Texas Acteen selected for national panel

Updated: 3/02/07

Megan Jones	Mallory Harrell	Lili Muongkhot	Erin Radomsky

Texas Acteen selected for national panel

By Amy Whitfield

Woman’s Missionary Union

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—Woman’s Missionary Union has selected Tiffany Clark, 16, of Humble Area’s First Baptist Church to be a 2007 National Acteens Panelist.

Tiffany earned the honor because of her strong commitment to missions and to Acteens, a Baptist missions program for teenage girls, national WMU officials said. They also cited her exemplary leadership and involvement in her school, community and church.

Tiffany Clark

“Tiffany is always the first to volunteer and serve when help is needed—inside and outside the church—and has been a faithful leader in all our student ministry activities,” said Michael Anthis, high school minister at her church.

“Tiffany is a vital part of our student leadership, giving of her time to be the leader that God wants her to be. Most notably, she has gone above and beyond expectations serving in the missions ministry of Acteens.”

At her church, she participates in the youth and choir ensemble, student leadership team, Bible study and a monthly student-led, door-to-door outreach for recent visitors and members of the church.

She has been involved in several mission projects through Acteens, including a summer trip to rural Mexico, volunteering for a food pantry, Christmas caroling to shut-ins, cleanup days, fall festivals, Vacation Bible School and ministering at a Baptist ministry in inner-city Houston. Tiffany began working with teenage girls there in fall 2006 when her church started an Acteens group there. Now she plans weekly programs and leads devotions for the girls.

Tiffany also was a 2006 Texas Acteens panelist.

The 2007 National Acteens Panelists serve from Feb. 1 to Dec. 31, and each will receive a $1,000 Jessica Powell Loftis Scholarship from the WMU Foundation, to be used for higher education.

Throughout the year, Tiffany will write articles for The Mag, the missions magazine for Acteens, and for the Acteens website, HYPERLINK "http://www.acteens.com" www.acteens.com. In addition, panelists will work together as a focus group to help shape the future of Acteens.

She also will serve at at Blume, the national missions event for teenage girls and collegiate young women, July 10-13 in Kansas City, Mo., and at WMU Missions Celebration and annual meeting in San Antonio, June 10–11.

In addition to Acteens who are chosen to serve as panelists, WMU also selects 15 young women as Top Teens to recognize their strong involvement in missions. 

Mallory Harrell of Tallowood Baptist Church in Houston, Megan Jones of Humble Area’s First Baptist Church, Lili Muongkhot of First Baptist Church in Amarillo and Erin Radomsky of Hyde Park Baptist Church in Austin were selected, along with 11 other girls, as 2007 Top Teens.