Colin and Ellen McKee

Colin McKee was born and reared near DeFuniak Springs, FL, in the Liberty community. He attended Alabama Christian College (now Faulkner University), Auburn Univeristy, and Southern Christian Univeristy where he received the Masters of Arts degree. He married Ellen Mitchell who grew up in Brilliant, AL. Ellen attended Alabama Christian College and Auburn University in Montgomery where she received the B.S. degree in education.

While Colin was a student at Alabama Christian College, he began preaching part time for the Center Point Church in Grady, AL in 1962. He began full time work with the Broad St. Church in Phoenix City, AL in 1965.

The McKee family (Colin, Ellen, 2 yr. old Elizabeth) first went to south east Asia in 1968. They spent several months in Singapore trying to gain entrance to Sarawak, East Malaysia, but were unsuccessful. They finally decided to enter Indonesia to work with the Steve Cate family in Medan, North Sumatra, and arrived there in February, 1969. Their first period of work in Medan was from 1969-1973, with a furlough during the summer of 1971 when their son, Marcus, was born. They returned stateside from 1973-76, then lived again in Medan from 1976-1979.

From 1979-97 the McKees did local work in Alabama while making periodic evangelistic and training trips to Indonesia and working on translation of Bible materials for the churches there. In 1997 they returned full-time to Jakarta for a period of almost four years. In 2001 they resumed local work in Alabama while making periodic trips to Indonesia for training and evangelism, and continuing with translation and literature production for the churches.