I grew up in a Christian home and always went to church with my family. God was always a part of my life but I didn’t really give my life to Jesus until 7th grade at snow camp. That’s where I felt God calling me to live my life 100% for Him. The next year I went on my first mission trip to Ukraine where God just put the desire in me to do missions.
Missions is something that God has put on my heart since I was thirteen, when I went on my first trip to Ukraine. God has blessed me with being able to go on seven mission trips. I’ve been to Ukraine five times and twice to Guatemala and every time I go on a mission trip my desire to continue gets stronger and stronger. Every single time time I go God teaches me something. It’s incredible to see how God has been working through me. It was in Guatemala where I was working in the baby rescue center when He broke me and I saw I needed to be doing his work and showing His love to every single person in the world.
God has opened up so many doors for me to be able to on The World Race. I wasn’t sure where or what I was going to be doing in the fall for school. Was it going to college, and fulfilling the American dream, or was it going to live like Jesus and love his kingdom? I was constantly praying about my future and how I was going to serve God. I was feeling defeated because I just didn’t see any direction in my life, and then all of a sudden I found out about The World Race. I knew instantly that this is where God was calling me. I was praying about it and I had a lot of people praying about this with me. It was amazing to see the community that I had around me. I never knew how much community meant until I had all these people praying for me. When I got the call that I got accepted I couldn’t believe it. I was in awe. I am beyond excited to be fulfilling my call, and being on the field working beside 45+ people serving God together.
