Past Missionary-In-Residence
IAN & SHERRI BUNTAIN
Born April 2, 1957 in Vancouver, British Columbia Canada. Married August 9, 1980, to Sherri Lynn Keim. Graduated 1981, Southwest Baptist University, and 1986, Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary. Appointed May 1991 by the Foreign Mission Board, SBC to serve as Church Planter, South Asia and the Pacific.
Born June 25, 1961 in Keywest, Florida, U.S.A. Married August 9, 1980, to Ian Bruce Buntain. Attended Southwest Baptist University. Appointed May 1991 by the Foreign Mission Board, SBC Church/Home. Three sons: Leighton Andrew, born June 25, 1982; Robert Carlisle, born June 29, 1984; and Brendon MacIain, born June 15, 1990.
Both Sherri and I have been blessed through the gift of parents who loved the Lord and who saw that we grew up within the nurture of loving church families. At the age of seven, I made a profession of faith in a small Southern Baptist church in Canada, and one year later, after reading the biographies of Lottie Moon and Bill Wallace, I informed my church that I believed God was calling me to be a missionary to Asia.
While in seminary, Sherri and I accepted the call to go to Temple Baptist Church, Fairfield, California to serve as Minister of Youth and Outreach. It was at this church in which I was licensed to preach and ordained to the gospel ministry. We served there for three years (1983-86), after which we accepted a call to return to Canada, and to work with the Home Mission Board as a church planter/developer in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. We served there for five years before being appointed missionaries through the Foreign Mission-Board. While in Canada, I had the privilege of serving as vice-president of the Canadian Convention of Southern Baptists (1989-90), and as moderator of the Northern Lights Baptist Association (from 1990 until appointment).
We are now serving as church planters among the Chinese minority of Southeast Asia.
The Buntains may be reached by calling the Office of Religious Affairs at 51ÉçÇø, 901 661-5242 or at their home on Union's campus, 901 661-4300.
Last updated on January 5, 1996.