Hey Everyone!
Thank you for checking out my blog! This is a new experience so bare with me! So I know many of you are interested in how I got called into mission work instead of going straight into my career after I graduate in May. Well here is my story:
I never thought I would ever become a Missionary, like that is for those crazy people who love Jesus. I started my journey with Christ in high school. I did not grow up in a christian family and faith just seemed out there for me. I went through some tough times growing up with an alcoholic mom, but I never knew I was missing something. As I went through high school I ended up falling into a depression and attempted to take my life. It was then, in that moment, that I met Jesus. It was then where He reached out to me and told me that there is hope and there was a purpose for my life. What my purpose was, I could not tell you in that moment, but I now know part of my purpose was to show the love of Christ to the world. It was in that moment that I realized I was missing something and that was the relationship with my heavenly father. Soon after accepting Christ into my life, I got baptized and that was by far one of the best days of my life.
Soon after getting baptized, I went off to college to study nursing. I was very nervous as any freshman at college would be to leave their home and family. I knew I needed to get plugged into a church at school to continue to grow in him and find community. There I found my current church H20 Bowling Green. It is here that I found my family, my life long friends and my supporters. I quickly got connected and over the years, I became a life group leader, I lead in our kids ministry and now I am currently our Kids ministry intern! My college years have been far from easy and painless. In my Junior year of college, I lost my mom. This was very hard on me and I can tell you that without a doubt, if I did not have my faith and my friends, I would have not made it through. There were so many dark memories during grieving that I know if I didn’t have God to cling on, I would have ended it.
Every year my church takes missions trips during spring break. I have never been on one because of fear of raising the funds and just not being “good enough” to preach the gospel. Well, this past spring break, I finally stopped ignoring God and I signed up to join our mission trip to the mountains of Tennessee. Still I feared the fundraising and if I had enough knowledge to go on this trip. God kept telling me that He will provide because he lead me to that trip. He was telling me to give it all up to him and not worry. I surrendered this trip to him and He did what he promised. During this trip is where I fell in love with mission work. During our time in TN we weren’t preaching but we were learning to be the hands and feet of Jesus and show Christs love. We were helping less fortunate people with home repairs and it was the most humbling process with my team, the lord and the people we were helping. One family we were working with really taught me what love was. They had nothing yet, the mother baked for us the 2 days we were there laying the floor and it was just so crazy that she took the time and money she was lacking and baked us some treats so we would be on a “sugar high”. Here we were there to serve them but they served us and it was such a blessing. When we came back from TN my heart was on fire for missions, this is when I fell upon the World Race!
This past summer and upcoming school year came with the decision of where I wanted to go once I graduate in May. Did I want to serve on missions or something like that or jump into my career and grad school. I prayed to the Lord for direction and He placed The World race on my heart on where he wanted me to be for the next year. I at first did not really listen as I was like me? You want me to pack everything into a back pack and serve? Do you have the right girl? I kept praying about my future and he kept bringing The World Race up every where I went. You name it, it was all over my Facebook, you tube and just my overall brain waves. So I did what I knew I had to do and I applied. You can probably guess the outcome but I was accepted! Am I scared? Yes. Am I excited. Yes. I just feel that this is my next step and he has told me loud and clear. He has even reassured me time and time again that I need to Trust him and that my big girl job will be here when I get back but now he wants me to go! Trust him is nothing but right: I cannot do this alone. I need help both from you and him to make it happen! I need to raise over $17000 dollars in order to go on this trip next August. This is my official invitation to you to join me on this journey of traveling the world and showing the love of Christ to 11 different countries! I ask that if you are able to give that you help support me in that way.( you can donate by clicking my donation link at the top of my blog!) If you are unable to financially give, I ask that you cover myself and my squad in prayers of safety as we embark on this journey and that we are able to reach our fundraising goals. Thank you for reading this far and be sure to subscribe to my blog to keep up to date on what the Lord is doing through me and others through this process! Thank you for your support and prayers!
Blessings,
Blaire 🙂
