Episode 67: Polly Smith

Not all cross-cultural workers can be where they want to be in this COVID-era.  Host Tori Walker chats with “Polly” about what it’s like living in limbo with her family, and what we can pray for her and other missionaries/cross-cultural workers like her at the moment.

 

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Not all cross-cultural workers can be where they want to be in this COVID-era.  Host Tori Walker chats with “Polly” about what it’s like living in limbo with her family, and what we can pray for her and other missionaries/cross-cultural workers like her at the moment.

 

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Polly is a cross-cultural worker, who lives and works in the Silk Road. She is the wife to a teacher and a mother to two boys. One of her favourite things to do is to spend time walking in nature and/or to spend time with her family. At the moment, her favourite bible verses are Romans 8:1 and 2 Timothy 1:7. She says that they remind her of the freedom she has in Christ especially from her own fears and lies.

 

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Bible Verses - Romans 8:1-2 

    

SHOW SNIPPETS:

“I think that the really big that happened during uni was a trust and a faith in the Bible and it’s reliability and that it’s something that I can stand on and something that I can really get to know  Jesus through.”

“Sometimes the M-word (missionary) carries a bit of baggage with it.”

“Do I want to willingly take my family into that?”

“It’s not so much what I’m doing as where do I belong?”

“I can let things be in my head quite nicely, but it doesn’t sink into my heart.” 

 

What can you pray for for cross-cultural workers who are not in their chosen country?

• For  Workers:
  • Wisdom, clarity and trust in the heightened level of vagueness about the future
  • Housing provision for the whole time back in home country
  • Finances and work while back in home country
  • Wisdom around who and how to spend time with
  • Thanking God for his faithfulness
• For our kids to feel settled
• For the people group that we are loving overseas - for them to cope with difficult restrictions and infections and that the seeds of conversations had in the past  will bear fruit
• For the organisations making big decisions at the moment around staff.   

 

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. . The Lydia Project: Conversations with Christian Women is a podcast co-hosted by Tori Walker and Taryn Hayes. It features informal chats with Christian women around faith, life, ministry and the ways in which God is shaping their thinking and their lives. The views of TLP guests are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the hosts.