For the last four years, Angela Pacey has had the awesome privilege of leading a team from Christ Covenant Church (CCC) in Matthews, NC, as they stepped out in faith and obedience to serve the Afghan refugee community that has settled in their area. At first, they thought that it would simply involve delivering food to their new neighbors. However, as is often the case, God had other plans. Soon he led them to intensely engage with their first Afghan family of 6.

Then, over the past few years, the CCC team has expanded to more than 400 volunteers. There are over 150 Afghan families in the greater Charlotte area. Volunteer involvement includes a program for teaching Afghan women to drive; an ESL program for men and women; a donation drive to meet their Afghan neighbors’ household needs: and an afterschool tutoring program for Afghan children. In addition to what God has done for Afghans through this team, He has done amazing work in the lives of the volunteers and their church. “We have each grown in our faith in ways we could never have imagined!” Angela is enthused!

Angela is a wife of 37 years, a mother of 4 adult children and a proud grandmother of two. As a member of Christ Covenant Church for 37 years, Angela considers herself “well fed” through sound preaching and a loving church family. She is a Side-by-side Caregiver at CCC and has served in and has led many different mercy ministries. She holds multiple graduate degrees, including a master’s degree in religion (now called Theological Studies) from Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary.

Angela enjoys serving others with her church family, hiking, traveling internationally with her family and spending time with her grandchildren.