Hannah - My Updates from Mexico

Class of 2019

Anti-Trafficking Support Worker in Mexico

Track: Compassion - Justice

Region: Latin America

Hello! My name is Hannah and I will be serving in Mexico City with United World Mission for two years starting in March 2020, ministering at a refuge home for teenage survivors of sex trafficking. My desire is to be part of their healing journey and to share the gospel with them in word and deed. Please pray with me toward this end, for their salvation, and that I would know the Lord more deeply through this season.

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Hannah's Blog - My Updates from Mexico City

Prodigal Daughter

Posted on July 12, 2021

I want to write this blog more like a journal entry, as lately I’ve been donning masks of pride and insecurity. I pray whatever I write brings Him glory and draws you, reader, closer to Him. I first became cognizant of my constant striving for approval and accolades from others in high school, when it became obvious through my battle with anxiety and depression that I had built my self-confidence, security, purpose, and identity on the shifting sand of being seen as the “perfect little Christian girl” who had everything together and was available at all hours of day and night to rescue... Read more

To Remember: Who I am

Posted on May 20, 2021

How quickly I forget the gospel! I’ve been warned of the memory lapse I, with all believers, continually suffer Sunday after Sunday, but building the habit of reminding myself of it so as to not forget is much easier said than done. Each month with Avance we are assigned a book; this month’s is “Gospel Fluency: Speaking the Truths of Jesus into the Everyday Stuff of Life.” I highly recommend it, especially on audio read by the author. Avance is going through a series of teachings about our identity as children of God, adopted, heirs. These gospel resources and my reflection on them (the... Read more

Dear Griever, You Are Not Alone

Posted on April 9, 2021

Dear Fellow Griever, I am naturally terrible at change. From childhood, I’ve avoided or fought against the unexpected, the unknown, and the new. I find it ironic that God has led me to cross-cultural missions, because missionaries constantly have to deal with all of these things, and even embrace them! Over time I’ve grown in my willingness to adapt. I lived in Nicaragua for three months, Uganda for ten weeks, and moved here to Mexico last year, expecting to stay two years. Because I’ve had all this past experience with cross-cultural ministry, I didn’t expect to struggle with the change... Read more

Advent Reflections

Posted on December 15, 2020

The observance of Advent, a time of heart preparation for the celebration of Jesus Christ becoming flesh, is not something I’ve been very aware of or focused on in past years. This year I am seeking to more fully engage in anticipation and longing for the coming of Jesus into our weakness and need as Savior, Counselor, Healer, and Prince of Peace. What a gracious and loving God who would humble Himself in this way to restore to us the relationship with Him that we had rejected! I’m enjoying a weekly advent devotional with the church plant team in Mexico City, and also going through this free... Read more

Joy and Sorrow

Posted on September 3, 2020

Joy and Sorrow The spring and summer of the year 2020 has been a roller coaster of emotions and experiences in my life. In March I came back after only three weeks on the mission field I’d committed to for two years, and I have never understood better the meaning of the phrase “having the rug pulled out from under you.” However, I was grateful and confident that God led me to be in Colorado for this time, and it soon became more clear why. In the month of July I stood up next to two of my dearest friends as they got married. I watched my brother go through two surgeries and an ER visit due... Read more