We are the Sullivan family…Nick and Vicki, Mackenzie, Wyatt, Alannah, Loralei, Delaney, Cassidy! God has enabled us in many ways throughout our lives working as a Nurse/Nurse Practitioner (Nick) and Engineer/Teacher (Vicki), and He is now enabling us to use these things for His glory among the nations!
Around the summer of 2018, it became clear the Lord was stirring our hearts for missions. Through a myriad of truly remarkable events (orchestrated beautifully by the Lord), Vicki and I began to pursue missions one step at a time. We attended “Perspectives on the World Christian Movement” and recognized our call to missions though without the full clarity on the who, what, when, where, and how. One question was perfectly clear though – the why – to make the name of Jesus known and to glorify Him among the nations!
In the Summer of 2019, we were introduced to Myanmar and the prospect of using Community Health Evangelism (CHE) as our long-term missions strategy. With the joy of the Lord set before me (Nick), I was able to go to Thailand and Myanmar in October of 2019 to attend a CHE training in Chaing Mai, Thailand, and then travel to Myanmar to visit a Bible College in Yangon, Myanmar.
There is no question that this trip was orchestrated by the Lord! While I was there, I (Nick) met a wonderful missionary on a plane that introduced me to WorldVenture (now our missions sending group) – 8000 miles away from home (and he introduced us to a missions sending group just down the street from our home in Littleton)! Myanmar is a place full of diversity (56 million + people, 120+ languages and that many people groups) but desperately in need of Jesus. Primarily a Buddhist and Animistic society, their fears are paralyzing. Development is lacking. Poverty is everywhere. Their largest people group – the Bamar people – are largely unreached (less than 1% evangelical). Still, there is a city set on a hill – a Bible college – where over 30 different people groups are represented.
As is often the case, man plans his ways, but the Lord directs his steps (Proverbs 16:9). As we were waiting to go to Myanmar, there were a number of events (COVID and a coup) that prevented us from going to Myanmar. The Lord redirected our paths to Bangkok, Thailand for what seems to be the foreseeable future. The Lord opened an opportunity for Vicki to teach at an International school where she has tremendous opportunities to share the love of Christ with her students, and Nick is engaging with many of the parents of the school using fitness as a ministry. Nick’s heart is to still utilize Community Health Evangelism among the unreached people groups of Southeast Asia.
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Publications with WorldVenture:
* Sure and Steadfast Anchor, Day 15
