I came back home from my first EMI trip in 2018 to a job that I loved, a community of friends who filled me with joy, and a church that was growing me into a follower of Jesus who recognized, as the first disciples did, that the life God calls us into will often be harder, but always more fulfilling and joyful than we would choose for ourselves. So when I was standing at my desk at work and had the thought that I should leave all of those good things behind and become a full-time engineering missionary, I sensed it was from God.
Over the next six years, with fragments of this vision cast before me, I did what I could to prepare professionally, under the care of wonderful mentors and coworkers, and practically, through annual EMI trips and other missions and leadership work at my church. Along the way, I see now how God also used those six years to also grow me personally, spiritually, emotionally, and relationally to be better equipped for what I believe I’ve been called to do – help design development projects that will support a variety of ministry and humanitarian programs in West Africa and disciple the Senegalese people I live by and work with so that they may fully grasp the life-changing love that Jesus has for them.
In order to do this well, what I need more than anything is to have each of you keep speaking into my life and pointing me in the right direction along the way.
And along with that support, I do invite you to reinforce and formalize that encouragement with a recurring gift that not only enables me to do this work, but also keeps me accountable and locks us together in a faithful partnership. Would you join me?