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Union's missionary-in-residence families participate in the program for one year, living on the university's campus and interacting with students and West Tennessee churches. According to Dr. John Adams, vice president for campus ministries and church services, the goal of Union's missionary-in-residence program is for the "Union family to have cross-cultural experiences and interaction with the missionaries as well as to provide missions education with the Southern Baptist congregations in West Tennessee."

The Bufords are looking forward to spending considerable time visiting with area church congregations and leaders and Union's students. "I'm planning to get involved with the students at Union. I will work once a month with CRV students, and I plan to be involved with Mu Kappa," Buford said. CRV are those students studying for church-related vocations, and Mu Kappa is an international fraternity that serves as a support group for students whose parents are missionaries.

Buford will also have speaking engagements with several West Tennessee churches. "I have two world missions conferences, and I will be heavily involved with Global Opportunity Week here at Union," Buford said. Global Opportunity Week is a time when Union students can meet with missions representatives in order to get involved in missions and become more globally aware of what God is doing in missions.

"Our missionaries in residence stay very busy leading missions conferences at local churches. God has really blessed this program, and it is very uplifting to see how active they stay," Adams said.

Terry received the bachelor of arts degree from Union and the master of theology degree from Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary in Memphis. Michaelle received the bachelor and master of arts degrees from Washington State University at Pullman. The Buford's most recent assignment was church planting in Zambales, Philippines. They have three children: Andrew Jason, Rebecca Ann and Rachel Kay.