 Yvonne North
Global Teams Missionary since 2005
From
United States of America
Missionary to
Kenya
Currently on
Home Assignment
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Brothers and Sisters thank you for the opportunity to tell you about my
passion. Please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Yvonne North and I
am a 53 year old, daughter, mother, grandmother, and devoted lover of the
Lord. My life has been filled the great joy and pain that comes with a well
rounded servant's education.
My first love is serving the Lord through teaching children and
counseling wounded women. I have worked as a teacher in conventional
schools, schools without walls, schools for troubled children and for many
years I was the director of a local Boys and Girls Club. In addition I
worked as an EMT, and a Rape Crisis counselor.
Three years ago I was teaching in a school that had a large Muslim
student population. It was during this time that I heard the Lord calling me
to mission. I love to see the light in a Christian child's eyes when they
speak about their belief in Jesus and it broke my heart to see my dear
Muslim students who had a faith and a fear in an all powerful God, but no
joy in knowing Him. The Lord was opening my eyes to entire populations who
do not know the joy of a loving savior.
The Lord led me to a mission in Afghanistan. I thought I was going to
Afghanistan to help teach CPR and First Aid in the refugee camps and among
the tribal leaders, and I was excited to go and help in any way possible,
but the Lord had bigger plans for me. When I arrived in Afghanistan I met
the Chancellor of the University of Kandahar and he asked me to teach his
doctors, medical students and engineers English as it would be used in
medicine and engineering. So, with only a smattering of the local language,
no materials, occasional electricity and faith I taught some of the most
intelligent people in the country to speak English. Now that was a miracle!
I returned to the United States convinced that the Lord was calling me to
full time mission. Through my discernment team I discovered my need for a
mission assignment that included ministry to children, and evangelism to an
unreached people group. Again the Lord has provided. In Kenya there is an
unreached people group called the Turkana. They are a pastoral people who
raise goats and camel. These shepherds migrate across the North West
wilderness of Kenya in search of food and water. Our focus is literacy among
the villages near Lake Turkana and friendship evangelism. I will be teaching
children in a small village just outside the territory and every three
months, during student vacations, we will travel to the wilderness to
minister to the needs of the Turkana.
It is only with the help of God's people we can reach His precious
children. I offer you an opportunity to join me in this mission to feed the
sheep of Jesus.
- To support Yvonne's ministry in prayer and receive updates about what is happening in
the field with a regular newsletter, email your name and address to newsletters@global-teams.org, or write or
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