台灣華動宣教士

Mia grew up in the USA in a Christian family. Her parents taught her about Jesus at her young age and from then on, she decided to follow the Lord. However, when she was a teenager, she told the Lord that she was too afraid to fully surrender her life to Him. What if He asked her to do something terrible, like social work, teaching, or being a missionary? Therefore, she planned her life on her own and studied art in school. It wasn’t until going to the university that she truly gave all her life to Christ and surrendered all her plans to him.

After graduating from the university with a social work degree, Mia moved to Hong Kong to be with her family and worked as an English teacher in a local school for four years. While working in Hong Kong, Mia felt God calling her to come to Taiwan and to serve among the Hakka people.

After that, Mia moved to Taiwan in 2017 and started preparing to do Hakka ministries in Miaoli. It was at a church in Taichung in 2021 that she met her husband, Stephen Lin. They are now married and working in a church in Chiayi while they are praying for their future direction in mission work and preparing to go to the Creative Access Nations to serve the Lord.

我從小在美國的一個基督徒家庭中長大，我的父母在很小的時候就跟我分享耶穌的故事，也教導我聖經的真理，因此我在小的時候就已經決定要受洗跟隨耶穌。然而到了國高中，我跟神說我真的很害怕如果我真正的全心全意把自己奉獻給祂？因為如果神帶領我去做我最不想讀的社工系或是帶領我做最不想當的老師，或是最恐怖的就是成為宣教士那該怎麼辦？那時我還是有對未來自己的計畫和想法，在高中時我學習自己最喜歡的美術。直到了大學時，上帝才使我終於願意真正降服在主面前，把自己未來的計畫和所有一切的交給祂來掌管。結果神帶領我去我不想選擇的社工系就讀，然而回頭看都是祂的恩典。

大學畢業後我搬到香港去和我在香港的父母一起住，並且在香港的一所學校工作四年當英文老師。在香港的時候我感覺到神要呼召我成為宣教士來到台灣在客家人當中服事，雖然很擔心害怕，但我知道我逃不過上帝，因為我的未來不是我的了。

之後神帶領我在2017年來到台灣，在台中教會服事了四年並預備自己去到苗栗客家村服事，然而神的帶領總是超過我自己的想法，2021年神改變了我的方向，祂讓我遇到了自己現在的丈夫Stephen，現在我們一起在嘉義服事，一同禱告神對我們未來的帶領，一起預備去到最需要的創啟地區服事主，無論祂要怎麼樣帶領我們，我們都願意順服。