God Created You With A Purpose, Becky Watt’s Story

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Hey friends, I'm so glad you joined me for this episode of the Her God Story podcast.

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Today you're going to hear an inspiring story that will encourage you in your walk with God.

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I'm your host, Jodie Chiricosta, ministry leader at Somebody Cares America and International,

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author and traveler on this journey with Jesus. I love to hear from you. Let me know what you

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like about this podcast, how you first learned about it, who's been your favorite guest,

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and anything else you want to share with me. Just send me an email at hergodstory at somebodycares.org.

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Duncan Campbell was a Scottish evangelist used mightily by God in the Hebrides revival in the

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mid-20th century. He once said how easy it is to live more or less in the enjoyment of God's free

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grace and yet not realize that we're called to fulfill a divinely appointed purpose.

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Did you know that God created you with a purpose? Ephesians 2 10 in the NIV tells us,

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for we are God's handiwork created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance

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for us to do. Isn't that amazing? God in His infinite wisdom has good works just waiting for

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us. They're ready, prepared for us to get involved. I sure don't want to miss what God has prepared

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for me to do, and I bet you don't either. Banny Leibsher, founder and pastor at Jesus Culture,

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has said, the difference between those who do something and those who don't is that those who

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do something do something. Profound, huh? My guest, Becky Watt, is doing something. She found her

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purpose over three decades ago and has been a part of a group committed to reaching an

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unreached people group with the gospel ever since. Co-founder of RUN International, she's done it all

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while being a wife, mother, and pastor's wife. You'll be encouraged by her story and you'll get

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to some good advice on how to get plugged in to the good works, the purpose God prepared in advance

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just for you. Welcome, Becky. Hi, Jodie. It's a pleasure to be here. Becky, your childhood had a

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different twist than most of us. Share about your early years and how you committed your life to

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Christ. I also want to just say I love that intro. The quote by the pastor with Jesus Culture is

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tremendous. You know, just do something. And that's certainly been the discovery of my life,

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that there are things he does have prepared in advance for us to do. And sometimes we stumble

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upon them and sometimes we plan to get there. And mine was certainly a stumble. I grew up in India,

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the daughter of medical missionaries. My early days were marked by going to boarding school with

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my big sister who was eight. We actually traveled by train with the big kids, the eighth graders

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across India. You know, pretty dramatic memories of India in a good way. I just remember riding

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elephants through the jungle with Bengal tigers and rhinos and the tall elephant grass and riding

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in the rickshaw during Diwali, which is where they throw colored dye. And it was typically around

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Easter time. So that wasn't cool. We were in our little white dresses to go to Easter and the Hindu

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festivals where this array of brilliant colored dyes being thrown everywhere. But I remember

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making a decision to the degree that I was able to consciously understand what I was doing as a

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little girl sitting in that church building in India where the windows were open and occasional

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dogs would wander in. And we learned a song, Into My Heart, Into My Heart, Come Into My Heart, Lord

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Jesus, Come In Today, Come In To Stay, Come Into My Heart, Lord Jesus, and singing that song and

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meaning it. So from an early age, this would have been under eight, age eight, I knew I needed Jesus

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to live in my heart. And after a few years in India, your family did move back to the States and you

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continued your schooling and church involvement and family life. And then in high school, you

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discovered what you thought might be your calling. Share about that and where it led.

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Yeah, it actually started even earlier. I had a passion for student government and leadership,

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probably as early as third grade. So every time there was an opportunity to run for a class office

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or something, that seemed to be my jam. I was all about that. So I went to college. I chose a college

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in New England, a women's college. I figured that would keep me on the straight and narrow to make

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sure I stayed academically focused and law school bound. And it was during my college years that I

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was able to do some internships on Capitol Hill and DC. Those were very formative from the standpoint

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that I was quite involved with one side of the political aisle. And then in subsequent summers,

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after having actually met my boyfriend, then became my husband, jumping to the other side

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of the political aisle and seeing some things that weren't so beautiful on both sides, recognizing

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that political systems are inherently just a shadow of anything that would be significant

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and making a real eternal difference. So my aspirations to change the world for good through

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politics was a bit tarnished through that experience. Yeah, I bet. So you met your husband,

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you said, while you were involved in this political world. And his plans seemed really at odds with

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where you thought you were heading. So how did you know he was God's choice for you? And once you got

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married, where did God take you? Our trajectories were quite different. You know, ironically, he was

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raised in a political family. And I was raised in the missionary family, medical missionary family.

