{"id":4526,"date":"2021-12-20T10:28:50","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T16:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/?p=4526"},"modified":"2021-12-21T09:52:17","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T15:52:17","slug":"a-tribute-to-geraleen-gerry-wood-freeman-talmage-1931-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/a-tribute-to-geraleen-gerry-wood-freeman-talmage-1931-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tribute to Geraleen \u201cGerry\u201d Wood Freeman Talmage (1931-2021)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Rev.<\/a><\/h2>\n

Geraleen \u201cGerry\u201d Wood Freeman Talmage<\/strong><\/h2>\n

September 12, 1931 \u2013 December 19, 2021<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Geraleen \u2018Gerry\u2019 Wood Freeman Talmage, age 90, passed away on Sunday, December 19, 2021, in her home in Dublin, Virginia.<\/p>\n

Geraleen attended Emmanuel Academy in Franklin Springs, GA, where she received the Pentecostal baptism in the Holy Spirit. She was ordained in the Virginia Conference (now Appalachian Conference).<\/p>\n

Geraleen and her brother, the late Roy Wood, became the first brother and sister team in the Pentecostal Holiness Church to serve as missionaries.<\/p>\n

Geraleen Wood married John Freeman in 1951. On September 21, 1952, John was killed in a car accident that Geraleen survived.<\/p>\n

Despite being recently widowed, Geraleen Wood Freeman<\/strong> went to Africa in 1954 and was stationed at the Nzhele mission with Ann Lyon. Living conditions were primitive, even having to wash clothes on a washboard. Two years later, she was assigned to the Richmond Mission Station clinic in South Africa. Geraleen had the distinction of conducting the first Pentecostal Holiness Vacation Bible School on African soil.<\/p>\n

Geraleen married D. E. John Talmage on June 9, 1962, while John was attending Holmes. They first met when John\u2019s family visited Richmond Station. The Foreign Missions Board accepted Talmage as a missionary in 1963, and they arrived in Durban on November 10, 1964. A week later, the two were assigned to the Western Cape. In 1965, the couple moved to Cape Town, where they served for 15 years until 1980, and pioneered the Cape Bible Training Centre.<\/p>\n

Geraleen was the Women\u2019s Ministries Director for Africa. She also directed the Pentecostal Holiness Correspondence Studies, whose students were found in many areas of Southern Africa. Besides spending hours grading lessons and ministering in the Women\u2019s Conventions, she enjoyed teaching the ministerial training program in various countries, and she taught classes at the Cape Town Bible College.<\/p>\n

Geraleen also served eight years as C.E. Director for Southern Africa. She served as secretary-treasurer for the Jurisdictional Women\u2019s Convention for 18 years and as president for 12 years. In 1990, she was appointed the Women\u2019s Ministries Director for Africa.<\/p>\n

Rev. Geraleen Talmage served 51 years in Africa.\u00a0 She retired in 2006. The Talmages\u2019 ministry encompassed seven different countries in Africa, and they wrote in a 2005 newsletter, \u201cour ministry is indelibly imprinted in our mind, and although we may never return to those areas again, the African people will always be in our heart and in our thoughts and prayers. God promised us that our \u2018fruit would remain\u2019, and we thank Him for that which we have left behind. Leaders in many phases of the work, who we have had the opportunity to teach and help to train, are now productive workers in the vineyard. Others who sat in darkness now walk in the light of the Lord.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Talmages\u2019 two children, Danny and Beatrice, were born during the 15 years the Talmages lived in Cape Town.<\/p>\n

Excerpts taken from Simultaneous Principle<\/em> and A Century of Sending \u2013 The IPHC Appalachian Conference And World Missions Ministry.<\/em><\/p>\n

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John told me several months ago that he and his father were in South Africa when they received the news that John Freeman had been tragically killed in an automobile accident just before he and Geraleen were to set sail for South Africa and begin their service as IPHC missionaries.\u00a0John said that he remembers asking his father who would take care of Geraleen now that John had died. His father replied that God would lay it on someone\u2019s heart and make provision. John said, \u201cI have been taking care of her ever since we were married, and it has been the greatest joy and honor of my life!\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

On behalf of the World Missions family of the IPHC, we <\/em>honor and remember with gratitude the life and ministry legacy of Geraleen \u2018Gerry\u2019 Wood Freeman Talmage, and we give thanks to God for her service as a revered and cherished missionary and minister of the gospel of Jesus Christ.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/span>John, Danny, and Beatrice, please accept our deepest condolences. Your wife and mother was an extraordinary missionary. Her legacy will forever be imprinted on the ministry tapestry of Africa. Know that you have been and will continue to be in the thoughts and prayers of your missionary family.\u00a0 <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

May the peace and comfort of the Holy Spirit sustain John, Danny, and Beatrice as they walk through this \u201cvalley of the shadow of death\u201d.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Bishop J. Talmadge Gardner<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Executive Director<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

World Missions Ministries<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

**There will be a graveside service at the Appalachian Conference cemetery on Monday, December 27, 2021, at 2:00 PM. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. C.R. Conner will be officiating.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.stevensfuneralhomepulaski.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Dora Dane McNeill Sandhu <\/h1>

