Leah-A Brief Biography
I started going to church when I was one year old. My mother and father did not attend church. A local pastor used to pick me and my brothers and sisters up on the church bus and take us to church. When I was seven the church I was attending was having a revival service. I understood that I had sin in my life and that Jesus died to take away that sin. I asked Jesus into my heart and I was baptized shortly thereafter. I accepted the call into the ministry when I was about sixteen years old. I began at that time to prepare myself for a life of service to God.
I graduated from Mexia High School in 1980. I attended East Texas Baptist College for four years where I received a BA in Religion. My major was Administrative Careers with a specialization in Children's Ministries. I also have taken twenty hours towards a masters in Religious Education at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.
I spent one summer during college as a volunteer youth director at Prairie Grove Baptist Church in Mexia, Texas. I spent the next summer as a BSU Summer Missionary in Vernon, New York. I spent my last summer at college doing volunteer work with the Department of Human Resources in the Child Protective Services Division.
I have always believed in being active in any church which I have been a member. I have served as Sunday School teacher for all ages of children as well as teenagers and in Ladies Adult classes. The only group I have never taught is a Men's class. I have been a teacher and or V.B.S. Director in over twenty Vacation Bible Schools. I have participated in and been the President of the W.M.U. I have taught four or five G.A. classes. I have taken children and youth to summer camp six or seven times. I have tried to be faithful to God’s guidance to witness to the lost and I have been blessed to see many people come to know Jesus. I list these things not as a list of my own achievements but as a list of the many ways in which God has allowed me to be involved in the work He was doing.
I met my husband in 1985 in a church in Fort Worth, Texas. We were married on February 15, 1986, one year and two days after our first date. We rejoiced at the birth of our first child on November 26, 1990. Her name is Abbey Louise Fleming, and she is now seventeen years old. Our second bundle of joy arrived on October 29, 1992. His name is Connor Davis Fleming and he is now fifteen years old. Our third child is Benjamin Roosevelt (Ross) Fleming. He was born on October 5, 2004 in Kenya. He was abandoned by his mother when he was 3 days old. We first met Ross when he was 16 months old and we were allowed to take him into our home on September 20, 2006. The joy of the birth of our children is nothing in comparison to the joy of their spiritual rebirth which we experienced in 1998. Connor asked Jesus into his heart on April 19, 1998 at the age of five. Abbey asked Jesus into her heart on August 16, 1998 at the age of seven. I am now blessed to be the mother of two children who love and follow the Lord. I look forward to the day when our newest son Ross accepts Jesus as his savior and begins his journey with our Lord.
I have grown into an understanding of my call into International Missions. When I was in college I spent a summer as a BSU Summer Missionary. Soon after I returned I expressed publicly that I felt it was possible God was calling me into missionary service. That call was reaffirmed in 1996 while Alan and I were serving at Angus Baptist Church. We were having World Missions Conference services there. I realized that I had allowed myself to be side-tracked from the call to missions and it was time for us to pursue it again.
We were appointed as missionaries in August of 1999 and arrived in Kenya in February of 2000. We resigned from that position in June of 2007. We are remaining here in Kenya as independent missionaries. We will be doing the same work that we were doing for our previous mission but we will be receiving our support from individuals and a few churches rather than a large organization.
I started going to church when I was one year old. My mother and father did not attend church. A local pastor used to pick me and my brothers and sisters up on the church bus and take us to church. When I was seven the church I was attending was having a revival service. I understood that I had sin in my life and that Jesus died to take away that sin. I asked Jesus into my heart and I was baptized shortly thereafter. I accepted the call into the ministry when I was about sixteen years old. I began at that time to prepare myself for a life of service to God.
I graduated from Mexia High School in 1980. I attended East Texas Baptist College for four years where I received a BA in Religion. My major was Administrative Careers with a specialization in Children's Ministries. I also have taken twenty hours towards a masters in Religious Education at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.
I spent one summer during college as a volunteer youth director at Prairie Grove Baptist Church in Mexia, Texas. I spent the next summer as a BSU Summer Missionary in Vernon, New York. I spent my last summer at college doing volunteer work with the Department of Human Resources in the Child Protective Services Division.
I have always believed in being active in any church which I have been a member. I have served as Sunday School teacher for all ages of children as well as teenagers and in Ladies Adult classes. The only group I have never taught is a Men's class. I have been a teacher and or V.B.S. Director in over twenty Vacation Bible Schools. I have participated in and been the President of the W.M.U. I have taught four or five G.A. classes. I have taken children and youth to summer camp six or seven times. I have tried to be faithful to God’s guidance to witness to the lost and I have been blessed to see many people come to know Jesus. I list these things not as a list of my own achievements but as a list of the many ways in which God has allowed me to be involved in the work He was doing.
I met my husband in 1985 in a church in Fort Worth, Texas. We were married on February 15, 1986, one year and two days after our first date. We rejoiced at the birth of our first child on November 26, 1990. Her name is Abbey Louise Fleming, and she is now seventeen years old. Our second bundle of joy arrived on October 29, 1992. His name is Connor Davis Fleming and he is now fifteen years old. Our third child is Benjamin Roosevelt (Ross) Fleming. He was born on October 5, 2004 in Kenya. He was abandoned by his mother when he was 3 days old. We first met Ross when he was 16 months old and we were allowed to take him into our home on September 20, 2006. The joy of the birth of our children is nothing in comparison to the joy of their spiritual rebirth which we experienced in 1998. Connor asked Jesus into his heart on April 19, 1998 at the age of five. Abbey asked Jesus into her heart on August 16, 1998 at the age of seven. I am now blessed to be the mother of two children who love and follow the Lord. I look forward to the day when our newest son Ross accepts Jesus as his savior and begins his journey with our Lord.
I have grown into an understanding of my call into International Missions. When I was in college I spent a summer as a BSU Summer Missionary. Soon after I returned I expressed publicly that I felt it was possible God was calling me into missionary service. That call was reaffirmed in 1996 while Alan and I were serving at Angus Baptist Church. We were having World Missions Conference services there. I realized that I had allowed myself to be side-
We were appointed as missionaries in August of 1999 and arrived in Kenya in February of 2000. We resigned from that position in June of 2007. We are remaining here in Kenya as independent missionaries. We will be doing the same work that we were doing for our previous mission but we will be receiving our support from individuals and a few churches rather than a large organization.
