Laying It Down, Picking It Up: Trusting God from Taipei to Tokyo to NYC

I have lived in NYC for a month a half now. Sometimes when I go running in the morning and look out at the bay near where I’m staying, I still pinch myself. “I’m in New York City.”
How did I get here? And more importantly, why am I here?
As most of you know, I spent the last year in Tokyo, Japan, as a ministry school student and missionary, living in a share house with seven other girls. Many of the students and leadership were international, like me, hailing from other countries but willing to sow a year or two or however long God wanted them in Japan for the sake of the gospel. Likewise, when I moved to Tokyo in August of 2024, there was no end date in my mind. I was excited and grateful to be part of what God is doing in Japan, weekly preaching the gospel on the streets and daily building community with other radical, on-fire brothers and sisters in Christ. Even now, on the other side of the globe, I’m still excited to see the work God is doing in the Japanese church—Awakening Tokyo will always be family to me—and believing for a great awakening in the land of the Rising Sun.
放下與拾起：
從台北到東京到紐約 信靠神的旅程

我已經在紐約住了一個半月。有時候早晨跑步，望向我住處附近的海灣時，我還會掐自己一下：「我真的在紐約市。」
我是怎麼來到這裡的？更重要的是，我為什麼在這裡？

如同大部分人所知道的，我去年待在日本東京，身為一名宣教學校的學生與宣教士，和七個女生一起住在合宿屋。許多學生與領袖和我一樣，都是來自不同國家的國際生，願意為了福音在日本擺上一兩年，或是任憑神帶領的時間長短。