Serving Well When the Needs Seem Overwhelming - Echo VanderWal - 105 - FrontStage BackStage with Jason Daye

How can we remain resilient in ministry when we face tremendous challenges today and an unknown tomorrow? In this week's conversation on FrontStage BackStage, host Jason Daye is joined by Echo VanderWal. Echo and her husband Harry founded The Luke Commission, the largest non-governmental health care provider in the Kingdom of Eswatini in southern Africa. Together, Echo and Jason look at the incredible importance of soul care for yourself, your family, and your team as you serve in ministry. Echo shares stories from their ministry as they faced the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic all the way through the COVID pandemic and beyond.

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Some key takeaways from this conversation:

Echo VanderWal on the responsiveness to God's calling: "We were just responding to the calling that God had given us earlier and then the needs that he revealed to us on the ground."

Echo VanderWal on the importance of compassion as a fundamental and central aspect in any action or endeavor: "Compassion has to be the cornerstone of what you do."

Echo VanderWal on the challenges and fluctuations inherent in long-term ministry: "The waters of ministry are difficult, especially when that ministry is happening over a long period of time because there are so many ebbs and flows."
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