The episode is about how the experience of being lost in the woods is similar to the spiritual journey with God. It starts with the idea that when we don't pay attention to our GPS or trail markers, we can easily become disoriented in the woods. In the same way, when we don't abide in God and place our trust in worldly things, we can become spiritually disoriented and lost. The prophet Isaiah expresses this in Isaiah 22:11, we he poses the question "why should we bother with God when we have our own resources?" The answer to remind us of who God is and our purpose in life, today's conversation is amplifying the themes in chapters one and two of the Blue Cord Book.

Hope Mills is the founder of Foreign Soils, a ministry to mobilize military wives to share God's love and truth with people who have never heard it before. Hope's own faith and trust in the Lord was shaped by her experience growing up as a missionary in Eastern Europe after the fall of communism. Thousands of people attended open air crusade meetings and were able to hear the gospel and get saved. Hope is encouraging people to join the online group that is kicking off on March 9th to further the gospel and spread God's love.

Her parents were missionaries who held open-air crusade meetings. She was five when this was happening, and it left a lasting impression on her. As a young girl, she experienced first-hand the power of prayer when her family ran out of money. Miraculously, her mother found a hundred-dollar bill in her purse twice. This cemented her trust in God and her desire to be a missionary. She trained and was ready to go, but something unexpected changed her plans.

She was preparing to go overseas with a specific agency when she suddenly got very sick and had to quit everything and move back home with her parents. There were feelings of a crisis of faith, but she was strengthened by a Bible study with a woman from a communist party who eventually gave her life to the Lord. During this time, Hope felt God's overwhelming love and eventually went to work with international students for six years. On a trip to the Middle East, she had a dream about walking through a large country looking for something and entering a mosque/museum where there was a woman sitting dirty and covered in sores. I can't wait for you to hear that story.

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Helpful Resources: 

• Foreign Soils: https://www.foreignsoils.com/
• “The Blue Cord" by Karen Bejjani Find it wherever books are sold online.
• The Blue Cord Small Group Discipleship Study. 

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