BROKEN ARROW, Okla. (BP) - Fifty-five missionaries were commissioned as church planters, mission strategists and campus ministers in the United States and Canada at the May 15 North American Mission Board's commissioning service held at First Baptist Church here.

Two missionaries shared passionate testimonies about God's call.

Sarah Lee, who serves as a church planter with her husband, Jason, in Louisville, Ky., spoke about their work among Muslim North African refugees.

After college, Lee worked as a nurse in Africa. Two years after returning home and marrying her husband, she was surprised to notice a group of North African women in their Louisville apartment complex. The Lees contacted NAMB to send missionaries to reach the 2,500 Somali refugees in the Louisville area, not knowing the Lord would call them to the work.

Peter and Meeae Paik are natives of Korea who are seeking to establish a church for a very different culture in a community on the opposite side of the U.S. - the 40,000 unreached deaf people in the San Francisco Bay area.

In his animated testimony accompanied by American Sign Language, Peter described his dramatic life change when he found Christ at a church for the deaf in Korea. Paik then studied special education and moved to the United States, where he was exhorted by a fellow Korean Christian to start a church.