Postcards from the field

Central Asia

For me, the past two years was truly a time of learning a different dimension of who God is in my life.

I arrived one month before the earthquake of '99. So, that was definitely the most memorable experience. That was a time that you couldn't say, "I am still learning, I'll do something later." We had to be active right then and there, because literally people were dying. So that experience awoke me to how urgent everything is, when you put it into a life and death matter, and that continued to be with me throughout my two years. People weren't dying of an earthquake anymore, but they were still dying.

Right now they don't have a choice and we do. That is hard for us as Americans to understand living in the land of so many choices and so much freedom. After living there for two years and recognizing that when I shared, that was the first time they had heard about hope–they know who Jesus is because of Islam but not the hope found in Him. They have never seen a Bible before and so it is a choice we have. It's just really taking on that daily choice and counting the cost.

–Keri Overstreet–Central and Southern Asia