Kerri Swick Case Study

Introduction Micah and Kerri Swick are a couple who once served on the mission field in Provo, Utah with Biblical Ministries Worldwide. They served for about two years and then came back to Kansas City, Missouri to start a family. They now live happily with their three-year-old son, Malachi. The Swicks served these two years faithfully as worship leaders and radio station workers in the city. They felt as though their two years serving was a fantastic learning experience of great benefit.
Doctrinal and Spiritual Before they served, they were both heavily involved in their home church, Blue Ridge Bible Church. During a mission conference, held annually at the time, they both discovered that they had hearts for mission work. Kerri Swick had always wanted to go into the mission field at an early age, and Micah was open to the idea. This mission’s conference opened them both up to go and serve in the field. Micah remembered the speaker talking one night during the conference: “Most people would wait until retirement, but we need young people as much as older people.” He said the reason for this was that young people generally had more energy than older people and could get a larger and more expansive amount of work done in the field.
Micah and Kerri thought it would be a good idea to begin missions as they had not started a family yet, they

Micah recalled that the agency did not use speaking in tongues because it is no longer a gift given out by the Lord. Micah and Kerri share similar agreements with BMW on this issue, yet they still believe where it is almost non-existent as a gift given today, it is still possible to be given since God can do anything. They also hold to the fact that speaking in tongues was not a so-called “one-on-one” with God, but rather, the literal interpretation of “speaking in different languages to reach other people.” In other words, it is not normal, but possible, since Scripture does allow