What we feel God has been saying to us

Our Team

Our team meets each Sunday evening to process and pray. We have been doing this since 2010. At one of our last meetings God was reminding us of all the sweet promises and words he has given us along the way. We spent a time of reflection and prayer over this process and listened and remembered and thanked God.

What we feel God has said in our process of preparing for missions:

For our whole group-

- God is the most glorified when we are the most satisfied in Him.

- God's glory is most reflected in us when we are most delighted in Him.

- This is His work not ours/ This is His story and not ours.

- We leave home and family and stuff for His namesake! Matt 19:29

- God desires His children to praise and bring glory to Him throughout all the nations. He has called us to this.

- Missions exists because worship does not and because praise does not.

- We are to be learners and serve with open hands doing whatever God desires. Even if it looks very different than what we initially perceived. 

- We are to go as a team- Yates and Simpsons 

- At this time we are clearly called to go to Ethiopia

- People have been praying for us and for this work long ago. God started His work in Ethiopia a long time ago and we are just a part of it (People like our friend Saba have been praying for God to be glorified in Ethiopia)

- Our family, including our kids, will be part of our ministry

- Lasting change comes from community transformation. Not creating more dependency

- God made it very clear that He would make it clear where He wants us. We asked for this from the beginning and he has been so faithful. 

- We are safer in the hands of God than anywhere else. We are not to fear things that can kill our bodies, but rather those things that can kill our soul. (Matt 10:28)

- We are at a stage where God will either open or close the door through our application process. If He wants us there then He will need to also confirm it to those at Soddo Hospital and if that happens it will be so clear to us that is where we are supposed to be.  If not- we know God has good plans for us elsewhere. 

To Michelle and Adam- 

- God called Michelle to discipleship. Intimate relationship with a few instead of large group. 

- "God is preparing a place for you to which you are already connected by your church body or community."

- Going to fill a need in a community that they identify versus going with all the answers. Serving with Humility.

To Kavi and Taylor-

-Taylor and Kavi were brought together in large part for this purpose- for God's heart for the nations.

- however in the end- it doesn't matter what we are doing in life but that we are walking with Him, hearing His voice and leading and being obedient to His call.

- I (Kavi) am to not spend all my time doing hospital medicine alone but we are also to be involved at the community level.  This is so important for good Primary Care, Discipleship, Community Medicine, community and individual transformation. 

- What we do we want to be multiplicative and sustained locally.

- Empowering local believers to have tools to not only serve their own community, but give them a way to bring the gospel to to un-reached peoples.