Meet and Greet - 2012

Winston O. R. Worrell
Director, World Methodist Evangelism Institute

Winston O. R. Worrell is an experienced evangelist, lecturer, administrator, pastor and preacher in national, international, multicultural, multi-ethnic, and multilingual settings worldwide. He serves as Director of the World Methodist Evangelism Institute, a ministry of the World Methodist Council and Emory University, where he has served for nineteen years.

He holds a doctorate in evangelism from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia and a masters degree in media communications from Georgia State University, and has served in pastoral positions in the USA. He is a clergy member of the North Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church in the USA, and a former pastor and superintendent minister of the Methodist Church in the Caribbean and the Americas.

He has served in ministries in 54 countries around the world. He has lectured on mission and evangelism and preached in such countries as Commonwealth of Independent States, Brazil, Malaysia, Costa Rica, Italy, England, Ireland, Australia, Germany, Indonesia, Bulgaria, Paraguay, England, Colombia, Jamaica, Hong Kong, South Africa, Fiji, Togo, Spain and the USA, to name a few. He recruits and works with clergy and laity to participate in seminars in several countries, and recruits seminary students who attend the Institute Seminars for academic credit. He gives attends conferences and committees of the World Methodist Council. He teaches in workshops on different areas of mission and evangelism in the Order of the Flame “Young Pastors’ Conference” held annually in the United States, sponsored by World Evangelism of the World Methodist Council.

He has had experience in Billy Graham crusades in the Caribbean, is a certified United Methodist Church business administrator, and he has preached to crowds of over 20,000. As Director of the World Methodist Evangelism Institute, he has worked with Dr. H. Eddie Fox, Dr. George E. Morris and with Methodist/Wesleyan Bishops around the world, and has organized more than 40 regional and international seminars during which time the Institute has trained almost 5,000 national and international leading pastors and church leaders in evangelism and faith-sharing ministries worldwide.

Winston’s most recent text is a nine-session training workbook with teachers guide on CDRom, designed to help local congregations and individual Christians create and carry out their wholistic missional ministry for Jesus Christ. This resource is called: “Becoming More Missional for Christ: An Organizing Model.” This workbook is being used in several countries around the world.

Winston Worrell and his family are natives of Barbados, and are all United States citizens. Dr. George E. Morris, founding Director of the Institute, and the former Dan and Lillian Hankey Senior Professor of World Evangelism, the World Methodist Council, says, “Winston is truly a gift from God and is ideally suited for leadership in the World Methodist Evangelism Institute.

John A. Huffman
Minister at Large

After forty-seven years of active local church ministry, Dr. John A. Huffman, Jr. was honorably retired by the Los Ranchos Presbytery in 2009 and elected “Pastor Emeritus” by the congregation of  St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church. He has now  re-emerged as a “Minister at Large.”   In this capacity he is ministering in a generative way: continuing to serve as a trustee on the boards of Christianity Today International (Chair), Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, World Vision U.S., and the Board of Pensions of the Presbyterian Church U.S.A.; guest preach; be the chaplain of the Doctorate of Ministry program at Fuller Theological Seminary;  spend a week each semester as preacher-in-residence at  Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary; carry out his duties as minister-at-large for Cape Town 2010 (The 3rd Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization) as well as continuing his work in denominational and other para-church ministries.

Dr. Huffman’s academic history includes a B.A. in history, Wheaton College (1962); special graduate studies at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University; Master of Divinity, Princeton Theological Seminary (1965); M.A. in American history, University of Tulsa (1969); and Doctorate of Ministry from Princeton Theological Seminary (1983). His post-doctoral studies have included a 1987 sabbatical semester in residence at Harvard University, and in 2000 he spent a sabbatical semester as a visiting scholar in residence at Princeton Theological Seminary and Princeton University. He is a recipient of several honorary doctorates.

During the past forty years, several thousand of his printed sermons were  mailed each week to all fifty states and over thirty foreign countries. He has written nine books, the latest of which are The Family You Want and Forgive Us Our Prayers by Christian Focus Publications and the “Joshua” volume of The Communicator's Commentary published by Thomas Nelson Publishers.

