The Skyliner

Issue date: 1/30/08 Section: Entertainment & Features

Media Credit: File Photo Nooe poses for a picture with a fellow missionary while ministering in a local village. Living in Africa, Nooe became accustomed to long skirts and grass huts which are not cultural norms for most people within the United States.

Media Credit: File Photo Nooe is pictured sharing God's love to the people of Zambia. Part of her job was ministering to the Zambian children.

Media Credit: File Photo An afternoon lunch with the family. Nooe became especially close to the children because she taught them so that their mother could lead Bible studies in the community

Andrea Brazell and Kyra Alexander
Visual Arts Editor/Staff Writer


The Christian Ministry Department at North Greenville University added a new member to their team this year. Cindy Nooe, a bright and vivacious recent college graduate, was appointed as a student mobilizer through the International Mission Board's J3 program.

The summer before her senior year of college, Nooe met a Journeyman while she was in Brazil on a summer mission trip. The Journeyman asked her what she was going to do after she graduated. She told him she didn't know what she wanted to do because she was an education major but didn't want to teach.

He encouraged her to sign-up for a Journeyman position, which is a two to three year missionary program, with the International Mission Board, for single college graduates who are willing to work overseas.

Nooe went online and filled out what she thought was an interest survey but was a preliminary application. She applied to be a journeyman accidentally. Afterwards, she realized through prayer and encouragement from others that this was what she was really supposed to do.

Nooe graduated college with an early childhood education degree in 2004 from Presbyterian College; however, she did not pursue a job in education because she knew she was going to be a journeyman.

She served with Journeymen in Zambia for almost three years.

While in Zambia, she home-schooled three missionary children in a rural town where their parents were full time missionaries.

Home schooling them allowed their mother to be able to do more Bible studies with their neighbors.

She returned to the United Sates in June 2007.

She had a job lined up in Tennessee teaching kindergarten but later decided the job was not right for her.

She was home for a few months when the International Mission Board called and said Nooe had been recommended by her missionaries to fill a new position called J3 or student mobilizer.

A student mobilizer is someone who takes students to the next level with missions depending on where they are, whether it's educating them about missions or encouraging them to take short-term missions trips.

After accepting the job, she was placed at North Greenville.

"I hope that [having a J3 on campus] would add a more young and realistic face to missions - someone more like them who has done missions - showing them if I can do it they can too," said Nooe.

On a daily basis, she mentors a couple of girls and hangs out in the Todd Dining Hall during lunch in order to meet more students.

"I love hanging out with college students. I just love being here," said Nooe.

She has also started a Bible study called God's Heart for the Nations, by Jeff Lewis. The Bible study will start in February. Sixty-one people have already signed up to participate.

During spring break, she will accompany Dr. McWhite's Light team to Ecuador.

Nooe said, "It's a huge blessing to work with Dr. McWhite."

Also, this summer she will finish up her J3 term by overseeing three one-week projects in Barbados with International World Changers and by working at a camp in Oklahoma as student mobilizer.

"I do feel God has called me to a career in missions, but I don't have a clue what that's going to look like. I'm just being flexible right now," Nooe said.

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