continued from page 7 care facilitators. I led a restructure of the entire SIM USA One of my greatest joys was bringing a Japanese Wycliffe home assignment debriefing process. It was a joy to missionary to the World Evangelical Alliance Global Mission Commission consultation in Pattaya, Thailand. hear how missionaries enjoyed their campus visits after At that conference, the Global Member Care Network experiencing the new structure. leadership team invited her to join them. She brought a wealth of personal experience of being an Asian minority on a mission team. Most Japanese sending churches and organizations did not understand the needs of their missionaries, and she began the process of educating them on ways to care for their sent ones.
It became clear to the SIM USA president that my strengths in leadership and the ability to connect people to resources were the best way for me to care for missionaries. In 2016, wasappointedasthevicepresidentofpeople/ chiefpeople officer. had oversight for member care, personnel/ HR, and other functions related to our onboarding processes. It has been a privilege and great responsibility to bring the care and services provided to our SIM USA missionaries to a higher professional standard over the last eight years.
Asian Access developed a partnership with SIM USA in 2011. I was on the partnership search and transition team. Through that relationship, the president of SIM USA asked me to become the director of member care. Meanwhile, I look back to that young missionary wife who was wonStan and I were realizing we needed to relocate to the dering where she could serve given who God had created U.S. when our sons graduated from high school. God her to be. I see again that God can do so much more than confirmed that this was his direction through our leaders what we ask or imagine. God has been faithful and gentle with me through the early years of questioning, feeling from mission agencies and sending churches. We moved to Charlotte, North Carolina, in July 2013 and live near the left out, grieving losses. God has occasionally allowed me to glimpse how those “small ministries” in which I faithfulSIM USA office. ly served brought encouragement to other missionaries. Stan has worked relentlessly to develop the partnership As I retire, God has given me a role of being a respectbetween the missionary, his or her sending church and ed voice in the organizational care of missionaries and a SIM USA. He spent three years on the member care team mentor to younger leaders. and became a facilitator in the Healing the Wounds of Trauma program. We expanded the number of member All glory goes to God!
PRAYER GATHERINGS ONLINE & IN PERSON Call the church office or email info@college-church.org for details on these prayer meetings. Sunday Morning Prayer 8:15-8:40 a.m. in C101 Monday Morning Prayer 6:15-7:15 a.m. Board Room Wednesday Night Prayer ( Zoom only) 7 - 8 p. m. Led by the Missions Office APRIL 6: Rod & Kathy Duttweiler APRIL 13: Curt Cole APRIL 20: PaulAdams APRIL 27: Manny Mill
HANNAH PRAYER FELLOWSHIP will meet on Wednesday, April 1 3 , at 1 : 3 0 p. m. in C1 0 1 in the Commons. Join the group as it hears an update from one of our missionaries and then spend time in prayer.
DORCAS PRAYER FELLOWSHIP meets Wednesday, April 2 0 , at 1 : 3 0 in the Upper Deck at Covenant Living at Windsor Park to hear from Phil Smith about his recently started work as Director of International Partnerships for Accessible Hope nternationa Both men and women are welcome at this meeting.
AARON-HUR PRAYER FELLOWSHIP
will meet at its usual time this month. Friday Prayer for the Persecuted Church (Board Room) 12-1 p.m.LedbyWilandLorraineTriggs.Theweeklyprayerguide is also available at our website: https:/ bit.ly/2ZkqQLA Our Prayer Pulse email goes out every Monday. You can get prayer updates via that email. Sign up by clicking “Enews signup” on our website. If you already receive other emails from College Church, click “manage my preferences” at the bottom of any email and select Prayer Pulse to add yourself.
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