Markers-Remembering Where God Has Met Us.
You will not always feel Him. So build the stones now, while you can still see clearly.
Missionary Kids Alone
“My mom told me that we would leave the field if that’s what I needed. So I couldn’t tell her how much I was struggling… God called them here. Who am I to defy God?”
Live. Love. Embrace
Loving where you live takes time, patience, and perseverance. It looks different in each family and each person. Even within a family, each family member will take a different speed but we continue to love and care for one another with grace.
Staying Well: How Play keeps Families Strong in Crisis
But in all things, He works for our good. Not only our good, but the good of our entire family.
The Good work of Parenting Missionary Kids
We expect grief to show up in predictable ways at predictable times. So we often mistake our kids’ grief for defiance, manipulation, or overreaction. That mistake means we can miss when our child is asking for their needs to be met.
Two sides of Welcome
Learning to be a guest, to be on the other side of welcome, has helped form friendships that can bear the weight of Truth and opened doors for authentic spiritual conversation
Trees and Tumbleweeds
Trees and tumbleweeds—a comparison aptly sketching modern culture. I was duped into believing that my best life was one of constant movement, coupled with the notion that the only way to find fulfilling adventure was to drift, commitment-free. It has taken me years to conclude that living like a tree is better.
The Roundabout Routes of Roots
Deep roots help trees stand strong in the face of storms, and missionaries stand strong in the face of the relentless challenges in life and ministry. But growing deep roots is a challenge in and of itself, especially living abroad.
When the environment isn’t inviting
When man-made constructions get in your way
When the nourishment is lacking
Growing deep roots isn’t always easy
Good Things Take Time: Cultivating a Fruitful Life
The best things in life — growth, healing, wisdom, relationships, faith — cannot be hurried. They require patience. They require waiting. They require trusting that the process is doing something beneath the surface, even when we can’t yet see it.
