Kim Alan Mitchell (1955 - 2011)

Born 16 Oct 1955 in Coshocton, Coshocton, Ohio, United States

Ancestors

Died 5 Oct 2011 at age 55 in Vernon, British Columbia, Canada

Biography

This profile is part of the Dresden, Ohio One Place Study.

Kim died 5 October 2011. Burial was at Dresden Cemetery.^[1]

"Citizen of the Week"

Kim Mitchell, son of Charles and Carol Mitchell of Dresden, was one of the former owners of The Scottie Den and the Mini-Storage buildings on Muskingum Avenue. A lay missionary, he has recently returned from a Mission trip to Siberia and traveled the Artic Circle.

The primary purpose o the missions Kim goes on is to distribute Bibles and Christian literature.

Some of the gulags in Russia, now virtually empty of political prisoners, house abandoned orphans. These gulags (prisons) held religious and political prisoners before glasnost. One of the ladies and also one missionary couple had a child win their hearts on the tour. The lady fell in love with a little child, Pasha, and wanted to adopt the child and after much paper work and time found out another American couple had already, properly, gone through procedures to adopt Pasha from an orphanage in Moscow.

Mitchell graduated from Christ for the Nations College in Dallas in 1989. He began in the mission field in their outreach program in Mexico that year.

Many readers will remember when, in 1988, Mitchell went to Canton, China, and took Bibles and had the confiscated and later returned to distribute them along with an interpreter.

In 1990, he journeyed to South Africa beginning his overseas mission there. He was still living in Texas at this time.

In 1991, he was directed to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and is affiliated with the River of Life Ministries.

In 1992, he made his first trip to Israel. He mentioned seeing the wall that remains of the great temple there and how the sects from the Far East use the top part for their worship.

Also this same year he went to Korea.

In 1993 Mitchell returned to Israel. Then, in March of his year, once again visited The Holy Land.

June and July brings us up to date with his Russian trip to Salekhard (Siberia).

Mitchell motivates youth and his 20 teenagers leaving with him on July 27 for Israel.

He expresses gratitude for all of his supporters from the Dresden area.

It's been several years since this town has had missionary travel to this extent.

Mitchell mentioned how the Baptists have helped pave the way for other denominations to enter in once communistic countries. During communist reign they were the only ones getting over the borders, he said.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ BillionGraves.com. Grave record for Kim Alan Mitchell (16 Oct 1955 - 5 Oct 2011), BillionGraves Record 34971432, Dresden, Muskingum, Ohio, United States. Online: https://billiongraves.com/grave/Kim-Alan-Mitchell/34971432.
2. ↑ Muse, Elizabeth. "Citizen of the Week." The Post-Transcript (OH: Dresden, 22 June 1994).