Katy’s Weblog
A week away from leaving for Taiwan! I am feeling much better – I asked many people to pray for me and the team, and I know God is answering.
I feel I have more grasp of the lessons and teachings that I am prepping for.
Psalm 77 has been an encouragement to me recently.
In Taiwan I will be giving 2 evangelistic messages, in addition to some other teaching opportunities and talking to people. Those 2 messages are by far the most challenging and stressing me out.
But this week, God answered all my concerns. I am not feeling the anxiety that I felt the last few weeks. I have made great strides in my preparations and have most of my message done.
I said I am the Team Leader of this Taiwan STM. Technically I’m not. I’m the Mission Mentor. Semantics matter.
I’m reviewing my training book today:
“Your primary responsibility is not just to “lead a team” but to mentor those on it (and potentially those who are not) through missions discipleship.”
I received this book in my package to prepare for my upcoming short term mission trip.
I finished this book within a week; I couldn’t put it down. I would’ve finished it faster but Henri Nouwen’s books require a lot reflection and soul searching. This book is so good I am reading it again.
I couldn’t keep to my resolution that I would read one book at a time. I love to read books but I’m a slow and impatient reader, so I read several books at one time in order to get a taste of each book.
I made an effort to read through “Am I Called?” because…
In the office devotion time this week, WT shared from Ephesians 3:20
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever! Amen.
This is exactly how I think as I prepare for TW STM. We prepare lessons, messages, testimonies, games. We have a theme, we have a skit with that theme. The only thing we don’t have are songs because no one on our team is musically inclined.
(I don’t know how many parts there will be in this series as I prepare for Taiwan Short Term Missions, from here on TW STM.)
Since I’ve always wanted to be a missionary, my greatest fear of the upcoming TW STM is that I won’t like it, or I can’t handle it physically, or I…
I always thought, if I were to be a missionary somewhere overseas, I would want to go to Taiwan.
When I was there for vacation about 6-7 years ago, the impression I had was that it was a place I can possibly adjust to living there long term. Of course I was only there as…