Sharon Fields-McCormick, a North American Mission Board missionary currently serving in Atlanta, was presented the Anderson University Alumni Service Award on Feb. 11.
Sharon Fields-McCormick accepts the Anderson University Alumni Service Award from school president Evans Whitaker.The award recognizes “outstanding and unselfish service to – alma mater, community, and to humanity.”
As a student, Fields-McCormick was a member of Phi Theta Kappa, a national honorary fraternity whose members are committed to service. Also, she said she was reminded, through her interaction with her professors and the staff at Anderson, of the validity of the school’s motto: “Service by way of the cross.”
After graduating with honors from both Anderson and Presbyterian College, she received a master’s degree in counseling from the University of Georgia. While her husband Jack served in the Army, she worked with families of soldiers – first with the USO, and later in a federal position as the family services program manager and women’s center director in Hanau, Germany.
After returning to the States, she became the executive director of the Mental Health Association of the Piedmont, where she served until 2003.
In 2003 she and her husband answered the call to serve with the North American Mission Board. They became Mission Service Corps missionaries, first serving in War, W.Va., the fourth poorest county in the nation. They now serve the Atlanta Association of Southern Baptist Churches, where she is director of church and community ministry.