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And we actually had interests to do the others trajectory. So we joked that it would just have

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been so much better had the Lord chosen to birth us in the opposite families from the get go,

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it would have been a lot more efficient in terms of us trying to get to the end goal.

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It was apparent to me that Eric was a man of character and vision. And he had such a big vision

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to focus on those peoples who had no opportunity to hear the gospel unless there was a really

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intentional effort made to share the good news with them. And somehow that and the fact that he was

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delightfully appealing to me, I was able to, over the course of time, start law school and then drop

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out in order to follow him to Southeast Asia. Prior to that, we did serve in various churches.

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The first church that we were able to be a part of, the leadership team was actually a

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large African American church. And that was quite a cultural challenge and change for me,

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a beautiful body to get my feet wet in ministry. And then we were part of a large

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televangelism ministry, which imploded. So that also had many lessons to learn.

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We went on to New England, went to graduate school. He and I both got degrees and we

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pastored a small church during that time. So each one of these very unique pastoral experiences

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helped to shape our hearts to love people through God's eyes.

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So you had mentioned that you finally enrolled in law school and it looked like you were going to

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actually get a degree, get that law degree that you'd been wanting, but God had other plans in

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mind. So what happened? Why didn't you actually pursue that?

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It was interesting. I remember coming to this sort of crisis in our marriage seven years in,

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where he had presumed that those passions had fallen by the wayside. And he was very

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concerned by the wayside and they had not. And I loved seeing how much he cared for me,

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that he really wanted to be sure that we didn't just charge off to do the things that he felt

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God was calling us to do without me getting to test those waters. So I did start law school.

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And about that same time, he headed off to an opportunity to speak and present in the Holy Land.

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And as he left, and as my semester started, he said, what would it take for you to think

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that law school might not be the plan? And at the time I said, well, if for some reason,

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you've got an international assignment, I would definitely erase my underlines in my law books

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and take them back to the bookstore and off we'd go. And of course he came back with exactly that

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scenario, not intentionally. It wasn't something he had pre-planned or anything. And I've yet to go

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to the Holy Land, which is a shame because I missed that opportunity. He'd said, won't you

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have an international assignment? I said, no, no, I've got to start law school. But he came back.

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I turned my books back into the law school bookstore and off we went to Southeast Asia

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for the next five years. And while you were there or around that time, you also received some

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training that gave you insight into this unreached people group mission field. Share a little bit

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about what you came upon that and what you learned. I mentioned earlier that I stumbled really into my

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calling and this was a pivotal time in that experience. Prior to our going to Asia, we were

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invited by a large denomination to attend a residential month-long training that they did.

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And graciously, they invited sort of point people from various denominations and different mission

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organizations to come and be a part of their training, focusing on something that was super

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sort of novel at the time. And that was this idea that there were large people groups,

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numbering more than a million or more, who didn't have the Bible in their language, didn't have

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any representation of the body of Christ among them, that it was going to take a real concerted

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effort to see a beachhead church ever established there. And because we were married, we needed to

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go as a couple. So I can't tell you that I went enthusiastically, but I went because he was

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passionate about this and I needed to accompany him. And it was there doing research about a people

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group that we thought at the time we randomly selected. No doubt looking back now, the Holy

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Spirit so led us to choose a particular people group, but it was as I studied their history.

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In fact, I was reading a book even earlier today about the way that early missionaries went to

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this Muslim people and sacrifice and then the martyrdom that was experienced by the believers

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in subsequent warlord conflicts in that region. And I was so stirred both by the sacrificial lives

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of those early missionaries who went as well as by the believers who rose up from this people group

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and then were willing to be such devout followers of Christ that even when persecution came,

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they didn't fall away. And little by little, Jodi, I was being drawn into a narrative that I just

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could see there was a spot for ongoing work. I was just a baby, just at the infancy point of

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recognizing what had gone before me, but thinking, Lord, is there some way you might have me stand on

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the shoulders of those folks who've gone before me and not have let their lives been spent in vain

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that your name would be snuffed out among this people group? So that was the pivotal moment in

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my adulthood. And we went off to Southeast Asia to ostensibly train other people to similarly

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choose an unreached people group and then do whatever it took to see the gospel made available

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to them. And so what was initially a research project for me became a life passion. And I have

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continued to do the work that God has assigned to me with this people group for over 30 years.

