Who we are…
Rev. George J. Conroy, Sr. and Rev. Linda K. Conroy are the founders and senior officers of the ministry. Our backgrounds are quite different from each other’s. George was born in New Jersey. He attended a Baptist Boy’s Camp when he was ten. He had a very dramatic born again experience, and later the same night was called to the mission field in a dream. He avoided that dream as much as he could, as he didn’t understand any of it and his home life was not at all conducive to a Christian walk. It would be some thirty years later after living a very worldly life, that he would again accept Christ and answer the calling. He was made pastor of a small American Baptist Mission Church in North Hollywood, California. The congregation would become entirely Spanish speaking people, many of whom never were in a church in their lives and knew nothing about Jesus.
A year later he was called to pastor a church in Pueblo, Colorado. The church was also a Spanish speaking body, but they also wanted English. It was good, because he learned by experience to speak in Spanish and to pastor a church. The church had experienced a “Charismatic split” a few years before and the attendance had dropped terribly. The church grew from about ten people in services to somewhere between thirty and fifty, and sometimes as many as 100 for special occasions. The church had a fairly large body of youth, which became quite active. After a year of good growth and what seemed to be a happy body, there was a meeting called by members whom he had never met or seen. The board did not allow the pastor to see the attendance or financial books of the church. This large body of folks were evidently on the books and although most of them never attended the church during George’s tenure. The meeting in question led to a very loud and angry attitude, with the ones who attended regularly being accused with the pastor of taking the church away from its roots. Not having enough experience and no seminary training at the time, the pastor found himself not knowing how to handle such a situation. He resigned and he and his wife attempted to keep the body attending in a home church, but after almost a year with hardly any money to live on and no industry to offer secular work, the couple helped the people to merge with a local Nazarene church. They went on to pastor a Nazarene church in San Antonio, Texas. A couple of years later a new tragedy hit the couple. They were divorced.
It would be close to ten years later that George would meet Linda and they would be married. At the wedding ceremony two pastors performed the wedding. During the wedding two other pastors joined with the others and ordained the couple into the mission field.
Linda was born in West Virginia. She grew up, always attending church at the First United Methodist of Berkley Springs. She was legally blind from birth, and after graduating from Shepherd College, she went on to work in the Postal Dept. of the U.S. Senate. After her five years there, she moved to Los Angeles and went to work in a home for blind and handicapped people. Her next job was as a care person for seniors with dementia or Alzheimer’s disease. She was extremely popular with the people she cared for as well as their families. This is when George came into her life. He was looking to put his mom in the senior day program and met her there. His mom was only able to be there for a short time as the disease caused her to be nocturnal and always trying to walk away. Linda helped him find a place for his mom.
Not only did she work at this day care program of the Salvation Army, but she also was a soldier in the organization.
After a short time, they decided to become man and wife.
George’s daughter from his first marriage came to live with the couple and a good bond was built between mother-in-law and daughter. The three were going to the mission field, after touring the states and trying to raise support. A year later, they entered Mexico and ended up making their mission the south central part of the country, especially around a town called, Chalma, high in the mountains, and later to Toluca, Mexico. The work and life were quite a challenge. He was getting on in years and suffered physical ailments. She was legally blind and also with respiratory problems. The daughter, Tracey developed her own little ministry, singing to the people in stores, bars, or hotels…sharing the Lord through her music. The family loved and was loved by the people around Chalma. They lived there for four years and led many folks to the Lord or planted the seed that they knew one day the Lord would harvest. Tracey returned to the states to be near to her natural mother and her sister. George and Linda moved to Toluca, a cosmopolitan city of one million people.
For the next six years, they traveled and ministered to churches and congregations throughout the southern part of Mexico. In Toluca, they had their own congregation for a while, with the ultimate goal being to take folks who have left other denominations and preparing them to return to the churches they had left and becoming solid members.
In 1998, Linda had an operation, attempting to give her eye-sight. The transplant was not accepted by her body. Then she had another, and returned to the states for it. Again it had the same result of not being accepted by her body. In Mexico, she had been seriously distracted by her respiratory problems. Three times, the woman was pronounced dead by doctors and three times, the Lord gave her life back. The miraculous was not something out of the ordinary in their time in Mexico. Many physical healings, broken marriages, and troubled teens were blessed with healing in answer to the couples prayers. In 1999, the couple moved back to the USA. George was now having serious problems with C.O.P.D., a severe respiratory condition. He suffered several other problems, and soon had a “massive coronary”. A pacemaker defibrillator was installed in his chest.
Now, the ministry is still missions oriented, ministering to folks in India, Nigeria, and Central America and locally, they hold a Bible study Monday mornings for the folks who live in their retirement community. They are now preparing to institute a “share group” on Thursday evenings, in affiliation with the church they attend, Solid Rock.
Conroy Family Ministries Statement of Faith
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