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I am a person who generally dislikes change. I like to plan everything out in advance so that I will know what will be happening. A clear path. Security. These are my comfort zones. However, I found out that when serving as a missionary, there is no such thing as…
Going to Mount Moriah Have you been to Mount Moriah—the place in your life where you face an emotional and difficult challenge requiring a consequential choice? Though we might want to follow in the footsteps of our Master, sometimes making such a decision can be difficult. If you have been…
I see it, the light at the end of the tunnel. Training is now over, and we are all filled with conflicting emotions: relief and sadness. Training is exhausting; Nikki and I are both tired. But we have made new friendships and strengthened existing ones. I have a newfound respect…
“A girl wants to talk to you about studying in Europe. She wants the opinion of a foreigner,” Mary said. Let us call the girl Zehra. She was 15 years old, 5’11” tall, and I doubted that she weighed more than 125 pounds. Her straight, dark hair fell close to…
Clouded eyes stared at the floor as I sat cross-legged in our nearly empty bedroom. One week—that is all the time we had to pack up our lives. Now, it was the second-to-last day, and the weight of it all finally broke me. We ate dinner outside—no usable table left…
When I think back on the last couple of years we spent in Turkey, what sticks out most is how my neighbors really took me in. There was a time when Malachi left on business for a week and a half, and my neighbors made sure I was not alone.…
Sometimes a little anonymity is necessary. We are choosing not to use ours or our children’s names in part because some of our children are planning future work in areas more hostile to the gospel, and we do not want to jeopardize those opportunities. If you are a parent or…
You never know what you are going to get when you bring a group of strangers together for a month of intense training, but 24/7 giggles is not exactly the first thing that comes to mind. Despite the busy schedule, information overload, and demanding activities, all of our new student-…
Do you ever reminisce about things your parents or grandparents used to do—things that, at that time, were practical and ordinary, and yet they are almost forgotten today? Maybe you picture your grandmother carefully lining up glass jars as she canned tomatoes from the garden, or the smell of hot…
“Mommy, when I grow up, I want to be a doctor and a pastor, because that is what Jesus was.” As a little boy, from the earliest years I can remember, I felt a special call to overseas missions. Now let me make it very clear: Mission service is not…