12 de agosto de 2020<\/strong> <\/h2>

Dora Dane McNeill Sandhu, 96, de West Columbia, SC, falleci\u00f3 pac\u00edficamente en su casa la noche del 12 de agosto de 2020. Se llevar\u00e1 a cabo un servicio familiar privado en la Iglesia de Santidad Pentecostal Ebenezer, el s\u00e1bado 15 de agosto de 2020, 11:00 A.M. El servicio se puede ver en Facebook y YouTube conect\u00e1ndose a la Iglesia de Santidad Pentecostal Ebenezer a trav\u00e9s de cualquiera de las fuentes. El logo de la iglesia incluye el nombre, con una cruz y puntos rojos alrededor. <\/p>

La Sra. Sandhu naci\u00f3 en McCormick, SC, y era la hija del fallecido Freddie Oscar y Winnie Dane Dew McNeill. Dora muri\u00f3 antes que su hermana, Winifred M. Caines, y sus tres hermanos: el reverendo James R. McNeill (Gerri), O. Ray McNeill (Mildred) y P. Wesley McNeill (Ginger). Le sobreviven su esposo, Jarnail Singh Sandhu, y dos hijos: Bobby Singh (Madhu) y Anand Singh (Holly), su nieto Paul Singh Sandhu, su hermana, Beth Stalbaum, y numerosas sobrinas y sobrinos. <\/p>

Desde muy joven, el deseo del coraz\u00f3n de Dora era ser maestra y misionera. Y su Se\u00f1or y Salvador hizo realidad ambos sue\u00f1os a trav\u00e9s de caminos inusuales. Su educaci\u00f3n comenz\u00f3 en Emmanuel College en Franklin Springs, Georgia, seguida de la escuela de enfermer\u00eda en Washington, DC. Continu\u00f3 su educaci\u00f3n mientras trabajaba como enfermera de salud p\u00fablica, y finalmente recibi\u00f3 su maestr\u00eda en enfermer\u00eda. Unos a\u00f1os m\u00e1s tarde, la Universidad de Lander comenz\u00f3 a buscar a alguien que dirigiera su programa de enfermer\u00eda. Solicit\u00f3 y ayud\u00f3 a comenzar el programa de enfermer\u00eda en Lander, cumpliendo as\u00ed su deseo de ense\u00f1ar. Despu\u00e9s de dejar Lander, se convirti\u00f3 en directora ejecutiva de la Asociaci\u00f3n de Enfermeras de Carolina del Sur, donde ten\u00eda la intenci\u00f3n de permanecer, posiblemente hasta su jubilaci\u00f3n. Sin embargo, todav\u00eda hab\u00eda otro sue\u00f1o en su coraz\u00f3n. <\/p>

En 1971, Dora llev\u00f3 a un grupo de j\u00f3venes de Ebenezer a un viaje misionero a M\u00e9xico. Despu\u00e9s de ese viaje, le escribi\u00f3 al director de la misi\u00f3n denominacional que sent\u00eda que era el momento. Despu\u00e9s de ser aceptada como misionera, pas\u00f3 varios a\u00f1os en Hong Kong sirviendo como enfermera misionera y como directora de la escuela secundaria Wing Kwong College. Este fue el cumplimiento de su sue\u00f1o misionero y tambi\u00e9n ten\u00eda un bono para ella. Conoci\u00f3 a su esposo, Jarnail, en un servicio religioso internacional mientras estaba en Hong Kong. Despu\u00e9s de mudarse a los Estados Unidos, ayud\u00f3 con su negocio de importaci\u00f3n y continu\u00f3 el ministerio en su iglesia local. <\/p>

Se pueden hacer memoriales en el Departamento de Misiones de la Iglesia de Santidad Pentecostal Ebenezer, 501 Church Street, West Columbia, SC 29172. <\/p>

En nombre de la Iglesia Internacional de Santidad Pentecostal y, en particular, de su familia misionera, les extiendo nuestro m\u00e1s sentido p\u00e9same, la familia y los amigos de la Sra. Dora McNeill Sandhu.<\/em><\/span> <\/p>

\u00a0<\/em><\/span> La Sra. Sandhu era miembro del clero "con licencia" de la Conferencia del Atl\u00e1ntico Medio cuando se reuni\u00f3 por primera vez con la Junta de Misiones Mundiales para expresar su deseo de ir a Hong Kong, China, para servir como m\u00e9dica misionera. La Junta de Misiones Mundiales aprob\u00f3 por unanimidad su nombramiento como misionera de carrera y solicit\u00f3 "que se vaya tan pronto como se puedan hacer los arreglos". Siendo una dama excepcionalmente dotada, su mandato incluy\u00f3 su servicio como misionera m\u00e9dica, directora de la escuela secundaria Wing Kwong, miembro auxiliar de mujeres, pastora de una iglesia, pastora asistente, dirigi\u00f3 y sirvi\u00f3 en el ministerio de ni\u00f1os y como administradora. de una cl\u00ednica y una escuela secundaria, todo mientras se desempe\u00f1aba como misionero de carrera en Hong Kong, China, de 1972 a 1979<\/em> . Aunque su ausencia en el cuerpo se siente profundamente, su ejemplo ha dejado un impacto eterno en el reino y en aquellos que encontr\u00f3 aqu\u00ed en esta tierra.<\/em><\/span> <\/p>

'La gracia est\u00e9 con todos ustedes.'"<\/span><\/em> <\/p>

Obispo J. Talmadge Gardner<\/span> <\/p>

Director Ejecutivo, Ministerios de Misiones Mundiales de IPHC<\/span> <\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","author_name":"","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/In-Loving-Memory.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb62Ar-1b0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}