Reaching
Courtney Steever
Hometown: Cincinnati, Ohio
Current residence: Kolkata, India
Graduated from Milligan: 2000
Major: Public Relations/Advertising
Current occupation: Missionary in Kolkata, India with Word Made Flesh
Reaching the "poorest of the world's poor"
Steever lives in Kolkata, India, where she is a Field Staff member for World Made Flesh, which she described as “a Christian non-profit organization that exists to serve the poorest of the world's poor.” Steever spends hours on the streets of Kolkata with homeless families and also visits girls in the Red Light District, a place where thousands of girls are trapped in the sex trade. “Many of them have been sold into it by families, husbands, boyfriends or employers; most of them before they were even 15 years old. I feel that God desires their freedom and restoration, and so we come here to try and offer that.”
Before becoming a missionary, Steever worked in the Consumer Relations department of Procter & Gamble in Cincinnati, Ohio . “I honestly never saw it as a career,” said Steever. “I was always in more of a transitional mode as I looked for an overseas organization to work with.” Steever first completed a four month servant team program with Word Made Flesh before she decided to commit to a lengthier two year position as field staff. “During those four months I learned more of God's heart for the poor around the world, and I decided that I wanted to spend the next two years as field staff, investing into those relationships that were started.”
As a servant-leader, Steever puts her God-given skills to work for the benefit of others. “I feel that God gave me certain dreams and desires, along with showing me a need in the world that I felt called to help with, and has made it possible for me to combine all of them together,” she said. As a person with a photography minor, Steever often photographs those she ministers to. Her shots have been published in The Cry, the Word Made Flesh magazine. “I hope to develop those skills and would like to use them in order to give a voice to the poor and bring awareness to the people,” she said.
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