Emily Tew

Mongolia (+ Japan) • HXP • 2025

#CovenantConfidence 🇲🇳

It’s hard to put into words the feeling I get on these trips. My recent journal entry says it best:

I believe in a God who always keeps His promises.

I believe in a God who turns stumbling blocks into stepping stones. Ordinary stones into vessels of light. Ordinary people into gods and goddesses.

I believe in a God who feeds thousands with five loaves and two fishes. Who provides manna in the wilderness. And flowing water out of rocks.

I believe in a God who rejoices when I rejoice and weeps when I weep. One who loves, knows, sees, and is greater ! and deeper ! than I can even begin to muster to understand.

I believe in a God who labors in the vineyard, and who invites me to labor with Him. One who waters and helps tenderly grow, and one who wisely and carefully prunes.

I believe in a God who gives abundantly, and who invites me to give too. A God who has compassion, who makes whole, provides peace, raises up friends, completes full circles, makes and keeps promises, cares about details, listens to unsaid prayers, and who always outdoes Himself.

I believe in a God who walks with us, runs to us, sits by us, and always shows up. I believe in an 11th hour, fourth-floor-last-door kind of God, who loves effort and thereby enables transformation.

I believe in a God who knows me perfectly, who loves me infinitely, and wants the very best things for me—and who is bringing them about in His own perfect timing.

I believe in a God who doesn’t cut corners. Who fulfills dreams. Who gives life and light and hope to all things. A God who is just that: a God.

My God.

Thank you for another year, @hxp.humanitarianexperience ❤️