International Ministries' Coordinator, Volunteers in Global Mission, Angela Sudermann, recently published a memoir entitled, "Running Water, Living Water" about her personal experience as a Christian mission trip leader guiding a team to a small Lahu Village in Thailand.
In the book, Sudermann shares the story of a single village and their vision of healthier lives for their community. She also discusses how a dedicated group of hill tribe men and women serve in a ministry called the Integrated Tribal Development Program (ITDP) to help villages realize that same vision. The 100-page paperback book, including 11 pages of photographs, is a call to people to go experience Thailand – the wonderful hospitality, the amazing food, the beautiful country – and share in the ministry, as ITDP continues to work with villages through community projects in water and sanitation, agriculture, education, medicine and more.
Having lived in five different states across the country, and after going through a rough initiation to foreign travel in Paris, Sudermann can now be heard echoing Isaiah, "Here I am, send me," when it comes to traveling overseas. Equipped with a B.A. in fashion merchandising and an M.S. in textile engineering, she left an industrial career to follow Jesus into mission at American Baptist International Ministries. Sudermann helps volunteer missionaries serve globally and is always excited to see what God is doing around the world through regular people who want to be the hands and feet of Christ."Running Water, Living Water," published by WriteLife, LLC, 2009, is available through www.Amazon.com and www.WriteLife.com for $7.95. Angela is donating all royalties to the ministries of Mike Mann, International Ministries Global Consultant to Thailand and the executive director of ITDP.
American Baptist International Ministries, organized in 1814, is the oldest Baptist mission agency formed in North America. We serve more than 2,500 short-term and long-term missionaries annually, bringing U.S. and Puerto Rico churches together with partners in 76 countries in cutting-edge ministries that tell the good news of Jesus Christ while meeting human needs.
In the book, Sudermann shares the story of a single village and their vision of healthier lives for their community. She also discusses how a dedicated group of hill tribe men and women serve in a ministry called the Integrated Tribal Development Program (ITDP) to help villages realize that same vision. The 100-page paperback book, including 11 pages of photographs, is a call to people to go experience Thailand – the wonderful hospitality, the amazing food, the beautiful country – and share in the ministry, as ITDP continues to work with villages through community projects in water and sanitation, agriculture, education, medicine and more.
Having lived in five different states across the country, and after going through a rough initiation to foreign travel in Paris, Sudermann can now be heard echoing Isaiah, "Here I am, send me," when it comes to traveling overseas. Equipped with a B.A. in fashion merchandising and an M.S. in textile engineering, she left an industrial career to follow Jesus into mission at American Baptist International Ministries. Sudermann helps volunteer missionaries serve globally and is always excited to see what God is doing around the world through regular people who want to be the hands and feet of Christ."Running Water, Living Water," published by WriteLife, LLC, 2009, is available through www.Amazon.com and www.WriteLife.com for $7.95. Angela is donating all royalties to the ministries of Mike Mann, International Ministries Global Consultant to Thailand and the executive director of ITDP.
American Baptist International Ministries, organized in 1814, is the oldest Baptist mission agency formed in North America. We serve more than 2,500 short-term and long-term missionaries annually, bringing U.S. and Puerto Rico churches together with partners in 76 countries in cutting-edge ministries that tell the good news of Jesus Christ while meeting human needs.