Four Thoughts
I just returned to my location after two months in the States and a week in Europe for my company’s conference. Every other year, all the teams in the region gather together for a week. I had so much fun meeting other Goers on other teams and soaking up the Mediterranean sun! The speaker this week talked about four thoughts we run into in ministry (and in the Christian life). I came into this conference tired after an intense first year on the field, and these talks felt like a breath of fresh air. I summarized each session in hopes that it can encourage you wherever you are! God uses our… Read more >>
One Year Reflections
This month, I celebrated my one year anniversary of being overseas! This has been the most stretching and challenging year of my life. I have a lot I could write about, but here are just three ways I’ve grown in the past year: Resilience: Willingly starting over to build a new life in a brand new place builds a special type of resilience! No one told me I had to move overseas, but outside of God’s direction and leading, this is something I chose to do. I feel like I had a vague idea of what I was getting into, but now that I’ve actually lived overseas for a full year, I have realized how… Read more >>
Cross Cultural Lenses
During my senior year of college, I spent three weeks abroad in southeast Asia to fulfill my cross cultural studies requirement. My university requires students to travel abroad for two or three weeks with different trips that the school sets up. It’s a unique program and my trip to southeast Asia was one of the highlights of my college experience. The only assignment for this trip was to write a paper comparing American culture to southeast Asian culture through these five lenses: government, family, education, religion and economics. Now that I live abroad and my life has become a… Read more >>
Be Faithful With Who God Puts in Front of You
Back in May, I was on a flight from Europe to the Middle East. I was on the way back to my country after visiting my family in Europe. Sitting next to me was a girl from Germany and her sister, who were on their way to spend the next two weeks in Korea. Sophia and I talked for over half of our eight hour flight. We talked about anything and everything, from American and German politics, what our upbringings were like, pop culture, and all sorts of other topics. We talked about our favorite holidays, and one of my favorite holidays is Thanksgiving. Sophia said she has always wanted to… Read more >>