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Missionaries of the Month For June 2008
Ed and Lynne Wittung were assigned as career missionaries for the Church of the Nazarene to Bolivia in June 1995. Ed is the national coordinator for the JESUS Film Project and Work & Witness coordinator. He also works directly with all six districts in Bolivia and is the treasurer for the National Retirement Board.
Lynne is the treasurer for the Mission Council in Bolivia. They spent almost nine months in language study prior to their current assignment in Bolivia.
Ed, from Van Wert, Ohio, grew up on the Northwest Ohio District. He received his B.A. degree from Mt. Vernon Nazarene University in Mt. Vernon, Ohio, in 1984. He received a Masters of Divinity degree in missions from Nazarene Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1994. While living in Kansas City, Ed worked in the Nazarene Compassionate Ministries Office, part of the World Mission Department, at Nazarene Headquarters.
Lynne grew up in Lancaster, Ohio, and attended Mt. Vernon Nazarene University where she and Ed met. She received her B.A. degree in music education from Catawba College in Salisbury, North Carolina, in 1990. While living in Kansas City area, she taught music in the Kansas City School District and began to work on her Masters in Music Education degree at the University of Missouri. She is currently working on her Masters in Education through an extension program provided by Framingham State College, outside Boston, Massachusetts.
Prior to their missionary appointment, the Wittungs served as youth ministers in Virginia and North Carolina. They pastored the First Church of the Nazarene in Statesville, North Carolina. They also served as ministers of music at the Metropolitan Church of the Nazarene while living in the Kansas City area.
The Wittungs have two children: Philip and John.
