Stories
Cross-cultural Pressure Cooker
Before I went through iEdge I thought of myself as a great person. There were a lot of ways I was faithful to God and to those around me. I looked forward to my time overseas with naively high expectations of myself. Immersed in the pressure of pioneering a ministry in a foreign culture and closer relationships than I had ever experienced, I saw a more raw and honest picture of myself and I didn’t like it. The sin, the great selfishness I saw in myself was a painful but necessary dose of reality. I held my teammates to impossible standards of…
Evangelism Dependence
In Matthew 16, Jesus makes it very clear that His true identity did not come in revelation to Simon (Peter) because of any human effort but because our Father in heaven ordained it to happen at that moment. I didn’t start to really grasp the sovereignty of God over the heart of man until my time overseas. I had my first taste of evangelism in college and God encouraged me by using me in the lives of others and allowing me to see very tangible results. During my first six months overseas I couldn’t even make friends, much less share…
New Light
My thoughts are being challenged every single dayWhat I think, what I do, and even what I sayAlthough I want to fight for what’s rightOld issues once buried are now shed in new lightWhat should I do with these issues anew?I am lost and confused and don’t know what to doHow can I know that what I believe is trueWhen I struggle day-by-day with simply knowing YouI can do all these things that look so greatBut what does that matter if in my heart there is hate?You said that the Law and the Prophets hang on loveBut I can’t love…
Journey into Freedom
I entered the fall of my senior year at school feeling, quite honestly, like a spiritual failure – burnt out after a long year abroad, a painfully broken romantic relationship, and a sinking feeling of being stuck, spinning my wheels, in the frustrating struggle for sexual purity. In short, when I heard from my best friend about the iEDGE program, my reaction was mostly one of wistful regret: “I wish that my failures – especially those in the fight for purity – had not disqualified me from this opportunity to follow Christ into the nations,” I thought. From my times in prayer with the Lord, however,…
Why Serve on iEDGE?
Ashley shares how God gave her a heart for serving two years on iEDGE.
