Amanda
Hi, I’ve been working in southern Taiwan for over 13 years. That’s more than 1/3 of my life and my entire adult life! Currently, my main focus is taking care of my daughter and our home and supporting my husband in his work.
Ruth
My goal in life is to walking intimacy with Jesus, and to help others do the same. Overseas service is not a job; it’s a way of life. I seek to live the Kingdom in everyday things as well as the ‘call’ of my work. I love my daughter and my dogs, and enjoy welcoming people into my home for meals, games or longer stays.
Holly
Well….my claim to fame is that I have nine kids and we backed packed through Central America with the youngest six of them over the course of three months. We have served in Panama since we made our way here in 2013 but in July of 2015, filled with trepidation and an unwavering trust in the God who called us into missions in 1993 hadn’t change and that he had proved himself faithful all these years – he would surely sustain us on this remote jungle island. We live off the grid and our water is collected rainwater and our power is by the sun…no roads or stores on our island and everything at least one boat ride away, often two boat rides away. We love rainy days because it cools us down but rejoice on the sunny days because we can take out the boat over to the beach.
Primarily, our role is to love God, love people and have fun while doing those things. The vehicle we use to disciple others from the nations is YWAM Ships and the Discipleship Training Schools. We host teams and work within the indigenous villages that surround us. One day….we will have ship here to help bring in medical and dental clinics, as well as use the vessel to teach sailing and navigation; but as we are pioneering this new work, we are happy to take one step at a time.
Suzanne
Home-grown Texan. Wife. Sister. Daughter. Knitter. Spinner. Cat owner. Pianist and accordion-player. Want-to-be mom. Music teacher at Black Forest Academy since 2005. Serving with Wycliffe.
Jenny
My husband, son and I work and live in West Africa. We teach at a Bible institute and work with a child sponsorship program.
Jaimee
Location: Bangkok, Thailand Region: Asia
Misti Shelton
I am a TCK, and now wife & mom to two girls. I spent some formative childhood years in Mauritius, and spent 2 years in my first job teaching in Uganda–where I met my to-be husband from my home state who was also serving there. My family currently serves back in Uganda where my husband is a professor at Uganda Baptist Seminary. But that’s not the job we moved to Uganda to do originally! Or the job we ended up doing next, but what God has led us to do now. I help manage and teach at a little homeschool co-op/cottage school, help at the seminary in various ways, and within my community.
Matalyn
Bonswa Velvet Ashes Ladies,
In November 2013, at age 23 I agreed to embark on my first 7 day journey to Haiti to volunteer in a medical clinic, spend time in an orphanage, and do some outreach prayer throughout a few villages. The year 2015 is coming to an end and I am writing this short bio from Haiti. The place that my heart never left since the firs time it hit Haiti’s air. This was not the plan I had envisioned for my life. Leaving a full time job in the Emergency Department, friends, family, pursuing a high education to move to a third world country was not on my bucket list. God had other plans for me. Plans that took my dreams for my life and future and shattered them into a million pieces. Little did I know, He would take those shattered pieces and my heart that was turned upside down and remake them, remold them, rebuilt them, reshape them, and show me exactly what He intended to do with my life for His glory. Two years later, as a single 25 year old, I am still being exposed to what life in the ‘poorest country in the Western Hemisphere’ looks like, smells like, and functions like. Thank you Velvet Ashes for connecting me with women around the world who I can share struggles, challenges, rejoicing,trials, and tribulations with as evidence that although at times I feel I am in this alone- I am reassured I am not alone.
With love from Haiti
Christy
I love that God has allowed me to be working at The Well International to walk alongside of folks as they try to process transition, grief and all sorts of struggles in life. It is an honor to serve here. I was called in 2011 to go to the field full time and had a really hard first term. I feel like a lot of awful experiences that you can experience on the field were crammed into that little bit of time. It was hard experience and then my furlough was like my worst nightmare. Looking back I see how God has redeemed it all in that I can relate to a lot of the men and women I see at The Well. I love this blog and I tell most of my female clients about it because I know they will find encouragement form hearing others stories about their struggles and how God got them through each one.
Brittany
Location: Lima, Peru Region: South America Visit My Website
Deb Smith
I’ve been serving the Lord in Kenya for 14 years. The niche to which God has called me is to love my neighbor, the 2nd greatest commandment. The neighbors God has specifically called me to love are a handful of single parents and their children. One by one, as he introduced me to them, we quickly bonded with one another and connected as friends.
I myself became a single mom after an unwanted divorce in 1988. God sending me to Kenya is a perfect example of 2 Corinthians 1: 4 – God comes alongside us when we go through hard times, and before you know it, he brings us alongside someone else who is going through hard times so we can be there for that person just as God was there for us.
Nisojon
Living in the village with the hubs and two school-age kids and a toddler. Never knew how fragile and incapable I was til motherhood+overseas living hit me. Also never knew how truly deep His grace and love goes til then.