Asherita Choochoo says God can use anyone as a vessel for the gospel, no matter how broken they may be.

So my prayer is, Lord, take my life, let it be consecrated to you, do whatever you want with me.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of Brokenness, The Heart God Revives.

For April 4th, 2025, I'm Dana Gresh.

Sometimes we look at the lives of missionaries through rose-colored glasses, don't we?

We think how incredible it would be to watch people hear about Jesus for the first time and

fall to their knees and surrender.

As a missionary kid in Romania, Ashtherita Choochoo saw just that, but this is only part

of her family story.

A few years back, Nancy and I sat down with Asherita to hear the whole story.

She's a wife and a mom now as well as an author.

She's been a guest on Revive Our Hearts before to talk about

food fixation and becoming satisfied in Jesus. We'll link those conversations in the transcript

of this episode. As you'll hear today, Asherita is honest about the joys and sorrows of life

on the mission field, and she reminds us that God does beautiful work with broken people who surrender their lives to him.

Here's that conversation now.

Asherita, I was really interested to learn that you were of Romanian descent, married to a Romanian,

and your parents were missionaries in Romania for a number of years. So you spent a lot of

years there. And during some of those years, I had the opportunity to minister in Romania, both before

and after the revolution in the late 80s. And I know that during that time, you saw God work in some

amazing ways. Yeah, well, we went back to Romania's missionaries in 1995.

I mean, it's a long story, but while I was there, we had the opportunity to minister to

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