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| NAMB Names Riley MSC Missionary of the Year |
| Release Date: 05/29/2008 |
 LOUISVILLE - The North American Mission Board (NAMB) has selected Harrell Riley of Princeton as Mission Service Corps Missionary of the Year for 2007.
NAMB representative Mike Riggins presented the award to Riley during a May 28 chapel service at the Kentucky Baptist Convention’s Louisville headquarters.
“What you see…in Harrell’s ministry is humble service that is reflected in changed lives. People are being shown the gospel in tangible ways,” said Riggins, a regional coordinator for NAMB. “You also see how God is changing lives through the many volunteers who are being reached and drawn in to expand the ministry.”
Riley was nominated for the national award last summer after the Kentucky Baptist Convention named him as Kentucky’s MSC Missionary of the Year last May.
“We receive nominations for the national MSC Missionary of the Year award from our 43 conventions each year,” Riggins said, noting that there are currently more than 2,100 MSC missionaries in the Southern Baptist Convention. “Harrell’s nomination just rose to the top.”
Mission Service Corps missionaries are self-funded missionaries who are commissioned by the North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention.
Riley gave up a steady job in a production factory in Princeton more than six years ago to become an MSC missionary through the KBC. Now operating from a minimal salary, Riley is head of Hell is Real Ministries, a ministry focused on evangelistic outreach.
“I’m very humbled by him and I have a great deal of respect for Harrell,” said Eric Allen, mission service and ministries director for the KBC. “He is a tremendous example of what an MSC missionary is, and what our missionaries are doing in Kentucky.”
Riley coordinates ministries at Job Corps sites in Morganfield, Greenville and Simpsonville and ministers at the Western Kentucky Correctional Complex in Eddyville. Job Corps is a federally funded program designed to teach occupational skills to economically and socially disadvantaged students.
Another of Riley’s outreach programs involves bringing the Awana children’s program to the Western Kentucky Correctional Complex as a way to reconcile families and further minister to inmates.
He also provides leadership to college student missionaries each summer, works with local homeless shelters, and actively ministers to motorcycle riders.
Riley and his wife, Debra, have three children.
The Kentucky Baptist Convention is a cooperative missions and ministry organization made up of more than 2,400 autonomous Baptist churches in Kentucky. A variety of state and worldwide ministries are coordinated through its administrative headquarters in Louisville, Ky. including: missions work, disaster relief, ministry training and support, church development, evangelism and more. For more information, visit www.kybaptist.org.
Release prepared by Kristie Randolph, KBC Communications |
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