Asian Access Update

by Elliott Snuggs

March 9, 2020. That was my last flight this year for Asian Access. Of course, I didn’t know that when I boarded in Chennai, India for the long flight back. It was a good trip, despite the already looming threat of COVID-19. I had been in Chennai for our marketplace leader orientation. Our faculty was from Japan. It seems like ages ago, but perhaps you remember the cruise ship that docked in Tokyo and ended up being a COVID-19 breeding ground. Because of that, India barred entry from Japan. We had to use Zoom to do the session. Who knew that would become the global norm!

We quickly began to realize at Asian Access that this was more than a minor disruption. I read an article entitled “Leading beyond the Blizzard”. It proposed that COVID-19 was a “blizzard,” but what is coming is like a “little ice age.” And the ensuing question became, are we thinking just about the blizzard, or are we thinking about the new reality beyond the blizzard?

As we began to reflect, I saw this as God’s way of creating a divine pause to perform a divine reset. It was as if He was saying, it is time to recalibrate yourself to Me. And when you do that, I can do something wonderful (Isaiah 29:14). I believe God wants to use this time to recalibrate us for what He wants to do. I believe he is setting the stage for a new worldwide harvest. But first, He needed us to get off the treadmill and seek Him.

So, that is what we are trying to do at Asian Access. We were already working on our five-year, long-range plan. It is amazing how much of it lined up with the realities of a post-pandemic world. We also began to rethink our vision, mission and foundations as a movement. This is our recalibrating coming out of the divine reset.

Thank you Evergreen SGV for standing with us in prayer. God is on the move and we are excited about the future.