Two years ago I went to Excel 19 and at Excel you have to draw your state map and know about the state you live in. At the time I thought that this was another part of useless knowledge that I need to know in order to pass the test. I never in my wildest dreams would have thought that two years later I would be standing in a classroom on the other side of the world teaching 3rd and 4th graders how to speak English and having to draw my state map on a chalkboard in Jiji Taiwan.
I find it so amazing how everything we do, and everything we learn, and the people we meet are all a part of God's sovereign plan for our lives. It is by his grace that he allows us to go through struggles and hard things. It is by his mercy that we are not consumed daily. It is God who puts you in and through every experience to test you and to humble you to know what is in your heart (Det 8:2). It is God who sees the areas that we need to grow in, and then places us in them.
I am so happy here in Jiji I know that this is where I am to be right now. Some times I think that I signed up for something that is to big for me to do. How in the world am I ever going to learn enough Chinese to speak to these kids. But that is not all up to me, it is God who equips me to do the thing that he has called me to. It is God who will put the words in my mouth. I believe that every experience that we go through is for his glory. Even if it is the hardest things in life, or dying to dreams that you don't want to die to. It is in the death that we can in some way share in his death and sufferings.
I am so grateful that God put our team together. It is the right team for me, everyone is so different, but yet we each have strengths, and so that makes us a great team.
Sarah Deluca
Jiji
