TAMMI BIGGS

Project Missionary in the Caribbean

2010

Tammi Biggs
Mission Team Facilitation, Caribbean; Inter-Church Project Coordination
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Tammi Biggs was commissioned at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Covenant

Church to serve as a Short-Term Missionary with Covenant World Mission. Having been

approved in October 2009 as a Project Missionary, she will continue with Covenant Merge

Ministries as Trip Facilitator of the Caribbean. She will play an increased role in strengthening

connections between U.S. and Canadian church initiatives in the Caribbean, and provide support

for cooperative mission. Tammi lives in Santiago, Dominican Republic.

Tammi spends half of her time in dialog with Covenant churches in the U.S. and Canada to set up

their mission trips, and talks with local church leaders to determine their needs. She trains both

groups on cultural sensitivity and safety, and how to develop a partnership, overseeing the trips

from start to finish.              

The other half of Tammi’s time is spent identifying which organizations are

doing ministry in various Caribbean countries, learning about local church initiatives and

connecting US churches with others already doing ministry there.

Tammi felt a pull toward the mission field through a series of mission trips to Ecuador and the

Dominican Republic. She continued to seek God’s will for her life and ministry, and her

dedication to cross-cultural ministry began to take shape after meeting Dale Lusk (Executive

Director of Merge). Her call for missions has continued to be affirmed, and has been further

expanded through her relationship with Dave and Wendy Mark (Regional Coordinators for Latin

America/Caribbean).

Raised in a home where Christ was placed as the head, Tammi accepted Christ around the age of

seven. She continued to grow in Biblical knowledge and was involved in Sunday school and

youth group. However in high school she began developing relationships that did not coincide

with the belief system she had always known. After college through a series of events, Tammi

became aware of the inconsistencies in her life, and pledged to give God all components of her

life, not just the parts that were convenient. Since then, Tammi has sought to continually ask the

question, “What does the Lord require and where does He want me?

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Tammi received her BS from Central Michigan U (1996, Advertising/Graphic Design, Mount

Pleasant MI), and her MACE from North Park Theological Seminary (2003, Christian

Formation, Chicago IL). Tammi was ordained to Specialized Ministry by the Evangelical

Covenant Church in 2005, and was Minister of Fellowship and Discipleship at Saranac

Community Church from 1999 to June 2006.

Tammi is a member of Saranac Community Church in Saranac, Michigan.

Birthday: Feb. 14