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Healing from toxic church – seeking what is precious, and truly God

A dark wooden fence with pointed, upright slats is worn, but reinforced and strong. It stands in Sri Lanka, a land where I watched the Lord break through.

The Lord who breaks open the way

  • Post published:May 22, 2023
  • Post category:Healing from Toxic Church/My Story
  • Post last modified:May 23, 2025

“She cannot say that!” the woman yelled. Half a world from my home, she forbade me to invite the churched to repent. Then, we watched the Lord break through.

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Map of Europe that shows the western part of the Soviet Union and the places there where I went in 1991.

From the Black Sea to Red Square

  • Post published:March 1, 2022
  • Post category:My Story/Times and Seasons
  • Post last modified:March 19, 2024

Thirty years after I first heard this song - and visited these places - I'm listening again and crying and praying again for the peoples of Ukraine and Russia.

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Newspaper clipping from 1991: Deborah and teammates on Red Square. Deborah, standing on box, pauses talking, looks at her notes, while Alla beside her translates. Three team members in background listen. So do two men, one of them a Soviet soldier.

Extraordinary! Russia, Ukraine, breakthrough, God

  • Post published:October 16, 2021
  • Post category:My Story/Times and Seasons
  • Post last modified:March 19, 2024

At times in this world, all eyes turn toward what seems most important, invincible, extraordinary. If we look further, the Lord will remind us what actually is.

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Colorful, ornate St. Basil Cathedral, against a deep blue sky with gathering white-gray cumulus clouds. Next to the huge cathedral, the people crossing the huge square look rather like ants.

When getting there is the battle

  • Post published:August 27, 2021
  • Post category:My Story/Times and Seasons
  • Post last modified:March 19, 2024

As we struggled to reach another hemisphere and to connect with the people of Russia and Ukraine, hindrances just kept coming. Then, the breakthroughs began.

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First morning of 1991 Soviet coup attempt: tank in foreground, Red Square in background, St Basil Cathedral on right

An August coup and a promise of breakthrough: My story

  • Post published:August 19, 2021
  • Post category:My Story/Times and Seasons
  • Post last modified:March 19, 2024

The day I woke to news that tanks rolled through Moscow’s streets, I wrote, “I don’t plan to beat down any doors. But what God opens, I will walk through.”

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Brown sea, brown rocks, brown sky - but light is breaking through.

Light is breaking through

  • Post published:November 24, 2019
  • Post category:My Story/Trauma and Grief
  • Post last modified:March 12, 2025

In the very act of seeing what is brown, murky and decidedly unsafe, there’s movement. There’s life. And the light is breaking through.

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