Opelika Native Moves to Honduras to Begin Missionary Life BY RACHEL LITTLETON Opelika native Amy Carol Canada, 23, daughter of Eric and Ellen Canada, moved south of the United States border in August, 2015, to become a full-time missionary at a children’s...
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Opelika Native Moves to Honduras to Begin Missionary Life BY RACHEL LITTLETON Opelika native Amy Carol Canada, 23, daughter of Eric and Ellen Canada, moved south of the United States border in August, 2015, to become a full-time missionary at a children’s orphanage in the mountains of Guaimaca, Honduras. Amy graduated from Opelika High School in 2010, and then received her bachelor’s degree in accounting from Troy University in December of 2014. She was accepted to the University of South Carolina with a scholarship and graduate assistant position. Amy has visited Orphanage Emmanuel in Honduras eight times, and said she had been praying about a long-term stay at the orphanage for about a year, with feelings that “it was really what I was called to do, and it isn’t what I thought people considered to be normal in America.” Before she was to move to South Carolina to begin graduate school, Amy said she wanted to return to Honduras for two months over the summer of 2015 to get the urge to
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