Tag: support
We’re new field missionaries. We’ve served for the past couple of years as support missionaries on the “homeside”, but now we are serving on the “field” in Taiwan for the next 18 months or so. As new cross-cultural workers, we are in the midst of transitions. We’re dealing with culture shock, faced with the limited ability to communicate effectively, learning how to manage day-to-day life in a culture and society different to our own. These last few days, we were faced with a frustrating situation. Sickness. As we struggle with all the challenges of transition, we now need to figure…
Cover to Cover Reading: 1 Chronicles 22:2-26:19 Focus: 1 Chronicles 22:11-13 One of the greatest things that a parent can do for their children is to exhort them and bless them in all they set out to do. If there is anything that children will treasure in the years to come, it will be the times when they were loved, supported, uplifted, encouraged and exhorted. Nothing stops you in your tracks, nothing more precious than the memory of the times when your parents gave you their time, attention, and invested into your life.
Cover to Cover Reading: Joshua 1:1-6:27 Focus: Joshua 1:12-18 A leader is only as good as those who follow him. After all, what good is a leader who has no followers? Kinda pointless to be a leader when no one follows you… What is worse is you succeed a great leader! The pressure of meeting the standard set by the previous leader, not in spite of you, but simply because they were great. It is a greater test of one’s leadership in the line of succession. Even with the full blessing of the previous leader, it does not automatically ensure…
It seems like forever since my last update, which was only two weeks ago, and the holidays have seemed busier than my normal schedule. I find it ironic, given my exhausting schedule, that this past weekend I ran a seminar about the importance of good ministry practice looking at such issues of teamwork and the need to rest when this last two weeks have been difficult in those areas. The words are echoing in my mind, “Ministry is hard and we cannot hope to accomplish it alone” and “The busier you are, the more critical it is for you to…