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When we were talking earlier, you mentioned to me that that was when life began for you,

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really that passion that God awakened in your heart. And, you know, we're going to get

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to that a little bit more in a minute, but when you said that's when life began,

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that's true in more than one way, isn't it? Can you explain?

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Yes, we were married almost 11 years and had not been able to conceive. And we're told actually

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that we wouldn't be able to conceive. And then we were in Southeast Asia, miraculously, we became

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pregnant. So it was delightful that while we were indeed training other workers, other people to be

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able to go to the field and target various unreached people groups or focus their ministry

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efforts to see those folks come to hear the good news as well, our family grew. And in fact, we

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actually canceled our maternity insurance. It just seemed like that wasn't supposed to be part of the

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plan after 10 years. And so when we became pregnant, it was just another gift from God that it was our

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friends in the Southeast Asian country where we lived, who unbeknownst to us,

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went and paid all of our medical bills at the hospital prior to our leaving the hospital with

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our baby. Wow. Yeah, that's amazing. You know, Psalm 138 in the New King James version says,

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the Lord will perfect that what concerns me your mercy, O Lord, endures forever. Do not forsake

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the works of your hands. And that was so true in your case, as you were following God's leading

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and were concerned about the things that God was concerned about, he took care of your concerns.

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So let's focus on his concerns now. You know, not all listen, all of our listeners may really

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understand what unreached people are. You explained a little bit before, but maybe explain a little bit

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more what you mean by unreached people groups and how many are they are out there? The latter question

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is a good one, because numbers vary, depending on various measurements, I assume. Probably there

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are somewhere in the vicinity of 3000 people groups that do not have the completed scripture

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in their language, including the group that I've been serving among for 30 years and have been

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involved in the translation of the scriptures. In fact, it's super exciting. It was last year

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that the scripture itself was finished translating. But now, as it took decades,

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my colleagues are going back over books that were translated a decade or more ago, just to make sure

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there's harmonization that they sync up, that parallel passages used are in sync a decade or

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two after earlier books were done. Does that make any sense? Sure. Yeah. Okay. Just tried to convey

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that it's an evolving process from the standpoint that you can't work on the entire scripture at

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one time. You may have done Isaiah in the year of 2010, but you did Jeremiah years earlier.

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It's been a fascinating process to be inside the works of what does it take to make the Bible

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available in a people group's heart language. That's a key thing when you talk about an unreached

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people group is how are they going to come to hear the good news, not in a trade language, but in

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in the tongue their mother spoke to them. That's the heart language. How do you hear news in a way

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that grips you while you hear it in the way that your mother spoke to you? Unreached peoples are

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sometimes cut off from the body of Christ by political constraints or radical faiths

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that would keep them from hearing the good news. Lots of different things could isolate a group and

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make them an unreached people. They don't have to be small tribal groups in some far off island.

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As I mentioned, the people group, or maybe I didn't, the people group that I get to serve among

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are millions, over 10 million in number. Not an obscure group by any means and increasingly

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not an obscure group. So the group that God put on your heart is in a country that is not receptive

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to evangelism or Christianity of any kind. That's right. So how did you get started?

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You don't live there. How did you know what to do? Isn't that the amazing thing? That I could have

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the privilege of saying that I have been able to be an integral part of the evangelism of a people

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group and have never lived there. Been there, but never lived there. Which speaks to the deep respect

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I have for my colleagues who are on the field. But they have needed an outside office, if you will.

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They have needed a face and a voice outside of the homeland where they're serving so that their needs

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and opportunities for partnership with the global body of Christ could be conveyed and communicated.

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That's my niche. They have other expertise. So it's been a collaborative process across

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different nationalities, across different denominations, giftings. It's been phenomenal.

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So I was trained initially with some rudimentary tools about what it would really take to mobilize

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a global prayer initiative targeting that people group. And then the whole idea of what kinds of

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entry points might there be to find cultural and other avenues to bring believers into their midst.

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Different kinds of media that needed to be developed. Increasingly, the world is all based on

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technological communication. So finding ways and devices and tools to resource them with

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discipleship and evangelism materials. So it's been a process of growing and learning over the

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years, learning from field people, learning from experts who've gone before me. And the crazy thing

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is, Jodi, just by sheer time, doing the same thing, staying on the same journey, you become an expert

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much to your own surprise. And I'm so thankful that that expertise is not born out of some kind

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of an academic decision, but out of a passion to just be faithful to the call of God.

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So you focused on this group for several decades. What are some of the things you mentioned mobilizing

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prayer, but what are some of the other things you've done and you personally, and maybe you

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as a group, some of your coworkers, and how have you seen God moving among this people group?

