Duane & Bonnie Hearron
660077 Russia
Krasnoyarsk
PO Box 27367
PH: 011-7-3912-541490
email :dhearron@thehearronfamily.com

http://www.thehearronfamily.com/
 

Duane's Testimony

I was born 29 September 1964 to Mr. and Mrs. Clifford D. Hearron. My father was stationed at Goodfellow AFB, San Angelo, TX. As was typical for my fathers work, we moved literally around the word making such places as Germany, Okinawa and Greece our home.

Rarely as a family did we ever attend church until we moved to Gaithersburg, MD. Central Baptist Church had a bus route by which we weekly started attending their services. It was in this church that my father was saved and my mother rededicated her life to Christ. My two sisters and I made professions of faith but have since realized that they were not true acts of repentance. This all occurred in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s.

I graduated from high school in May 1982 on a military base in Stuttgart, West Germany and immediately went off to college at Bob Jones University. It was there at the start of my sophomore year after watching their movie production "Wine of Morning" that I truly repented and trusted Christ as my personal Savior. I went on to attend Pensacola Christian College where the Lord used a unique class to place in my heart the possibility that maybe God wanted me to be a missionary.

I graduated from PCC in December 1987 with a degree in Business Administration. During my time at PCC, I committed my life to the Lord to serve him in whatever way he wished. After graduation, I returned to Omaha, NE where I enter into the professional work force. I attended Midwestern Baptist Church and became active in Sunday School teaching and soul-winning.

After moving to Cheyenne, WY and being denied entrance into the Air Force’s Officer Candidate School Program, I began working as a manager at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Wyoming. I was weekly involved in the work of Lighthouse Baptist Church teaching Junior Church and eventually taking over a bus route. It was there that I surrendered to the call of missions. And in August of 1993, I resigned my professional management career and moved to Oklahoma City, OK to attend one year of missions classes at Oklahoma Baptist College. During that year, the Lord showed me that Russia was to be my place of labor. At the conclusion of that school year, I attended and successfully graduated from Baptist International Missions’ candidate school and went on a five week missions survey trip to Russia. On my return, I immediately begin my deputation ministry.
 

Bonnie's Testimony

I was born in Wisconsin, June 30, 1976. Our family always attended Baptist churches but never attended an independent Baptist church. I was saved at the age of eight after listening to a message about hell. I realized that I didn’t want to go to hell and readily accepted Christ as my Savior.

When I was fourteen years old, our family moved from Wisconsin to Missouri. I lived there until I graduated from high school. My plans for the future were simple: go to college, get a good job, and live a comfortable life. Graduating from college had always been my goal, but I did not have the funds to begin. So, I moved to Omaha, Nebraska, to be near my sister, with the full intention of saving enough money for a college education. During this time in my life, I was living solely for myself. Although drinking and drugs were not a temptation for me, I could feel myself being drawn to the wrong crowd.

One Saturday, I was in my sister’s apartment when two older men from Midwestern Baptist Church invited Colleen and me to their services. I thought that this was rather strange. I had never seen anybody personally invite someone else to a church service by going door-to-door. However, this incident made a lasting impression on my mind. At that time, I never realized that that visit by those two men was God’s way of offering me and exit from the destructive course that I was on.

A few months had past since that visit by the two gentlemen. Knowing that I should be attending church, my laziness prevented me for going. However, I remembered from the previous visit that Midwestern Baptist Church had a van ministry for adults. So, I gave them a call.

It wasn’t going to church long, before my life began conforming to the image of Christ. I realized that God wanted me to live for Him and that He wanted to be involved in all of my decisions, not just some. After two and a half years of preaching and teaching under my pastor, Dr. Kenneth Bentley, I enrolled in Bible College. I graduated four years later. What a joyous day that was!

Near my last semester of school, I was introduced to a wonderful man, C. Duane Hearron II. He was a missionary who had served already one term in Russia. I married that wonderful man January 26, 2001. We both now serve our Savior in Krasnoyarsk, Russia in Siberia

I cringe when I look back on what my life could have been, had I not been obedient to our Lord. Why God threw me that lifeline, considering the selfish state I was in, amazes me even still. I am glad that we have such a merciful, loving, and forgiving God.