One of the greatest gifts of long-term mission work is getting to witness not just beginnings, but becoming. On Monday, February 2, something deeply meaningful happened at Sparrow Academy. Two of our former students, young women who first walked through our doors as little girls, officially began serving as teachers’ assistants.

We recently celebrated another graduation at Sparrow Academy, and again I watched (online from Thailand) these students, future college freshmen, professionals, leaders, and world-changers graduate with hope written all over their faces. At Sparrow Missions, we work to see the cycles of poverty broken and with these graduates, you could see it happening in real time. It was beautiful. It was holy.