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A few days ago, I returned from a very special retreat called Ava. Some of you may have read Tom’s blog about the retreat called Traction in Switzerland that he was blessed to attend shortly after we began our home assignment time. Because of how deeply Tom was blessed by his time at Traction, he […]

We are already nearly five months into our one-year ministry Home Assignment! One of my (Tom’s) personal goals for Home Assignment is to seek clarity from the Lord about our ministry engagement when we return to Mexico. We have shared before that we were spread too thin, and we would love to return with a […]

In our last blog, we talked about returning home exhausted. I shared that we had experienced a long period of being over-extended that had taken a physical and emotional toll on us as we served in leading and equipping on the field. I described what intentional rest and renewal has been looking like, and at […]

In a recent blog, I mentioned that one of our primary reasons for taking this one-year Home Assignment is to rest from the demands of cross-cultural ministry in Mexico. I wrote that we were tired and needed a long break and said we would spend the first portion of our Home Assignment pursuing intentional rest. […]

It felt surreal to cross into the States and know that we would not be going back over it again for a full year! I watched the big border sign with the name of the country we call home disappear in the rearview mirror and it was time to embrace the reality of our home […]