More Than Sparrows | Ministering to Missionaries

True Stories

A Litany of Challenges

Any given second can change our lives forever — a car accident that leaves a young mother paralyzed, a diagnosis of stage 4 cancer that necessitates immediate treatment, a struggling teen who gives in to the suicidal thoughts that have plagued him. None of us are beyond the touch of suffering ...

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A Time of Crisis

My husband, Mike Saum, and I have been missionaries in Kenya for the past ten years. In June of 2015 our mission agency, Africa Inland Mission, sent us back for treatment to the United States because my husband was suffering from a debilitating back injury ...

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Statement of Faith

We believe the Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative Word of God.

We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory.

We believe that for the salvation of lost and sinful people, regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential.

We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life.

We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; they that are saved unto the resurrection of life and they that are lost unto the resurrection of damnation.

We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ.

-- As adopted by the National Association of Evangelicals.

About Us

More Than Sparrows is a Christian nonprofit ministry working to support, aid, and encourage the work of proclaiming the Gospel of Christ by assisting Christian workers in their need.

Melissa Haynes

Chairman / Executive Director

Melissa Haynes is an affiliate missionary with Africa Inland Mission. Along with her husband, Melissa served full-time with AIM for ten years working in Kenya, Africa. Melissa graduated f ...

Christopher Burcham

Vice Chairman

Though small of stature himself, Rev. Christopher E. Burcham has been privileged to spend his life proclaiming a God about Whom nothing is small! Since graduating from Bryan College with a ...

Connie Chandler

Secretary

Connie Chandler is an ESL teacher and curriculum writer from Winston-Salem, NC. She has a MAT in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), and loves to spend her time investi ...

Allyson Brown

Treasurer

Allyson, a CPA, is a graduate of Wake Forest University and has over 30 years of experience including corporate taxation, non-profit management, and SEC reporting. She is currently a Senior ...

Lydia Sink

General Director

Lydia has been in ministry alongside her husband for 28 years as well as being a licensed minister herself. She is licensed as a professional counselor in both North Carolina and Virginia, ...

Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father...Fear not, therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.

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