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Quotable Quotes:
- Kari: “I was plugged into a church as well that did a really great job and a disciplined us from a young age. So, I came to know the Lord when I was six and just kind of continue to grow into my relationship. From that point. I think I probably grew the most that I can think of in high school. I had a lot of friends that were nonbelievers and that was new for me, being homeschooled and kind of growing up in a Christian home, you know, in the church as well of being able to really start asking the questions of why do I believe what I believe, what happened to my friends that came from a very different background than I did.”
- Eric: “But I think kind of growing up there was this like this knowledge that, yes, I was a Christian, but I don’t really know, and I don’t know. I think there was just this lingering doubt of, did I do it right? Am I sure that I’m really a Christian? And so, it was when I was in college, right at the end of college, God just really kind of met with me in the middle of nowhere and said, ‘Eric, am I the Lord of your life?’ And I said, okay. I think that was really helpful and kind of putting those doubts to rest as I realized that it wasn’t about what I had done, had I done it right, but it was about the fact that Jesus did it, and he did it right for me.”
- Kari: “…and then went back to a Christian college. And that was when I started really learning about the 10/40 window and unreached people groups. And so, I was kind of interested in this idea of missions. The college had this, you know, ‘Everyone come forward if you’ve been called to be sent out as a missionary.’ I could never go forward because I didn’t know where, when, or how long, or any of those details. But I think that was kind of where my interest started of like, I think I might be called to this, but I don’t really know what it looks like yet.”
- Kari on Why WorldVenture: “Everyone that we talked to had prayer cards at their desk and knew other people’s names and their kids’ names, and it just felt like a community. I think we also really love just kind of the creativity of doing lots of different things in different countries and kind of willing to try anything to reach people with the gospel, which kind of fit both of our backgrounds with accounting for me and technology for Eric.”
- Kari: “We just think it’s impossible until God says, ‘Oh yeah?'”
- Eric: “I’ve been doing more full-time language study for the last two years. It’s been challenging. And then right before we came back to the U.S., and through our home assignment, I had this conversation with a Japanese person who had been visiting the church that we were at. He very graciously talked with me and another missionary for probably over an hour. The more that I talked to him about the gospel and tried to explain what Christianity was about and why I became a Christian, the less I realized that he was understanding. What I thought I understood that would be easily communicated with was not. How do you communicate in a way that’s impactful?”
- Eric: “I think the hope and the goal would be to share, to use technology, as I said, as a force multiplier. So, to use technology to share the gospel with more people than I could talk to in my lifetime. And really to do that in conjunction in collaboration with the Japanese church.”