Last evening, Maranatha Fellowship Church was blessed to have Dorothy Adam as our special guest speaker for our Missions Pre-Conference Event. Dorothy is retired from her vocational missions work now, but she’s certainly not retired from the ministry work that the Lord continues to give her. She currently resides at the Alliance Community for Retirement Living in Deland, Florida, where she’s become involved in a regular Bible study.
Dorothy was born and raised in Guinea, West Africa, where her mother was also a missionary. After completing her Bible School and nurses training in the United States, Dorothy was assigned by the Christian & Missionary Alliance in 1951 to return to Guinea to serve as a medical missionary. She served the Lord faithfully there in Guinea for multiple terms and many years. Upon leaving Africa, the doors opened for Dorothy to live in Brooklyn, New York, where she served for a number of years ministering to Muslim women in that community.
Dorothy’s missionary career was, and still is, a tribute to God’s grace and power as displayed through an individual’s life. Through all the years in Africa, as well as in Brooklyn, God’s protection and preservation were made manifest time and again in the face of dangers and challenges. When she spoke of her encounters with those that meant her harm, she always gave glory to God for the way that He turned those potential disasters into opportunities to share a testimony for Christ. When she told of various healing miracles that she witnessed in her work, she did it with confidence that He could do the same for us.
Dorothy Adam is a truly remarkable missionary. She doesn’t look at the difficult circumstances that we encounter in this life as obstacles to her ministry, but rather as opportunities for ministry in the name of the Lord. She challenged us last evening to be thankful for where God has placed us and to use our situations to testify of what the Lord can do through us. In fact, Dorothy reminded us who we were – companions of Christ as we walk with Him, a sweet-smelling aroma to God the Father, and partakers of all His blessings through the Spirit.
We were all deeply moved by Dorothy’s testimony. We’re grateful to God for using Dorothy the way He has for so many years, and for bringing her to our church to share her stories of His faithfulness. May God continue to richly bless her and her ministry for many more years.