Sanders Party of Five

This has been a great week, as we’ve been privileged to hear from Vern and Carla Sterk, missionaries who have been working with indigenous Indians in southern Mexico for nearly four decades! Their class was entitled “Mission Across Cultures”, and their knowledge of this subject is expansive. I (Kandy) was blessed to be able to attend a ladies’ class on Friday afternoon taught by Carla Sterk. In this class, she explained in detail the unique struggles that families on the mission field experience, and encouraged us to keep the emotional and spiritual health of our children in mind as we seek to plant churches in unreached areas. A common problem among families in ministry is that parents are often so busy with “God’s work” that they forget to disciple their own children, which in reality IS God’s work. We have already struggled a bit with this issue over the past couple of years, but are praying that we will continually be drawn to time management which is God honoring.