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Right. Well, Bible translation is a big part of what I do and have done for decades.

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And my role is to really serve as an administrator to the whole project. We're in multiple scripts.

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We are on multiple continents. It all has to be done under radar. In fact, just a quick little

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story. In the early days, colleagues would sit with a person from this people group,

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not necessarily a believer, and translate, say the book of Luke or something, by night. Maybe

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teach English during the day at the university, ride their bicycle out to a village at night,

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meet with this person who's willing to do this risky thing, and then shove the pages that they've

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worked on in a big pile of coal and jump on their bike and ride back to the town to teach their

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class the next day. These are the kinds of heroes that I get to come along and serve. It doesn't

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look like that anymore. Technology has done amazing things to enable us to continue this process

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from many different countries. The circumstances for the particular people group God has called

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me to serve have changed so dramatically that it is now virtually impossible for foreigners to be

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living among them. But the work has continued. So Bible translation, distribution of scriptures

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through digital means. One thing we were privileged to do back in 1991, which is forever ago, is start

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a then US wide partnership of church representatives, mission agency organizations, people that wanted

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to go to the field, people who'd been to the field, people that wanted to pray, mission committee

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representatives, and gather us together annually to pray, to hear the needs of the field, and to be

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a bridge to serve. Our field people have loved that, knowing there was this bigger group of

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people on the outside who were standing with them, holding up their arms, bringing resources to

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bear, bringing expertise, enabling short term teams to come and the like. That group has now

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had to morph because of world events that happened in 2020. So that it is now a hybrid event and

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international, which is even better. Now people can participate from all over the world. So

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we're grateful that there is a growing awareness of the needs of this people group, and largely

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because of rather tragic events. So have you seen a receptivity to the gospel among this group? Are

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people coming to faith in Christ? Is a church being birthed there? Yes and no. Yes, in that there has

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been wonderful responsiveness, and then an incredible turn of events that we never could have

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foreseen when we started out years ago. And that is that they became targeted by their own government

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for genocide. And this has happened in the last seven years. It's been shocking. The genocide is

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known on a global scale. The nation in which they live is one that has very sensitive diplomatic

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ties with our own country. So bringing about real muscle and leverage to that government has been

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difficult. And yet, and I was just with some of my friends last night who are from this people group,

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and we were discussing how in this terrible, terrible time in which they find themselves back

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in the homeland, there has been such a soul crushing, such an identity destroying experience

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that they are looking for answers outside of the faith system that they were raised in. And that is

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a difficult way to come to an awareness of the goodness of the God who birthed them and created

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them to know Him and to know freedom in Him. But there has been tremendous responsiveness because

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of this terrible, terrible time.

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Yeah, they have been under intense persecution. And because you are outside of the home country,

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you are strategically positioned to help in a lot of unique ways share a little bit about what God's

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had you doing in recent years to help with this situation.

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Yeah, you know, it's a funny thing. For decades, we worked so feverishly to become completely

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invisible, unknown and off the radar. And then they become front page, well, we don't have,

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well, front page on your web browser or whatever, they become their needs so dramatically and

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broadly known. How as believers do we stand by and not use every tool in our, you know, in our

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grasp to be able to advocate, be their voice? You know, scripture talks about speaking up for the

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voiceless and that their needs are like sheep being led away to slaughter. So, you know,

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being led away to slaughter. So we made the really tough choice together with a number of my colleagues

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that it was imperative that we become as believers in Christ spokesman for them. And it's been an

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amazing alliance actually across different faith groups. One of the groups that we are

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delighted to be aligned with in this effort are Jewish organizations. It's a Muslim people

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that we are focused on, but because of the experience of the Jewish people,

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they are saying never again, not on our watch. And so they have been partners with us in trying to

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sound the alarm and get both at a corporate and at a government level change brought to bear.

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The people group that we are focused on are forced, are victims of forced labor. They're victims of

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mass incarceration and as I mentioned, genocide. So part of our, part of our role is to let people

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know that what we buy matters. And often we are purchasing things made on the backs of these people

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in forced labor. So being conscious consumers, but something happened in the last couple of years.

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And that is that I became aware that one of my colleagues on our, on one of our teams that we

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worked with was already in a very, very difficult situation managed by a miracle to get out of the

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homeland and was in a nearby country, but only for a short while. And the visa that this colleague

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and the family were on was going to be expiring and they were being harassed already by police

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and secret agents saying, come back. You need to be spying for us doing all kinds of things.