Among his many Presbyterian Church (USA) ministries, he has twice been moderator of his presbytery (1971 - Everglades Presbytery, Synod of Florida, Presbyterian Church U.S., and 1988 - Los Ranchos Presbytery, Synod of Southern California and Hawaii), was the Presbyterian preacher on “The Protestant Radio Hour” (April-July 1990), three times been a commissioner to General Assembly, and has served on four major task forces of the General Assembly.

Huffman has traveled internationally on over eighty trips, visiting one hundred-plus foreign countries on all seven continents, meeting with international leaders in business, journalism, education, religion, politics, and world relief. In l975 he spent two weeks at the Vatican in consultation with Roman Catholic leaders; in 1977 traveled three weeks studying missions and international relations in South Africa, Kenya, and Ethiopia; in 1983 ministered in Australia and the Solomon Islands with the Wycliffe Bible Translators; worked with Dr. Billy Graham in the Amsterdam International Conferences for Itinerant Evangelists (1983, 1986 and 2000); in 1989 did a 10-day preaching mission throughout Cuba; in 1993 traveled extensively through Vietnam; in 1993 traveled with Douglas Coe  in a leadership team, speaking in Korea and attending an Asian Leadership Conference in Japan; and in 1995 traveled extensively through China, teaching for two weeks of that time in Nanchang and Beijing Seminaries as guest of the China Christian Council. Recently he has been actively involved in world/relief/justice efforts in Africa, Southeast Asia and the Middle East. He was involved in a planning and pastoral leadership role in the Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization  held in Cape Town, South Africa, October 2010.

He is married to Dr. Anne Ridgeway Mortenson, a graduate of UCLA, Fuller Seminary and the Newport Psychoanalytic Institute.  The Huffmans have three daughters. Carla, a graduate of Stanford University and MIT, works in finance and marketing as director for Microsoft at its Seattle headquarters. She is married to Raymond Rowland. Janet, a graduate of the University of the Pacific, is a media coordinator for an advertising firm in Southern California. She and her husband Ryan Price have two sons, Owen and Gavin. Suzanne, a Princeton University graduate, died in 1991, at the age of 23, after a 20-month battle with Hodgkin's Disease.

Thomas Roberts - Music

Mr. Thomas R. Roberts has been our music director and platform leader since 1989. He serves as CEO and owner of Atlas-Transoil, Inc., an environmental recycling company that operates two thermal treatment plants for petroleum contaminated soils in Florida. Mr. Roberts is a Principal and the Director of Operations of Innviron Corporation, an international environmental engineering, management, and consulting firm with offices in the United States, Central and South America, the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East. Innviron specializes in privatizing municipalitiesʼ Solid Waste Facilities, Water, and Waste Water Treatment Plants. He is Past-President of the National Construction Materials Recycling Association. Mr. Roberts has served as full-time director of music in United Methodist and Presbyterian churches from 1966 to 1992. He and his wife, Susan, served as the directors of the Chancel Choir at Christ Church United Methodist in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, since 1998 - 2007. During the fall of 2009 through January 2010, Tom served as Interim Director of the Chancel Choir of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Ft. Lauderdale, Fl. Their daughter, Catherine, received her Masters of Business Administration degree in December 2004 and is married to Michael Edward Givens, Jr. on April 2, 2005. They were blessed by the arrival of their son, Thomas Drake (“T.D.”) Givens on July 31, 2009.

Alice Walker and Becky Ramsey - Duo Pianists

Alice Walker and Becky Ramsey, identical twins, are originally from Atlanta, Georgia. They both hold BA degrees from Agnes Scott College, and have earned two certifications from the American Guild of Organists, Colleague (CAGO) and Associate (AAGO). Playing duets together since the age of five, they have been pianists at Salem Campground since 1971. Alice is Organist and Director of the Senior Adult Choir at Covington First Presbyterian Church. Becky is Organist and Director of Music for Senior Adults at Covington First United Methodist Church and also serves as Organist at Oxford College. On August 6, 2010 at 6:30 p.m., Becky and Alice will perform a piano and organ concert at the Cathedral Basilica, the oldest congregation in America, in St. Augustine, Fl. The church has a 60 rank Casavant organ and a fine Steinway piano. Alice is married to Ken Walker, retired from WSB television and Becky to Sam Ramsey, President of Ramsey Furniture Co. and former Mayor of Covington.

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