One Year Later

A year ago on Friday I was at Sojourn Academy's senior graduation. Although I was not able to attend this year's graduation, I did pray for my former students who are going on to new adventures. Almost all of them are returning to the US to attend college. This will be the first time for them living in the US since they were small children. I know for a fact that it is an exciting, difficult, and confusing transition, and I pray that they will have great wisdom in their choices.

In the year since I taught at Sojourn, I have had many titles. I have been part teacher, part secretary, part personal assistant, and part human resource coordinator.

I have had the privilege of teaching English to eight Costa Ricans who are deeply invested in missions and discipleship. Each one of my students has been able to use English to communicate with short term missions teams, visiting pastors, fellow team mates, and potential team mates in an effort to further their ministry.

I have also had the great joy of living and working closer to my parents and helping my mom more. When I was teaching at Sojourn and knew that my mom had a full schedule for that day, I often prayed for her, wishing that I could help take some of that burden off of her shoulders. Now I am able to walk the two blocks from my office to her house to help her whenever she needs it. We have also been able to work together to plan and host three short term teams this summer.

Finally, in these past months, I have begun to see fruit from helping International Teams develop a clearer application and mobilization process. Although there are still kinks to work out (two of our missionaries in training have not been officially accepted yet!) it is exciting to see benefits of being more organized.

I can only imagine what other titles will be added in this coming year, but I will trust that God will give me the strength and dedication to embrace those titles and dedicate myself to the work he is doing here in Costa Rica and in the rest of the world.

Trusting Him,
Kari

Please Praise:
- Thank God with me for the two great English classes I have had with Veronica, a young lady I am hoping to invest in more.

-My parents are celebrating their 34th wedding anniversary today! They have been so faithful with every title God has given them, especially the title of parents.

Please Pray:
-Sojourn learned recently that the principal and his wife (one of the school's English teachers) will be returning to the US for an undetermined amount of time. I know that this week I will be receiving an invitation to return as an English teacher in the fall. As you can imagine I feel compelled to say no as I have made a commitment to work with International Teams for at least two years. So please pray that they might find a willing English teacher to work with them next year. If you know of any high school teachers or recent college grads who might be interested in working here, let me know! God may use them to answer this prayer!