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Sail Astern

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Debbie attended the University of North Carolina at Wilmington for the purpose of linquistic studies, graduating with a B.A. in Spanish as well as Philosophy and Religion.  She has worked in the medical field for over 20 years and has a burden for the suffering and needy in the Caribbean and Central America.  She is an experienced children’s Sunday School teacher and has a music ministry that includes singing in weekly concerts as a member of the Pillar Records  Choir when home on furlough.

We are David & Debbie Goodrum, directors of Lighthouse Missionary Outreach and missionaries to the Caribbean and Central America.  This is our twenty-second year of full-time service to the wonderful people of the islands and lands to our south. We have been through many storms and hardships (even shipwrecked once, loosing a boat at sea) but have also enjoyed leading over 900 souls to Jesus, helped hundreds of poor and needy people, been an inspiration to pastors and teachers, and also saved 20 Cuban refugees found lost at sea.

We live aboard our 40ft trimaran sailboat “Faith” , by which we also carry medical and relief supplies to places like Haiti and Honduras.  She can also accommodate guest missionaries and small youth teams.  She is an older boat, but still hardy enough to carry us to any part of the Caribbean.

So far we have covered the Bahamas, the Turks & Caicos Islands, Haiti, Honduras, Belize and Guatemala. We would also like to sail down through the Caribbean  to South America, to places like Guyana & Trinidad.

Our travels to different harbors and anchorages has given us many opportunities to share the “Good News” about Jesus to boaters from all parts of the world through personal evangelism and ’onboard’ worship services.       

In the countries we visit we minister to hundreds of children through our “Kid’s Krusades” using puppets, music and drama to present the Christian message in ways even the ’smallest’ hearts can understand.  These special programs have also been an inspiration to local church leaders, encouraging them in the development of their own children’s ministries.

We provide training for pastors and youth workers, and deliver teaching materials, puppets, visual aids, and Bibles donated by local churches and ministry friends back home.

And we have brought hurricane and humanitarian relief to Haiti, Guatemala and Honduras, including food, clothing, and medical supplies, as well as aid to Haitian refugees elsewhere.

Personal Info:

David is a graduate (with Honors) from Lee University with a major in Biblical Studies and minors in Counseling and Pastoral Ministry.  While there he was awarded membership into the Pi Delta Omnicron Honor Society for superior scholarship in theology, and the Evangelical Teachers Training Certificate for Christian Education.  He has also received certification from Brunswick Technical College for Teacher Effectiveness Training, and Christian School Administrator’s certificates from Abeka Schools (through Pensacola Christian College) and Accelerated Christian Education (Waco, Texas). 

David has pastored four churches (two in Germany, one in Tennessee, and one in North Carolina) and has also served as Associate Pastor under Dr. T.L. Lowery in Washington, DC (a congregation of over 3,500).  David has been a children’s church pastor (with as many as 300-400 children in attendance), a youth camp speaker, Christian School administrator and high school math teacher.  An ordained minister, David has been in the ministry for 37 years, with almost 26 of that being in the foreign field.  It is his most earnest desire to strengthen ministries and their leadership throughout the Caribbean, imparting his training and experiences, and setting forth an example of committed service to the Kingdom of God.

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