“LINKS” stands for “Loving Interested Nazarenes Knowing and Sharing”. Through this program, we adopt a missionary family each year. We support them throughtout the year with a special offering, care packages, Christmas and birthday gifts, and encouraging cards and letters.Our LINKS missionaries this year are Craig and Gail Zickefoose. They are global missionaries for the Church of the Nazarene in Venezuela. Prior to their first missionary appointment in 1984, the Zickefooses served as Nazarenes In Volunteer Service missionaries to Peru in 1981. They worked in the jungle with Larry and Addie Garman, while helping to construct the Bible school. The Zickefooses served in the area of Work and Witness for two years in Ecuador and for two years in Haiti. They began their ministry in Venezuela in 1989 where they coordinated the construction of projects and Work and Witness teams. In 1999, they changed responsibilities to administration, leadership development, and the coordination of national ministries. Craig works with the five districts and the district superintendents and Gail works in theological education. Craig was raised in the states of Washington and Oregon. A 1974 graduate of Northwest Nazarene College in Nampa, Idaho, he worked for a short time as an accountant and then went into the construction business. God called Craig into full-time ministry while in the Republic of South Africa in 1976 where he was a member of a Work and Witness team. Craig was ordained in May 2002. Gail was also raised in the states of Washington and Oregon. She attended Northwest Nazarene University, and graduated from Oregon State University in 1976. She was in business for eight years prior to her call to the mission field. Gail was ordained as an elder in the Church of the Nazarene in May 2000. The Zickefooses have two grown daughters, Brianna and Andrea, and a grandson, Diego Javier