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And they knew that if they were not rescued, they would go back and be forced into this

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genocide situation that they had miraculously escaped. And I knew I had absolutely no expertise

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and no skillset to know how to help these people. But Jodie, I thought to myself,

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what would I not want them to try to do if the shoe was on the other foot?

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And at that point thought, yeah, this is just going to take banging on every door,

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figuring out how to maneuver in Washington, trying to figure out how to get powers that be

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to come to bat for this family. And without going into all the details, it was an amazing thing.

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When I got a phone call from our state department last summer saying that a very unique app,

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a very unique application we had filed on this family's behalf had been passed, had been approved.

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I later learned that the acceptance rate for this particular visa application was 5%.

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Those odds are so lousy, I would have never tried had I known, but God. And so they're here,

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they escaped. No doubt they escaped immediate detention in the horrific circumstances in their

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homeland had God not opened this door. And so now we are collaborating and partnering in the work

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right here together side by side. It's amazing. And as they were at my dining room table last

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night, I thought, who would have dreamed 30 years ago when I started all this? Not only that I

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would know an unreached person's family as intimately as I know this one, and that they

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would be here in our town. How only a God of miracles and wonders could ever have brought that

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to bear. So I am in complete wonder of what he's doing.

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You know, God just uses everything in our lives for his purpose. I'm sure you never imagined your

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time working in DC was preparing you for mission work in any way. But you know, knowledge of how

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to navigate the halls of Congress and government has been vital to the work you've been doing. I

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mean, rescuing one family even. Most of the work you've done to see these people have opportunity

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to receive Christ has been from the United States, which is also not what a lot of missionary

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work looks like. Absolutely. But it's really changed in recent years because of technology

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and the globalization of the world. Becky, you found your purpose, and that's when your heart

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came alive. So what advice do you have for those who may not have found their purpose yet, who

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haven't discovered the good works God prepared in advance for them to do? Or maybe they've moved

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into a different season and they're now saying, God, now what? What advice can you give them?

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I would say start with what sets your heart on fire. Where do you find yourself drawn?

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Do you hear a story about a child and feel compelled to want to protect that child? Are you

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brokenhearted when you hear about human trafficking circumstances? Do you have a kindred

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spirit with the elderly? Maybe it's homelessness. Maybe it's single parents. I just say ask God

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to stir up that flame that's been maybe a slow ember in your own heart. Just help you to

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determine, to make your days count, where can he use you? Your availability, not even your skill

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set, because he can develop that, but your availability, your willingness to say yes to his

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assignment. And then maybe do a little research, find out some organizations that are involved

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perhaps in that area. Come alongside, start humbly, see what you can do to serve, and then

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stick with it. It's that long road in the same direction. It's that determination to stay after

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it and just say, God, use my life however you will. Help me to glorify you as I serve in this area.

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Just say follow your heart. Find out what he's always putting you, deposited in you that

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awakens you in a way you maybe haven't focused on before. Just pay attention to what stirs in

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your own spirit when you maybe hear a new story or come across that guy at the corner holding up

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the homeless sign, that kind of thing. Yeah, it's interesting you say persevere, stick with it,

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because 30 years ago when you started, I'm sure the first missionaries working with that group

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that you came across might have rolled their eyes a little bit at this zealous, passionate woman who

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wanted to get involved. Absolutely. Yes, absolutely. I think that's important. We need to make room

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for each other. When I started, I did remember had all my bright shiny research in my back pocket.

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And when I was there in the homeland and meeting some of the saints who had been there for decades,

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they were gracious and kind. And there was a little twinkle in the eye like, yeah, you're pretty wet

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behind the ears, but there was acceptance. And I hope that we can do that for one another. Those of

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us who've been at the journey a little longer that we find room for new people to come alongside

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because we need each other. Nobody's got the whole gift mix. Nobody has the whole answer. We've got

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to do this collaboratively. I think that's what pleases the Lord. Yeah, my parents back when the

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unreached people group was becoming really well, you know, really aware there was a movement to get

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people to adopt unreached people groups. And my parents and some of their friends prayed and they

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actually adopted a people group in India and set out to reach them. And there's been a massive

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people group movement there with church planting. And it's been amazing to watch. I was even able to

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go to India myself years ago and minister at one of their meetings and how exciting it is to see

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people who are just being set free from idolatry and misconception and oppression. And God is all

