The series of events that I have gotten me to this point in my life…where I get to go on the World Race…can only be by the incredible work of God!
Two years ago I was your average college student, having a good time, enjoying the simplicity of life. I have always wanted to travel and/or do missions, but I didn’t really know how or where to start. Then, like every other high school graduate, I was told that I needed to make a “plan”, and that I had to stick to it. I started thinking ‘when do I get to travel’ or ‘I’d really like to go on a mission trip…but how’ or ‘maybe I’ll get to do all of this stuff…someday’. I tried to make God fit in my plan, but I just didn’t know how to make it work.
Sooo…God fixed my plan! I feel like He swept in and said, “Oh no…this won’t work! Let’s stop this, and move that, and oh let’s put this here…and oh by the way I want you to move to Haiti!”. There was a CRAZY series of events that occurred in the course of two years that have brought me to where I am today, that I could not have made up myself…you don’t see this kinda stuff in movies! God took me out of school (not in a way that I would have preferred…but then again God doesn’t ask us does He?), put me through some of the hardest things I’ve had to go through, leading me to a job working with the Global Orphan Project in Haiti for 6 months, to working at a printing company in small town USA, to going on the World Race.
WHAT? How did this Happen?!
God…that’s how it happened! I get to go on the World Race by the enormous GRACE of God.
When I was in Haiti, I knew that God was calling me to missions in some way. I didn’t know at first; at first I just really liked the idea of being down there, I liked the adventure, I liked the newness of it all. It wasn’t until I was there for about three or four months that God really spoke to me and revealed to me the desires of my heart and His. But like God often does, He revealed just enough, but not every detail of what He wanted me to do. This left me very excited to move forward and pursue missions; I did a lot of research, I looked into all kinds of jobs/internships, I even applied for the World Race (for the first time). But it also left me very confused; I didn’t know where to start, I didn’t really know what I was looking for, and I wasn’t pursuing God…I was pursuing missions.
If I’ve learned anything in the last year…it is that I can’t pursue what I want or even what God wants for me. I need to pursue GOD! Then, He will guide me and show me where He wants me to go and what He wants to teach me.
So in result…this is the second time that I have applied and been accepted to join the World Race! Like I said, the first time I applied for me because it was where I wanted God to take me. This time, I reapplied because I was searching for God and where He wanted to take me, so He took me back to this opportunity. And I am SOO glad He did!
So here I am…READY! Ready for this journey ahead of me, ready for what God had to teach me both here and abroad, I am ready to follow! And I’m EXCITED! 😀 Please be praying for this journey with me.
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