October 4, 2013
Tom Langley writes, “We are more than excited to announce the hiring of Justin Acuff as the full-time Technical Director of the WEI Internet Ministry.
“Justin is married to Lisa, and they are both mission-minded Christians who worship with the Laurel Church of Christ in Knoxville, Tennessee. They met at the University of Tennessee while working on their respective degrees.
“Justin’s primary responsibility will be to work on technical issues related to the teaching web site, to get the site up and running smoothly again, to maintain it, to implement new ideas to help our teachers more effectively bring their students to conversion, and to expand the capacity so that we can reach more and more people for Christ.
“We are able to open this office, in large part, due to a new partnership we have formed with the Laurel congregation in Knoxville. Laurel is an extremely mission-minded church, and we consider it an honor and privilege to join with them in this effort. Many of their members are active WEI teachers, not only through the Internet, but also in short-term mission efforts, particularly in China.”
Justin writes, “I would first like to thank God for this opportunity to serve as the Technical Director of the Internet Ministry of WEI.”
Justin is highly qualified for the job. He graduated from the University of Tennessee (UT) with a double major in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering. During his senior year, he was an undergraduate assistant in the Imaging, Robotics, and Intelligent Systems (IRIS) Laboratory. For the past 12 years, he has been the IT Administrator for the IRIS Lab.
While in college, he got involved with the Christian Student Center at UT and met Lisa there. They were married in October 2011. Justin says, “The CSC also furthered my passion for missions through doing domestic trips to Seattle, WA and Dilkon, AZ as well as five trips to Brazil.”
Lisa grew up in Ohio, graduated from Harding University in 2003, and has earned a Master’s degree in Information Science at UT. She is currently working toward a PhD.
Lisa has gone on one WEI short-term mission campaign in Taiwan with Enoch and Jeannine Thweatt. She says, “Being used by God to love people is the greatest joy I know, and I find great delight in encouraging people and teaching one-on-one.”
