Don Woody

Regional Representative

• ADDRESS:
  1998 E 4th St
  Sanford, FL 32771
• PHONE:
  407-330-2354
• FAX:
  407-330-0376
• E-MAIL:
  don_woody@ntm.org
• WEB SITE:
  www.ntm.org/don_woody

Don was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, and accepted Christ as his Savior at the age of 14. He was challenged into missions after studying anthropology at Georgia State University, where he studied the Yanomamo people of Venezuela.

Don entered training with New Tribes Mission in 1980 and went to Venezuela in 1984. Don has lived in five countries on three different continents: USA, Venezuela, Liberia, Kenya, and Canada, primarily serving as a missionary in Venezuela from 1984-1991.

In 1992-1993 Don taught graduate level pastoral training in Nairobi, Kenya. Nairobi is where he met his wife, Janice, who was a missionary with Mission Aviation Fellowship. They were married in 1993 and have four children, Malaika, Jodiceson, Taivyn and Cuaidman.

Since 1996, Don has been working in church relations for New Tribes Mission in the Central Florida area. This position has Don working in many areas of missions education in the local church, from consulting with missions committees and pastors to pulpit supply and keynote speaking at missions conferences.

Don's goal is to challenge the Church to a closer walk with Jesus, having a broader worldview, and understanding the Church's responsibility to take the message of Christ to a lost world.

Dun Gordy

National Representative

• ADDRESS:
  21613 Dolphin Ave.
  Panama City Beach, FL
  32413-3306
• PHONE:
  850-234-6979
• CELL PHONE:
  352- 551-4235
• E-MAIL:
  dun_gordy@ntm.org
• WEB SITE:
  www.dungordy.com

Dun grew up in a Christian home in Columbus, Georgia, and trusted Jesus Christ as personal Savior at age 11. He attended Truett McConnell College, Cleveland, Georgia, and graduated from Mercer University in Macon, Georgia with a bachelor's degree in Church History. He earned a Master of Divinity in Theology at the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. From Luther Rice Seminary he earned a Doctor of Ministry degree. His field of study was world missions and the local church.

After 12 years as pastor of churches in Georgia, Alabama and Louisiana, Dun resigned from a growing church in Millbrook, Alabama, to enter New Tribes Mission in 1971. He then taught in the mission's training institute in Pennsylvania for two years before becoming Western Representative for the mission. The Gordys made their home in Baker City, Oregon, while he traveled among the churches and Bible colleges of the western United States and Canada for 14 years. In 1988 he became a general representative and moved to the mission headquarters in Florida

Dun travels extensively to speak in local churches, Bible conferences and missionary crusades both across North America and in several foreign countries. He speaks in many colleges and Bible institutes as classroom teacher, chapel speaker and guest lecturer. He is adjunct faculty of New Tribes Bible Institute.

Dr. Gordy was involved in establishing Destination SUMMIT, a short-term program of New Tribes Mission, in 1980. He served in leadership of the program at both the national and international levels for the next 20 years. He also helped pioneer the ministry of NTM (Asia) in Singapore and Malaysia. He has visited tribal missionary works in more than 30 language groups and traveled among most of the countries where New Tribes Mission works.

His hobbies are hunting, fishing and grandchildren. As a freelance writer, Dun is a regular contributor to NTM@work and other magazines. He has also written a newspaper column titled “The Circuit Rider” and two books: Notes From the Margins of An Old Preachers Bible and Confessions of a Poachin' Parson.

Dun's wife, Harriet, is from Montgomery, Alabama, and earned a degree in math from Judson College in Marion, Alabama. She has taught high school math and has been honored as teacher of the year in her school. She is a gifted Bible teacher and is often invited to speak in women's meetings and youth groups.

The Gordys have three children and six grandchildren. They are members of the First Baptist Church of Leesburg, Florida.

Jim McMaster

Regional Representative

• ADDRESS:
  707 Panama Pl..
  Sanford, FL 32771
• PHONE:
  407-322-4716
• FAX:
  none
• E-MAIL:
  jim_mcmaster@ntm.org
• WEB SITE:
  www.ntm.org/jim_mcmaster

Jim and Dena McMaster have been involved in full-time Christian service for a long time. Jim was a church planting pastor for 12 years. While pastoring, he also manufactured educational wooden toys and had a construction business to help support their ministry.

In 1983, the McMasters entered NTM training and went on to serve in Senegal , West Africa , with the Malinke Tribe for 11 years. Their support ministry, including a medical and dental clinic and community development, freed their partners to translate and teach the Bible.

The McMasters have five children -- three daughters, and two sons with the Lord in Heaven. One of their daughters, Krystal Klassen and family are serving with NTM in Senegal .

They are the proud grandparents of 11 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Jim loves preaching and challenging folks to be involved with NTM. Dena enjoys writing and works in the Communication Department at NTM writing for the web and the NTM@work magazine.

George Nicholson

Regional Representative

• ADDRESS:
  103 Woodrose Way
  Venice, FL 34293
• PHONE:
  941-496-4080
• FAX:
  none
• E-MAIL:
  george_nicholson@ntm.org
• WEB SITE:
  none

George was born and raised in the Washington, D.C. area. A graduate of both Montgomery College and Plymouth State University, he holds a bachelors degree in Education. After joining the Army in l969, he served two years in Vietnam and traveled to several Southeast Asian countries. Returning to the USA, he eventually met and married Suzanne. They settled in New Hampshire and began their family.

George is from a Greek Orthodox background, but attended a Bible study and trusted Christ as his Savior in l975. Suzanne came to Christ shortly afterward. They were challenged into NTM by Dick Sanford and entered the training in l986.

Their hearts were burdened for Brazil so they headed there to serve in l989, after serving on the Mission Institute Staff at Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania.

In Brazil, they worked as dorm parents and teachers. Later, George filled the position of principal at the school for missionaries’ children in Vianopolis. They served in this ministry until l995, when Suzanne was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease that necessitated their return to the USA. (She has since been re-diagnosed and treated for an on-going form of muscular dystrophy.)

In l997, George joined the NTM representative team as the New England regional representative. He has traveled extensively throughout the Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts area to promote the work of NTM, speaking in churches, schools and mission conferences.

The Nicholsons are now representing NTM in Florida, where they continue to share and encourage the local church body, Christian schools, colleges, and individuals to be involved in having an integral part in seeing the Gospel taken to the ends of the earth....to the unreached people groups who remain today.

(George has more recently traveled to both West and East Africa, where two of their children are currently serving with NTM.)