Happy Terrific Tuesday! It’s the last Tuesday of 2024, and we have some things that are dear to our hearts that we would like to share with you.

• We were recently at a leadership conference with the Alliance in Greece. We learned a lot in that conference, and then were able to go to the Netherlands with one of our daughters, then Germany with another one of our daughters. In that time, we focused on heroes of the faith that we wanted to learn more about.
• We went to Corrie ten Boom’s house and they said it was booked eight months in advance, but we sat outside for 40 minutes and some people ended up not showing up, so they let us in. How do you describe a bucket list item when you didn’t even know it was on your bucket list? We knew about the life of Corrie ten Boom and her family, but the idea of “to live is Christ and to die is gain” just came through over and over again as we heard stories about them. We also found out that one of our friends had a relative that was involved in providing ration tickets and sneaking them into the house so they could feed the Jews they were hiding. What a legacy.
• In Germany, we visited a concentration camp close to where our daughter lives, and we were so impacted once again. We wanted to go and honor the victims, people who have lost so much and been tortured. More than that, we found ourselves celebrating the people of the resistance – so many people of faith who were willing to lay down their lives and see clearly the preciousness of each of the people that were around them; they refused to fall into the trap of dehumanizing people.
• What we took away from these experiences is that we want to see individuals for who they are and love them and give them hope. And that is Inca Link, that’s our team day in and day out, seeing the beauty in people that maybe aren’t so likable sometimes, but they refuse to dehumanize them and treat them instead like brothers and sisters.
• Jim Elliot, a missionary killed in the 50s, said, “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.” Everything we saw of the resistance were people who were Christ-shaped and saw the image of God in those around them, and those are the types of heroes we have highlighted this year in Inca Link. If you want to be a part, reach out to us.

Be a Christ-shaped person in 2025 and make it the best year ever.