visionvienna

Stacey
Born on January 4, 1973 & raised on a farm in rural Iowa, Stacey moved with her mother & brother to Bloomington-Normal, Illinois, at age 11. At the beginning of her college years, she began her walk with Christ through a young women’s prayer group. She was soon brought into fellowship in an evangelical church, where she volunteered in youth ministry & sang on the worship team. In 1996, Stacey graduated from Mennonite College of Nursing with her B.S.N. & soon thereafter went on her first mission trip to Vienna, Austria & Budapest, Hungary.

Brad
On March 15, 1973, Brad was born in Hollywood, Florida, where he lived his childhood years in a believing family & was led to Christ at an early age. He studied German & International Studies at the University of Notre Dame, spending his sophomore year at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, & interning during a summer at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France. After receiving his B.A., Brad went on a Fulbright Teaching Fellowship to Vienna, Austria, where he taught, traveled, & worked with missionaries from Illinois.

Boy meets Girl
During Brad’s last week in Vienna in June of 1996, his missionary friends invited a team to come over from Illinois. It was there that Brad & Stacey first met, & a year later they married & moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Brad finished his M.Div. at Knox Theological Seminary in May, 2000, & was called & ordained in his home church of St. Andrews PCA in Hollywood, Florida. At St. Andrews, Brad served as Assistant Pastor from 2000-2004, and later as Associate Pastor during 2004-2005. The Hunters have led or been actively involved with the Mission Team, the M.O.M.S. ministry, youth ministry, college ministry, home groups, mercy ministry, & short-term mission trips to Dominican Republic, Peru, Haiti, Jamaica, Costa Rica, Mexico, Moldova, Austria, & Grenada. Outside our local church, Brad chaired the So. Florida Presbytery Mission Committee & served as Director of Mission Practicum for Knox Seminary. Our favorite roles, though, are as cook, chauffeur, fisherman, nurse, worship leader, diaper changer, swimming instructor, and shepherd to our ever-growing sheep– Luke, Abby, & Levi.

Vienna calling
In June 2007 we moved to Vienna, Austria, to lead a church planting team, serving with World Harvest Mission. We started with a home group in our apartment in 2008 and began public worship in a small storefront in the city center in Fall 2009.  Fall 2011 we received our first class of new members, began home groups, and are now preparing to move into a larger church facility in March 2012.  Click on the links to learn more about our church plant, our visionvienna slide show, visit our Family Blog, and commit to praying for us!

And for the less sanitized, more earthy version of our story, click on Our Story, uncut.

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