Modern missions and work overseas are complicated, deeply challenging and full of struggles. Things we never imagined. Things generations before us maybe didn’t experience. Yet, things every generation has experienced in one way or another. “Elayna, wash your feet… I think we just walked through a pile of gecko poop.” I’d looked down and saw…
My heart eyes can still see the place, the moment when I first felt God leading me into service to Him. I was maybe 9 or 10 years old, with my face down on the scratchy red carpet in a very old camp building. There weren’t any spoken words or big declarations of a calling….
The reality of life on the mission field. Not always so glamorous, that’s for sure. “Daddy has a mango worm.” said Elayna when I walked in the door the other day after meeting with a friend. “He what? Are you serious?” I looked at Jeremy to confirm the mango worm statement. His face said yes….
As a little girl, I remember missionary prayer cards. I remember having missionaries come to our church. I remember their fun tables full of interesting things. I remember big pictures projected on the wall of the church fellowship hall. They had pictures of things I’d never seen before and talked of places I had never…
I don’t know what I was thinking. Last Wednesday, I just stood up, put my running shoes on and ran a 5k. I hadn’t run a 5k since we lived in France almost a year ago. I hadn’t run more than a mile at one time in 5 solid months. And I up and decided…
Overseas mom, you are doing better than you think. You truly are. You are sitting there with a cup of tea at the end of a long day. Another long day of survival that has made you feel more tired than you’ve ever felt before. You are parked in a truck you may or may…
Moving overseas is a difficult thing to prepare for and finding accurate, real information can be challenging. You’ve googled and researched and it brought you here. You are looking for an ultimate guide and you’ve found it. We’ve moved across 3 continents. And we are learning that there is a big tool belt needed to…
Looking over the past years, I see all the lessons learned. There are moments when I look at myself in the mirror and think, “Who is this person?” Oh, tell me you’ve been there, realizing that growth has happened in ways you never imagined and then wondering what on earth DID happen. The life lessons…
You know the moments when we choose to follow Jesus. Those moments come often in our lives. Learning to follow him in everything. One night, I rolled over in bed around 2am, hit my phone to see the time and saw an email alert from the embassy. That’s never good. And it wasn’t. A new,…
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