SAMS Associate Director Denise Cox passes the baton after 36-years

The Society of Anglican Missionaries and Senders (SAMS) gives thanks to the Lord for the ministry of Denise Cox who has encouraged your Missionaries in their holy callings and equipped the church and other Senders to come alongside these cross-cultural servants. Countless Missionaries and Senders have reflected this gratitude in Christ through letters and calls of appreciation (See a few excerpts below).

Stewart Wicker, SAMS Mission Director, commended Denise’s ministry, “Her contributions and sacrifices over 36 years have furthered each and every aspect of our Society’s mission to share the love of Jesus across cultures in fellowship with the global Anglican church. Your Society has grown through her gifting, as well as through her enormous commitment and perseverance to serve missionaries and the church.”

Denise will continue to contribute to the mission of SAMS through a transitional part-time ministry role. Her primary focus will be the launching of a new position which will be filled by new SAMS Home Staff Team Missionaries Wade and Chelsea Weeldreyer who will share the responsibilities of caring for your Missionaries and encouraging Senders.

Your prayers for Denise’s next steps in this new stage of life as well as for her husband Phil and extended family are valued!

 

Excerpts from a few of the letters received from Missionaries

Thank you for being such a steady hand, guiding us as missionaries, speaking truth, but also giving us ideas, and confidence. God has used you to not only help us get started in missions but to sustain us over the years.

     — Dave and Lucy Chaves

I’m grateful for your wisdom, fantastically dry humor, and godly leadership. You always had time for me.

      — Jessica Hughes

[We thank God for] LONG phone conversations where you did almost all the listening and just let us unload, and through it all, your unceasing support in prayer for us, our family, even our extended family! You always had time for us, even if you had a million other things to do. Denise, you gave selflessly over these years and we are very grateful.

      — Russ and Heidi Smith

If the works Denise has done are of an invisible kind that we cannot lay out like tunics and garments for display, they are no less real, and enduring, and treasured. That her blood, sweat and tears poured out for the kingdom, its workers, and the world, have been gold, silver and precious stones is for heaven to announce on that Day.

      — Jim and Nanci Long

As the song goes: “There’ll never, ever, ever be another you.”  We love you, Denise.

      — Richard and Martha Menees.