Pressing Forward with Leah Preston
He has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not because of our own works, but by His own purpose and by the grace He granted us in Christ Jesus before time eternal. 2 Timothy 1:9
Marie “Breezy” “Nyajake” Lusted, served in Ethiopia for more than five decades.
Dear Friends and Family, December 2017
As we are in the season of Thanksgiving, I have so much to be thankful for. God is leading me into new roles within my ministry. There are days that I feel like an old fashion coffee pot as dreams and ideas keep percolating around in my head. It is exciting to see that God has a plan for me and there is no end to the work I can do for HIM.
I was privileged to be part of the celebration service for Marie “Breezy” “Nyajake” Lusted, a Presbyterian mission co-worker and long-term volunteer, who served as a nurse and Bible translator in Ethiopia for 56 years. She passed away in North Carolina on Oct. 29 at the age of 85. Her sisters, Ruth and Anita, a niece, Cindy, and a close friend were at her bedside. A few days before she had told them she was ready to go home. I can see David at heaven’s gate ready to welcome, Aunt Breezy “home”. David first met Breezy at age three when his parents worked at Pokwo, Ethiopia with her. Many of us felt that we were part of Breezy’s family. She was claimed by her birth family, church family, mission family, (this was the family David and I shared with her), and Anywaa family, who she shared most of her life with and was instrumental in bringing them the Word of God in their language. The largest family she was part of is the family of God. I am sure Breezy would have smiled as a group of Anywaa, young men who were her pallbearers and carried her to her final resting place here on earth.
