Over the next four weeks our children will be writing their thoughts about our calling to the mission field and their experiences during our exploratory trip to the Dominican Republic in November.  Each of them, upon returning home, expressed concern and interest in the various experiences we had there. It has been a joy to watch each of them discuss and process our trip and see how some of the experiences did not leave a lasting impression. While other experiences really captured their hearts and they still talk about them on a daily basis with us or their friends and pray for their new friends. 

This first week Elisabeth is sharing, this is what she has to share with everyone:

My parents are going to be pastoring pastors and pastors’ families in the Dominican Republic. This means that they will be helping the pastors by answering questions, giving encouragement & support. I am excited to be able to be a part of my family’s calling, as I am growing up becoming a teenager, and help expand God’s Kingdom. While I know that this is a great thing to be doing, I am also struggling with not wanting to leave my family, my friends and what is familiar to me, it is like a part of my childhood is disappearing.

A song that God has been using to speak to my heart and help me grow as a teenager recently is “Speak Life” by Toby Mac. I feel like this song sums up what missionaries do, and also what my parents are being called to do with the pastors; they speak life to the brokenhearted. Here are some of the lyrics to just part of this song:

 “Look into the eyes of the brokenhearted; 

Watch them come alive as soon as you speak hope, 

you speak love.” 

I feel this is a very important thing to remember in life for everyone to do; speak words of love, encouragement, hope, and of comfort just like Jesus does for us.  I hope one day that my words will speak life into people’s hearts.

By the way, please join me in prayer because I am really praying hard that I get my own room in the Dominican Republic when we move there and that I make a lot of great new friends.

Blessings,

Elisabeth McCurdy