Displacement: Things I’ve Learned Serving Six Months in a Foreign Country

In God's providence, I have served 20Schemes' church planters that my church in Canada supports for the past half year. At the same time, it has been uncomfortably disorienting, stretching, revealing, and humbling.

Displacement: Things I’ve Learned Serving Six Months in a Foreign Country

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In God's providence, I have served 20Schemes' church planters that my church in Canada supports for the past half year.

At the same time, it has been uncomfortably disorienting, stretching, revealing, and humbling.

I'm fresh off the plane and only just beginning the work of processing the time abroad.

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In God's providence, I have served 20Schemes' church planters that my church in Canada supports for the past half year. At the same time, it has been uncomfortably disorienting, stretching, revealing, and humbling. I'm fresh off the plane and only just beginning the work of processing the time abroad.

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It has been many things—enlightening and envisioning, for sure.

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