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Carol Kreamer Biography

Carol Kreamer began her service to the Missouri Conference in August 1999 as coordinator of The Mozambique Initiative. In that capacity she supervises staff in Mozambique and together they are the connection for covenant partners between Missouri and Mozambique. Carol is also a resource, serving as requested by Bishop João Somane Machado, and other conferences seeking her assistance in mission and ministry with Mozambique and other partnering initiatives in Africa.

Carol has over twenty years experience in the business world, having moved with her family from New Jersey to Missouri in 1982. She and her husband, Bill, both attained bachelor or arts degrees in business administration with emphasis in marketing from Webster University in St. Louis, MO.

In 1995 Carol served on staff with Webster Hills UMC, first as coordinator of volunteers, then as coordinator of
mission and stewardship, until 1999 when the Conference asked Carol to become the coordinator of The Mozambique Initiative. She is trained as a United Methodist missionary by the General Board of Global Ministries, and has held that position since then.

Carol’s first visit to Mozambique came three days after her employment with the Conference began. She participated in a delegation of 14 persons who departed the U.S. August 1999. For her, as for other participants, it was another life-changing experience.

As coordinator Carol has seen relationships grow from covenant. She administers church-to-church
covenant partnerships between more than 300 churches, groups and individuals in Missouri with the 170 parishes and 23 districts of the UMC in Mozambique. She works under the supervision of The Mozambique Initiative Advisory Committee, and supervises the work of MI representative, Ezequiel Marcos Nhantumbo. Ezequiel is a Mozambican who lives and works for The Initiative in Mozambique. Carol and Ezequiel provide the connection that covenant partners need in order to develop relationships.

Carol provides resources to local churches to develop their covenants, visits covenant partners with programs for “Mozambique Sunday”, and provides assistance to Mozambique Ministry Leaders of covenant partner churches. In addition, she resources mission teams and delegations to Mozambique. She created a “Guide to Short-Term Mission in Mozambique” which, in conjunction with Missouri’s Office of Creative Ministries, has been developed over a 5-year period for every missioner’s use. Carol also assists with many other humanitarian, justice and educational ministries.

Carol has helped over 200 people from Missouri go to Mozambique in mission or to visit their covenant partners. In addition she has helped many people from Mozambique come to Missouri to share their resources in mutual ministry.

Carol’s husband, Bill, is plant manager of US Silica Company in Pacific, MO. He served as a director on the General Board of Global Ministries 1997 through 2004. Carol and Bill live in a rural area just southwest of Eureka, MO. Together they have taught Sr. High Sunday school and Disciple Bible Study, led mission teams to different parts of Mexico and Russia, and started a local “Hands in Mission” program in their local church. She sings on a praise team that leads worship every Sunday when she is not away doing a Mozambique Sunday out of her local church. She and Bill have two grown children, Kristin Lamprecht and Peter Kreamer, and four
grandchildren, Jake, Celia, Paton and Bailey Nicole, who reside in the Webster – Kirkwood suburbs of St. Louis.

*Note – to view GBGM Bio with photo, go to: http://gbgm-umc.org/mission/people/kreamerc00.html