My name is Elizabeth Vahey. And I am a missionary.
Presently, my job is to find people to pay my salary and work expenses. And they're not easy to find. Think "Where's Waldo?" but instead of just looking for a striped shirt, you have to sit and dialogue with every person on the page, first to see if they are Waldo, then to see if they know where (another) waldo is. This is a full-time job! Best part? It's only half of my job! A full-time job that's half of my actual job and that I hate.
It is not fun asking people you know for money! You don't want to make them feel awkward. And if they DO feel awkward, then you will feel awkward too. And it's not easy asking people you don't know for money, because they don't even care enough about you to listen to you! And this is all understandable... but it just makes my job a little more than stressful.
But I have to preserve through this part, because the other part is coming.
The part where I go to Papua New Guinea. The part where I live life with the nationals. Incarnational ministry as Jesus demonstrated for us. The part where I sit with them in the morning and evening, studying the Word of God, turning it into their language, showing them that Jesus is bigger than their ancestors spirits, that Jesus is bigger than the Sanguma man who casts spells on people, that they can be free!
I get to live my life in constant adventure as I do frontline work for the Kingdom of Heaven.
And the stress of partnership development will not deter me from that!
Thank you, to all the Waldo's I've found and to all those who have led me to a Waldo. Thank you for seeing the world with Kingdom vision. Thank you for making sacrifices in you life for the sake of the lost in Papua New Guinea. Thank you for seeing that this is an issue of salvation. Thank you for putting the opportunity for salvation of generations above small comforts in your own life. I know that it's a sacrifice. I myself live that sacrifice. I understand. And thank you.
