Cross-Cultural Experiences: How these experiences led me to believe I can live and work effectively in ministry.
For the month of January of 2004, I and 9 other students from my school went to Bolivia to work with IMB missionaries there. It was an amazing experience. Preparing to go there was terrific but being there was awesome. And coming back to share those experiences was wonderful. As far as the cross-cultural experiences that I had in Bolivia that would include living with a Bolivia family and only speaking some Spanish, adjusting to the change in diet - eating lots of chicken and when in the jungle - eating lots of bread, getting to one place to another on a bus/taxi, and hanging out with youth after a service would all be experiences that I would count as "cross-cultural." I’ve also been in China before as an English Teacher. I had absolutely no qualms about going either and I went by myself. God was with me the whole time I was preparing to go and most definitely in the trip there. I noted to other people that it was strange that I felt no fear. God gave me his peace the entire trip. I had the opportunity and blessing to help 4 of my students to know Christ. I say “help” instead of “lead” because the Holy Spirit was doing the leading and I was blessed to be there to help them understand their conviction. God did mighty things that summer, praise Him.
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