Holiness Today magazine asked Krista, our daughter if she and I would like to write an article about service and tie it into Work and Witness, our ministry we have had the privilege of serving the Lord in for many years.
Recently I was thinking about the positive aspects of WnW which focus on the projects and what the people do when they come to South America to serve. There is nothing really said about actual team members, the short term missionaries. Yes, they work hard and amazing things happen while they are in country but what about their actual lives. Some of there stories break my heart of what they go through in real life or sacrifices they made to save money for their trip.
So I said, yes! Not knowing what the time line was or even what I was getting into. The timeline was way shorter than what I expected and we were on Home Assignment which is hectic enough. The editor did an amazing job of tying both our perspectives of serving in ministry together as a family.
I am sure if we would have had more time we could have added Michelle, our older daughter and Jon's insight to make it a family article.
Below is the article if you care to read what we wrote. I contribute a lot to the editor for polishing my part.
Copy and paste the link below and find page 28