Beginning of the Rest is a Christian non profit seeking to provide a place of rest & reset - creating a space where missionaries can be heard, unpack the realities and paradoxes of missionary life and gain the tools to live and lead from a healthy soul. We seek to come alongside cross-cultural missionaries to provide a place to pause from all the voices, commitments and stresses of missionary life
, giving room for rest, refilling and a healthy reset. Rest: cease from action, refrain from labor, free from anxiety or disturbance, something used for support, to remain confident ...
Hebrew word for rest is to be quiet, the Greek meaning is to cease ...
The word "rest" comes from the German rasta meaning "league of miles." If you walked that far, you'd need a good rest too... missionaries have done the league of miles... long, hard, and at times lonely miles. Whatever way you choose to use the word rest — whether it's something you do, something you take, or something you put your arm up on — you're describing a moment of stillness and calm. As Shirley Miller well stated "Rest provides fine-tuning for hearing God's messages amidst the static of life."
