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Christina - Southeast Asia Updates

Class of 2017
Urban Church Planting Intern in Southeast Asia
Track: Ministry track
Region: Asia - South East

There's a place...

By on Track: Ministry Region: Asia - South East

There’s a place somewhere in between contentment and a yearning for the unknown where I find myself near to the Lord. It surely is a mystery I cannot fully comprehend but am wittingly confident that without it life would be expectantly mundane. After seven years, I find myself back in California after a two-month inculturation training in Union Mills, NC, to raise the rest of my support. The C&MA Hmong District approved affiliation with United World Missions, approved my church in Minnesota to be my sending church, but will not support me financially and will not allow me to reach out to… Read more >>

Beauty & Joy In The Wait

By on Track: Ministry Region: Asia - South East

I was so eager to leave on my first departure date, but when I missed that I wanted so badly to leave on the second. Then, when I missed the second departure date as well I began to worry about my missionary journey and dreaded being back in my hometown (Stockton, CA) because it made me feel stuck and defeated. I had many questions: will I raise any support here in my hometown? How long will I be here? Should I get a job? Amidst all my questions, I learned quick that everything changes when I ask the right questions: Lord, what do you have to teach me here? What will you have me do here? How… Read more >>

Comparison Is The Thief of Joy

By on Track: Ministry Region: Asia - South East

In all honesty, support raising has been difficult for me as a Hmong woman. I can’t lie that comparison doesn’t trickle at the back of my head every now and then. I've seen many colleagues who came after me raise all their support, and even some having raised their support so fast that they pushed back their departure date because they felt it was too soon to leave. It's an internal battle against comparing my journey with others, but when joy is worth it, it’s a battle that I don’t mind fighting over, and over again. In the window of time God has a reason to where I am now, and I live for… Read more >>

More Room to Love

By on Track: Ministry Region: Asia - South East

When I left CA to MN, I didn't think about how much my then close friends and I were going to change over the years, and how those changes would impact our relationship. Today, most relationships I have back in CA are much more like acquaintances, and only two relationships (that I can think of) are still going strong. I often reminisce about those lost relationships and sometimes wish I wasn’t so naive and quick about moving away (I decided one day that I was ready to leave CA for something new, talked to my mom and booked my flight the same day, and left the next month). However, every time… Read more >>

Currently, ...

By on Track: Ministry Region: Asia - South East

It’s been five months of support raising. When I write this down and read it, five months doesn’t seem so long, but having to fluctuate between 58-60% of support raised for the past month and a half felt so, so long. Hitting a plateau in support raising for nearly two months, with only 7 months to do it, is long. I’m actually “supposed” to be in North Carolina right now for training, but I like to believe that according to God I’m not supposed to be there yet, and I’m at peace with that. I find my experience with support raising rather rewarding, although painful. The 58-60% of supporters… Read more >>

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