| Gordon and Dorothy Gartrell
211 Inman Dr.
Decatur,GA30030
Email: Dorothy
and Gordon Gartrell
Dorothy & Gordon ended their service as mission co-workers in Brazil in March 2008.
Gordon and Dorothy Gartrell came under appointment as mission
co-workers in 1990 and since then have served as evangelists and
church planters in four different states in Brazil. They began
their latest assignment in July 2006 in Recife, a large city on
the coast of northeast Brazil. They are nurturing a new congregation
in an urban neighborhood without a Presbyterian church.
Prior to their assignment in Recife Gordon and Dorothy served
in Salvador, Bahia. There they worked with an organized church,
building it up and strengthening its lay leadership to the point
that it could call a pastor. They also helped begin new work in
satellite neighborhoods around the city. Gordon served as chair
of the mission committee in the presbytery.
From 1995 to 1999 they served in Imperatriz, Maranhao, where
they helped a church grow quickly from 5 to 45 members.
Prior to their work in Imperatriz, the Gartrells worked with
six small congregations, which were located in isolated and rural
areas of Brazil. Several of the churches were in farming areas
that were without electricity, running water, or stores. Many
of the children from the surrounding community suffered from malnutrition
and diarrhea.
Gordon was born in Brazil. His parents, Sandy and Bert Gartrell,
served as Presbyterian missionaries in Brazil for 31 years. As
a child, he felt a call to return himself one day. He holds undergraduate
degrees from Montreat Anderson College in Montreat, North Carolina,
and from Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts. He earned his
M.Div. from Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi.
He was pastor of Hayesville Presbyterian Church in North Carolina
and First Presbyterian Church in Central City, Kentucky, before
his first missionary assignment in Brazil. Gordon is a clergy
member of the Presbytery of Western Kentucky. |
