Field Notes
This is a collection of thoughts, questions, and learnings gathered while living and working cross-culturally as a missionary.
First Week Of The Rest Of Our Lives
Not gonna lie it’s been hard. Which serves me right, because I was warned multiple times not to underestimate how difficult it was going to be.
Finding the Common Denominator in our Denominations
Somehow, we Christians have fewer gods than the Hindus but more ways of dividing ourselves as followers. Typical.
The Great Unsettling
Unsettling is hard. But I promise you it will be the best thing you ever do.
The Holy Common
Sometimes, when I’m sharing my story of how God is calling me to overseas missions, some of my friends start to feel ‘lesser-than’ or beneath me because they still have regular vocations, and that’s simply not true.
Four Reasons Why Missionaries Aren't Super Christians
We can be guilty of letting honour and opinion become more important than the actual truth of the calling.
Lay Your Stones in a Pile
Maybe distraction is the modern-day good person’s crack cocaine.
The God of my Friends
Sometimes I feel like an absolute failure. And missionaries aren’t really supposed to be the failing type.
Friday Favorites: Recent Podcast Recommends
I find myself making better life choices when I’m in the audio binge phase.
Four Myths of Missions Preparation
Preparation for the journey has not been all I thought it would be.
To Budapest or not to Budapest?
It's been six weeks of waiting and now we finally have our answer.
Feeling my way towards him
The dust is starting to settle a little, on my internal search for God.