The Practical Missions Podcast 

Pod #46 Missions. Death. Widowhood. Starting Over.

Four days before my husband died he said, “Honey, you’re right, this isn’t going well. Every time I try and slow down, they keep giving me more assignments.” 

Today on the Pod, I have a powerful and hard conversation with a woman who suddenly lost her husband to a massive heart attack. This is a story of God’s faithfulness through the hardest of circumstances. 

Timeline

  • 00:00 Intro 
  • 01:15 Called to Missions at age 8 
  • 04:00 Moving to the Middle East 
  • 06:30 Choosing boarding school 
  • 09:00 Overworked  
  • 12:00 The heart attack 
  • 15:00 Finding support after widowhood 
  • 20:00 Going back to work 
  • 22:30 What did recovery look like? 
  • 30:00 Setting boundaries 
  • 32:30 Moving back to the Middle East at 61 years old 
  • 36:20 Finding your place in missions as a widow 

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I told my sons, as we viewed my husbands body for the last time, I said, “God wasn’t over in Africa when this happened. He was right here. He is right here. And he loves us. I don’t know how to explain it. I don’t know how we’re going to get through it, but I do know that God’s got this.”

Missions. Death. Widowhood. Starting Over.

Pod #46 Missions. Death. Widowhood. Starting Over.

Four days before my husband died he said, “Honey, you’re right, this isn’t going well. Every time I try and slow down, they keep giving me more assignments.” 

Today on the Pod, I have a powerful and hard conversation with a woman who suddenly lost her husband to a massive heart attack. This is a story of God’s faithfulness through the hardest of circumstances. 

I told my sons, as we viewed my husbands body for the last time, I said, “God wasn’t over in Africa when this happened. He was right here. He is right here. And he loves us. I don’t know how to explain it. I don’t know how we’re going to get through it, but I do know that God’s got this.”

Listen on: Apple Podcast | Spotify

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Timeline

  • 00:00 Intro 
  • 01:15 Called to Missions at age 8 
  • 04:00 Moving to the Middle East 
  • 06:30 Choosing boarding school 
  • 09:00 Overworked  
  • 12:00 The heart attack 
  • 15:00 Finding support after widowhood 
  • 20:00 Going back to work 
  • 22:30 What did recovery look like? 
  • 30:00 Setting boundaries 
  • 32:30 Moving back to the Middle East at 61 years old 
  • 36:20 Finding your place in missions as a widow 

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