. Gary has also attended Midwestern and Southwestern Seminaries and has pastored in Missouri and Texas.

Both were called to missions as freshmen at SBU and were planning a career in mission aviation when a back injury necessitated a change in career plans. Through a series of short-term mission trips into Romania, God led them to Budapest, Hungary, where Gary taught English at the Budapest Teacher Training College for the 1998-99 school year; Carolyn began home-schooling their children at that time. During the course of that year they got know several missionaries with the Southern Baptist International Mission Board who encouraged them to apply with the IMB.

They were given a two year assignment in Romania working alongside career missionaries as Volunteer Coordinators, arranging and providing logistics for short-term mission teams. This experience strengthened their call to missions, and they applied to be appointed as career missionaries themselves.

While meeting with leaders at the mission board and seeking God’s will regarding where they should serve, the Lord led them back to Hungary as Strategy Coordinators for the eastern part of the country. They returned to Hungary in 2002 and studied the language in Budapest while Jennifer attended the International Christian School for her senior year.

In August of 2003 Gary and Carolyn moved to the city of Debrecen, which is their home base as they develop strategies for helping initiate a church planting movement among the Magyar People.