Stef Overhall

Three Gospel Truths Keeping Me Sane During Quarantine

April 30, 2020April 30, 2020 by Stef Overhall

I write this during our fourth week of school closures here in Santiago, Chile. Our region is about to enter its third week of formal quarantine, which means we can only leave the home under the strictest conditions (formal quarantine restrictions…

Diary of a missionary: One year on and so many changes

July 29, 2019July 29, 2019 by Stef Overhall

Just over a year ago our family of five moved to Santiago, Chile, to serve as CMS missionaries. Previously I’ve written about our journey hereand here. It occurs to me that I’ve been putting off writing, because I didn’t know where to start.…

International

Diary of a Missionary # 3: Gifts from God

February 4, 2018February 2, 2018 by Stef Overhall

I must have sat in this church a thousand times before, but today is different. Today, our family and friends are commissioning us for our first term of service as CMS missionaries in Chile. The December air is sticky and I can hear kookaburras…

Ministry

Diary of a missionary: What missionaries need to know

July 4, 2017July 2, 2017 by Stef Overhall

If you had a captive audience of fourteen missionaries, what would you say to them? What if you had them for five months as fulltime, live-in students? As they set their faces to places beautiful and broken, what do they need to know? As our five…

International

Diary of a Missionary: Packing Up

March 5, 2017August 7, 2017 by Stef Overhall

I’m standing in my kitchen again, this time weighing up the pros and cons of having a nice tea set on the mission field. They are beautiful and I like them, I’ll need cups so why not bring nice ones that remind me of home? Stef, you can get cups anywhere,…