Local preacher embarks on mission in Ghana

Contributor Nathan Peeler, local preacher at the Monticello Church of Christ, embarked on a journey of the spiritual kind last summer—a mission to Ghana. Peeler has been a preacher at the Monticello Church of Christ for over five years, when the Tennessee-native and his family moved to Jefferson County so he could fill the open role of minister. Since this arrival, Peeler has become well-known in the community. Though Peeler lived in the Czech Republic as a child, and later returned for a mission there in 2013, he was rather inexperienced in missions. This year, however, he began considering the possibility of going on a mission—but not to Ghana. “This whole thing started because