Global service: Five lives changed

Have you ever considered serving the church in another part of the world and the difference that would make for you, your family and the church? Here are five people who did so:

• Rachel Evans is a former Lutheran Student Movement member who spent a year in the ELCA Young Adults in Global Mission program. While serving a congregation in La Plata, Argentina, she said she discovered that “life is just as rich when there’s not money involved.” Today she works for Hispanic Communications Network in Washington, D.C., leads a Spanish-language Bible study and spends more time with her family.