I sit in a small cafe looking back on the past month and one thing has been made abundantly clear: October was a month of grace!
As students hit midterm season, every week for myself and the rest of the mission team was a new adventure. No two weeks looked the same, and though I reached levels of exhaustion I had not realized were possible, I have been blown away by the Lord’s goodness. The last month, I spent a lot of time particularly focusing on the women’s community, spending time getting to know returners and reaching out to new students. My days have been filled with coffee dates, lunch meetings, and many blessed conversations. A recurring theme among conversations with women and women’s group meetings is the desire for community and sisterhood. In our world, so many women have experienced hurts from women they have trusted and it causes them to hesitate in being vulnerable with one another. Questions of whether or not another woman can be trusted may not explicitly enter a woman’s mind, but are implicitly asked. Many conversations with women here reveal those hesitations, but they also reveal a desire to trust, to be known by one another. Please keep these women in your prayers. Pray for healing and for friendship in this community. Thank you all for the continued support that allows me to care for these incredible women! If you want to read more about the women’s community and the recent women’s retreat, check out my newsletter here. In Him through Her, Katie Hollcraft
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