The Story of Paul and Marty Law

Paul and Marty Law have served as missionaries ever since they graduated from Asbury College (now Asbury University), in Wilmore, Kentucky, in 1968. They began their missionary career serving with the General Board of Global Ministries of the United Methodist Church in Central Congo, Africa. They served on the Board for 10 years. Paul worked in teaching and agricultural development and Marty worked as a school teacher and in public health.

Paul Law grew up as a missionary child in the Congo where his parents served for 15 years until the death of his father, Burleigh A. Law, in 1964. Marty (Stoneking) Law was the daughter of a United Methodist pastor in the Kentucky Conference and had felt a strong call to missionary work in the Congo before she met Paul in college. The Laws were married in 1967 and left for the mission field the next year.

The Laws came back to the States in 1977 for Paul to enter Asbury Theological Seminary. They hoped to return to the Congo (Zaire) after his studies to work in the training of village pastors. Both Paul and Marty had developed a special love and burden for those living in the rural villages of Zaire and wanted to be involved in programs and ministries that served them in the name of Christ.

After seminary and several years of ministry in the States, the Laws decided in 1984 to return to the Congo (Zaire). Over 17 years, until 2001, Paul worked in many facets of missionary work, including evangelism, leadership training, aviation, river and road transportation, construction, and rural development. Marty worked in administration, being a hostess, and in medical work. She got her nursing license while on an extended furlough and returned to organize a vaccination program that was especially effective in the more remote villages in the area they served.

In 2005, Paul and Marty returned to the Congo to participate in a vision of spiritual renewal of the Church. Marty began a ministry to children; Paul began building churches and drilling water wells. He also continues serving the area through aviation.

Paul and Marty are “faith missionaries,” and have to provide the finances for their personal and ministry needs by finding “partners” who will assist in making their ministry in the Congo possible.

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Appointment Congo
PO Box 98764
Raleigh, NC 27624

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