- Prayer is crucial. Your experience is an opportunity for her to come to a new understanding of dimensions of the Christian life that possibly she's never faced: God's call to service, God's call to recognize His priority in our lives, the ethos of biblical Christianity that from its inception involved believers in a vision of mission, etc. But this is an awakening that only the Lord can effect.

- It might be interesting to read the Book of Acts together. Here we see the Church on the move, the whole dynamic of involvement, call, obedience, and the joy of founding new churches, as well as the element of suffering.

- Continue to share your ision. Why the need of the people in Asia have touched your hearts.

- Try to get her talking - why she is so opposed to your going and what you both can do to help her deal with her fears. Older people sometimes don't understand the revolution in communication, involving computers, e-mail, even phone connections through the computer, etc. She may feel you both are dropping off the edge of the earth and she'll never hear from you again!

- If you are speaking in churches, take her with you, so that she can hear your enthusiasm and catch the response of others.

- Enlist other family members who do support your going to both pray with you and engage her in conversation when you are not there, so that she can feel freer to express her deep feelings.

Once you have done what you can, you will have to face the fact of your own call and obedience to the Lord. You might want to review the passages where Jesus calls us to love him even more than our parents. This will always be hard, but sooner or later one has to decide to whom one belongs. However, I appreciate your sensitivity ("lovingly help her understand") and trust that the Lord will guide you and lead you to help her become your supporter rathen than resist your going.