Katie grew up as a missionary kid in Papua New Guinea and through the transformation of the lives of the Mengen people, she began to see her own need for a saviour. God then began her on a journey of faith preparing her heart for where He was calling her, back to serve as a missionary there herself.
Katie quickly came to realize that if God was calling her to serve overseas in Papua New Guinea, then she was going to need to be equipped. That led her to apply to Ethnos Canada’s cross-cultural church planting program (ethnostraining.ca), giving her skills necessary for the task ahead. Her next step will be taking an advanced linguistics course which will give her tools for learning an unwritten language, developing an alphabet, and translating the Bible. After completing the advanced linguistics course, she plans to move back to Papua New Guinea to serve long-term on a church planting team.