Stories
Life Abundant
Tearing and ripping at my heart and mindBut encased in grey, my life is blindLiving a placid, peaceful deathHiding my emotion to my last breath Nothing ever changing day to dayCalm inside, but my soul is being flayedPassing through in ignorant blissAll the while sinking into the abyss But then the stone begins to crackAll at once it shatters; I can’t go backFlotsam and jetsam plaguing my lifeShipwrecks of the past filled with strife Trudging and tumbling in the noxious mireLost in the storm, thrown in the fireGlimmers of hope in an endless nightmareLeaving poisonous lies for the fresh air…
General iEDGEr Qualifications
We aren’t looking for perfect people but for recent graduates who are…Walking with God – taking personal responsibility to grow in spiritual disciplinesDeveloping Ministry Skills – investing in people, sharing their faith, leading studies, etcPursuing Purity – openness rather than hiddenness (awareness of struggles, record of growth, inviting accountability)Growing in Relational Maturity -emotionally aware, able to self-disclose, and preferably team experienceGrowing a Heart for the Nations – a love for people regardless of culture
Not Good Enough for iEDGE?
You Want Me to WHAT? I was trying not to scream, but I might as well have thrown a full-blown tantrum in the middle of the woods. “I’m sorry God…but…WHAT? WHERE?” I felt like God was telling me to go to the Middle East with iEdge for two years but He was forgetting all these important details: I’m not good enough.I’m too young/inexperienced.I could never raise the money.I have the memory of a goldfish and I never memorized the TMS.. (Am I even a Navigator?!)I could never give up bacon.I’m.not.good.enough. “Exactly.” Uhhhh..what? Suddenly my Bible “coincidentally” blew open to Isaiah 55:12-13: “You…
Is God Calling Me to Do iEDGE?
“Is God calling me to do iEDGE?” I asked myself this question a lot in the year leading up to my iEDGE application. Many others asked me as well. This question felt weighty. I was interested, but was this God’s will? Is it presumptuous to move forward without confirmation? Will it be a mess if I get this wrong? These concerns made it hard to move forward, but I decided I would pray while I applied. When push came to shove, there were still deadlines and the application wasn’t short. I thought that this option, along with others I was considering, were good. It aligned with my interests…
Healing Through Friendships
On my own, I probably never would’ve become deep friends with either Rene or Sam. Rene was too popular and Sam was too cool – I definitely felt lacking and weird. But this was the team that I was going to be working with closely for the next two years in Mongolia, so I had to get over my first impressions and jump into getting to know them better. Even though Rene and I had few similar interests, our deepest interest was the same – a deep love of God and His Gospel. Sam, though often light-hearted and humorous, had…
Meeting an Unknown Need
Accepting an iEDGE team at the beginning of 2020 was a step of faith for The Navigators ministry in Glasgow, Scotland. They wanted the iEDGE team to have a specific role and be seen and valued but initially the Glasgow ministry team wasn’t sure exactly what the iEDGErs’ role would be. The Glasgow Navigators decided to split the four-person iEDGE team in half, with two working in the university ministry and two in a crossing-cultures ministry.Claire Donaghey, the current Scottish leader of the university ministry, has been blown away by how God provided through iEDGErs Abbey and Elissa for the…