What does a new missionary do?
What does a new missionary do?
While every experience is different, Rebekah Huffman shares a typical day in her ministry in Paraguay. Rebekah is learning Paraguayan culture and language and she spends most of every day in her quest for knowledge.
She wakes up at 6:30 and by 8 a.m. she is studying the Spanish language and going over her notes on the cultural observations she has made. Her morning flies by quickly as she reads, processes the information, studies grammar and then prepares a lesson plan so she knows what to study next.
In the afternoon, Rebekah works at a Christian daycare center to assimilate the culture better. She arrives just in time for their daily siesta to end. She helps out in the 2 year old classroom. After the children leave, she and her co-workers mop and clean the rooms.
Rebekah has visited the children in their homes and found most to be needy but open to her visits.
She asks for wisdom on how long to work at the daycare. As she grows more comfortable with the culture and language she needs to be planning the next step of ministry.
Recently, she and her co-worker Jenna Curry visited the Pai Tavy Terra ministry. Missionaries have aided the Pai people to establish a strong, functioning church and are now preparing to leave the work to the Pai Tavy Terra believers.
“It brought tears of joy to my hearts to see the Holy Spirit working in these people’s lives,” wrote Rebekah.
Pray that Rebekah and Jenna will find the ministry God has for them. Since seeing the Pai Tavy Terra believers she is excited to see where the Lord might use her.