Kathleen (Kathi) Lynn Kennemer Sellers was born September 10, 1952 in Corvallis, Oregon. after a three-and-a-half year progression of ovarian cancer, she died peacefully, in her home in Vine Grove, Kentucky on May 8, 2021, at the age of 68.
Kathi was the third child of Willie Nolton Kennemer and Harriet Elinore Withroder Kennemer. She grew up in Corvallis, Oregon; Santa Cruz, Soquel and Live Oak, California. where her family raised laying hens.
Kathi attended Warner Pacific College (Portland, Oregon) for three years, and, in 1973, graduated Summa cum Laude, with a Bachelor of Arts in Religion. She married Daniel Wayne Sellers on June 15, 1974, in Capitola, California. While in Morton, Washington They had two daughters: Breanna Kathleen (Sellers) Hurd and Elizabeth Danielle (Sellers) Waters,.
Kathi passionately invested her life in Christian ministry. She was ordained as a minister in the Church of God in 1978. She served as a youth pastor and pastor In Grandview, Morton and Sunnyside, Washington; a Church of God missionary in Costa Rica, Central America; missionary recruitment and member care in Anderson, Indiana for the Church of God; and Children’s Pastor in Anderson, Indiana. She volunteered in adult literacy, teaching English as a second language, teaching Sunday School, and tutored school children in after-school programs.
Kathi saw the best in others, freely gave grace, forgiveness and encouragement. She rarely complained and saw any glass as half full, if not more. She would do anything for her girls and grandkids. She loved to travel and was a gifted and passionate public speaker. She was a lifelong learner and earned her Master of Arts degree in Intercultural Leadership, Summa cum laude, from Bethany Global University, in 2013.
She loved to go to the beach, take walks, garden, drink tea without sugar, read, watch the news, sing, and teach Church leaders. Her favorite holiday was Easter, she hated Santa Claus (for distracting from Jesus), a dirty house, yard inflatables and bagpipes.
Kathi was preceded in death by her Father and mother, Willie and Harriet Kennemer, her beloved in-laws, Linda and Daniel Sellers and her twin grandbabies, Gabriella and Theophilus Waters.
She is survived by her husband of nearly forty-seven years, Daniel Wayne Sellers; daughters, Breanna Sellers Hurd (Jerry) and Elizabeth Danielle Waters (Tim); and grandchildren, Olivia Jade Hurd van der Maas (Nate), Grace Breanna Hurd, Isaiah Solomon Hurd and John Harrison Daniel Hurd.
In lieu of flowers, Kathi requests memorial gifts be made to either Aim Air’s Wings of the Dawn Project or Church of God missionaries, Jason & Abby Torgeson
AIM AIR Wings of the Dawn – https://aimair.org/give/ Project #455004
Aim Air is a Christian missionary aviation team operating six aircraft from two bases in east and central Africa. Our team of pilots, mechanics, avionics techs, and administrators serve the needs of 50+ Christian organizations and hundreds of missionaries. The airplanes we fly are tools, moving missionaries, pastors, and cargo over some of the world’s most inhospitable terrain, to bring hope, and the Good News, to some of the world’s most forgotten peoples
For those who serve in the farthest reaches of Africa, God’s graciousness is a moment by moment sustaining presence in their lives. Providing financial relief for some of our most needful flights is one way AIM AIR helps extend the grace of God to servants like these. AIM AIR’s “Wings of the Dawn” is a flight subsidy fund for select operations determined to be worthy and necessary, and where other funding is unavailable or inadequate to meet the operating expenses of the flight.
Jason & Abby Torgeson- Give online: https://www.chogglobal.org/mission-projects/projects-latin-america/la-mission/
As regional connectors for Latin America, Jason and Abby are responsible for directing the work of Global Strategy missionaries and projects in Latin America and for working in partnership with the leadership of CIID (Confraternidad Interamericana de la Iglesia de Dios), the body of leaders from across the Church of God.
checks can be made out to Church of God Ministries, Inc. Write: “project number 42.30994” on the memo line. Mail to:
PO Box 2420
Anderson, IN 46018-2420
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