Introducing Mission Team Member: BeckyW

Becky has always wanted to do a mission trip since her college days at UC Berkeley, and now, some 40 years later, the Holy Spirit has issued the call for her to go to Uganda with the CCUMC Mission Team. I guess if it's one thing she's noted for, it's patience! She's been able to develop that skill and others as she devoted 35 years of her life to teaching elementary school in the Oakland Unified School District, which she has thought of as a different type of “mission” call in the inner city.

Since being newly retired in January, 2009, Becky has been praying about where God might be leading her to serve, with the additional gift of TIME. She is volunteering to teach newcomers at Lincoln School, serves on the Wa Sung Community Service Club Board as Director of Educational Grants, is Chairperson of the Lincoln Environmental Education and Arts Fund ( where she gets to go on Science Camps with the 5th graders), and is active at CCUMC in the Sunday School, the prayer and hiking fellowships, the Green Team, as LaySpeaker and chair of the Missions work area.

A former “Sweet Adeline”, Becky loves music (she recently bought a ukelele!), art, hiking,quilting, travel, and hula, which she takes with her daughter Jessica. And of course, life wouldn't be complete without her loving family, husband Al, sons Ben and Jamie, daughter Jessica, daughter-in-law Aeri, and doggies Kayla and Kahlua.

As she prepares for the trip to Uganda, Becky carries the words of this favorite hymn: “Here I am, Lord. Is it I, Lord? I have heard you calling in the night. I will go, Lord, if you lead me. I will hold your people in my heart.”