Hi there. My name is Candace, I’m 24 and I currently live in West Covina, California. Here’s what I want you to know most about me: I want my life to be a love letter to God. So, I feel like the World Race is my great romantic gesture to God. I’m born and raised in the Los Angeles area. I live with my family, my father, my mother, and one of my older sisters. My other sister lives in Michigan. Right now, I work in Hollywood at Paramount Pictures as a studio page. I also work at my home church as worship leader. Music is a huge part of my life, I graduated from Loyola Marymount University in May 2016 with a Bachelor of Arts in Music. My concentration was classical piano performance, but I also play guitar, ukulele, and I sing. I spend most of my time playing music, listening to music, writing music, reading, laying in my Eno, solving jigsaw puzzles, walking/running, and watching Lakers basketball. This year, I checked running a marathon off my bucket list after completing the LA Marathon. As far as I can tell each chapter of my life has been better than the last, my time in college was superb, then I spent a year volunteering at a youth homeless shelter in New York City where I drew closer to God than ever before, after completing my service year I returned home to California where I began to serve as worship leader at my church and soon I began to work at Paramount Pictures part-time. If I could mesh my love for social justice, music, and heart for Jesus into a career I’d love that. I am an ENFP in Myers-Briggs. For the first time, I’m opening up in my bible studies talking about my struggles with sexual temptation, forgiving myself for past wrongs, and depression. I credit this partially to having the opportunity to open up through Christian counseling sessions. As I’ve been pursuing my relationship with God, I desired to devote more of my life to God’s kingdom and along the way a friend of mine suggested the World Race. And when the door opened, I stepped in. This decision is stretching my faith and trust in God. If I can ask for any prayer, it would definitely be for me to trust God completely and grow at listening and obeying God and allow Him to pour me out for His cause throughout this journey and fill me with a hope for my future.
Love ya,
Candace
