Do you have a favorite coffee mug? Does it have a story? I have several, but today’s mug is my Starbucks Cyprus mug given to me by my good friend KayLyn. She used to live in Cyprus when she was a missionary to a Near Eastern country. Her mother and I got to travel together to go visit KayLyn on that beautiful island country in the Mediterranean. Several years later, KayLyn gave me my Cyprus mug because she knew I would enjoy it and the memories it would conjure up.

Some of those memories are of the many things KayLyn taught me about being a missionary. She is my “shero” for being willing to go live and work in the Middle East as a single Christian woman. Much of what I have learned about living and working cross-culturally I learned from KayLyn because I watched her live out her principles in some very difficult places. I believe I had such an easy transition living in Romania because of the things KayLyn helped me understand years before I ever went to live overseas. She wasn’t purposefully teaching me and I wasn’t intentionally her student. Yet within the context of our friendship and mutual encouragement, I learned things that I never would’ve picked up from a book. Thank you, KayLyn!

Which brings me to the biblical women I want to talk about this week: Lois and Eunice. Do you know who they were?

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