by Holly Meriweather
World Missions Day 2020 (Feb. 23) at 8 a.m., a new BMA Missions broadcast was introduced. Hosted by Yalanda Merrell, the monthly show is called mission:world.tv and will feature BMA missionaries and what they are doing around the world. An extension of mission:world magazine, it can be viewed on BMA Missions’ Facebook page and will be downloadable to share updates with your church.
The four-minute-long episodes will highlight a missionary and country each month, giving viewers an inside look at BMA Missions. Sign up to receive the videos by email (and become a mission:world magazine subscriber if you’re not already) by going to missionworld.tv.
Yalanda Merrell
Although she had walked the aisle at the age of seven, she wasn’t saved until her freshman year of college. But another eight years passed until she fully surrendered her life to Jesus, then three more until she began intentional discipleship. It’s a familiar story for many, and one that Yalanda Merrell doesn’t mind telling, especially if it will point someone to Jesus.
Telling stories is what Yalanda is all about, and she has done that professionally – first as a reporter and anchor for KAIT in Jonesboro. Then after eight years, she left the world of broadcasting and television, to work as a recruiter for University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).
Yalanda came to the attention of the LifeWord team in 2018 after Director of Operations Luis Ortega and Executive Director Donny Parrish visited the church that she and her husband, Shawn attend in Northeast Arkansas – Herman Baptist Church in Bono.
It Turns out that Yalanda is not only a talented broadcast journalist but a writer as well.
The Lifeword Cloud had just been implemented and print content was needed, so Yalanda was asked to join a team of writers. Her daily devotionals and blogs have been published on lifeword.org ever since. After enthusiastically offering to do more, anything that was needed, BMA Missions took her up on the offer, and the new broadcast is a result!
