Joel and Kristen Snyder Connecting YOU to tribal missions! About
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We are Joel, Kristen, Samuel, Judah and Adam, missionaries serving at the Missionary Training Center in Central Missouri.
Joel wears a lot of hats! He oversees the plumbing department, coordinates the student work program, is in charge of campus fire safety, and heads up one of the student outreaches to a medium security boys’ facility. He also gets to teach the missionaries-in-training practical skills they will need when they are out in the tribe. He enjoys the variety!
Kristen’s ministry changed last year. She taught linguistics (how to learn and analyze unwritten languages) for the first 4 years she was on staff at the Missionary Training Center. Then she moved into some other courses – phonetics, grammar, culture and language acquisition, and phonemics. Mostly those are fancy names for teaching the missionaries-in-training how to learn the unwritten, unknown language and the culture of the people they will be going to.
Most recently, she has been working in the childcare program that we offer for our students so that both the moms and dads are able to attend class and be equipped for tribal ministry.
