I was blessed enough to be raised in the Methodist church. As such, I was baptized as a baby and went through confirmation when I was 12 years old, which was when I declared before the church that I was no longer relying on my parents' faith but was taking my relationship with Christ into my own hands.
The Family
Throughout middle school and high school I tried to seek God and follow all of the rules that made me a "good Christian". However as I began to look around at my hypocritical, judgmental, Christian peers I decide I wanted to be nothing like them. I fell into being a "Sunday Christian" where I only lived out my faith on Sunday mornings and lived for myself and the world the rest of the time.
Then, my heart was completely changed during the summer following my senior year in high school. I attended my first mission trip to Brazil with Tuckston United Methodist Church, which would become my home church during my time in Athens at the University of Georgia. On this trip I learned what it truly meant to have a real relationship with Christ and to live for Him. God has blessed my life by allowing me to continuously return to Brazil every summer since serving the Brazilian people through church construction, vacation bible school, and working with the Shade and Fresh Water Project. Shade and Fresh Water is an afterschool program designed to help keep children off of the streets, teach them about Jesus Christ, further their educations and provide them with skills to make them productive members of society.
Then, my heart was completely changed during the summer following my senior year in high school. I attended my first mission trip to Brazil with Tuckston United Methodist Church, which would become my home church during my time in Athens at the University of Georgia. On this trip I learned what it truly meant to have a real relationship with Christ and to live for Him. God has blessed my life by allowing me to continuously return to Brazil every summer since serving the Brazilian people through church construction, vacation bible school, and working with the Shade and Fresh Water Project. Shade and Fresh Water is an afterschool program designed to help keep children off of the streets, teach them about Jesus Christ, further their educations and provide them with skills to make them productive members of society.
Vacation Bible School
Betim, Brazil
During my four years at UGA, God continued to reveal himself to me and help me spiritually grow. A large part of this came through Sigma Alpha Omega Christian Sorority. SAO helped keep me from falling back into old habits of living for myself and taught me what it meant to live out a life for Christ on a daily basis. God blessed my time in the sorority immensely with wonderful friends and a chance to be on leadership for almost 2 years.
SAO Family
However, during my time at UGA I fell into a different danger. I insulated myself in "the Christian bubble". I had surrounded myself only with Christian friends and ignored the call to bring others into the truth of Jesus Christ. So now I am taking a leap of faith. I am postponing my final year at the University of Georgia and going into full time missions for 2013. During this time God will be using me through the World Race to bring hope to the hopeless and His truth throughout the nations. Please consider prayerfully partnering with me as I seek God's face and the plans He has for my life now, and in the future, while being His hands and feet in the world.
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