It’s very encouraging, and I’m very thankful for the people in the US who support through encouragement or just checking in, financially with helping with different events, it eases the mind, and I think in a way it reminds me of why I’m here. It affirms the reason why God called, because if people are supportive, then it’s like, “Okay, I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing.” It’s affirmation, and it’s encouraging and comforting to know that people are supporting. They’re being the hand that’s holding us up so that we can be on the front lines.

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How can we pray for your ministry?

For deeper relationships with students this year. Because students are only here for a short amount of time, it can be tricky to form deep, lasting friendships, when they’re only for nine months to a year. So just prayers that God will bring those friendships about.

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Pray for volunteer coordination, with the scheduling and partnering up volunteers from the US with local ministries and churches--what God wants them to work with, that we’ll have more volunteers in the future, that we’ll have a good system of receiving volunteers and getting them plugged into work and encouraging and raising them up to then return back to do similar things in their hometowns.

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How can we pray for you personally?

I think like what Paul says in one of his letters, just to keep pressing on, just keep moving forward in the ministry and not be worried that things look different in different seasons, that it’s okay that ministry changes over time. And just to stay strengthened by the Spirit in the next two years that I’ve got here.

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Is there a story you’d like our supporters to know?

I think it’s my favorite story. It was about two years ago, after restrictions had let up and we could finally meet people, I met two students. So for the first nine, ten months on the field, I hadn’t had gospel conversations. So when I went on this day trip with international students, I ended up in a conversation with two of them who just started asking a bunch of questions about who God was and Christianity and my story. That was what God used to keep me on the field. Because otherwise, I wouldn’t have stayed here.

 

And over those next five, six months, they became Christians. It was just really amazing, going from just absolutely not liking it here and asking God to show me the reasons why He brought me here, and then giving me the opportunity to witness with these friends and watch them fall in love with Jesus. It makes it all worth it. And even if they’re the only ones I get to witness to, witness their transformation, then it’s still worth being here.

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In one word, describe how you feel about your current stage of ministry.

Ever-changing. No week has been the same. This term is very much like the ocean. Fluid.