Both Dun and Harriet committed our lives to serve the Lord at young ages. We married in 1962 and entered New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. Dun’s heart had been excited about reaching unevangelized people since his youth. Harriet was burdened for youth ministry as they entered seminary. We served in pastorate of churches in Louisiana and Alabama during school and in then 1972 resigned a growing and exciting church to work among tribal people. We joined New Tribes Mission, a nondenominational church-planting mission agency.
After completing the specialized training for tribal evangelism, we were asked to stay on the home staff and help train others. We taught in the Mission Institute in Jersey Shore, PA for 3 years. From there we moved to Baker City, Oregon and helped establish a training center. Dun began traveling among churches, Christian schools and Bible colleges throughout the Pacific Northwest and western Canada recruiting laborers for the tribes who still had not heard of Jesus. Harriet stayed home most of the time raising our three children, Michael, Julieann and Kristie. She also taught ladies’ seminars and had a very effective ministry among the missionary candidates in training.
Our ministry expanded when we helped establish and lead the short-term missions program. Dun traveled extensively to foreign countries where he had many opportunities to preach the Good News as well as visit among some of the most primitive people groups on earth. He has traveled to 25 countries and actually preached on every continent – except Antarctica.
The mission transferred us to their international headquarters in Sanford, FL and we bought a home in Lake County. We became members of the great First Baptist Church in Leesburg in 1989. Harriet suffered a massive heart attack that left her with permanent kidney failure in 2001. She had dialysis treatments 3 times per week and still we continued to travel, preach and teach until the need to stay closer to home to care for aging parents.
We moved to Panama City Beach, FL in 2004 to care for Harriet’s parents and Dun’s mother. All three of them are now with our Lord.
Harriet had a very effective ministry among the medical caregivers thru her extended treatments and declining health. Our Lord took her home to heaven on November 21, 2010.
For the last years of her life she made me promise her that “when I’m gone, you get back on the road and preach the Word!”
I’m ready to go!
email me at dun_gordy@ntm.org or call (352)551-4235
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