Episode 08 | Shelby Forosan | Disrupted Plans, Identity, God's Faithfulness

Today Shelby Forosan and I dive into the past year of her life as her plans were greatly thwarted due to COVID. Shelby serves as a missionary whose placement last year was in a country in East Asia and as you can imagine, the pandemic greatly disrupted her plans there. Her team learned how much the covid would affect their lives while at a conference and even though they only packed their bags for two weeks, they ended up being in a different country for two months before ultimately flying back to the US… without most of their belongings. Shelby shares with us today how she processed and lamented the losses of this past year and the way that God met her in her acknowledgment of her pain. She also shared how while she was in East Asia, she discovered a lot about her Filipino-American identity and how God was working in and through her, just as he created her to be; she opens up to us today about what it was like to begin to honor more of her own story through even the chaos of her time overseas. Listen in as we talk about trusting God through your pain and disrupted plans, of holding space for others’ stories, and the beauty that honesty with God can bring.

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