SONFLOWER INTERNATIONAL MINISTRY, INC.
CONYERS, GA

My name is Cindy Christy and I am so thrilled that you have taken the time to look at the SONflower International Ministry website.  I would like to share with you a little about myself. Well, how about I go back a few years and move forward.  I came to faith in Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior in January of 1980, oh, what a marvelous day!  I remember it just like it was yesterday.  I went down on my knees a sinner and came up a saint, all because of Jesus and what He purchased for me on the cross of Calvary.  At the time my husband and I had two young sons and we were living in Central Florida.  I was immediately encouraged to join a Bible study, so I did.  I surrounded myself with godly women and joined a Bible believing church. Probably in the first 2 or 3 years I was invited to attend a Precept Upon Precept Bible study. My first teacher, Barbara Christy, taught me how to study the Bible by using The Inductive Bible Study Method and within a few months I was attending Leadership Training so that I could teach others to study the Bible using this method. Over the following 27 years, I raised our children in the faith, adopted a daughter and grew in my walk with Christ as I taught the Scriptures weekly. So I know you are thinking, then why SONflower International Ministry? Well, in March of 2006, I found myself alone after being married almost 30 years.  My hearts desire was to be reconciled but over a period of months it was evident that this was not going to happen and the Lord prompted me to, Genesis 12:1 "Go to the land that I will show you." At the time I was not exactly sure what "Go" meant.  Was I to sell my home?  Where was I to go?  Well, in February of 2007 I went on my very first missions trip and the answer was soon to come. I traveled to the Ukraine and accompanied a group from my home church,  First Baptist Church of Mount Dora.  My ministry was to women, I would be leading a Bible Study Conference and the title of my conference was "Lord Heal My Hurts." I had such a wonderful time. When I returned home from the Ukraine, as I was spending time with the Lord one morning, the answer to the "Go" came.  I  was reading from Isaiah 6, where the Lord says to Isaiah, " Whom shall We send, who shall go for Us? ", Isaiah said, "Here am I Lord, send me".  At that very moment I felt as if the Lord was calling me to surrender full time to the mission field.   So, wherever He would lead I was ready to go. So why Sonflower International Ministry?  I think you know, I love the sunflower and it makes me smile, but more importantly I love the Son.  He has put a smile on my face and a song in my heart.   God Bless you ~ Cindy Orphans Heart Mission Trip 2013 I am so glad that you have taken a moment to visit my website.  I pray that you will be blessed as you watch and read all that the Lord has been doing as I have traveled to places I could never have imagined that I would go.  Before 2006 I had never been out of the United States of America and in just a few short years that is history.  Whether it be the Ukraine, Guatemala, the Philippines or who knows where, I will be sharing testimony of how my Lord Jesus has called me to this mission field. How He reached down from Heaven and whispered in my ear, Follow Me and I answered that call.