Peter's Wife – Page 35

A King’s Daughter

Peter’s Wife started as a way to encourage and connect wives and moms serving outside their own culture. Since I was married and a mom and the women I was meeting were in a similar situation, it seemed natural that this would be our primary focus.

Over the years, a number of single women working cross-culturally have joined our group. From time to time someone asks why we don’t have some articles written especially for the singles. No one had yet submitted an article from that perspective.

So we have a treat this month. Michelle has written about her “single” journey. We are so happy to share her story.

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Safety Precautions

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Tuesday morning in eastern USA, was Tuesday evening on Borneo. We had enjoyed a wonderful, badly needed day of rest at a lovely resort at the foot of jungle covered mountains overlooking the South China Sea. Much of the day had been spent soaking in the pool and resting on chaise lounges. Our idyllic peace was shattered at 9:15 PM when my husband channel surfed to CNN. Pictures of the World Trade Center in a pillar of smoke and the Pentagon engulfed in flames shook us as the horror unfolded. Nothing could have prepared us for the shock.

36 hours later, we still hardly know what to say when asked how we feel. But last night my husband began a series of camp meeting addresses. With the tragedy so fresh on everyone’s minds, there really wasn’t another topic that seemed right for that session.

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How’s Your Faith?

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“How’s your faith?” It was a question someone asked a friend of mine recently. I found myself with a cliche answer, but later I really did think about it. I do have an on-going relationship with Jesus, but the needs of those I’m caring for sometimes seem almost overwhelming. It did cause me to think about how to keep my faith fresh and alive.

We can get caught up in the activities of daily living and the urgent demands of those around us and can let our devotional life take a backseat. It takes time and effort to stay connected to our Lord and Friend.

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Teen Re-Entry

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Survey results do work! Several of you asked about how to help your teens re-enter their home culture. We would like to take a look at a few of the problems teens face as they return to their home culture for higher education and a couple suggestions of ways to help them.

When you see a group of PW kids together, they look like any other active, fun-loving kids. But when you compare them to their peers, they have some significant differences. Because they have lived outside their culture, they have a very different world view than kids back home. They cannot be nonchalant about poverty, world politics, religious persecution or a cholera epidemic. They have been touched in very personal ways with issues like these and have strong opinions. [Read more…]

The Lean Years

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The first years on a foreign field can often be called the lean years. Actually, the lean years probably started several years before arriving on the field. Years of training and then months, if not years, of raising support for the venture to which you were called.

Our first years in service were lean years. They were lean as far as what we had, but they were rich in what they produced in us.

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