MISSIONARY SPOTLIGHT - JANET CHINN
 Janet
Chinn
2050 Nuuanu Ave
Apt 200
Honolulu, HI 96817-2523
jchinn@gte.net
Birthday: November 20
Living in Hawaii and serving Jesus.
Sound a bit like heaven?
You could find out through a missions avenue called Mission
Service Corps (MSC). MSC
missionary Janet Chinn can’t guarantee your experience will be
paradise, but she can promise you’ll have many opportunities to
share about the promises of heaven with people in the state.
Starting
as a Mission Service Corps missionary in August 2001, Janet, a
native of Hawaii, remembers feeling a bit overwhelmed.
“My job as MSC volunteer coordinator is to help direct MSC
efforts in Hawaii, and part of that is recruiting people to serve as
MSC missionaries here,” said Janet. The biggest challenge she
faces is that so many people are not aware of what MSC is and how it
can benefit them. “I mainly travel and talk,” said Janet. “I’m hoping to get people interested enough that they
will ask for an application.”
Janet
was once a successful engineer with a communications company in
Hawaii. She felt
restless and retired from her job, seeking a new direction.
“It was a year before I realized what I needed to be
doing—that God had called me to serve Him.” Actively involved in
her church in Nuuanu as discipleship training director, she learned
about MSC.
“Someone asked me, ‘Why don’t you do Mission Service
Corps?’ and I said, ‘What is that?’” said Janet.
Finding out that it was an avenue for missions service which
provided a large network of support and training, Janet eagerly
applied and was accepted. When she went to the orientation in Texas, she saw a job
description for MSC coordinator and realized that she had not been given the entire job
description. “I had been asked to be the state MSC coordinator but
only one page of the job description
was given to me for consideration.
It was supposed to be front and back but only the front was
printed!” The oversight didn’t matter, and Janet is now well on
her way to helping MSC be effective in Hawaii.
One
of her many responsibilities is recruiting teachers and workers for
the Samoa Baptist Academy, a school on the island of American Samoa.
Pray
for Janet and her work in Hawaii.
Pray for more MSC missionaries to serve in the Hawaii-Pacific
Baptist Convention, which also includes American Samoa and Guam.
What
is MSC?
Mission Service Corps (MSC) is a
task force of volunteers who give full-time service for four
months or more. They provide their own support in an assigned
ministry that supports the evangelism and church planting efforts
of the North American Mission Board (NAMB). The assignment comes
through the Mission Service Corps office of the North American
Mission Board. The
genius of MSC is that it is structured so that every Baptist can
be directly involved. For some, involvement means volunteering to
go; for others, it is sponsoring someone else to go. For still
others, volunteering means praying for those who go and those who
sponsor; and for many, it is a combination of these.
To learn more, visit www.namb.net/beonmission/volunteers/msc/
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