“This is a hard place. This is a hard calling. How do you live in a land of persistent instability? How do you minister to the spiritually oppressed and oppressive? How do you learn the language? Understand the culture? Navigate the government abuse? How do you throw up your hands in frustration and embrace a friend at the same time?
What do you do when the next war touches you and its your turn to flee? What if you lose all your stuff? What if you lose more than just your stuff? What if its worth it? Can we afford to wait for things to become easy? I don’t know what to do with this. God is calling me to something, but is it something this hard?
I have these feet and they can go, even if they are not experienced… but the question I’m asking is this, “are they willing?” Willing to walk some of the earth’s most beautiful and devastated lands. Willing to stand side by side with those of my African brothers and sisters. Willing to be trashed in the process and one day be called beautiful. Are my feet willing to move against the fear? I don’t know what to do with this but there’s one thing I do know, I can no longer just walk away.”

“Sometimes when we are called to obey, fear does not subside and we are EXPECTED to move against the fear. One must choose to do it afraid.” Elizabeth Elliot