Early last year God started teaching me a lesson about having an open heart along with being content in where I was at in Silverton. I realized my heart was closed when someone asked me to start praying about joining a school in Australia. Instantly my reaction was, “Nope. Not this time. I couldn’t possibly move across the world again.” Yet the whole year prior I had been begging God to call me somewhere new and exciting. I had no idea where that thought came from but I got anxiety thinking about leaving again. Then I sat down and I realized, if God is calling me to something or somewhere am I really going to claim the timing is bad? Am I really going to close my heart to it so fast.
Little did I know at the time, God was actually going to ask me to intentionally stay in Silverton for at least another year. (Who knew that meant starting to set roots and learn how to be content in where I was at?) Well, that year is almost up now and I just got called and accepted onto the World Race beginning in October. World race is an 11 month Christian missions trip traveling to 11 different countries to serve “the least of these” while amongst raw and real community. I am now back onto the fundraising band wagon, so I would be eternally grateful if you considered praying about supporting me financially, if not financially then in prayer because I am going to need as much as I can get.
