About Our Mission
Ever since we got back from doing Tsunami relief in Thailand and Indonesia in 2005, the Lord has been stirring our hearts, searching our thoughts and desires, questioning our motives, breaking down and then rebuilding our spirits, rekindling our passions, and finally beckoning us back into the missions field.
Through hours on our knees the Lord showed us where we were to spend our next many months. Praise God, he has taken us to Kolkata, India for three months and then sent us to Taipei, Taiwan where we are now. Learn more by reading our blog...
Missionaries of Charity // Kolkata, India
(3 months: January 2008 – March 2008)
We spent three months in Kolkata, India, one of the poorest cities in the world, and volunteered with the Missionaries of Charity. Here we were able to be the hands and feet of Jesus to those who were rejected by society. Our goal was to bring life, light and a flicker of hope, if even for a second, to people who may never have received it from anyone else — through our gracious God we were able to do this!
Eric worked at Kalighat, which is the home for the sick and dying destitute. He spent his days cleaning, bathing, washing, rubbing, talking to, laughing with, and praying for men who, many of them, would pass away in the three months that he was there. God really opened up his eyes to the value of each individual person and their eternal worth.
Amy worked at Daya Dan, which is a home for physically and handicapped orphans. While her main responsibility was running a classroom of with five boys, she also washed beds, bathed, clothed, hugged, sung to, and enjoyed all the boys. God really taught her the meaning of sacrifice and the obedience it takes to really listen to God — how you can't say you'll serve God with all you have and then dictate what that looks like — its more like free falling, and its an amazing thing!
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School of Biblical Studies // Taipei, Taiwan
(9 months: March 2008 – January 2009)
"the Bible isn't written to you, but for you"
It is clear that the Lord is taking us into full time missions work in the future, whether that be in the church in America or some small village overseas. Our problems lies in the fact that the very Word we are seeking to represent has not had the time or resources to properly engrave itself into our minds and hearts. Therefore, we are now attending a nine month School of Biblical Studies (SBS) through Youth With a Mission (YWAM).
In this program, all 66 books of the Bible, the Word of God, will be read many times through, exploring each book in detail. They are going to be studied in order to decipher, understand and then apply the timeless truths to our lives. We will be using the inductive approach, in which one observes what the text says, looking at the historical background of the original reader, writer, and then let it shape your beliefs.
We are in the home stretch of the first quarter with three weeks left and have been blown away by who God is. Learning about the cultural background really makes the books of the Bible come from a completely different light. Praise God, that he is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow!
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The Titus Project // Southeast/Central Asia
(3 months: January 2009 – March 2009)
You may have heard the quote which says, "The longest distance traveled in a man's life is the distance of information from one's head to one's heart." Well, the Titus Project is designed to help bridge that gap.
The Titus Project is a three-month program designed to develop SBS graduates in communication skills and equip them for teaching and preaching on the mission field. There are many church leaders and pastors around the world who have not had proper Bible training. Through the Titus Project we will be sent out to teach and preach, training up church leaders around the world in God's word. Through experiencing and living out the Word in this manner we hope to cut down the time it takes to have the truths that we learned through SBS in our minds travel in and start to take over and envelop our hearts.
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