Flores & Faith

Today is my anniversary of serving six years on the mission field. As an organization, we mark and celebrate missionary’s “hire” date. But for me, this day deserves to be marked, too.  January 24th, 2017 is the day I got on the plane in Indianapolis, IN and moved to Santiago in the Dominican Republic. Six years. Next to some of our faithful missionaries who have served 10 or 20 + years, six years might look and feel quite small. But it is not small. So much has happened, so many lessons have been learned, and so much growth has occurred. Thanks be to God! As I reflect over these years on the mission field, I selected six texts from Scripture and have attempted to summarize a lesson or a story for each that are tied to these past six years serving God and His people in Latin America.  There is definitely not a blog post - not even a well-organized one - that can sum up these past six years, but here is an attempt. It serves as more of a reflection as opposed to a year-by-year summary.  

This post is part of our Flores & Faith devotional series, a gathering of original devotional material.  Each devotion will be published in both english & spanish.  | Esta publicación es parte de nuestra serie devocional en Flores & Fe, una recopilación de material devocional original. Cada devoción estará disponible en inglés y español. Lift Your Eyes Psalm 121:1-2 I lift my eyes to the hills, from where does my help come? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth. Too often it is easy for me to relate to the psalmist in Psalm 42 and ask myself, "Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me?" (42:5). Too often my eyes are cast down and I focus inward on my own problems, big or small. Have you ever felt that way? In Psalm 121, we can join with the psalmist and be reminded to lift our eyes up - from our troubles, ilnesses, guilts, grief . . . In lifting our eyes to the hills we are reminded that our " help comes from t