“Before joining Hands at Work, God had already put in me a real love for women of different cultures and older women and people who are struggling and going through difficulties in life. One of my most precious memories is the chance that my husband Chris and I had to go to Moldova (which is near Romania), and my highlight was sitting in a hut with a woman who had lost everything, and I was able to hold her hand and be with her. Through Hands at Work, God has brought that special memory into almost a daily occurrence. I can be out in the community with the local Hands at Work teams and people who live here at the Hands at Work base in South Africa, and I can sit with them, and I can be listening to God, and I can be praying for them and supporting them and sharing scriptures and truth and just loving them. God put that heart in me. It is a really special place for me. Through Hands and our ministry here, I'm able to do that.
Through being with Hands at Work, God has been revealing to me what his culture is more and more. Living with people and going out and being in different cultures rubs against my culture. It makes me wrestle with what is God’s Kingdom culture. How does he want me to live? Not basing it on my parents, how I grew up, or even Hands, but how does God want me to live my life and embrace God's Kingdom culture?”