It’s hard to believe that you can go so fast that you wind up way behind but that is exactly what happened to me. I’d like to ask your forgiveness for dropping off the map and not keeping you updated as to what the Lord has been doing in and through me. The last two months have been absolutely thrilling and although I am confident in my calling, it’s in the last few months that I have felt like I’ve been in the epicenter of God’s calling and purpose for my life here at Saving Grace World Missions. It started at the beginning of June with an incredible trip to South Asia. I want to thank you all so much for partnering with me through prayer and financially to make this trip possible. I was able to travel to all three of our Bible College locations in South Asia. I was able to visit with our national leaders, encourage our national missionaries and be a part of setting the curriculum for the next two years. The Lord is truly doing an amazing work in South Asia! The teams that He is bringing together, the properties and buildings He has supplied, and the students that have gathered for the next two years of Bible college classes truly reminds me that God is able to do exceedingly abundantly above what we can ask or think. The stories are too big and the experiences too varied. We visited the Bible college campuses and journeyed to the villages where our graduates are ministering, they are witnessing to completely unreached Hindu people groups which are hearing the Gospel for the first time. We even saw one lady give her life to the Lord! I could not possibly write about it all in an update letter. So I’m making myself available to share personally with anybody who wishes to know more about the work in South Asia as well as my experiences there. Please contact me and I will gladly make the time to get together with you. ...

Of course, at some level I knew this, but in the busyness of life, the whirlwind of ministry needs, and the clear call in Scripture to die to self, the fact that we matter too can get lost. I know that I can get so guarded against pride, ego, and any other self-centered characteristic that good godly self-care slips away and I actually become annihilated in the process. Scripture is very clear that I matter / that we matter. Clearly, we matter to the Lord, for when we were dead in our trespasses and sins Christ died for us. God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son that whosoever (me) would believe in Him would not perish but have everlasting life. I have been redeemed with the precious blood of Christ, and the Bible says that we are the apple of God’s eye…this means I matter. ...

First of all, let me report to you that it has been an absolutely incredible month. I am so grateful for the people that I have in my life and the people that I have been able to meet as I have journeyed forth in this calling the Lord has placed on my life. The Lord has been impressing upon my heart how much people matter. It might seem hard to believe but in ministry, I have found that I can get so busy with tasks, moving from one project to another, that I blow right past the people the Lord has put in my path to minister to or even those He wants to use to minister to me. Sometimes I feel like Martha and I have to remember what the Lord said to her, that she had been distracted by serving. In a new and deeper way the Lord has put on my heart the importance of people, the importance of relationships, the importance of community and I value you all so much. ...

First of all, let me wish all of you a very Merry Christmas and a happy new year. They say time flies when you’re having fun, and it’s so true! A few weeks back I had a starry-eyed Holy Spirit filled Jesus loving new believer, (a young man at our church who shall remain nameless) look at me one day with the biggest smile I’ve ever seen and declared to me “you have the best job ever,” and you know what? He’s right. ...