Carol Elliott
Ministerios Urbanos
USA – Noreste
FIELD
From 1985 to 1990 Carol served in Kenya, East Africa, with Conservative Baptist International (now WorldVenture). She then returned to the States to care for her ailing mother and began serving with Missions Door, who appointed her to full-time ministry in 1992.
From 1994 through June of 1997 she ministered at the Trenton Detoxification Center. Then at the end of August of that year she left Missions Door. God renewed Carol's call after the home going of her mother, and in 2000 she was reappointed by the Mission to serve in Coney Island, New York, and then in downtown Brooklyn.
Downtown Brooklyn is an ethnically-diverse community. Here Carol is involved in ministering to the same types of people she saw daily in Coney Island. Poverty and the proliferation of drugs contribute to a rising crime rate here as in every urban area in America.
Carol presently is in charge of the primary outreach ministries of The New Baptist Temple. The soup kitchen feeds approximately 75 people each Tuesday. Finding faithful volunteers to work in this ministry is the greatest difficulty at this time. The purchasing and preparing of food is a year-round ministry.
Another aspect of feeding the hungry is the food pantry, open one day a week to the public. This too is a year-round ministry requiring volunteers three days.
FAITH
Born and raised in Trenton, New Jersey, Carol had read the Bible off and on from early childhood but never saw the message of salvation. Then, in February 1981, after coming to grips with her sinfulness, Carol was born again at the age of 37.
Out of love and deep gratitude for what the Lord Jesus Christ had done, Carol immediately committed her life wholly to the Lord. Two-and-a-half years later at a missions conference, she realized God was calling her to full-time ministry.
