News at ABWE
Remembering Lindsey Harrell
October 5, 2007
Reverend Lindsey Harrell, retired ABWE missionary to Brazil, entered heaven on Sunday, September, 30, 2007, at 85 years of age. At the age of sixteen late one Sunday afternoon, after having spent three day and two nights under conviction and very miserable, Lindsey Harrell said “Lord, now I believe.” That day a peace came to his heart that the world cannot take away. The following year God called him to preach. He didn’t have the money to go to college and neither did his family, but he trusted in God to provide the way and He did.
Lindsey was called into the U.S. Army at the end of his first semester in college and spent 34 months in service. He then returned to his studies and after finishing junior college, he enrolled in Piedmont Bible Schools, Winton-Salem, North Carolina. It was during his last year there that he felt God’s call to be a foreign missionary, but he didn’t yet know where the Lord wanted to use him.
When he graduated from PBS, he enrolled in Tennessee Temple College in Chattanooga, Tennessee; and during the Missionary Conference there in November, 1950, he was convinced that God wanted him to go to the Indians in South America. He was accepted and appointed by ABWE to the Upper Amazon Field in Brazil, where he worked with the Ticuna Indians from 1951 to 1986.
Lindsey leaves behind his wife of nearly 55 years, Jean Ferguson Harrell, four daughters, 12 grandchildren, a sister, and four brothers. Lindsey’s daughter Eunice wrote a tribute for her father in which she said, “My dad taught me that whatever I do, I’m to do it heartily as unto the Lord.”
Lindsey’s coworkers have expressed appreciation of his Christian character, work ethic, and personal traits by mentioning:
“He was the most serious, holy man I ever knew.”
“He was almost always on the positive side…often expressed in his complete, hearty laughter.”
“He was a great worker in Brazil and never seemed to get tired of his missionary work, nor complained.”
“He had a crystal clear voice as he spoke and sang with such resonance.”
“We rejoice with Lindsey because now he is starting to live like he never lived before.”
Memorial contributions may be made to:
Immanuel Baptist Church
901-B West Queen Street
Edenton, NC 27932
All contributions will be directed for use on the foreign mission field.