I am writing to inform you all that within the coming weeks I will be moving back to the NW for the time being. I heard the weather has been amazing and I don’t want to miss it!...No… I recently heard that my dad has become substantially weaker in the last several weeks and I feel a peace and a joy to return to be a help to him and my family.
It is very humbling to be coming back from the foreign mission field. I have only just begun my time here in Oaxaca. We have been able to do a few distribution trips and enter data of the indigenous languages from Culiacan but now I am leaving. It seems like just a small drop of water in an ocean of possibilities. But then I think that it is the many drops that make up this life and God’s purposes. All I can say is that when I heard how my dad was doing there was the moment where I knew my call was back near him and my family in the NW during this time. Why it did not click three weeks ago before I got on that plane…I don’t know. But I know that God has His appointed times and we are to occupy and follow as He leads.
If you would like to make a love offering for the transition back that would be much appreciated. But as for monthly support that will not be a need when I get back. To all of you who have given your prayers and your resources I give you my immense gratitude. But that is just human thanks. You have given to the work of the Lord in Brazil, Ecuador and two states in Mexico. You have been faithful in helping me to do the work of an evangelist and now others will continue to faithfully work and to water while God will give the increase.
Five years ago almost exactly I moved to Washington from Tucson, Arizona. I moved to the NW to help my dad open up his bed and breakfast and I started going to the church on the island. It was in the fall I enrolled in Seattle Bible College – where I came to receive Jesus as Lord of my life. The first time I went to be at my dad’s side to help the events led to me coming to the Lord! God does all things perfect and new so I look forward to what He will do this time!
I am excited to spend more time with each one of you and to put my religion into practice by caring for those of my family. I want to repay my parents and I know this is pleasing to the Lord (1 Tim. 5:4,8).
I know I am just “coming back home” but it feels like I am jumping into a whole new adventure. I have not been a cross-cultural missionary for a fraction of the time many others have but to be in ministry in the states seems like another big shift. I look forward to how God will use the time that has been spent in South America and Mexico. This is not closing a door I am simply continuing to run the race and when God wills I pray to continue to serve cross-culturally. And now I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. (Phil. 3:14)
Please Pray:
For my father. That he would come to know our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
For finding a cheap ticket back to the states on short notice.
For the transition back in the NW: Job, place to live… (If you have any leads in any of these areas please let me know!)
For Gospel Recordings Network (Buenas Nuevas) here in Oaxaca. They are in need of more workers for the harvest!
For Compassion Connection staff in Ecuador. This will put off my involvement there as well. Please pray for Steve, Sandi and Amie Youngren along with the other missionaries to continue in the field of souls there with the grace and strength God supplies.
Thanks again to all those who have been a part of the work!
Love in Christ,
Tiffany
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