The Virtuous Daughter Magazine Winter 2016/17 Edition | Page 14

Kristen Yoder

Strumming guitar for Kids Club. Hanging out with my friends from my homeschool group. Playing spikeball or Frisbee football at the park with the LTO students. Memorizing 280 + Bible verses. Studying Consumer Math or British Literature. Making cards. Drinking lattes in the early morning. These scenes show just a glimpse into my life in New York
City.
Four and a half years ago, my parents, Joel and Crystal Yoder, my four younger siblings, Janae, Kendall, Kurt, and Jerrica, and I, Kristen, moved to New York City to help out with the Mission Training Center, or MTC. The MTC trains missionaries in how to share the gospel cross-culturally and is part of