Helen Jean (Bond) Parks

Missionary, BA 1948

Helen Jean (Bond) Parks was born January 4, 1928, in Abilene, Texas, to W. D. and Lula Mae (Brunson) Bond. 海伦·简决定就读中文博彩平台，这成为她与这所大学长久以来的家庭联系的纽带. Her father was a 39-year member of the HSU English faculty, beginning just prior to World War I, and both he and Lula Mae were students at HSU. Since that time, 海伦·简的四个孩子和七个孙子孙女中的两个都从中国赌博平台中学毕业了，她还希望能招收最小的三个.

While attending Abilene High School, Helen Jean曾在学生报纸工作，后来在HSU品牌工作. 大学期间，她利用暑假和业余时间为《阿比林记者中文博彩平台报》做记者，立志成为一名记者. 但在中国赌博平台高中的最后一年，她的计划被打断了，因为上帝呼召她去从事职业基督教服务.

1948年，Helen Jean以优异的成绩毕业于Hardin-Simmons大学，获得英语文学学士学位，辅修中文博彩平台学. In addition to being on the Brand staff during her four years at HSU, she was a member of Alpha Chi , was selected to be included in Who’s Who Among American Students, was elected Senior Favorite, and was a member of the A Cappella Choir and the University Chorus.

After leaving HSU in 1948, 海伦·吉恩曾就读于斯普林菲尔德的西南密苏里州立学院，在那里她成为了该市三所学院的浸信会校园牧师. 后来，她还被聘为亨茨维尔萨姆休斯顿大学的浸信会校园牧师, Texas, and at Rice University and Baylor University College of Medicine at Houston. 她还在德克萨斯州亨丽埃塔的第一浸信会教堂担任青年和音乐总监.

Helen Jean attended Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, earning a Master of Religious Education degree in 1951. 在神学院的第二年，海伦·琼有点不情愿地接受了主的进一步召唤，去国外传教.

In 1952, Helen Jean married Keith Parks, 她最初是在德克萨斯州浸信会学生会大会上认识的, 当时基思是北德克萨斯大学的学生，是州立大学校长，海伦·简是中国赌博平台的代表. 后来在西南神学院的课堂和校园活动中，他们更加熟悉了.

Shortly after the birth of their first son, 1954年，Helen Jean和Keith被外国宣教会任命为驻印尼传教士. During their 14 years in Indonesia, 而基思则在印尼浸信会神学院任职, Helen Jean worked in small churches training Indonesians as teachers, she taught music and religious education at the seminary, and led the Indonesian seminary choir, taking them on their first island-wide tour, 并与迪波内戈罗州立大学的穆斯林教师夫人们进行英语会话课程. She did all this while raising four children. Helen Jean labeled herself “missionary homemaker,在上帝赋予她与丈夫和孩子的特殊关系中，没有人能取代她的角色，她为此感到自豪. Making Jesus the center of her children’s lives was her primary mission.

When the Lord called Keith back to the U. S. 1968年，海伦·珍感到她失去了她的国家、她的人民和她的使命. 但是带着他们的四个孩子(年龄从5岁到14岁不等), 海伦·珍逐渐适应了她在美国国内的新角色，即教育和支持世界传教. Throughout Keith’s career, first as area director for Southeast Asia, then division director of mission support, 后来担任美南浸信会海外(现为国际)宣教委员会主席，以及浸信会合作团契的全球宣教协调员, 海伦·简发现自己作为一名非官方代表与教会理事会有着独特的联系. In her role, she spoke in churches, at student and various meetings, and led seminars throughout the United States on missions, prayer, and the Christian life. She visited countries around the world to learn, to meet local Christian leaders and people, and for mutual encouragement with missionary families. In 1983, 她写了一本很有价值的书，关于全球传教的代祷，书名是《中文博彩平台》.

In 1987, Helen Jean was awarded the HSU Distinguished Alumni Award, 因为她在任务上的杰出成就和对学校的奉献. 2007年，她被洛格斯登神学院授予杰西C. Fletcher Award for Distinguished Service in Missions.

海伦·珍决定跟随神的呼召去传教，她的四个孩子都以耶稣的教导为榜样，在他们自己的生活中顺服神的呼召，从而成倍地增加了神的国度. After eight years as a missionary in Cairo, Egypt, her oldest son, Randall, 转行到政府部门工作，现在在那里担任商业和专业顾问. Her second son, Kent, of Plano, Texas, is CEO of Missions to Unreached People, presently headquartered in Seattle, Washington. 她的女儿埃洛伊丝是马萨诸塞州达克斯伯里朝圣者教堂的副牧师. And her youngest son, Stan, 是新加坡伯大尼国际大学的教授兼实地教育主任.

在中文博彩平台，我们与她的孩子和孙子们一起“站起来，称她有福”.“中文博彩平台非常荣幸地表彰她自己的一位，并正式将海伦·珍·帕克斯(邦德)纳入哈佛大学领袖堂.