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When Life Suddenly Changes- Wendy Oshiro

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When Life Suddenly Changes- Wendy Oshiro
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Let’s say you are on the path of fulfilling your career aspirations. You’d say you’re at a good place in life. There is stability. You’re doing what you were trained to do and you do it very well. In fact, you love it! Suddenly something happens that requires change.
Wendy Oshiro never attended church or knew much about Jesus, but the Lord spoke to her heart one day and 3 months later on Easter Sunday in 1991 she made the decision to receive Christ as Lord – and was baptized at First Baptist Church of Pearl City. She now attends Olivet Baptist Church with her husband, Deren, and two children. She graduated from Aiea High School in 1985 and earned a BEd in Secondary Mathematics from the University of Hawaii. She’s taught at Mililani High School and Hawaii Baptist Academy.

She loved working with teenagers and thought she’d do it as a lifelong career but it all came to an end after both parents lost their independence within a year apart of each other due to strokes.

 

Wendy and her siblings were quickly educated on long-term care issues, assisted-living options, and the high cost of care as they helped manage their parents’ affairs. As a representative for her parents, Wendy made some tough decisions which included selling her folks’ home to pay for the cost of their care. Regrettably, this was before she realized there were other financing options that could have made it possible for her parents to receive care in the home as they had desired.

 

Since 2007, Wendy has been serving seniors and their families by working as a reverse mortgage specialist. Even though this career move was a tough transition from education, she credits the Lord for providing her with so manyopportunities to grow – both spiritually and professionally. She knows He also answered a prayer from her teaching days when she asked God to “expand her territories” so she could share Christ with more people.  It seems that’s how she ended up in business where she is now able to minister to others outside the school community.

Now She is the branch manager of Open Mortgage, LLC in Honolulu and is active in various organizations including Rotary Club and the Mortgage Bankers Association.  Wendy and Deren have two children, Peyton and Paige.
– What happened while you were living your dream as a math teacher?
– How did your respond when you felt forced to make quick financial decisions?
– What lessons did you learn?
– How did God use your life-situation to enlarge your vision of His plan for you?
– When families have to make decisions of aging parents, what are some of their options?
– How does God’s grace make a difference when we make decisions we regret?
Matthew 6:25: “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?”