{"id":48590,"date":"2021-07-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nazarene.org\/news\/recordar-a-elizabeth-merki\/"},"modified":"2021-07-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T05:00:00","slug":"recordar-a-elizabeth-merki","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/nazarene.org\/es\/news\/recordar-a-elizabeth-merki\/","title":{"rendered":"Recordar a Elizabeth Merki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth \u00abBeth\u00bb Merki, 88, de Millville, Nueva Jersey, muri\u00f3 el 29 de junio de 2021. Sirvi\u00f3 como misionera durante 32 a\u00f1os en Sud\u00e1frica, Swaziland (ahora Eswatini) y Pap\u00faa Nueva Guinea, junto a su difunto esposo, Robert Merki.<\/p>\n<p>Al principio de su vida, Beth se mud\u00f3 con su familia a Wollaston, Massachusetts, donde sus padres ense\u00f1aron en el Eastern Nazarene College (ENC). Complet\u00f3 la escuela secundaria en la Academia ENC y se gradu\u00f3 de ENC con una Licenciatura en Ciencias en la educaci\u00f3n. Beth ense\u00f1\u00f3 primer grado en Hingham, Massachusetts, Montreal, Canad\u00e1 y Harrisburg, Pensilvania, antes de que ella y su esposo, Robert \u00abBob\u00bb&nbsp;Merki, fueran enviados como misioneros con la Iglesia de la Nazarena a la Rep\u00fablica de Sud\u00e1frica en 1960. El Merkis tambi\u00e9n sirvi\u00f3 en Swaziland y Pap\u00faa Nueva Guinea durante su carrera misionera de 32 a\u00f1os.<\/p>\n<p>Durante su carrera misionera, Beth sirvi\u00f3 en varias capacidades, incluido como secretario de registros m\u00e9dicos, patrocinando una \u00abiglesia de la estaci\u00f3n exterior\u00bb, sirviendo en los ministerios de mujeres y concluyendo su servicio durante muchos a\u00f1os como la anfitriona de la estaci\u00f3n de la misi\u00f3n. La \u00faltima asignaci\u00f3n fue su vocaci\u00f3n, perfectamente adecuada para su amor a las personas, su regalo de la hospitalidad, su alegr\u00eda de cocinar y el coraz\u00f3n de su siervo.<\/p>\n<p>Su familia la recuerda como un modelo de vivir como Cristo, una esposa devota y compa\u00f1era en 57 a\u00f1os de matrimonio con Bob, una madre ejemplar que &nbsp;estaba orgullosa de sus hijos y sus c\u00f3nyuges, y una gran y bisabuela dotida.<\/p>\n<p>Realmente vivi\u00f3 una vida desinteresada, siempre poniendo a su familia primero, dijeron.<\/p>\n<p>Adem\u00e1s de su familia, amaba a sus vecinos y la familia de la iglesia donde quiera que viviera. Su esp\u00edritu amable, el coraz\u00f3n del siervo, la escucha enfocada y la fe constante la hicieron querir a cualquiera que encontr\u00f3. Estaba apasionada por su fe, contenta con lo que ten\u00eda y profundamente preocupada por hacer una diferencia en su mundo.<\/p>\n<p>Fue precedida en la muerte por su esposo, Robert T. Merki; padres, Kent y Edith Goodnow; hermana, Marti Howard; y hermano, Robert Goodnow.<\/p>\n<p>A Elizabeth le sobreviven sus hijas, Suzanne Bust y Stephanie Cawthorne; sus hijos, Jonathan Merki y Robert Merki; 13 nietos; dos bisnietos; dos cu\u00f1adas, Eileen Goodnow y Mary Ellen Merki; y un cu\u00f1ado, Charles Howard.<\/p>\n<p>Una Celebraci\u00f3n de la Vida se celebr\u00f3 el mi\u00e9rcoles 7 de julio de 2021 a las 11 a.m. en la Iglesia de Millville de la Nazarena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth \u00abBeth\u00bb Merki, 88, de Millville, Nueva Jersey, muri\u00f3 el 29 de junio de 2021. 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