MOLDOVA
by Jane Knoop
WHY THE PANDEMIC HAS NOT PUT US OFF Was 2020 the year to delay a vision, or press on? Hear from Debbie and Peter Turtle (Northern Ireland) as to why they’ve decided to pursue moving to a least reached country through such a time as this.
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feel that God has been asking me to do something with my whole life; that everything I do should be encompassed with whatever God would ask of me. Peter and I met later in life. Both of us had painful pasts; it took a lot for God to get our attention and bring us on to His path. But now He has our attention. Our focus is on Him. We have a common goal to make His love known, and we don’t want to squander the years we have left. After much reading, praying, asking “what is it you want us to do, Lord?”, things started happening. Peter went on a vision trip to Moldova in 2019 – testing the waters – and I could see how naturally he
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fitted in. From there it has just fast tracked. Sometimes I do have to pause and say, “hang on a wee minute, how come a matter of months ago we didn’t even think that this would be happening. Moving country. Quitting our jobs. It’s all been fast!” But the important thing to say is that things are just naturally unfolding. The timing feels mad – being in a pandemic and all! – but in reality, we feel we’ve neither delayed, neither pushed on. We’ve realised that this situation is nothing to God. He can make a way. We’re not pushing our own agenda, but waiting to see where God will lead and then walking through doors when they open.
