Hello everyone! On today’s show, I speak with Michelle Pearson who served in the Ukraine, Donetsk Mission from 2006 to 2008. I think that you’ll love hearing about her experiences and what she’s doing now to help the people she loves in Ukraine with her non-profit https://www.collectiverelief.org/
And in my missionary minute, I talk about the Lord knows the end from the beginning.
So let’s get to it!
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A big thanks to my new friend Michelle Pearson. I loved hearing about her mission experience. She was a wonderful missionary and continues to serve the people of Ukraine.
In today’s missionary minute ….
I have to kind of laugh at myself because I often will stop recording the episode, and then sometimes I have these great conversations with our guests and I wish that I would have put that into the show! So Michelle and I were talking after we had recorded the episode and she said, I have friends who are living in bomb shelters and I was heading off to the gym, and it just all felt so unimportant. That was part of the motivation of starting her non profit organization Collective Relief. https://www.collectiverelief.org/
If Michelle had judged the success of her mission on what happened during those 18 months, she would not have even scraped the surface of the force for good that her and her husband would be for the people of Ukraine. And if she had thought that maybe her mission was not really the right place for her, with her background in Thailand, she wouldn’t have met her husband and had the experiences that led her to a place where she could help Ukrainians in 2022. Michelle said that her mission changed the course of her entire life. But she didn’t know that would happen back when she submitted her mission papers, or when she opened her call, or when she landed in Ukraine, or when she came home to South Jordan. She saw glimpses of how it would change her, but she’s just now seeing some of the reasons why God assigned her to serve as a missionary in Ukraine in 2006. God knows the end from the beginning. We just need to do our best to follow His Spirit as it guides us.
Well, that’s about it for today’s show.
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