Here I am Send Me. Isaiah 6:8
Hey everyone!!!
I have literally tried to write this first blog post for probably about a week now. I didn’t know how to write it and I didn’t want it to be wrong but there isn’t a wrong way to write this.
As most of you know I was suppose to be in California right now going to school but decided to stay home an take a semester off and go to community college in the winter. While I was looking for a school to go to next fall, I came across an ad for the world race. I had come across it a few times and I kinda just ignored but something in my mind told me to click on it so I did.
I started to look into it, and it was the best thing that I have done. I knew that school isn’t where I am suppose to be right now, I just didn’t know where God was leading me to but I kept on praying that God would lead me to where I am suppose to be. I believe that clicking on that ad was telling God that this is where I am suppose to be next year.
I am so excited to be able to go on this nine month mission trip to Guatemala, Ethiopia, and Thailand. I am excited but I am also nervous! I am excited to be able to go out in the world and serve the Lord. I have been taught for so many years to be the hands and feet of the Lord. I am being able to do that next year which is exciting. I am nervous that I will be gone for those nine months. I will miss my friends and family very much and I will of course miss Starbucks and Taco Bell (haha!)
I know that this is the plan God has for me and I am putting all my trust into him. Trusting God has not always been easy for me but I remember the day that I decided I would put all my trust into him. It was the summer going into my junior year, I was at bigstuf with my church youth group. It was one of the last nights that we were there and it was during one of the sessions at night and something in the message just grabbed my attention that I trust that God is doing everything in my life for a reason. I didn’t want to live my life in doubt of God anymore, I wanted to trust him and that night was a night that has changed my life for the better.
I have still had days that I struggle to trust him but I know that no matter what happens in my life he will always be with me. I trust that I have gone through everything in my life a reason and I may not know what those reasons are now but I trust that when the time is right God will show me.
This is going to be a life changing journey that I am about to go on. Some ways that you can support will be for praying for myself and my squad. If you feel lead to support me financially there are a few ways you can do that. You can donate to me through my blog, or you can give me cash and I will put it in my account, and finally you can mail a check to adventure in missions with my name in the memo line.You may be wondering what it will cover and it will cover. Food, transportation, lodging, insurance, and other miscellaneous costs. Any amount helps and I am very grateful if you decide to donate.
-Love Chelsey
