It is my joy to share a few thoughts concerning the incredible ministry of one of the finest if not the finest missionary God has raised up in Jersey Church! 

I cannot remember the exact context but I believe it was during a time when Penny was part of a team from Jersey serving missionaries in SE Asia that she gave a testimony about her calling to serve God through missions, “I knew God had called Greg (her now  deceased husband who had a passion for spreading the Gospel globally) but now I was feeling the urge to go out to a lost world but I wanted to be certain of this calling me personally and that I was not just standing too close to Greg when God called him!”

I invited Greg, Penny and Kyle (their then teenage son) to join me on a mission trip to the heart of Africa. This would be the Zuber's first real mission trip to a remote, wild part of the world. This was not a trip for the faint of heart, accommodations were crude, the travel arduous, and the food was to say the least different. All of us had to receive a host of preventive injections before disembarking from the US and were taking daily malaria pills, therefore health risk were constantly on your mind. When we arrive at our remote location in the bush of Africa the entire team was disappointed by the “hotel” we were staying in for the next week, it consisted of approximately eight freestanding casita/hut like structures, don't think Caribbean luxury.  It was maybe a, “one star” rating. My children were also on this trip and it was determined it would be best for the three teens on the trip to stay in their own hut. At some point when Penny was moving Kyle into his accommodations she noted an insect in the room. After our evening meal and saying good night to our kids I returned to my hut to get ready for the next day of non stop evangelism I was tigerered up, but exhausted from the travel. Penny remained in the room and broke out her secret weapon to protect our children from the threat of mosquitoes or other slithering predators. A roll of duct tape she had carried from home. She proceeded to make sure the all three of the kids were safely in their beds, covered by their mosquito nets and then she duct taped them in. Also because there were gaps in the door to the hut she sealed it as well! I couldn’t believe what I saw when I checked on the kids early the next morning. As you might guess the duct tape ran out in the next few days and we all learned together the need to trust in God and not our supplies. Penny and the rest of the team were staggered by the hundreds of beautiful African people who professed faith in Christ through our small groups evangelism. And out fears were displaced by the incredible power of the Gospel. On that trip a true missionary was born! Penny would mature from a missionary concerned about the risks to a missionary committed to the Great Commission no matter the risk!