Grace Community Church

Randy and Nedra Sharp ~ FamilyLife

Randy and Nedra Sharp are missionary staff with Campus Crusade for Christ. They serve with FamilyLife®  headquartered in Little Rock, AR and is also active in 76 other countries around the world FamilyLife is a marriage and family ministry dedicated to the call of making “every home a godly home”. FamilyLife®’s mission statement is: “To effectively develop godly marriages and families who change the world one home at a time”. FamilyLife® is a one to many ministry, taking the message of Christ to multitudes of people through a variety of outreaches. Those outreaches include Broadcasts through radio and podcasts, (listened to over 9.1 million times each week) Weekend to Remember marriage conferences, Small Group Studies called HomeBuilders, other Resources including books, articles, audio and video, Hope for Orphans, and Internet ministry at www.familylife.com, where all of this information and more can be found. FamilyLife® is also developing a church based discipleship ministry called LifeReady, a ministry led by Robert Lewis, www.lifeready.com/explore  as well as a video conference for church use. It is a vision of FamilyLife® that every church would develop a on-going marriage ministry to help prepare, maintain and strengthen marriage and families using Biblical principles.

Randy and Nedra Sharp both serve with FamilyLife®. Randy serves with the Events Ministries Group as a Field Ministry Representative and Team Leader. FamilyLife® annually conducts over 130 Weekend To Remember Marriage conferences. Randy’s responsibilities involve oversight of 22 Weekend to Remember marriage conferences, along with managing his Team of five other men. Randy’s Team has 8 conferences in the Fall (Sept-Dec) and 14 in the Spring (Feb-July). He and his Team work with volunteers and churches recruit, encourage and hold accountable those who have committed to help with marriage ministry in their area. Randy’s Team has a total goal of reaching 15, 090 people this year. This past fiscal year over 70,000 people attended a Weekend to Remember marriage conference. From those in attendance, over 2,700 people received Christ as their Lord. We praise the Lord for adding to His Kingdom! When Nedra is not traveling with Randy, she serves in the Contract Administration Department with FamilyLife®. Her Department oversees all the agreements FamilyLife® has with authors and other organizations. Trademarks, Copyrights and royalties are also a significant part of their responsibilities to assure the ministry operates legally.

Randy, Nedra and Travis Sharp live across the Arkansas River in a town similar to the size of Newton. The drive is 13.5 miles one way to the ministry. The ministry building is humbly named The Servants Quarters. It is a privilege to be able to serve here. God provides the resources for FamilyLife® to operate debt free. Randy and Nedra accepted the invitation to serve with FamilyLife® July 2, 2004 and moved to Little Rock to serve at FamilyLife® headquarters December 2005. Their youngest son Travis moved with them and is now enrolled at Arkansas State University persueing a major in Graphic Design. His desire is to serve God in the vocation or profession he lands. Their oldest son Ryan is living in Lawrence, KS and working at Checkers grocery. Their prayer for Ryan is that God will lead him back to Himself as Ryan searches for the Truth!

Currently, the Sharps are attending Grace Church in Little Rock. This is a church plant from Fellowship Bible Church. They are part of a Life Group and serve on the Mission Team. Campus Crusade for Christ and FamilyLife®  also offer seminary level classes that are used to complete requirements for personal and spiritual growth. IBS (Institute of Biblical Studies) classes are offered four to six times each year at FamilyLife. Time is given to participate and complete the work. FamilyLife®  requires 24 Certificate Hours (Undergraduate) or 24 Graduate level hours to be completed in five years. Randy is also required to be involved with FamilyLife®  Toastmasters to improve speaking and leadership skills. FamilyLife®  also requires that each person have an accountability partner and provides time for regular accountability. Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and every other Wednesday begin with prayer. All-Staff prayer is also set asside three times per year to petition God for the needs of all the ministries of Campus Crusade for Christ.

We thank the Lord for Grace Community Church co-laboring with us in this ministry with FamilyLife. It is our desire to be a blessing to you by giving you current and relevant resources and information about how each of you can be involved in marriage ministry at Grace Community Church and your other circles of influence. Thank you for your prayers and financial support!  You may also link to our Campus Crusade site at http://give.ccci.org/give/0566728 .

Personal Information

Birthdays: Randy 12/28/56, Nedra 6/18/57, Travis 9/1/88, Ryan 5/18/85

Anniversary: 7/24/82

Special Interests or Hobbies:

Randy – hiking, fishing, reading spiritually challenging books, golfing and hunting if time.

Nedra – reading, walking, cooking, and being with friends