Home Safe and Sound, But Never the Same

Our entire team has been home for more than one week now. Our sleep patterns and other equilibrium matters are largely returning to a normal state. But there is no returning to "normal" now that we have seen, tasted, touched, and heard the remarkable and life-changing events from our recent PI Women trip to India and Bangladesh.

We want to thank you for your faithful prayers for us and our ministry partners in India and Bangladesh! And we would like to ask that you don't stop praying simply because we've returned to the USA. Our understanding of partnership is forever changed, so our prayer is that God will increase our capacity to partner in every sense of the word -- with our time, our talents, and our treasures so that little girls like the Bengali girls pictured above will continue to "Stop the Traffick" for themselves and generations to come!

Each team member attempted to describe their experience in a single word. Our words included: powerful, encouraged, amazed, and awed. Angie Wolfe, of First Baptist Church in Sand Point, Idaho, chose the word humbled. Here is Angie in her own words:

"Humbled" was my word at the beginning, and it still sums up things for me at the end. Humbled by the women leaders' passion for and dependence on the Lord. Humbled by what they are willing to give up (or leave behind) with great risk of persecution. Humbled by their joy and contentment in the midst of adverse circumstances. Humbled by their passion to see their own countrymen (and women!) come to a saving knowledge of Jesus. Over and over, I met ministry leaders with huge educational degrees (often obtained in the States or the UK) who could have pursued careers overseas but chose to return to India or Bangladesh to minister to their own people.

I have just one more word to share: thankful! Thankful for the opportunity to visit these two countries, thankful for the incredible team that God put together, and thankful for you, our precious prayer partners. Again, thank you for your prayers, and please don't stop now!

In His Love and Mine,
Kim