42 Sit still my daughter | Winter 2022
By Chrysta Barfield
I consider myself an unlikely missionary. I did not
grow up hearing about the missionaries that other kids had heard about. I was saved when I was 19. And God can even use someone like me. My 18-yearold self entering college would not have recognized 23-year-old me living on the mission field. I have learned many things during my years serving as a missionary. I think the biggest lesson has been that “And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work.” 2 Corinthians 9:8. This is my favorite verse, and it has been proven true over and over during my adventure. My husband Matt and I have been serving the Lord together as missionaries for the past 20 years. We have lived overseas and now serve with the US as our base. We have learned another language and adapted to a foreign culture. We took our first baby boy with us to the Middle East and returned home with two additional little boys who were born on the
