We want to take this opportunity to get to know some of the members of our congregation and staff who serve in different ways. This month we are featuring Tiffany Riegert, our new Missions & Outreach Coordinator.
Tiffany came on staff at the beginning of September and is already making an impact. As a natural bridge-builder, her role supports the connections between our congregation and the outreach organizations and missionaries we support.
While she grew up in Colorado, her family took Tiffany on some short term mission trips, and by intentionally supporting missionaries, gave her a love for other cultures and the value of seeing how the Lord works in other places.
Tiffany caught the Lord’s heart for the lost and broken through seeing His redemptive power at work through personal loss in her own life. Experiencing the extravagant love of Christ through many relationships and family, she seeks to love as she has been loved.
The Lord provided her the opportunity to serve others when she was in college at Oral Roberts University in Oklahoma. She worked with international students, mostly made up of Burmese refugees who came to the area with nothing. Tiffany supported and guided students through the college application and admissions process.
She continued to serve international students as a college advisor for first generation students at a Colorado high school. The relationships with students and seeing their success gave Tiffany the experience of forming individual relationships so the gospel can be shared with those we serve.
Advancing the Kingdom of God Locally and Globally
During that time, Tiffany and her husband Philip had been praying over the 10/40 window (the area of the world that includes North Africa, the Middle East, and Asia), and specifically Muslim populations within that window. They both had a heart for sharing the redeeming love of Christ with the people there.
When the opportunity arose for Tiffany to take the position as the Director of the English Language Institute in Morocco, they followed God’s call to go, together. Serving in a majority Muslim country is challenging, but the community of other missionaries, and the prayers and connections with sending parishes, provided a lifeline. Tiffany saw firsthand that the Lord works in the senders and sendees beautifully. She experienced the need for those bridges to be strong between the supporting churches and the missionaries in the field.
Now that she has returned to the United States with her husband, her work here at The Falls Church Anglican is an opportunity to advance the Kingdom of God by building and strengthening the bridges between this church and our local and global initiatives.
One of her joys in serving as the Missions & Outreach Coordinator is attending the Intercessory Prayer for Missions on the first and third Friday of each month. She is able to take the prayer requests from our missionaries and outreach partners, bring them with the intercessors to the Lord, and then see how those prayers have been answered as she receives updates from those we support and the Lord has sent.