Amanda Hambrick
Location: New York City
Hometown: Richmond, Va.
Commissioned: 2007
Hambrick serves as one of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s field personnel, ministering in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood, home to immigrant families and many people struggling to survive in the city.
Hambrick serves through Metro Baptist Church and its adjoining Rauschenbusch Metro Ministries. She is involved in Metro’s community ministries, including the teen center, summer day camp, clothes closet and food pantry.
“I know the person of Christ as someone who wants all people to feel loved and valuable despite whatever temporary situations they are living in," said Hambrick, a graduate of the Baptist Theological Seminary in Richmond, a Fellowship partner. "I think it is important to simply be with people, to sit with them and say, ‘Life is not always fair, but even though your life may not look like the person’s next to you, you are still made in the image of God. God loves you and desires for you to know that.’"
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