My name is Daniel Bryan Goodman. I graduated from Morehouse College on May 20th 2012. It took me over 10 years to complete college. I was not enrolled in school the whole time, but I had no idea what I wanted to be which made it hard for me to be motivated to finish. I was living outside of God's will early in my college years which clouded my vision and judgment. In 2007 I made the decisions that I was going to get my life in order and submit to the will of God. Since then gradually my life has changed and the still soft voice of the Holy Spirit has spoken to me more and more. The first time I heard God's voice after living outside of His will was when He told me to apologize to my college basketball coach for quitting the team. Once I apologized to my coach God opened up the opportunity for me to go back to Morehouse, this time for free. Without God's help I would not have been able to return to Morehouse College or any other school. I was no longer eligible for financial aid and my family couldn't afford to send me. God was showing me that he had the power to step in a change my situation if I would live for Him.
During the Haiti crisis I felt God pulling on my heart, telling me I would go into the world as a missionary to help. I had no idea how this was going to happen because I could barely pay my rent and often needed my mothers financial assistance just to make ends meet. I knew God could make it happen in His time if I continued to live in His will. I got more involved in my church, started working with the youth and started volunteering with meals on wheels. I made up my mind for God I live and for God I die. I gave up negative friendships and I decided to be celibate and stop drinking and smoking. I went on fast all the time looking for God in every situation in my life. In January 2013 I got a new job at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, working in a restaurant called ECCO. There I met a young man named Anderson, he told me about the World Race and suggested I look into it. I knew this was God at work and I had reached my moment. Once I found out how much the trip cost I was a little discouraged. I went back to Anderson and asked him how he paid for it. He told me that when you do things for the Lord it always works out, he was right, it was as if the Lord was speaking through Anderson right to me. Immediately I thought of how God had made a way for me to finish college and if it was faithful in that situation he would be faithful in this one. I have faith that because I now live for God, He will make a way for me to gain the funds I need to go on the World Race so that I can serve the least of these.
