On a rainy day in August 1994, my wife and I landed at a small airport in Chiang Mai, Thailand and began what was to become 25 years of missionary service. As we came to love the Thai people, it soon became abundantly clear that we had found our calling.
Read MoreWhen my husband, our three children, and I went to work with a young church plant in Amsterdam, there were no mission training programs among churches of Christ. We learned how to do missions the hard way: trial and error. In the words of a fellow missionary at the time, successful new churches were planted in spite of the missionaries and not because of them!
Read MoreWhat advice would I have for my younger self working cross-culturally, you ask? Good question! After 16 years in disciple-making in Belgium, 20 years in church ministry, and the last seven years with MRN in Missionary Care, I have accumulated some learning that would have been useful to know "back then." Here are some of my thoughts:
Read MoreHave you either said or heard things like this lately?
Why am I so tired tonight? It’s only 8:30, and I haven’t done anything today!!
Why does my neck hurt so much?
Why are you so grouchy so fast these days?
As shelter-in-place orders were being handed down and we were all beginning to set up working-from-home office spaces, one of our old teammates from our time in Burkina Faso texted with
You know, missionary experience makes this shelter in place deal a lot easier, don’t you think?
Read More