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about that. You know, whether it's here in the United States, there are so many people, you know,

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now who are in idolatry and oppression right here at home, or whether it's halfway around the world,

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God is about reaching people with His love. Absolutely. Right. Absolutely. Well, as we close,

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Becky, would you share about a woman of the Bible whose story has inspired, encouraged,

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or taught you something? It's kind of a funny thing because I've never heard anybody hold this

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woman up as somebody we all need to aspire to. But I find so many things about her that I aspire to,

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and it's this Unimite woman. It's interesting. She's only known for where she was from, you know,

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that's kind of interesting. We don't know her name. But what I, what I esteem about her is that

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life hit hard and she didn't, she didn't stay stuck. Initially, Elisha asks her, hey, what do

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you have need of in response to her generous hospitality? And she doesn't mention the fact

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that she is without a child. And then that gets brought to Elisha's attention and he promises her

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a child and she's hesitant to be misled or get her hopes up. And as you know the story, the child

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dies and she puts the child in the, in the chambers where the man of God would stay at her home. And

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then she takes off to go find him and have him come back. But she's not wailing and making a scene

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on the way out. She's just a woman face set on seeing God's man come about and, and, and bring

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life back into this child's body. Just the way that she conducted herself, that she really seemed

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to be anchored in God, wasn't looking for human consolation and whatnot. Her husband said, hey,

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why are you taking off now? It's not a full moon. It's not a this and that. She said, yeah, yeah,

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I know, but I've got to go. So she just, she just embodied a lot of courage and strength. And then

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you read about her in second Kings chapter eight and she gets to go and have an audience with the

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king and he returns to her property and whatnot. So she had some backbone. She had some class. She

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knew how to conduct herself in front of the king. A pity we don't know anything about her, but her,

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but her location that her name is just, she was from Shunum, you know. But anyway, somebody worth

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looking into a little bit more, I think.

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Yeah. I love her story. In fact, oh gosh, it wasn't too long ago. I did a, I did a podcast

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on her story because she, um, yeah, her life has really spoken a lot to me as well. You know, Psalm

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37 23 has become one of my favorite verses. I've used it before in these podcasts. You might have

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heard it. The new living translation says the Lord directs the steps of the godly. He delights in

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every detail of their lives. The one who created us for a purpose will direct our steps into that

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purpose. As we follow him. If you listen to many of the podcasts, uh, you might have heard how God

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is using Melinda Torrison in business and Nadine Nesbit at NASA, Kim Cosy McKee in the media,

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Debbie Stevenson through motherhood, bunny pounds in politics, Debbie Torres as a writer, and so

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many others. God designed you also perfectly for the purpose he has prepared in advance for you.

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So you don't need to worry or fret, just listen to his voice and follow it and know that he delights

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in taking care of every detail for us along the way. Becky, would you take a moment? Pray for our

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listeners? Yeah, I'd love to. And I love what you shared, Jody. That's so right on.

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Dear father, thank you that, uh, we don't have to carve out our own path because you have prepared

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in advance good works for us to do. You designed us to glorify you in a way that nobody else can.

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We are your image bears uniquely each one of us. I pray that everybody who's tuning to this podcast

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would come to know your delight in them and your assignment for them. Assignment that is a joy that

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enables them to utilize their life experience and their giftings and the things that set them on

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fire just with anticipation and expectation of your glory showing up. I pray that there would be

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a real movement of people, believers taking their places and seeing you exalted in a world that so

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needs to know you are not only present, but you're all powerful and you're at work everywhere around

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us. We love you, Lord. Be glorified in our lives. Equip us with all that we need to make your name

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known to the ends of the earth in the name of Jesus. Amen. You know, friends, there are orphans as well

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as widows all over the world who need to experience the tangible expression of God's love right now.

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And together we are funding the building of an indoor bathroom and showers for a girl's home in

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a remote part of Kenya. The construction is almost complete. I hope to hear that it is being dedicated

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soon. And once it is, we'll post pictures on the somebodycares.org website so you can celebrate with

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orphans through our fund? Just go to hergodstory.org and click on the widow and orphan tab at the top of

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the page. Thank you for tuning in. In our show notes at hergodstory.org, you will find scriptures

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adapted from Isaiah 58, 11 and 12. May the Lord guide you always and satisfy your needs in the

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sun scorched land and strengthen your frame. May you be like a well watered garden, like a spring

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whose waters never fail. May you rebuild the ancient ruins and raise up the age old foundations.

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