Have you ever felt called to a specific work? A burden that you felt really should be addressed but you felt too busy or inadequate in some way? I was in the kitchen in my little apartment in Vermont when I got that call. The phone rang and it was a missionary in Belarus inviting us to work in a small congregation in Nikopol Ukraine. My husband and I were both drawn to the mission field, so we answered the call. In a very literal way.
In 2004 we were very young with a fifteen-month-old baby, we sold everything we had, boarded a plane, and served there for 11 years. After some trips in a car to an airplane, to a car, we took an overnight train trip to Nikopol, a little town just a few hours north of the Black Sea. If I had been able to see into the future and see how lonely and hard it was going to be, I don’t know that I would have had the courage to step off that train. Looking back, I’m so glad I did. It was hard, at times, but rewarding. This is a blog where I want to share my experiences and what I learned from them. In a way, I’m ‘stepping off the train’ again metaphorically. I hope you’ll find the courage to step off the train in your own life. Whatever way God has challenged you to step out of your comfort zone. Place yourself in his hands. He can’t bear you up till you let yourself fall on Him.
Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, unto Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.
