Purpose Asia

The Parliament Building in Victoria, BC Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!       Christmas often is one of the busiest times of the year and yet one of the best and I think that is definitely true for me. Just to give you a bit of an update and a recap I'll tell you what's been going on this month before we ring in the new year. At the beginning of the month I had my church commissioning, send off party and final approval to be released for field service! God has done some incredible things and I'm so excited about His amazing work and purposes.  Gingerbread house about a little boy's imagination    After all the mad rush of the beginning of the month my family and I decided to take a few days away together for a quick family vacation. We drove up to northern Washington and took a ferry to Victoria, BC -- a place that we've had many wonderful memories and vacations over the years in the Pacific Northwest. It was wonderful! We explored the city of Vi

Original Painting by Amy Binder While I was at orientation training with Wycliffe in April I was captivated by a beautiful painting that hangs in a hallway at the Wycliffe USA Headquarters. A woman carefully follows text with her finger from the pages she gently holds in her hands and her face is knit in concentration over the words she reads. When you first see the painting it almost looks like a black and white photo. But as you draw nearer you begin to see that the portrait is made up of thousands of fingerprints. The artist, a missionary to Bolivia herself, dipped her finger in ink and created the masterpiece that catches the eager grasping of the Word of God by a woman from Papua New Guinea. Close up of the same painting This painting mesmerized me and I often went back to gaze at it in wonder while I was in Orlando. As I studied it I was struck with how similar this painting is to the work that God is doing with and through us among the nations. We are small, like a si

"Trust in the  Lord   with all  your heart  and lean not  on your  own understanding;  in all your ways submit  to him,  and he will make  your paths straight. Proverbs 3:5-6 NIV What an amazing time I'm walking through right now! It's also an incredibly uncertain time as I'm walking into a great unknown. Since my last post I:   received my visa and permission to purchase tickets to Papua New Guinea.   I had my church commission me and I had a send off party to say goodbye for now and thank you to my partners here in the Pacific Northwest.  Now, I am facing the certainty of my departure date: January 7th. Twenty-six days from now I get on a plane and leave all I know to embark on God's adventure for me in missions. That's exciting.... and daunting.      One of my mentors put it this way. When we choose to follow Jesus anywhere -- missions, ministry, being a stay at home Mom, business -- we are choosing to trust in the "Known Unknown.&qu