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Mary D. MacKinnon
Let me introduce you to my family, left to right:
Karen Plummer, Joan Imel, Bob MacKinnon, and me, Mary MacKinnon
ABOUT MARY MACKINNON
Stepping onto the dock in Santos, Brazil, was the beginning of a big change in my life. My life had been full of changes. I was born in Mississippi, raised and married in Minnesota, had studied in 12 different schools and lived in 27 different houses, worked in 10 different jobs through the years, and 10 years earlier had moved to California. Now I faced the biggest change of all.
My husband and I, our two teenaged girls and baby boy were headed for the southwestern jungle frontier of Brazil to begin life as missionaries. There we would be faced with things we had never encountered before: a house encircled by jungle; the road in front only a dirt trail, impassable in rainy weather; an outside bathroom; kerosene lamps for light; no phones or electricity… But probably most significant of all, instead of English, we would be listening to Portuguese, a language of which we knew almost nothing.
Those changes came and the Lord helped us weather them all. More changes followed – an orange orchard instead of jungle, a paved road, indoor bathroom, electricity, phones, and a good-sized town that sprang up about four miles away. Best of all was the church that was started on our front porch (after we learned enough Portuguese to cope with it). It began as a children's meeting and expanded into a church that later moved to town and is now flourishing and sending missionaries.
If you want to know more, you can contact me at gandmmack@gmail.com with "MacKinnon Bio" on your subject line so I don't delete it as spam.
Mary's Booklist
Published Pieces
- "Vigil in Brazil," Decision, Billy Graham Evangelical Association, Minneapolis MN, August 1974, http://www.decisionmag.org
- "Our Lifeguard is God," Decision, Billy Graham Evangelical Association, Minneapolis MN, July – August 1982, http://www.decisionmag.org
- "A Needle in a Haystack," Live, Gospel Publishing House, Springfield, MO, February 6, 2005, http://rl-live@gph.org
- "Elaine´s Plight," Celebrate Life, American Life League, Stafford VA, July – August 2003, http://www.all.org
- “Our Guest Was Emerald Green," Confident Living, Back to the Bible, Lincoln NE, June 1987, http://www.backtothebible.org
Other writing experience includes
- Condensation of Lords of the Earth (by Don Richardson, author of Peace Child). I cut it to two-thirds of original size for publication in Brazil by Editora Betania.
- Editing of three Andrew Murray books for Bethany House Publishers.
- Compilation of articles from Guideposts for translation and publication in Brazil by Livros Colab.
- Devotionals in The Upper Room and The Secret Place.
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make all your paths straight. -- Proverbs 3:5-6 (NIV)
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