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Recently over the Thanksgiving weekend I was asked by more than a few family members and friends what I wanted to get out of this trip. While I could give so many reasons as to why I want to go and what I expect to gain from this trip, after a lot of prayer and thought, only one word comes to
 my mind:      
      
                  IMPRINT            
 

                                                          
 
I long to see God make an imprint on each person and every community that I encounter on this trip. I know that God will use me, even in the most mundane and menial tasks, in order to change lives. Whether it be digging a well, serving food to children, holding a hand, giving a child a hug, laughing with someone who is broken hearted, I know that it will make a difference.

It is not my goal to make an imprint on anyone through my own capabilities. To be perfectly honest, I’m quite aware of my own weaknesses and do not pretend to know how to live a perfect life. Nonetheless, I am confident that God will work THROUGH me, even though I am just as human as the next person. What amazes me is how God can use each of us right where we are at. I am daily learning and growing, fighting and praying, hoping and laughing, watching how God does all things for His glory. Maybe it’s the very weakness that I see so plainly inside of myself that will be the very thing that will connect me to even one person on this trip! Perhaps it will be those very struggles I’ve fought so hard to win and those hundred times I’ve fallen down that will be a testimony to someone else somewhere else who is longing for a hope and a future better than that to which they have previously clung.

I don’t want to just preach the Gospel, I would rather ACT IT OUT! Maybe, just maybe, through all of it, I will be so fortunate enough to watch God make His beautiful hand print across this world, one person and one nation at a time!