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How a cell phone saved our marriage, or be willing to do what your spouse needs
We had been in Indonesia long enough to start to learn how time works, or stops. So when Jason’s friend asked him to visit his village with him one Saturday, telling him it would be 2 hours, I knew to… Continue reading
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Faith over Fear
As a teen, God gave me the seemingly random opportunity to hear Marjorie Saint Van Der Put, my first exposure to Mission Aviation Fellowship, and suffering for the cause of the Gospel by people more recent than the New Testament.… Continue reading
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What To Expect
I was pregnant with both of my girls on the mission field, coming ‘home’ to give birth at 32 weeks with each of them. I had no experience in this world, and had one doctor’s visit with each of them… Continue reading
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Vulnerability
I wanted my word this year to be gentleness, a good word, a fruit of the Spirit, and something I need more of. But God told me, and then proceeded to give me practice in, vulnerability. This word isn’t even… Continue reading
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Following Him
After working for two years to pay off our school loans, with a whole lot of help from family and church family, we were ready to apply to Mission Aviation Fellowship. We moved to cheaper and more central housing for… Continue reading
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Resourcefulness, or trying to look at trials as adventures
One of my favorite pictures from our time in Indonesia is of a diaper that my resourceful husband used to secure a broken rearview mirror when we took a trip out of town so that the mirror didn’t break or… Continue reading
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Celebrating Holidays
Overseas especially, but anywhere we are, holidays are the hardest time to not dwell on what we don’t have and can’t do. Readjusting my expectations while still finding something I can look forward to is the challenge. Our first Christmas… Continue reading
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Flexibility
Did anyone else cringe over that word? One of my least favorite life lessons is flexibility. The most memorable strategy God used was smoke seasons. In Indonesia, farmers use small fires to clear more land. During exceptionally dry seasons, these… Continue reading
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Reverse Bucket List
I don’t have a bucket list, but I do have a list of things I never thought I would do. Things that were stressful but became necessary and now I am kind of proud of them! Things like: learned to… Continue reading
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Mayday
The first thing you see at Mission Aviation Fellowship is Nate Saint’s airplane, recovered after he and his teammates were killed serving in Ecuador. Serving God in the outer regions of the world is not for the faint of heart,… Continue reading
