Segaar-King August Update

Zach spent a few days in August getting to know the new team of regional leaders for Resonate Global Mission (pictured above).  These regional leaders coordinate ministry in the US, Canada, and throughout the world.  Please pray for them!

We escaped to beautiful Colorado to spend a week reflecting on the transition from Haiti back to the United States.  This thunderstorm reminded us that the tempest can teach us about God's love.

Our children loved getting back to the mountains of Colorado.  It will be so hard living without our Haitian mountains.

Dear Friends and Family:

Greetings from Michigan.  It seems that God conspires to place us in situations where we are overwhelmed by change.  That is where we are now as a family.  After a few short weeks of adjustment in June, God has launched us.  In July Zach started his new job as Director of Resonate Global Mission, we have traveled to Colorado to participate in a “reentry” program for returning missionaries, and we have moved into a new house in Grand Rapids.  One thing we learned in our reentry program is to accept that our new life and new job will feel overwhelming for a long time, possibly years.  The sense of loss for the ministry and people we left behind in Haiti will continue.  But God can use this experience to launch us into a new life and ministry better connected to him and his Holy Spirit.  This is our primary prayer request—that God will use this experience of readjustment to bring us closer to him and closer to each other.

Please give thanks for:

-A successful trip to Missionary Training International’s reentry program in Colorado.  We spent a week praying, sharing and discerning what God wants in this new epoch of our life.

-We have moved into a new house in Grand Rapids.  Though chaos abounds on so many levels, we are glad to be in the place we will call home.

-The opportunity to continue to serve in mission.  God has given us a great opportunity to grow the mission of the Christian Reformed Church.  In a few weeks we will begin setting up times to visit you, our supporters, and share about what God has done through us in Haiti and what we will be doing in mission in the future.

Please pray for:

-Our children’s adjustment to school that starts in a few weeks.

-The anxiety surrounding this transition for all our family.

-The Zuiderveens as they serve in Haiti in our absence.

-God’s wisdom in understanding how he is using us in ministry.  For Sharon this means discernment for new opportunities to serve.  For Zach this means allowing the Spirit to guide him as he gives leadership to Resonate.

FOR MORE PICTURES, STORIES, AND INFORMATION ABOUT OUR MINISTRY AND FAMILY, PLEASE SEE OUR BLOG AT segaarking.blogspot.com

Thanks for your prayers and support,

Zachary, Sharon, Hannah, Vivian, Isaiah and Esther Segaar-King

Serving with Resonate Global Mission (a ministry of the CRCNA)