MY ENDS OF THE EARTH
I first set foot in Northern Argentina for a 6
month training course with a well-known Youth ministry 4 years ago. Then, while I was there, He started showing me Thailand again, a country I had been to 5 years previously. After the intense, value confirming, life-changing, and extremely rewarding training I went back to America to debate what to do...but the mission field continued to speak to me. I returned 6 weeks later to continue to serve where He wanted me to for the next 3 years:
- In our Mercy ministry: tutoring, teaching, discipling, and fostering hope in at risk kids...
- With Education ministry, teaching at our now nationally recognized Elementary School!
- On the base, with community responsibilities & gardening the well-landscaped 3-acres.
- Leading a Dicipleship School, just like the one that changed my life 2 1/2 years earlier!
- While raising support by Teaching English to staff and people in the community and with a small business with a fruit smoothie stand, too!
FINISHING A DEGREE WHILE BEING IN 3 DIFFERENT HEMISPHERES!
While serving full-time finishing my master's in education was NOT easy. The arrangement I made with my directors was that ministry came first. There were many conflicts over the 18 months of courses--especially lack of internet connections to send in essays & do research as we were writing almost a 1000-word essay (at least!) a week! So after leaving Argentina, I traveled to help missionary friends with their wedding in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and visiting a missionary called to art ministry in El Salvador and then stopping for 4 days in America before heading to Beijing, China to have to opportunity to extend God's Kingdom during the Olympics--it was so unreal, I felt as though I had been placed for a little while in a place where all people were united for the same thing--it was AMAZING! And God was glorified!
Now after raising support, taking some classes and working part-time I will leave once again for Australia. After training in a School of Frontier Missions there, in Perth Australia, I will be heading to join my team already on the field in Bangkok, that works to love, educate, restore and advocate for children at risk...
Wow Amy, Thanks for the update and the history. It's awesome to see how God has used you and orchestrated your life to glorify Him! It's really encouraging for me!
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Kathryn
:) thanks for reading mine, amy! xoxo
ReplyDeleteoops, "Juany" is my friend whom I'm staying with, it was supposed to be me (Irene). :P
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