Yap and Back: “The Jump”
It’s not easy to jump into the unknown by faith–but if He calls us, He will be with us all the way.
It’s not easy to jump into the unknown by faith–but if He calls us, He will be with us all the way.
“Why is it always so easy to want to be where you’re not?” This was a question that a friend of mine, who was serving as a student missionary in Africa, sent me during my first semester in Yap. I could completely relate, though I wish I did not. Why was it so easy for…
Having been raised in an Adventist family, I have grown up with the concept of a heavenly home where all of the family of God will one day unite. Because of this, I have heard the phrase, “If I do not see you again in this life, I’ll see you in the next,” as a…
Rebecca Orozco, a Student Missionary from Walla Walla University, recently returned from serving as a 6th grade teacher at Yap Seventh-day Adventist School in Yap, Micronesia. Sadly, school came to a sudden close in March due to the threat of COVID-19, sending Rebecca and most of her fellow volunteer teachers home a few months early.…
Ernest Hernandez, Director of Office of Volunteer Ministries, shares a devotional thought with our volunteers.
On the plane coming to the Philippines, I was journaling my volunteer experience thus far. I had just cried so much saying goodbye to my parents and in my journal speaking to God I said, “…but it’s just me and You for a little…I wouldn’t mind if You let me know in some small way that…
I will be going to Ethiopia to teach at the Adventist college, as well as doing missionary work, but I wanted to share how God has been good to me. Several years ago, before I retired from teaching at a local university, there was a downsizing process being carried out. Several professors were being terminated…
I tried to sleep–after all it was 1:30 a.m., but the roar of the wind and the thought of the Super Typhoon raging outside made that task virtually impossible. Just as I was about to doze off there was a loud crash! Dany Goris, our P.E. teacher, and I walked out into the hallway of…
Hello from Ebeye! Now that I am in the full swing of teaching and being a student missionary (seeing as I have been here almost 2 months), I have decided to tell you today basically a ‘Day in the Life of me in Ebeye.’ I thought it was would be very interesting for you to…
“Then the Lord said to him, ‘What is that in your hand’ ‘A staff,’ he replied. Exodus 4:2 I imagine the room was cold and dark as she was trying to hide her two sons from the debtors. Her husband had just passed away leaving her alone in a patriarchal society where women were just…