Dear friends,
I am back in the NW! Thank you for the outpouring of love and encouragement in coming back here to be with my dad and the rest of my family. My dad saw a specialist this last Monday and they confirmed that he has Multi System Atrophy. This is in the Parkinson's Plus family and it is quite aggressive.
Despite the grim diagnosis and returning from Mexico, I am filled with an immense joy to be here. Once I knew it was right to come back my whole desire has been to be here. I am excited to be near family and excited for God's plans! It was the easiest the decision I think I have ever made.
I will be back in Everett Monday night for the week and I have the honor of working at SBC then next weekend after church at Sonrise I will be on the island for the rest of June. After June my hope is to be in the Seattle area again to live and work and be near my dad...but the Lord knows what comes next!
I hope to see many of you soon!!!
Love in Christ,
Tiffany
Next Steps
Dear friends,
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:
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
Onto Oaxaca, Mexico
What a month here in the NW! I was able to spend a week with my sending church, Sonrise Chapel, and to visit Seattle Bible College as well as spend time with good friends. It was so refreshing and encouraging to meet with people and pray and be prayed for. For the rest of April I was here on San Juan Island with family. My dad is now in full time care at the convalescent center on the island and he needed help getting his things in order. Especially now that my parents are trying to sell the Bed and Breakfast I have had the big task of separating all of my dad's things from the garage and storage units on the property in case they move soon. Note to the wise...don't be a pack rat!...anyways...I have gone through many boxes and we have had a couple of great garage sales!
This Wednesday I am off to Oaxaca, Mexico. My time in Culiacan in February and March was for an outreach to the migrant workers in the area where we distributed gospel recording materials to upwards of 140 different indigenous languages. In Oaxaca I will begin the official training to become a recordist. There are still many languages of the America's that need to hear the good news of Jesus Christ in their own heart language. Here is a little blip of what the training will entail...
The training that Gospel Recordings Network Mexico provides will equip me to investigate the needs among the ethnic groups, make contact with language helpers in the target language, transport myself and the equipment to the tribal area, record Gospel messages and discipleship material in the native language, edit the recording and produce audio CDs or other media as needed. I will also be trained in oral communication, a socio-religious survey, history and geography of the ethnic groups, transcultural communication, design and printing of material for other languages, and use of Adobe Audition software...phew!
Thanks to our Lord, Father, Savior, Counselor! I am in awe that Jesus loves and redeemed a sinner like me and that He uses us for His purpose and plan of reconciliation. Thanks for my prayer peeps and my support team! We are in this together.
Love in Christ,
Tiff
Please Pray:
That Jesus would shine brightly through all of us as vessels for Him.
That I would continue to grow in the Spanish language.
For His open doors of ministry among the people groups of the Americas.
For boldness to preach the good news and that God's Holy Spirit would draw many to Himself.
For my family here. That those who don't, would know Jesus, and those who do would thrive...and that the B&B would sell. : )
This Wednesday I am off to Oaxaca, Mexico. My time in Culiacan in February and March was for an outreach to the migrant workers in the area where we distributed gospel recording materials to upwards of 140 different indigenous languages. In Oaxaca I will begin the official training to become a recordist. There are still many languages of the America's that need to hear the good news of Jesus Christ in their own heart language. Here is a little blip of what the training will entail...
The training that Gospel Recordings Network Mexico provides will equip me to investigate the needs among the ethnic groups, make contact with language helpers in the target language, transport myself and the equipment to the tribal area, record Gospel messages and discipleship material in the native language, edit the recording and produce audio CDs or other media as needed. I will also be trained in oral communication, a socio-religious survey, history and geography of the ethnic groups, transcultural communication, design and printing of material for other languages, and use of Adobe Audition software...phew!
Thanks to our Lord, Father, Savior, Counselor! I am in awe that Jesus loves and redeemed a sinner like me and that He uses us for His purpose and plan of reconciliation. Thanks for my prayer peeps and my support team! We are in this together.
Love in Christ,
Tiff
Please Pray:
That Jesus would shine brightly through all of us as vessels for Him.
That I would continue to grow in the Spanish language.
For His open doors of ministry among the people groups of the Americas.
For boldness to preach the good news and that God's Holy Spirit would draw many to Himself.
For my family here. That those who don't, would know Jesus, and those who do would thrive...and that the B&B would sell. : )
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