One of the pastors you support in Myanmar once told me, “I never want to pray for God to be with me in my work. I want to be with God in His work.”
me to be the answer to that prayer. As a new student, I showed up in his office a few days later and we quickly realized we shared the same vision for this work.
As I write this reflection on 2019, we are in the midst of the storm caused by COVID-19. I am looking back on a year where your support enabled us to grow and deepen our ministry throughout South Asia. As we look towards an uncertain 2020 and beyond, I am grateful that the prayer Harvest Bridge began with was, “Lord, let your will be done.” In every step, in times of growth and times of uncertainty, we have sought to be with God in His work.
This work of coming alongside men and women demonstrating and sharing the Gospel in many of the most impoverished and persecuted places in the world, in South Asia. This work of joining our brothers and sisters who have done much with little – those who are doing the hard, often thankless, unpublicized work of reaching their villages and cities with the love of Jesus. Our vision was to build a bridge between the Body of Christ in the US and the Body of Christ in South Asia. This bridge was needed because wise, effective, experienced missionaries weren’t receiving needed support or training because they didn’t speak English. Or because they served too small a demographic. Or because they weren’t equipped to articulate the importance of their work.
In keeping with this, about nine years ago our founder Tim Mech, still a fulltime college professor at the time, threw up his hands and begged God to bring someone to help him in leading this young organization. Unknown to him, God was working in my heart to prepare
At the end of 2019, after 12 years of faithfully leading Harvest Bridge, Tim stepped into a new chapter and passed the US leadership into my hands. I say “US leadership” because while Tim, Andrew, our Board and I built the bridge, these pastors and missionaries are the leaders of this ministry. I pray that in reading this annual report, you will get to know these leaders more personally. For their security, we can never share all of their faces or their real names–but I pray you will get to know their hearts. Their hearts for those they lead. Their hearts for those who have not yet met Jesus. Their hearts for joining God in His work. I thank and praise God for each of you who support these men and women through prayer, finances, and encouragement. It is a privilege to do this work with you. In Christ, Kate Therese, Executive Director
